Dear Steve,
I know this is a couple of weeks late...And I am sending this to you in an email...I didn't know if you wanted something so personal posted in ur surgery comments. If you do then please do so.
First off, let me say contragulations on your 2 year rebirthday....You have come so far..I see the before picture and look at the now picture, and I think to myself. What a remarkable difference you have done with yourself. Your eyes shine. And that smile. oh and lets not forget those adorable dimples.. You have come to know that the surgery is a tool and not just an easy fix. It is a way of life. Now it is like weight watchers. We all must watch what we eat and make lifestyle choices in our preparing of foods.
We both know society sucks and looks down on fat people. When really all they are are people like you and me who use food as comfort to hide the true person within ourselves. But then again everyone has their own reasoning.
But you my friend are exceptional. You listen to others. You help a friend or someone who may not even know you any time of day or nite with questions regarding their journey to the other side. Yes, it may only be an opinion, but it is talking from experience of yourself and others that you may have helped in the past. And that is amazing. I know for a fact and am living breathing proof that you helped me when i was 4 weeks out. It was a horrible nite and I didn't know if I was going to see the next day. And after talking to you for over an hour.. There was hope again. That I will never forget and I love you for all the support over the past 11 months you have given me.
But seriously my friend. Please think bout a career move to helping people with wls. You are so know knowledgeable and can help so many with your mind and heart. I know you are saying there is much you do not know. But you can learn it. Talk to support groups. Go visit different ones throught the country and learn more. Some people start there and learn more.. God gave you a gift, and it would be a shame to waste it making the little frog from geico richer.
Now here is my gift to you. Steve, you know words are hard for me to say. So I will say it here.
Steve, no words could not express the happiness and joy you have brought into my life the past year. I know I was a wreck and a lunatic when we met.. And maybe I still am. But your smiles, hugs, and ear and words have comforted me so much thru this time of my life. I could never thank you enough. You have touched my life in such a way that I can truly say this all to you and smile. I just hope I have made a difference in your life and made your soul smile and filled with love. I am proud to call you my friend, and my lover and to be called yours. I don't know what tomorrow may bring for either one of us. But I do know this that the connection we share and with us continuing to support each other with our life decisions, anything we reach for in life is possible. I am honored you call me friend. I know you don't let many people in and I am honored that you have let me in as far as you have in your life.
As I close this letter, I leave saying Steve reach for the sun and the moon....All your dreams then and will come true.
I love you,
Michele
P. S. Thank you for making some of the things I have dreamed of come true. I Love You