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I went to the Information Session at Sentara Norfolk Hospital on January 31st and my first appointment with Dr. Wohlegemuth is February 28th.  I can't wait!  Check back with you all later!

It's March 27th, 2006 and I've finished all of my pre-surgery classes, bloodwork, etc... and my paperwork was submitted to my insurance company.  My tentative date for surgery is July 10, 2006.  I can't wait!

It's now June 5th, 2006.  I'm in the process of my divorce, Oh thank God, and I'm off my Lexapro, so I got rid of 1/2 my problem (my husband, not the drugs), well ok the drugs too!  I know have my surgery date, it's July 17th (hopefully it won't change again).  Then I will be rid the other 1/2 of my problem.  I'm so excited I can't wait.  I've been telling everyone, well anyone that will listen, hee hee....  I'm going home for my nephew's graduation in a week or so, and it will be my last time home until after my surgery.  So it will be the last time they see me the way I am now!!!!  Good-bye to my old body, hello to my new and improved one.  I went off my Topomax about a month ago, so I've been up and down on the scale.  I'm now at 241.  Six pound weight gain since last month.  And no, I know you are all wondering, I'm not eating millions of "last suppers".  Unfortunately, this just verified that no "miracle" weight drug works after you stop taking it and you gain more back.  So I can literally say I've tried everything to get this weight off and nothing worked.  I'm praying this will work and help me get back to my normal self (well if you ask people that know me, I'm not normal) so I guess, I will just be back to myself again. YEA!!!!

7/11/06:  I went to my last education class before surgery today.  Wow, so much information, I can't believe I have to remember all this.  I'm nervous now.  It's getting real close, Monday's the day and I'll be in surgery by 9:30 a.m..  Mom and Dad are coming to stay with me and the kids!  They will need them, well ok, I will need my mommy too!  Sometimes ya gotta need your mommy!  Anyway, I will write more later!  But just wanted to let you all know you can be as tough as you can all through the process, but when it get's closer, the nerves are definately there!  See YA!

7/16/06:  Wow, less then 24 hours and I'll be on the road to a new healthier and new me.  I can't wait.  My friends are so supportive and my very best "male" friend, David, wants to race me in 4 months!  I want to do it.  So that is my goal.  Shelly, my best friend and my Angel, my daughter, Brittany, and I all went out to lunch yesterday and to a movie for my last hurrah before my surgery, I had a great time.  Shelly made me pick out an outfit that was a size 10!!!!!  10 sizes smaller then what I'm in now.  She said I needed a goal and to hang it up on the outside of my closet door so I'm always looking at it.   So now I have two goals, (1) to be fit enough in 4 months to race my friend and (2) to wear an outfit that is 10 sizes smaller then what I'm in now and lot totally HOT!  Thank you Lord for making these two goals within reach, when the last 6 years I never knew it would be possible!  Well until I get back from the hospital!

07-17-06: Hey everyone this is Shelly. Well just wanted to let you know that Kelley did GREAT!! She had her surgery this morning. I got to the hospital around 8:15 and she was already there and in the back. They took here to the holding area around 9:10. The surgery nurse called us at around 10:10 to tell us that they where just getting started. At 11:30 her Dr came out to let us know that everything went great. We where all excited to go see her. They got her back to recovery at 12:00. She finally got to her room at 1:45. We all went into see her and she looked great!! She was happy and talking and she said she didn't have much pain at all. Her upper back was bothering her a little but I think everyone gets that from laying on the hard operating tables. Well just wanted to up-date you on her. Going to see her tomorrow to get her out of bed and walk. Take care.
Shelly*

7/21/06.  I can't believe it, my surgery is over and I'm on the road to loosing weight.  It's been 4 days and I'm 3 pounds lighter!  Wow.  I feel great.  My parents, and two of my very best friends were there the day of my surgery to help me laugh before I went into surgery.  God did they make me laugh.  They definately are my "sisters from a different mother"!!!  I've been just a little sore, guess I'm tring to walk more then I should, so I slowed down a bit.  But as long as I take my pain medication (which is periodically now), I feel ok.  My stomach hurts just a bit, not nearly as much as it did when I had 4 c-sections or had my gallbladder out.  It's unbelievable.  I had one really bad episode in the hospital, hot flashes, dry heaves, and throwing up.  I either drank too fast or I was dehydrated.  Wow, that was the worst.  But it only lasted about an hour and was over and I haven't had it again.  The nurses at Norfolk General Hospital(Virginia) were awesome.  They were there every step of the way.  Jeanne from Norfolk Surgical Group was with me every day and made sure I knew what I was going to do when I got home.  She was so positive she made me feel great.  I love that woman!  I'll see you later!

7/23/06:  Wow, 238.8   I'M A SIX POUND LOOSER!

7/24/06:  Ok today is my 1 week post op.  I feel great.  I just weighed myself and I'm 7.8 pounds lighter.  I can't believe it.  I'm gradually walking up and down the street and in K-Mart with a grocery cart.  I get tired easy, but it's beginning to go away.  I'm very excited.  Anyway, being home with 4 kids definately isn't easy!!!!  I'd rather be at work or in an imaginary place where there is peace and quiet.  hee hee.   No food yet, just full liquids like yogurt, jello, pudding, tea and such.  I go to the doctors on Thursday and they will release me to puree foods, so I just need to blend everything up I eat.  Never thought I'd be exciting to eat baby food.  I was craving ice cream a few days ago, I made Brittany take me to Food Lion, it took me 15-20 mins to find an ice cream with no fat, no sugar added etc... got home and didn't even eat it.  Very weird.  But I'm feeling fine.  Until later!

7/27/06:  I went to my post-op appointment today and saw Dr. Wohlgemuth.  I LOST 10 POUNDS.  YEA.   I'm so happy.  I've eating all the liquids I can handle.  I want food.  He released me to puree foods.  Wow, I can't imagine being happy to eat babyfood type foods.  OK well at least I get food.  

7/30/06.  I'm stuck on 233.8, I go up and I go down, don't know whether it's water weight before my period or what????  I'm fustrated.  But I guess I shouldn't be, I've done good.  Maybe I should have stuck to liquids another week....I had some cod today for dinner, first time I ate fish I actually liked and didn't get a bone.   Had less then two ouces of that and an ounce of cauliflower.  YUMMMMMMMMMMM!   I full but it was soooooooooooooooooooooo goooooooooood!

8/2/06:  Well I'm 231.2 today and hopefully still going down.  I can't believe how bloaded I was from getting my "friend".  OMG  I felt terrible.  Maybe because it was so close to after having surgery, I don't know, but I feel better now.  I had a really bad night the other night.   I don't know if it was because I ate broccoli (which is a rumor, it causes gas), or if it was because I took some tylenol w/codeine, I felt a little sore.  But I woke up in the middle of the night with severe pain in my stomach.  Thought I was going to die!  But after 2 hours if finally went away.  And I'm still here.... But we won't do broccoli or tylenol w/codeine for a long time.....

8/22/06.  Ok I've been bad.  I haven't updated this website in a few weeks.  I'm now one month post-op and lost 30-35 pounds, 212 now, depending on the scale I stand on, which is fustrating.  I went home to PA for the weekend, my parents were the only people that really noticed I lost anything.  But when I went  home in the past I always went on a starvation diet one week before I got there, so my weight always fluctuated.  I saw a really good friend and he said he noticed that I lost weight and he could put his arms around me much easier.  I was very happy.  I have more energy and even started working out at Curves with my daughter.  We are loosing weight together.  We gained it together, we will loose it together.  I started eating my one month solid foods.  I definately can eat broccoli now.  It definately wasn't the broccoli that made me sick a few weeks ago, it must have been the Tylenol with Codine.  Because I can definately eat broccoli.  I don't find many foods that my body doesn't like.  I'm even eating baked beans which I hated before.  Cottage Cheese YUCK, now I love it.  Oh well all good changes.  Write more later!

8/25/06.  I was told last night that I look great and I didn't need the surgery, I was still so beautiful.  Oh yea, and I have nice eyes.  Wow, what a bunch of compliments.  I don't think I ever heard that before.  I think I'm in love, hee hee.  See you soon.