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Hello my faithful readers lol, I just thought i would update. Tuesday from 8am from 11am I have my preop teaching, my hubby is going to attend with me. After that I get to schedule my visit with Dr. Wheeler to get my surgery date, I am so excited this will be one step close to my surgery, I am absolutely exstatic or however you spell it. Here lately I have been gaining weight like crazy, I am been eating anything i want in sight, I have talked to a few people who have said the same things about themselves, that they ate alot of stuff and went thru a binge before surgery so as best as i can tell its perfectly normal. Other then that, work has been going fine, i always hate starting a new job. I think im going to like it, my schedule based on senority and based off of my having to have sundays off ended up being 1 to 945 off sunday and tuesdays for now, so i guess that will work b/c after 7 and on the weekend day which for me is Sat ill get1.50 more on the hour. Welp just wanted to update, please continue to pray for me and thank you to each of you who have personally sent me messages and kind words, dont know what i would do witout your prayers and being there for me for support, i love all of you dearly!!!!

Just an update, i have had alot on my mind here lately, I am getting closer ande closer to having my surgery but for some reason it cannot come soon enough, it seems like it is taking an etrnity....Im starting to feel extremely sorry for myself, some  of the things that bother me are:
taking a shower is becoming a chore, i suppose because i get out of breathe just drying off, my legs, and inner thighs are breaking out in bumps from rubbing together and they constanly  hurt, i try using powder but doesnt seem to do a whole lot of good. I get out of breathe from walking the stairs to go to the basement to tan or to do laundary because thats the only place in the house my washer and dryer could go. I cannot wait to have surgery to move on with my life and take back which is rightfully mine which is the beautiful skinny person under all of this fat. I want to be able to walk without loosing my breathe, I cannot take it any more and it seems surgery is never going to happen. I go for preop teaching on march the 27th at 8am and then after that i have to call Dr. Wheelers office to make my final appointment with him to get my meds to clean me out and the actual surgery date and i hear that that usually is about 2 weeks  from there, i just hope god gived me the strength and will power to hold on and be patient, pease keep me in your prayers, i am also packing on the pounds daily im now up from 249 when  i started in jan to 265

so far the new job is going good, one week of training down but one and half weeks left to go, right now im waiting to see who my team manager is and what my schedule is going to be, i think its prob going to be 11 to 8 but not real sure, should know soon  i hope... i also have wonderful news, i went and spoke to a lady named robin in HR and she told me that i could go out for surgery and come back and dont have to wait my 90 days!! i was so happy i cold cry, please continue to pray for me! looks like its help!! love you all

Heres to an update. You prob will be seeing alot of this on here considering that I feel like its my place to release the frsutrations, and excitments and a place where noone can judge me. At this point I can say that im getting a bit more paitient but im not sure how long that will last lol. I started my new job today and so far so good, as it appears we may get a decent shift after all, possibly like a 11 to 745 or 11:15 to 8:15 or something like that, Also i found out after the 90 days i shouldnt have a prob getting the time off i need for surgery, you can take up to 6 weeks, i suppose it would be unpaid however at this point thats fine by me, i wish in a way i could have post poned my start date at PRC but ah well, it will all be ok, that way i can get a pay check. I was going to try to take 3 consecutive days off with a medical release back to work and would get just one occurence at work but Raetta and Tonya both at Kings Daughters said they didnt think that Dr. Wheeler would release me that soon :(  But i have won half of the battle just getting approved, i know this is going to sound crazy but the voicemail the lady left telling me that my surgery was approved i saved that to my cell phone, i actually just got my approval letter today and you better believe its up on my Fridge!! lol im gonna frame that thing! well i guess ill update as i can and hope that june comes really fast!!!!!

Welp here is an update, I was contacted by the new job that I was going to postpone and was told that their classes are filling up so fast that they cannot guarentee me a slot in thier upcoming training classes if i didnt start as scheduled on march the 12th. They also told me that after my 90 days i can take an unpaid leave of absence to have my surgery done, id prob stay out  as little as possible. I really wanted to have the surgery done now, but knowing i at least have the approval then that makes me feel much better, i have until august the 21st to have it done, so my 90 days wil be up around june the 12th so i plan to have my surgery some time there after... possibly around june the 14th or 19th, so thats what im going to shoot for, plus i cant afford right now not to work, at any rate just thought i would post to keep everyone updated, thanks to everyone who has prayed for me and please continue to do so, ill prob need it. Thanks again!

My first support group ,meeting was yesturday  March the 8th 2007. I rode along with my dear friend Angie, I met her on here and we also talk on yahoo. The way we met was b/c our husbands work together and we have the same insurance company as well. The meeting was pretty good, they gave out some hand outs and everyone around the room who wanted to; shared thier story, they wanted someone who hadent had the surgery done to talk but i think the only lady who did is scheduled to have her surgery this wednesday, another lady cried and was talking about how she was going to be loosing " a best friend" after her surgery im not sure if she was referring to the food she likes to eat and cannot have it any more or just who she is as a person. 
The support group meeting helped me in so many ways. Im not as large as alot of these ladies or men that want to have this done, to even hear them talk about it makes me sad, some of them its about the little things in life like tieing thier shoes, i still can tie mine but it makes me think i am also making the right decision because i donot want to continue to get bigger and get to the point that i cannot tie my own shoes or do every day things. Honeslty i thnk hygene starts to slip the older that you are, its pretty bad but i get out of breathe just taking a shower, no so much while im in the shower but there is so much of me to dry off that i find it very tiresome. Also the support group meeting gave me some ideas on protein, i discovered there is alot more out there then protein powder, there are also these little drink things that are in packs and you pour them in water and those are 15 grams of protein, so just alot of wonderful ideas. Im really starting to get nervous, i would say within the next 3 to 4 weeks ill have my surgery done, and i cant wait. Please pray for me that everything will go good and i will leave it in gods hands, he has never let me down or steered me wrong, Im going through alot right now with decisions in life so i really need the strength and support.

Ok here is my delima and if you have any suggestions please please let me know... Ok, I got approved for my surgery... I am very happy and excited and im on an emotional roller coaster. I cant wait to have it done... BUT>>> there is always a bump along the way... Im suppose to start a new job on monday with a company that pays really well. I really need that job to make ends meet and to pay the bills, we have bills such as a house and car payment and my hubby cant pay it all on his own, well at any rate, they will allow me to post pone my start date and start a later training class which is wonderful however I need a job in the mean time for about 4 to 6 weeks.  I am registered with the temp service but they never have anything that lasts and they dont get that much in very often. Now I could go ahead and start this job and try to take a leave of absence in about 3 months or so after my 90 days and have surgery in june or so but there is no guarentee they will allow me to take the unpaid leave of absence, they said its all based on my manager and if i have good attendence and if im a good employee, im so stressed out, dont know what to do, any suggestions????

OMG!!!!!!!!!!! I called and spoke to Paul at my insurance company and I am APPROVED OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! can you believe it???? I cant, i thought i was gonna cry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry to be so emotional but i was so scared!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. thought it wasnt going to get approved.... Paul said that the effective dates would be Feb 21st which was the submissial date until august 21st 07, so i suppose i have to have it done in the next 6 months. Thank God for answered prayers! Thank you to everyone who has encouraged and prayed for me!!!

I called the insurance company again and got some promising news, well at least some any ways....I spoke to a lady who told me that the Prior Authorizations were way caught up and I was only about 2 days away from knowing my decision...HOWEVER>>>> They were closing early today because they are in demoines, Iowa and are getting several FEET of snow so depending on when they are back open a few days go turn into alot longer but im keeping my fingers crossed, so far god has been good to me and allowed for the process to speed up. Please keep me in your prayers and pray that I get approved!!! thanks for the support from everyone who comes and reads my page!

Ok, I am growing more inpatient with each passing day that goes by, I see myself growing both horizontal and vertically as it seems lol. I am miserable, none of my clothes fit me, and when i go to the clothing exchange here i cannot get any thing b/c its gone even if its the same day it was posted :( I called the insurance today and they told me that the DR's notes states that there is a possibility of a surgery date for march 28th but could be sooner, that they should have a decision by march the 8th or sooner, i will prob to continue to call them every day because i just cannot stand it, i may be wrong for bugging them but i really cannot wait!