Hello everybody!!! I am still alive!!! LOL!!! Let me start saying thank you for all the support I have received these past few weeks. It has been very important to me. I have had very rough time and your support has ment a lot to me. Well as you can imagine I have lived a hell down here in Mexico. I haven't had no news for weeks and weeks about the job offer it looked so good on the hollydays. I decided that if I had no news this week I would consider it lost. Thanks God, I received a call from the head hunter saying that I would receive an invitation to visit Jilotepec which is a little town in which the plant is set. In that place I would have more information about the offer. The invitation could be dalayed for one or two weeks, but it is a fact that I would be invited... what I am considering is that they are "assambling" a package to offer, I don't see another reason to delay the next step foward for another two weeks. So, here I am not having an offer yet but with the possibility to be invited to visit the plant that I probably will manage. As far as I understand the invitation is for me and my family in order to know the location and its posibilities to make a life there. As far as I know it is in the country and near of Mexico city and Querétaro city which makes the location very suitable to stablish due the short distance to these cities. The only problem would be to find good schools for our children, but we will manage that in time. What Male and me are looking for right now is the opportunity to have a stable job in order to start up to get our life's back again... we have had so many stuff to go through in the last few years... Thank you very much for your support. You have been wonderful to me. Oh! I would like to share that I have been invited by OH Magazine to send pictures of me before and after the surgery and they might use them in their next issue. I am filling the papers and deciding what pictures to send. It's not for sure, but it feels good to be counted in... LOL!!! Hugs Alejandro from Guadalajara Mexico

Dear Hazel: You will realize that you have plenty of opportunities to do something of your life. You are a strong, valuable woman. It must be hard to fing yourself alone after all the responsability you had caring for you daughter and grand children. Here you have my support. What ever you need to say you will find me in my email [email protected] I will be allways available for you... Alex

Dear friend: I am so moved about your hard time... I know it hurts a lot to let your grand children to go... I hope it will get better soon and you would find the peace, harmony and happyness you deserve... I pray for you and your family. Love Alejandro from Guadalajara Mexico

It's time to rebuild and conquor!! From your posts here's some ideas..... The WLS support group The work out team of people Your church The restaurant Community service These are all things you've mentioned over the past 2 years so hope it helps spur some ideas. Is there a way you can professionally work in an environment that helps women move out of difficult situations? Many not for profits could use someone with experience and strength as you have. Plan time with the kids so they see you on a very regular schedule. It's important to them that you continue to play a consistant role in their lives. Regardless of who lives where, you are the voice of reason that will most shape those lovely kids. Therapy is fun, too - for one hour 'it's all about ME' = Good luck in your new ventures!!! ~Tiffany

This week-end I moved Frostina (my daughter) and her kids into their own home. The first time they have been together on their own in a year and a half. That year and a half was spent with me careing for them. I knew it would be rough, but I didn't know it would leave me in such pain and so depressed. I don't know how to be a person in my own right any longer and now I find that that is what I am. I am not a guardian, a power of attourney, a grandma Mom, a caregiver, ect, ect, ect. I am just me and I don't know what that is or who I am. What do I do with my life and with me now? I feel lost in limbo. Do you think now might be the time for some therapy? I know this will all pass in time, but for now it is horrible. I just thank God that I have all of you to rely on and turn to for support. Hazel