MILESTONE AND THEN SOME
Hi guys -- haven't posted lately but have tried to keep up with others' postings. I opened in the show I was telling you about, opened on Friday and I have to say it was a hugely emotional event for me. First of all, I had set a goal some time ago (in March) to hit the 200 lb. total weight loss mark by opening night and I DID IT! This 200 lbs. total lost since I first met my surgeon, a total of 180 lbs. since surgery. I am now at 152 lbs. and I hope to be at my personal goal of 150 by the time I go in for surgery on July 5th. The show was my re-entry into the community after being away for 4 years, hiding really. I used to be very much in the community when I worked for the community college in our area; I was the liasion between the college and the business community, even at my heaviest, I was "out there" -- well, when I walked onstage in my size 10 floor length, fully beaded halter-style evening gown, there was bedlam in the audience! They screamed and clapped and hooted and hollered. And then I sang OUR song, "I Know Where I've Been" and they were cheering on their feet before I had finished the last note! I didn't know that the director was projecting some photos of the "before" me on a screen behind me - and at the very end of the song, he projected a photo of me singing in the last production (4 years ago) at 364 lbs. -- and then he superimposed the live image of me holding out my last note, just bled the live image through the old shot -- all 152 lbs. of me kind of errupted through the old image of my 364 lb. self. There was absolute bedlam in the house! I started sobbing and some of the other performers had to lead me off the stage because I was so unsteady on my feet. I sang this song for all of us, with everything I had. I'm sorry I haven't been around much, but you're in my head and heart every day. The show runs one more weekend so if anyone is in the area, call the Bradley Theatre in Putnam, CT and see if you can get a ticket! It's a great show! Love to all, Reenie
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