A Wish

Hi Everyone: I just paid a visit to the March 2003 Board to see what the "Older Veterans " were dealing with. It was depressing! The last post was back in the spring and the few posts that were there got 1 reply or 2 at the most. I then tried March 2002 and the results were worse! This board has been an anchor that has kept me from drifting too far from where I need to be and I vow to do all I can to support you and keep this board from falling into disuse like those others. I would wish that the rest of you would make the commitment with me to keep this wonderful resource available to all of us. If you are posting or replying.....please keep doing so. If you are lurking......please join in.....don't think that what you have to say is unimportant. If it's important to you......good or bad.....it's important to all of us. If something good happens to you, please share your success. More importantly, If something bad is happening......don't run away and hide.....we'll try to help and if we can't help, we'll certainly try to see it through with you. How about it Marchers???!!! Mike

Mike, I agree. We need to keep this going. Right now life is good for me and I do not have any complaints. My mom is doing very well and adjusting well in the nursing home 4 blocks from my house. I do spend a lot of time going there and paying attention to her. My relationship with Alton is growing better and better every day. At times I wish he had been a part of my life during my struggles and could relate to some of the issues I now have. But he has become my encourager and my strength as well as this board. Most of my day to day contacts of encouragement have fallen by the wayside. Martha

Thanks for this, Mike. I am totally committed to this group and am in it for the long haul. We're family. Love to all, Maureen

I got your backs!

Count me in! I'm marching along with the Marchers! My computer has bit the dust so I have been lowered to borrowing time from my son's computer in his manly room. EWWWW it smells in here! And this time it wasn't me! My son is 26 and works full time nights but his nights vary. Tonight (tues) is one of his working nights. I was all excited coming home because I knew I'd be able to come on line and check emails read posts all that fun stuff! This past weekend I just didn't get a chance. so imagine my surprise when he walked into the doorjust as I was logging on!!!! I looked at him and said what are YOU doing here!!!!! He said Ilive here remember??? I said well your not going into your room cause tonight is my computer night just walk out the door and go back to work! I din't mean to be so nasty! hehehe he was ok with me coming on line for a little bit and I do have a meeting at the fire department so i've grabbed some typing time! WOW the different posts. I felt like I'd been gone for months instead of just a few days. I'm so sad for the gentlemen who has cancer. He'll be in my prayers and so will you goign through losing a close friend. I like everyone has lost someone to cancer. She was a co-worker/employee who was a dear friend. I think of her as being my casino angel! She use going to the casnio. I would take her now and then in the wheelchair. Her cancer was in her spine. She passed on about 8 years ago. You know everytime I go into the casnio (which is extremely rare) I play the quarter slots and everytime I put in her quarter I win! Not alot she really needs to change that and let me win more! I'm also sorry to hear that your mother has passed on! Joy my mom is 85 every day seems like such luck to have her here. She's ok health wise just some minor issues but gee at 85 minor isn't all that good. My sister is a saint mom lives with her. I've been thinking of moving back up to NH to help out in the next year but that is iffy. I feel terribly guilty that my ssiter has all of that. And Reenie...my son had some awful issues growing up. He is ADHD alittle bit of that obsessive compulsive disorder. He stole a truck with some friends when he was 13 and they ran away and drove to NY! He's now 26 and doing great. It was a awful time though and you too and your family will be in my prayers. good luck and god bless to everyone and count me as a regualr marcher

I may not always respond and for awhile I couldn't respond at all my computer hated me! But I do read and often think about how amazing it is that we are in similar boats often! I am commited (or should be commited anyway LOL) to keeping myself on the road and to help all the rest if I can! nic! 291/165/150

i'm here=just need to re-commit myself

Hi Mike, I think that your 100% right in what you said here, even though my life isnt going as I would like right now, I still come here to read and catch up...I should have been posting more often but a part of me felt that if i didnt have nothing positive to add, I shouldnt pretend so I stayed away, But I didnt realize that maybe something I had to add re: my wls issues would help someone else. I think because I was so miserable the last 6 months I would just lurk... I am working on my family issues right now and the boyfriend and I are in therapy, talking with our preist so on, things are going a lil better for us Thank God! I love him dearly and couldnt imagine life without him. So I will keep you all in my Prayers and please do the same for me, we can never have enough Prayers going around for us! God Bless and have a nice day everyone. Mary

I'm comitted for life. My March brothers and sisters are my touchstone and although I don't post as much as I have opinions, thoughts, suggestions, I still check in on everyone and from time to time add my two cents worth. Y'all are without a doubt my biggest supporters (no pun intended) and I know I can come here to find strength, love, friendship and encouragement. The rest of my circle of friends cannot understand the pain I went through with my weight. Y'all have been there, done that and it means the world to me that I have a place to come to when I feel like I can't go on. I struggle with food every day. I've gained some weight back. I need to get into therapy with all that I have going on in my messed up life right now. I need your prayers and thoughts to keep me grounded and to help me see the light at the end of this dark tunnel. I'm here for each and every one of you. I hear "We Are Family" playing in the background!! BTW - I wish we could somehow meet each other face to face and give each other big, huge hugs. I feel like you are all so close to me even though we've just blogged back and forth. Y'all are da bomb! ;o) Love and big hugs... -Wendy

YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!! The response to this post is very re-assuring that this Message Board will not fall by the wayside. Some of us are doing really well, while others are struggling. All of us have some issues to contend with and we all need support and encouragement to carry on. I'll repeat that this board has been a Godsend for me in my WLS journey and I dread the thought of losing it. As long as we all stay committed to one another, we will be much stronger. Once again, I'd like to stress that we need to share good news as well as bad. With all good news, those of us with problems feel that we are alone in our problems, while all bad news makes us reluctant to share good news for fear of sounding like we are boasting. The bottom line in all of this is: Keep sharing everything and we'll work with it together. Thank you all for your response..... I love you guys!!! Mike