Connie???

How are you doing? Getting ready, mentally and otherwise, for your surgery on Tuesday??? Am very excited for you! Post your thoughts, please, we're all behind you on this, as always. Maureen

Hi Reenie, I'm still here, but in a mad scramble that's the mother of all mad scrambles. To make it worse, I fractured my right forearm and that has slowed me down. It's just a tiny hairline fracture, but the splint still slows me down. Can't cast it because of the swelling from brachioplasty and rescheduling the surgery just isn't an option. This is much harder to wrap my mind around than the rny was. I'm not as excited as I should be and I don't know why. Maybe I'm trying not to get my hopes up, but I'm stress eating like nobody's business. I'm trying like hell to put the brakes on it, but it's tough. Hopefully, not being able to use my arms will slow me down. I had a very strange experience yesterday. I have a very, very dear friend that I've known for over 20 years. She has been wonderfully supportive of me through my weight loss, even though she has been steadily gaining weight and is now MO herself. One of the things that I've always loved about her is her sense of discretion. She's one of those people who never repeats what you tell her. Over the last year, I'm finding that things I tell her in confidence are coming back to me through other people. I've just decided to stop confiding in her. Last night we got together to go to dinner and go to a show and all night she kept insisting that she take nekkid pictures of me before surgery. It was so strange the way she kept insisting and this is not something she would normally ask to do. Not only that, she wanted to take them with her camera phone instead of her very expensive digital camera that she takes everywhere. I wouldn't do it and she was a little put out by my refusal, but frankly, I no longer trust her intentions. The whole thing left me feeling very weird. Well 4 thousand things left to do. I'll post again before surgery when I'm thinking a little more coherently. Love ya, Connie

She just wants them for when you win Miss America, she can sell them to Penthouse causing you to lose your title. If it walks like a duck, looks like a duck, sounds like a duck, it is a probably a duck. Something isn't right in Dogpatch. Away from that now. I hope Reenie is going to call you after your surgery, it was a wonderful thing that you did for her and she in turn did for me. I know that I recovered faster then normal because I knew that I was going to be ok and that I would recover faster then normal. As you cruise through things today, just keep thinking about how well your going to do and how well this surgery will go. In someways, this is easier then WLS. Your going to do great, and I'll keep you in my thoughts. I'll pray for you, and you just talk to whatever higher power you believe in. This will be great!

Your friend scores high on the weird scale. I'm pulling for you this week. Sorry about the arm--at least you can't shove food in your cake hole as fast. Make sure you take in extra protein to speed up your healing... Joy

Perhaps she thinks you are so gorgeous now that you are svelte and she wants to see the whole package.... OK - just joking! She seems an order of fries short of a happy meal. Let that one be - trust your gut. I'm praying for you as you embark on this new chapter of your journey. Think positive and don't overdo it. Please let us know how you're doing. I love ya! (But quite frankly, I don't want to see nekkid pictures of you!) -W-

Connie if you need those picutures to use as before and after, you can take them yourself using the mirror..That is what I did to send to the Insurance Company. I sure do not want anyone who does not need to see them to view them. I feel the same as you. Something is offcenter in that relationship. Maybe underneath it all, she is jealous. Good luck on your surgery. Counting the days to hear from one on the approval.