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Topic: RE: I have a date!
CONGRATS EVERYONE 
JenB and I are having surgery on the same day-March 6th. 
JenB and I are having surgery on the same day-March 6th. 
Topic: RE: Nerves and All That
Hi Janice,
I truly understand how you are feeling. When I got my date this Tuesday, I couldn't believe it. I got scared and excited all in one emotional swoop.
I originally had no fear of anything happening to me on the table until my mom started acting weird about me having the surgery.
She is nervous because of me almost dying twice in 2006 due to blood clots in my lungs and internal bleeding....so now she is worried I could die.
But I believe in my heart, I would rather die trying to get healthy, then dying and not fighting for myself at all...and that has helped me realize I should not be afraid.
Right now, I am still experiencing that elation of getting a surgery date, but once the first of March gets here, I know I will be an emotional mess and start questioning this choice.
Topic: Nerves and All That
I was talking with a lady who has had wls within the past year and she said that prior to going in for the surgery, she wrote letters to all her children and to her husband in case she died on the table. WHOA, that's a possibility and taking it very seriously!
It made me wonder if my fears and concerns aren't just understated. I worry about complications. I worry about not following directions well. I worry about being injured by surgery or a complication in such a way that my life is irretrievably and badly changed. And so on. But the worry of death is a remote one to me... it's a possibility with any surgery.
AND if I don't have the surgery, I worry that I will die before I am 60. Worry I will never stop eating (whether for an afternoon or an entire season). I worry that I will have a wreck because some days I am very tired. I worry that I will have to replace my knees and my hips within the next five years.
Neither list is a great deal except that with the surgery risk, I run the risk of becoming healthier too. I don't have oodles of hopes for that with the not having surgery, no matter if I did similar work without the surgery.
What is your biggest worry? For surgery and in your life if you didn't have surgery?\
Janice
Topic: Below 400
I am so excited. I saw my Nut today and had a weigh in and I am down another 9 lbs. That makes my total 20 and I have not even had my surgery yet. I now weigh 394.
Topic: RE: 03/19/08
so we are friends in surgery
within the same week.
yup the emotion have calmed down
a bit now. but still i get
jumppy.
Topic: RE: 03/19/08
Congrats to you,My date is 3/17/08,,The luck of the irish will be with the both of us!Hugs Trish
I understand your feelings so well!
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