HI all MAY surgery AMOS people...off topic but....

Why dont we all take time to introduce ourselves and write a little bit about ourselves to share with our group of MAY surgery friends...I'll start off.... HI, I am lisa, 43 year old MOM of 3 kids. My kids are ages 2,8 and 10. I have been married for 16 years this June to the same man. I currently work in my home as a family daycare provider, I have been doing this since my daughter was born. I live on LONG ISLAND, NY have lived here all my life. Its very expensive but i love being surrounded by water being the beach and sun are favorites of mine. When i started my Weight loss surgery journey i weighed 310 pounds, i am 5 ft 5. I am currently trying to loose the 25 lbs pre op my sugeon requires. As of today i weigh 290.5...its comeing off. I have battled with my weight all my life. I know how to loose but i never kept it off. I have been on every diet there is!!!! This time it will be my last and i hope to get to my lowest numbers since Jr. HIGH! Well love to hear about some of you other MAY surgerys...MY date is May 25th but i may have to move my surgery out one week due to unavailable family. lisa s

Hi everyone My name is Debbie and I am a 40. My husband and I just celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary last week. I have been married half of my life. We have three children, two girls 19 & 17, and our son is 14. We live in a great small town located right on Lake Ontario. The summers here are very nice. My husband and I are big race fans. His brother races at our local track. I have only been over weight half of my life also. Once I hit 20 it has just been coming on and never leaving. My husband owns his own business so I work so we can have reasonable health insurance. I work at our local mental health clinic in the medical records department. I really love my job. I am looking forward to this surgery to finally feel better. My nerves have kicked in in the past few days, and I have been spending much time in the bathroom. Talk to everyone soon

Hello, I am a 25 year old single mom of 1, I have a small support system, but a support system nonetheless. I live in NJ, and the whole experience has been a whirlwind. I work in a psych hospital, and I'll be off for the whole month of May.I plan to take care of my body, and also have some me time. I'll send the boy to school and pop a percocet!I really enjoy the feedback, and I look forward to remaining a member of such a supportive community! Good Luck and God Bless to all of my May babies!

Hi Lsia, So nice of you to think about us May AMOS! I've posted on the May Surgery date, so I won't bore ya'll with the same old thing again. I too am married to the same man for 31 years...our 32nd is the day after my BIG day. So I hope to keep in touch with you all, I plan on surviving this event, God willing! I started gaining weight after I married. It started creeping-up little by little. So, as of now I'm at 259, but I did loose 13 lbs. earlier this year, so that had put me at 279. I had lost 85 lbs. about 15-20 years ago with Weigh****chers. I thought I could control my eating habits then, but to my surpirse, I didn't. I tasted the feeling of being small for a total of 4 months, then...need I say more! Now, after all these years I ready to do something about it again. But this time I know it will be totally different. I know my downfalls this time around...I know were I went wrong. I love to eat, but not just eat, I keep eating the things I love till I'm sick of them. I used to feel like food was a fad...a fad that would go out of style & disappear before I had gotten enough of it. Afraid that one day they'd stopped making everything I loved to eat...and I didn't get the very last bite. But now, I know with the help of my Doctor & the guidence of the Good Lord, I can beat it this time. Not to mention all the support I know I can find here, with all of you. Knowing that we all have something in common. That something that smaller people just can't comprehend! Wait...I think I'm getting off track here! Anyway...thanks for listening to me rant on & on. I hope all of us will be successful in our new journey to OUR NEW LIFE> Anastasia

Hello all and good luck My name is Tammy and I live in Missouri I have lived her my whole life and that would be 43 years. I have 3 wonderful children Rebecca 23 Jason 20 and Angela 16 They are the love of my life. I will soon be married 25 years on june 14 yes to the same man. Don't that sound funny that we have to say that . I have been over weight my whole life up and down with deits that work but i have no will power and always had more on. Im tired of not being able to walk anywhere or just being lazy. I want a life I know there is one out there. I think now I am at my highest point and that is 285 he has me on this deit that all i get is liquid and to be honest I am haveing a bad time with it. I cheated last night and i feel so bad about it. It makes me wonder if i should even do this I fail at everything i seem to do. I am a bus driver have been for 20 years now I love my job it has been one of the most rewarding jobs I know of. That is for me. I must say I am scared to death right now but I think it is my nurves after reading the thing from Jackie littleton she is not doing real well. As we all know anything can happen to us . But I also know with being this over wieght and only being 5 foot I wont last long so I feel its better to try to help myself than not do anything at all. My date is may 11 at 9:30 so it is in the morning. I will be praying for you all on the 2nd and i want to wish all of us may people the best of luck . Thanks for shareing with me all your stories its great to know how others feel. Good luck to you all and to me have a great day ya all talk with ya soon. Tammy from Missouri

hi all, my surgery is scheduled for may 9 WHOO_HOO!!! I am a single mom 33 years old with a beautiful daughter (12 years). I am at my all time high of 236 lbs. I can not wait to have this surgery done and start my life as the lighter me. i live in southern illinois, have all my life. and i started my journey one year ago after a friend had it done. she has shed over 120 lbs. she celebrated her one year date this past thursday!!!!! It is incredible what she looks like now and the "other person" she lost. I guess i am like most of all of you, i know what to do to lose it and no matter how hard i try some comes off but more comes back. i suffer from ra, figromyalgia, and acid reflux. i am so tired of my joints hurting, aching and just feeling like i have been hit by a truck. my clothes do not fit right and with the job i have appearence is critical. I know who i am on the inside and professionally i am more confident than i have ever been. I just want to look the way i feel. So my feelings are just anxiousness and excitement. I go for my pre op on weds. 5-2-05. i start my clear liquid diet on 5-1-05. My nerves are getting more and more. i think the days can't go by fast enough. but i know it will be here soon. I wish everyone the best of luck and HAPPY LOSING!!!!

Hello there fellow May people! Yes, we will truly share a unique bond, and all have different experiences. My name is Bess, age 49, married 12 years, no children..just my fuzzy-faced one ..my beagle Bailey..oh and I have an Iguana too LOL..Iguana Trump I work in the airline industry and do alot of physical work..alot of standing, walking, lifting etc..so with my weight, its become increasingly harder to do my job. Besides this I was diagnosed with MS 5 years ago, and although I am doing really well..the extra weight does not help my condition. Have been overweight my whole life, but until I got the MS, I was still pretty physically active..I tried not to let my weight stop me from doing the things I wanted to do..but lets face it... its not only difficult to do alot of things, but I also started losing my self confidence because of the rude and insensitive comments that people can make...you know the ones! When I got the MS, I had to go on steroids several times. which also packed on MORE weight..making me even more self concious and depressed My surgery date is May 5th..just 4 days away! I'm both excited and scared to death! But, I know this is the right thing for me. I SO want to get my life back, and be able to do all the things that I've really missed and also try some things that I have been wanting to do, but never would because of my weight. YES...May will be our month! The month that we start our happier and healthier lives. I'm sure we will be in for the ride of our lives, and it will be well worth it. Good Luck to ALL of you..wishing you a complication-free surgery and a speedy recovery! ((HUGS)) to all of you.