Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you too Kathy! I hope that your surgery goes well and that you and Rich both have a wonderful 2008!

Hey Everybody!!!!! I have not been here for ages. Now I realize that I miss you guys! I am holding at 150 lb.s I have been at this weight for over a year. I stopped working out around 8 months ago when I changed jobs from night shift to days....just cannot figure out when to do it. I'll be changing jobs again soon.....I hope. I am trying to get this really great job with the VA rehab center in southern Oregon. I'll know in a week or two if I get it. I will relocate to southern OR which by the way, is where my boyfriend lives. Then I will live happily ever after. Never reached my goal wt. of 130, never had PS, but life is soooooo much better now than 2.5 years ago. Andrea

Thanks, Tracy! Hope your holidays are wonderful. Hugs, Kathy

Surgeon thinks I have an internal hernia. I'm having surgery 12/26. Post-holiday surgery again this year (my first lumpectomy was 12/27 last year). So my surgeon will go in lap and look around and close off the defects. The defects (mesenteric, Petersons, etc) are openings where the intestines can flop into and get pinched/twisted/kinked/whatever. The defects become bigger as we lose fat from around our intestines. Internal hernias are difficult to see on tests since the intestines can flip back to regular position and therefore nothing would be seen. But I described in good detail the issue I had. The worst was on 12/7 when I was in pain for 8 hours. It varied in intensity so I kept waffling on the should-I-go-to-the-ER or should-I-not-go-to-the-ER. Already had an appointment with my surgeon scheduled for a few days later so I just waited since the pain had passed by the time Rich got home from work. Next year, I'm sure I'll be under the knife again for my back which sucks rocks. Will this ever end? I sure hope so. Take care, folks! Miss you all! Kathy

Hello all, Im sooooooooooooooo glad to see some activity on this board... 2007 was a rough rough year. I HATED HATED HATED my boss at my last job... or mostly she hated me Ive come to find out from others and she made my life hell. I actually cried in front of her b/c I was so frustrated... So I looked for another job in that are with no luck so we moved back to PA and I went back to my old company into another dept as the supervisor and couldnt be happier.... Then before we moved I found out my husband was having an affair... not physically but emotionally, with a child much younger than himself... was telling her how much he loved her, she meant the world to him. etc etc.... so we split for a while... we are now back together and trying to repair the split so we shall see on that one.. I introduced my sister to a friend, they dated for a while, moved in together and a month later he told her to get out... So I brought her to PA with me. My cousin basically told me off and said some unforgiveable things to me and accused me of trying to steal her new boyfriend (we were friends before they got together) Now neither will speak to me... which is not a great loss. Hubbys business is slowly going down the drain as gas prices stay up. (he has a high performance mustang parts business) AND I too had some wt gain.... from 165 (never hit my goal of 160) to a high of 174 and have now settled at 170... Im still wearing an 8-10 so clothing didnt change but man... thats frustrating... and SCARY... So hopefully 2008 will be a better year for all of us... Im soooooooooooooo glad to see some familiar faces here... Sorry to ramble but I knew if anyone could relate... then you guys could... Take care all Karen