Hey, Debra! Not sure what Repliva is but I hope it works for you. Vitalady's Tender Iron accounted for a nice jump in my iron levels last year. I switched from another iron and upped it a little bit and they improved (weren't low but were dropping) greatly. The TI are soft enough to chew with a vitamin C tablet (to hide the metallic taste, of course). They really aren't bad. I'm now taking 50% more than I had been taking per my doc to get levels back up. Get it checked in a few weeks. The "girls" are doing fine. Think they'll be all grown up on Friday. Take care, Kathy

Hey, Mich! I'm here. Just being working hard and then tired afterwards so not much internet time. I'm gradually getting my strength back. Just taking it's sweet time. I have to go see my doc in another week or so to check on the anemia. Hopefully things will be much improved. I see the oncologist on 5/2 to find out what he found out about my pathology and if I'm truly "done" as far as treatment (aka nothing other than surgery) goes. I got my first boob expansion last Monday. Went well. I have another scheduled for this coming Friday and I think that'll be it. Not looking to go big... just appropriate for my size. Don't want to outgrow my existing clothing either. I'll find out if she does one extra fill (overexpansion to give her more room to work with when putting in the final implant) or not. I think docs wait a month or so before doing the implant exchange from expander to final implant. But I may have to wait a bit longer if my anemia isn't cleared up plus I may want a surgical break for a bit, ya know? LOL. Looks like we are going on a cruise in September with my family. Goes just to Bermuda for several days. I just need to stop the next shoe from dropping and keeping healthy long enough.... Hope you are doing well! Hugs, Kathy

MAN I HATE THIS. I know of peeps that ate the same as before their surgery and lost so much,and here i am working out daily and trying to eat healthy. I admit i go back and forthand my moments of pigging out but most of the time i workout and try to eat healthy. I have a thyroid problem but that is under control. When i had the surgery my Dr.had me on a very low dosage of thyroid meds and i think that has something to do with me not losing all of the weight. I just thought that the way that i felt was normal because of the surgery. But as time went by i just didnt feel right and up the dosage myself. Thats when i started to feel better. But by then it was to late. I think!!!!!! It was real hard for me to lose the weight. I've lost 96lbs in almost 2yrs out. I know I know... thats better then nothing but i know of people that have lost that in just 6 months being out. Come on now what the hell is going on. I gained 15 lbs recently but dropped them again because i went back to basics. Am I able to have the surgery again?????? Thanks for listening to my rants and raves. Rosie

Hi Tracy! Thanks for the well wishes! I am always so inspired by you. I also wanted to say how cool I thought it was that you offered all of those exercise dvds and tapes. I have a few of them and as soon as I get my surgery I will start doing some more hard core ones again. For now I need to keep it simple. So, I am officially in my 3rd year as a non smoker now.... heehee... have a wonderful day! Jess

Thank you, Aliya!