Question of the Week 10-31

As we all come up on our one year anniversay, tell me you best and worst experiance you have have in the last year?

My best I think was the day i hit the ONEderfuls. I don't even remember being under 200 pounds, so that feeling of knowing I will never be OVER 200 pounds again was just great. My worst was the last time I had to go to the hospital. I was two months out and I had been dealing with a stricture for 5 weeks and everything came to a stop when I was crawling on the floor to get to the bathroom. I was so serverly dehydrated and malnurished from the stricture that I couldn't walk. My husband said that's it you are going to the hospital and not coming home till you are better. I am very thankful he did that and 3 days later I was home and have not looked back since. But I do preach very hard to people who get strictures to get them taken care quickly now so that no one ever goes through what I did.

Worst--stricture and hospital stay from it Best--way too many to count. Mostly when I see poeple who haven't seen me in a while and they are shocked!

My best experience just occured this past weekend! I needed a winter coat, so I went to Talbots and saw a beautiful camel-colored cape with brown fur around the collar and down the front. I tried on a Large and it was WAY too big. So, I went to the next size down, which in Talbots is a S/M. I haven't had a piece of clothing on my body with an "s" on it since I was five years old! My worst experience? Having my boyfriend tell me that he doesn't think he would have been attracted to me prior to my surgery. Men are such a-holes! I told him that I wouldn't have considered dating HIM then, either. (So THERE!) Denise 326/184/150

I've had so many wonderful experience I don't have the time or enough room on this screen to put it all on. I think the worst experince was of course the surgery but it's kinda like having a baby you soon forget the pain. I would have this surgery over again in a heart beat, it has done wonderful things for me.

I really can't recall a bad experience, but I have had lots of good ones! I am having a hard time with people fussing at me and telling me not to loose any more weight! It's almost as annoying as someone telling you to loose weight! I am happy !! Melinda

Hmmmmmm...good question! I guess my best experience would be the other day when I went shopping with some friends and went into Maurices and bought a pair of size 9/10 jeans that looked totally HOT!!!!! The worst experience would have to be the negativity of close minded people. So many people look at this surgery as a "easy way out". If they only knew........ Karry 311/167 goal and still going!!!

Best Experience: Just feeling great and being able to do and go and wear anything I want!!! It is amazing!! I feel like a teenager again!! Worst Experience: Right now, not having any clothes. It is getting cold here and I don't have a winter coat, any long sleeve shirts and very few pairs of long pants. I had just gotten my summer wardrobe bought and then we switched seasons and I have nothing to wear. I am going broke buying new clothes - but it is SOOOOO fun!!!!

There are so many things that fit into the "BEST" catagory... I guess my husband being able to put his arms all the way around me and then some. Also my parents crying with JOY because they have their daughter back and seeing how happy they were. Plus all the wonderful new looks I get from the opposite sex. I am a happy married woman... but it is nice to be flirted with! The WORST was when an ignorant lady told me I HAD NO WILL POWER because I had WLS. I told her she was rude and that it took a heck of a lot of will power to have the surgery and to give up so much and go through so much! That hurt... because of her ignorance. She didn't want to listen to what I had to say! But... I know I did the right thing. I was on the path of distruction if I didn't take action! I AM PROUD OF US ALL! CONGRATULATIONS TO EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU! WE MADE IT A YEAR! I AM SOOOO GLAD I DID THIS! Jennifer Wright Lap RNY 11/29/04 352/190/145