Good Tuesday Morning Cali

Monica P.
on 6/3/08 2:17 am - Long Beach, CA

Good Morning California

Janine - will we see some pics of the new glasses? I heart glasses, I wish I needed to wear them.

I had an interesting third date this weekend, although I don't normally talk about my dating adventures here....this is somewhat related to WLS.

This new guy I'm dating was in a long term relationship with a girl who had the lap-band surgery. He had supported her for a very long time through her weight-loss struggles and when she began to experience sucess with her band...she broke up with him.

In his words he described her as "she thought she could do better." She went on to begin another relationship with a guy who was really abusive and then to make matters worse, she got pregnant! The whole experience had left him somewhat cautious with women, and especially WLS patients.

So when he asked me about my medic alert bracelet I disclosed about my surgery and we talked about his past expereinces and he had lots of questions about mine. He was really honest and he wondered if I would break things off with him as I got thinner. I didn't know how to respond, only to say that I really liked him and that I wanted to continue seeing him. So we'll see where it goes.

In a way I felt like I had paid the price for someone else's WLS experience. I resisted the urge to try to prove to him that I make good decisions, I figure it's just something that he'll have to see for himself as time goes by.

Anyhow, I have to get back to work here. Keep Denise L. in your thoughts and prayers....her surgery was postponed because of the results of her upper GI, she needs to take another test. I'm sure those of you who had delays in waiting for surgery know what that's like.

Make it great day California...

Monica

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired in the morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired."
- George S. Patton, U.S. Army General, 1912 Olympian

Kirsten :-)
on 6/3/08 2:25 am - Agoura Hills, CA

Good morning Cali and thanks Janine for the shout out.

I went back to see Dr. Q and he is really pleased at the progress with my wound. He has stitched it up a bit to help with the healing. He says it’s 50/50 on whether the stitches will hold, but if not, we’ll just do it again in another week or so. So far…so good. As far as the rest….everything is looking amazing. There are areas where you can barely tell I’ve been cut. It amazes me how the body heals. I’m feeling pretty good…but by the end of the day I’m wiped out and pretty swollen and can’t wait to get to bed. I really didn’t have a clue that over 3 weeks out I would still be feeling this bad, but I’m hitting the stage where I’m realizing it’s all worth it. My sister is having a huge semi formal 30^th bday bash in a couple of weeks and when I can slip into my new TIGHT black dress, I know it will be worth it! LOL

I am back at work today. UGH! I wish I could take some more time off but work calls. L

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Marathon Diva
on 6/3/08 4:19 am, edited 6/3/08 4:20 am - CA

RNY on 02/03/06

Good Morning Janine & The Beautiful Cali Crew

Janine let me start off by saying, "you didn't offend me with the how you really feel comment!"

I have to say that I f*cked up on my final.

I didn't want to say anything, but there ya have it! I must have sat down and looked at it and was like WHAT THE F@$%&*. I just went blank.

This particular course carries a lot of weight in my major and because I am on academic probation and because I wanted to apply to the MA/PhD. program, so if I got anything less than a C in that class I was getting the boot!!

However, I met with my professor and asked her was there any extra work (exam, term paper, etc...) I could do to at least earn a C (which would bring down

my gpa). She went over all my work during the semester and agreed that she would give me a couple of assignments to earn the C. Now what I have to do is read 2 text (one of them written by her) write a review on each text. I have to be able

to intelligently and intellectually be able to articulate what the books are about and how they relate to the course. Here's the drama, she asked me when I could have these assignment complete and my CRAZY A$$ said, "FRIDAY!" What was I thinking