What are you thankful for?

As for me ? I am thankful to God for all he has bestowed upon me. I am thankful for good health. Now more meds for diabetes. 71 lbs gone, 1/2 lb past the half way mark. Woo Hooooooo !! I am thankful for my marvelous surgeon Dr. Timothy Ferrugia, CMMC, for doing his job so well. I am thankful for my family and DHS for trusting us to adopt children and give them a forever family. I am thankful for DHS trusting us to foster children that need a good family to live with while their families get their lives in order. I am thankful for the love of my husband, Sam. He has put up with a lot in 32 years ! I am thankful for my job. I am thankful that I have a roof over our heads and am able to keep the house warm or cool. I am thankful for the ability to provide food and clothing for my family. I am thankful for my parents and brother and sister. I am thankful that I live in the best country in the world. I am thankful that I have found this wonderful support group and that we are able to get together to visit. I am thankful that my home will be filled with family on Thanksgiving. What are you thankful for? Cheryl

You do have a beautiful "brood". I think you and Sam are absolutely wonderful to love those kids give them the gift of a loving family. I am thankful that I have God in my life, that I have given a lot of things over to him to take care of, and I pray more this year (lately) than I ever have. Thankful for my wonderful family, immediate and extended. Thankful I will be able to see my sisters over the holiday weekend. Thankful for having several close close friends that I love dearly and have lots of fun and crazy times with (and can share bad times and tears with too). Also, very thankful for this support group, it has been great to get to know you gals... DeAnna

Man Cheryl!! Such a tear jerking post, but I'm so glad you posted because it really reminds all of us of what we're thankful for. I am thankful for so many things. I'm thankful for having God in my life and always being on my side when things go wrong. I'm thankful that I have a healthy son and a loving fiance'. I'm sooo incredibly thankful to my parents for giving me the love and support I've needed over the past few years and especially since surgery. I'm thankful for having friends like all of you guys that love and care about me and give me that extra push. I could go on and on and on... but, they are the most important people in my life and I'm thankful for having them. Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!! Love you guys and I'm so glad you are a part of my life! Karine

I am thankful for my family, and my little girl (my angel), I am also thankful to the lord that I am here to celebrate yet another thanksgiving, as most of you know I nearly died having my WLS, but I made it,(dying is a chance we have to accept when we have this surgery) by his grace and I vow to take nothing for granted this holiday season or everyday for that matter. Last christmas I spent it in the hospital, three hours away from my family, my christmas dinner consisted of hospital tomato soup and crystal light, yum! (not!!!) I almost died after having my surgery due to a bleeder that was accellerated by blood thinner, near death, I was throwing up blood and I cannot account for a whole week of my life that I was in intensive care, everything was a blur to me ,and after another emergency surgery and four units of blood being transfused into me, I remember being transfered to the regular hospital room for yet another week and wondering if I was going to be okay or not, someone died on my floor that morning, and I kept thinking ... Am I next? I often wondered what I had done to myself, and why did this happen when so many others just seemed to breeze through it. Christmas eve & day I cried all day, my family called me on the speaker phone and I cried and they cried, they said 'we didn't want to upset you, we just wanted you to know we are thinking of you" just hearing my family was better than any present I could have gotten. Just remebering that is making me cry right now!! I let them know they didn't upset me, I was just missing them. Christmas night my husband and my step daughter and little girl came to see me and they brought me a few presents, but I won't forget what my hubby bought me, it was a diamond cross, and it reminded me that God was with me and even after they left and went home I was not alone in this. I cried when he gave me that, I know yall think im the most emotional person you've ever seen, but it was a traumatic event I went through. I learned though that experience not to take anything for granted, like how much my husband loves me, and the way my little girl smiles when she sees me, and how much I love my brothers and my sister and mom and dad, I just encourage all of you to appreciate the little things in life, and treasure the smallest things, because in a snap it could be gone, just like my life was almost gone. Be truly thankful for everything you have and live each day like it were your last. Ok, sermon is over !! Haha! Happy thanksgiving yall! Crystal

I forgot to mention that ive lost almost 130 pounds thanks to WLS, and im thankful for that, even though I went through all that trauma, I would still do it to be where I am today happy and healthy! It is just a risk we take when we have WLS

It took me a couple of days to come up with an answer for this. I am thankful I lost my job back in April. Seriously. There is no way I could have made it through all the fights with the insurance and learning to live life post-op had I still been working with the neurotics at my last job. I am thankful there is enough money each month. I am thankful my family is supportive of my decisions. I am thankful my family in law isn't as insane as I thought they were. I am thankful for all the new friends I've met on this message board. Yeah, as weird as these sound, they are what I'm thankful for. Go figure. Meghan weird but