TUESDAY GRATEFUL POST

Good Tuesday Everyone,

Hope your having a great week so far.    Everyday of our lives we are so blessed and should be grateful.   After all.....you woke up this AM or you wouldn't be on Obesity Help and reading this post.   Life offers us NO guarantees of anything at all....so we need to be grateful for every little thing that comes our way.    Today I am grateful for my faith in God and him answering prayers...sometimes not the way I want but the way HE wants them.   Grateful for my family, friends, WLS, health, Obesity Help and all the amazing forums here.   Grateful for the OH Staff who are rarely acknowledged for all the hard work that they put into monitoring, and running this amazing website.    Grateful for my life although it is very far from perfect and grateful for the weight loss that I had and for keeping most of it off for going on 9 yrs.   PLEASE share if you will what you are grateful for today and have a blessed day !!!

Hugs and blessings ~~ Vivian

Thanks, Vivian, for reminding me to give thanks today!  I am thankful for my loving, forgiving, faithful God and the fact that He cherishes me. I am thankful for my husband who has always stuck by my side--no matter what! I am thankful for my two beautiful children and the relationship we share.  I am thankful for the miracle of this surgery that has changed my life so immensely. Thanks also for the help and support I have received from others on OH.  LIFE IS GOOD!

Awww Vivien, this was kind of cool for me this morning to logon here after several years and see a familiar poster right off the bat- especially one who encouraged me during the pre-op process in 2011!   Thanks for always reminding everyone to be grateful and for being a constant on the OH.   Now I'm back as a successful post-op and my boyfriend (soon to be fiancé?) has decided to have surgery.  So I'm gathering up my old resources and it occurred to me that I haven't been on the OH in years and that I could use the check-in myself!   

Awe thank you.  Not like many others I've never left the OH forums.  Welcome back & congrats to your boyfriend with his decision to change his lifestyle.

hugs & blessings--- Vivian

HI Vivian how long after your info session did you have your surgary and what do you have to do before from kathy

Hi Kathy,

i take it by my info session you mean my doctors information for future patients.    I think it was about 5-6 months.   I had to do 3 months of diet & exercise for insurance approval.... It could be different now.   I will be 9 yrs post op in Nov.

Hugs & Blessings--- Vivian