CHANGE OF PLANS!!!!!

Yes! Yes! Yes! You remember I had a choice of having my surgery on August 18th or the 25th, but I choose September 1st because of the foreclosure hearing????? Well, since the hearing is in Tampa and there ain't no way I can get to Tampa, I am going to have my surgery on the 25th of August now! I will be going for my preliminary testing THIS THURSDAY and will be meeting with Debbie too to make OUR preliminary plans. Then...drum roll please....I will be having my surgery on the 25th! I have just waited so danged long for this...there is no point waiting any longer! Besides, it's gonna take a long, long time, even with WLS to lose 215 lbs., so the sooner the better, right???? This way I can reach the century club one week sooner! Oh man, though...I'm in the September group message board. I guess this will put me in the AUGUST group. Well....how about that????

FANTASTIC!!!! So are we gonna go see that hot little waiter that called you Senorita??? We could do one last cheese dip date on Thursday???? Let me know if you wanna.

Oh Joni, Im so glad you get the date changed!!! I wont be able to come up until the weekend tho, because I will be working but that is okay, I say grab the first available date and get it over with. Maybe you wont be so high, you think you dreamed I was there I say the sooner the better too. It may not take such a long time to loose, it all depends on you. Everyone loses differently. I wish I had bookmarked the profile I read the other night. This woman lost 129 pounds in 2 months! I think she started at 382 and by her 9th month she had made goal and was down to 135 and had lost over 200 pounds! She is 4 years out and still maintaining her goal weight. You never know by this time next year you could be at goal too. Love, Sandy

Man, I wish you had bookmarked that profile. If you find it again, let me know. I can't imagine losing that much that quic****ep thinking it will take me two years to lose the 215 lbs. But if I lose it in one, I'm perfectly okay with that. Wow! From 382 to 135 in 9 months! I could deal with that. I'll be deliriously happy if I can get to 160 even. Dang, I dread all that loose skin, but at least I can HIDE IT. You're right...I may not even remember if you are there the first day. However, if I have my surgery on Thursday, I may be leaving the hospital on Saturday morning, if I do like others have done. But I'm going to be in the area for the week after surgery, so we can still get together. You will have to come to me though! We can all firm things up as time gets closer. Love, Joni

I am sooooo happy for you sweetie!! Love u!

Hey Joni, I didn't know that your date had changed until I got on here today and saw it posted. Did you email me? I am so excited for you and I know you can hardly wait. Please let me know what I can do to help. I will be there for you in any way I can. Love, Beth

I did email you! I had a couple of emails go "POOF!" the other day, so yours may have gone the way of the others. Don't know what kind of phantom was in my computer that day. I am excited. I am stressing myself too much trying to get everything done and a few people are getting upset with me because I'm not available on the telephone as much as normal, but I only have an hours worth of charge a day on my house phone and I'm trying to save my peak minutes on my cell phone because I know I will need my cell phone when I am in Birmingham. So I can't keep up with everything. I had 6 messages on my voice mail today and can't call anyone back because the phone, she is dead. I'm cancelling appts., making arrangements to be away for the week or two, trying to figure out how to keep my bills paid while I'm gone, trying to make everything appear "as normal" with my parents, and just taking care of business and geez, it can take an hour of phone time a day to get all the business stuff taken care of. Thank you for the offer of help! I am going to have your phone number with me and hopefully you will come to see me a lot while I'm in the hospital so we'll be talking. Love you, Joni

Good for you! I pre-op this Thursday and have surgery on the 24th. Have hard time typing because of my arm. Love you.

Best of luck to you too, my sister! Looks like about the time they are waking you up, they will be putting me under. Your poor arm. Is it broke today or not? LOL Those danged doctors. Be sure to mark your initials on your stomach when you have your surgery! Love you, Joni