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01/06 REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
"As individuals and as a fellowship," Bill W. continued, "we shall surely suffer if we cast the whole idea of planning for tomorrow into a fatuous idea of providence. God's real providence has endowed us human beings with a considerable capability for foresight, and He evidently expects us to use it. Of course, we shall often miscalculate the future in whole or in part, but that is better than to refuse to think at all." HAVE I BEGUN TO BELIEVE THAT I AM ONLY AN ACTOR IN A PLAY WHICH THE MANAGER DIRECTS?
TODAY I PRAY
May I make prudent use of the foresight and power of choice which God has given me, to plan wisely, one Step at a time, without becoming a slave to apprehension, regret or anxiety. I pray that God's will be done through the exercising of my own will, which He, in His goodness, has given me.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
God wills my will to be.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
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Not sure if you still need more info. Definitely make sure your surgeon knows. Depending on what you are having done your Meds may not be absorbed as well as before surgery. If your Meds are timed released (eg XR or XL). You may have to switch to the regular type. Some/most Meds can be 'compounded' by a pharmacy into a liquid form as well.
Best of luck
K
As for everyone else, sorry to hear that you are going thru this but one of the things that my shrink told me she sees in WLS patients (treatment after surgery) is in addicition transfer. There is some addiction there and food was it until they took the food out of the picture because you just couldn't eat it. So you had to find something else to help you with what was troubling you. It sounds like a lot of people turn to alchohol.
I had the same concerns with my Cymbalta and Busbar and Klonipin. I stressed to my surgeon how important it was to get at least these medications of all the meds that I take. He just told me to remind him on the day of surgery and he would put it in my chart.
I didn't get meds until the day after surgery, which was fine - I only missed one dose. Before I could even say anything to the nurses about my meds, one of the doctors was running after the nurse to get that medicine into me asap!! They were able to provide a smaller pill (had to take 2) that was smaller.
Also, during my pre-op, I stressed to the nurse how important it was to get the meds and I was able to take all my morning meds with a little bit of water.
Good Luck with your surgery!
Kelli
REFLECTIONS FOR THE DAY
My life before coming to The Program was not unlike the lives of so many of us who were cruelly buffeted and tormented by the power of our addictions. For years, I had been sick and tired. When I became sick and tired of being sick and tired, I finally surrendered and came to The Program. Now I realize that I had been helped all along by a Higher Power; it was He, indeed, who allowed me to live so that I could eventually find a new way of life. SINCE MY AWAKENING, HAVE I FOUND A MEASURE OF SERENITY PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN IN MY LIFE?
TODAY I PRAY
May I realize that my Higher Power has not suddenly come into my life like a stranger opening a door when I knocked. The Power has been there all along, if I will just remember how many brushes with disaster I have survived by a fraction of time or distance. Now that I have come to know my Higher Power better, I realize that I must have been saved for something -- for helping others like me.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
I am grateful to be alive and recovering.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
The success of The Program, I've been taught, lies in large measure in the readiness and willingness of its members to go to any lengths to help others tyrannized by their addictions. If my readiness and willingness cools, then I stand in danger of losing all that I've gained. I must never become unwilling to give away what I have, for only by so doing will I be privileged to keep it. DO I TAKE TO HEART THE SAYING, "Out of self into God into others..."?
TODAY I PRAY
May I never be too busy to answer a fellow addict's call for help. May I never become so wound up in my pursuits that I forget that my own continuing recovery depends on that helping -- a half-hour or so on the telephone, a call in person, a lunch date, whatever the situation calls for. May I know what my priorities must be.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Helping helps me.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
i'm going in 1/10 and starting to freak a little. one thing i'm worried about is getting all my psych meds in. i'm on a bunch, but the ones i'm worried about most are the klonopin (which i can chew up, so i guess that's not so bad) and the zoloft b/c i know you can get sick if you miss doees of ssri's.
anyone have ideas about this??? thanks! glad to find a place to work on all this stuff. i don't really relish the depression that i hear hits after the surgery . . .
Ann 
will definitely be watching this space!
Ann
REFLECTION FOR THE DAY
The Program, for me, is not a place nor a philosophy, but a highway to freedom. The highway leads me toward the goal of a "spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps." The highway doesn't get me to the goal as quickly as I sometimes wish, but I try to remember that God and I work from different timetables. But the goal is there, and I know that the Twelve Steps will help me reach it. HAVE I COME TO THE REALIZATION THAT I -- AND ANYONE -- CAN NOW DO WHAT I HAD ALWAYS THOUGHT IMPOSSIBLE?
TODAY I PRAY
As I live The Program, may I realize more and more that it is a means to an end rather than an end in itself. May I keep in mind that the kind of spirituality it calls for is never complete, but is the essence of change and growth, a drawing nearer to an ideal state. May I be wary of setting time-oriented goals for myself to measure my spiritual progress.
TODAY I WILL REMEMBER
Timetables are human inventions.
It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ~Ursula K. LeGuin
