I am ready!!!

Hello !! Thsi is my first post and I am excited to announce that my wls is set for next monday, Feb 27th with Dr. Onopchenko. I am very excited and very nervous. I think I have read everything and then some. I want to thank the very special Toms River Support Group especiallly Nan and Angela. You are the best!! Please send me lots of prayers next week! Pink Hugs, Joanne

Hello! May this be the first of many many posts that you will make. Good luck. May your journey be as easy and uneventful as mine was! Hugs, Linda

Hey Joanne -- you know I got your back (and anything else you may need)! You have your prayers -- make sure John calls me on my cell when you get out of surgery to let me know how you made out. Again, if you need ANYTHING, please let me know. You know that everyone from the Toms River group is pulling for you -- hope we'll still see you at the next meeting on March 10th -- bring a pillow! LOL Hugs, Nan

Joanne, Julian here, just want to wish you the best of luck, i hope your surgery goes exceptionally well ! It is scary, no doubt about it. I had mine on April 25, 2005. I WAS PETRIFIED ! I don't think I have ever been so scared in my life. But at 485 pounds, I was a walking time bomb. Or a walking dead man. My life was almost non existant any way ! Now, here I am 10 months later, weighing in at 250 pounds, I can't even fathom why I waited. Its a long hard road at first. You will wonder ehy you did this to your self, the surgery that is. You will get angry, and depressed. Remember stay strong, that feeling goes away the first time you weigh your self on your month check up. All of a sudden, the pain (not that I remember it they had me so doped up) The discomfort, everything you will go through will dissapate, and you smile and say FINALLY, I am finally doing it. Speedy recovery to you. Keep your chin up ! You'll be fine ! And as you loose the weight, the more you melt away, and you will. You will think to your self, it was all worth it. Touch base with me please when you get up and about ! Julian