Terrific Tuesday

Evening OFF family...

Well we lost another tenant today...well actually it was Sunday that she died. And yes it was another GOOD one!!!!! DAMIT!!!!!!! Also another one moved out...one that was fighting with another tenant but he already moved out...or should I say SKIPPED out on us!!! SMH...Just when we were filled up except for one...GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There goes the HUGE Christmas Bonus!!!!!!!!!!!

Jeannie your picture is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO different than before you had WLS!!!!!! OMG!!! You look WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Connie...isn't it amazing how talking to GOD you can get lost in your surroundings? And this weather is so weird!!! Colors here are beautiful...nice this week but over this past weekend freeze our butts off!!!!!!!! Hope you feel better soon!!! OH...On FB your ex friend posted how much she missed you...I never commented back to her or liked her comment either...I let that one slide...her loss. I see my ex friend on FB posting to some people and I know she can see mine on their posts...I can't believe how she can throw our friendship away like she did over a silly picture of a monkey!!!!!!! SMH!!!!!!!!! Feel better sweetie...prayers for you!!

Well supper is just about ready...left over Babyback ribs and Augratin Potatoes...YUMMMM

Thoughts and Prayers for ALL that need them!!!

HUGSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

Good Morning Trish, Jeannie & Vickie!

I wanted to check in and let everyone know I am doing fine! Absolutely no pain...just super low energy...probably due to 3rd week of clear liquids. Tomorrow I advance to my protein shakes, puddings, thin cream of wheat and my fluids. So I am hoping I pick up...

Trish, that baby is one of the cutest I have seen. My oldest was 9.5 lbs back in 78, and I believe bigger babies are just so cute.

Jeannie, I have been reading your posts on your dietary changes and will be anxious to see how you feel in the coming months. That is a huge effort to overhaul your eating habits, and then to get hubby to cooperate is always fun!

Vickie, I think you are beating yourself up unnecessarily. You know what you need to do to get back on track, and are already in the process of realizing you need to do so. You will get there. One of the things my sister said to me a dozen times over the past year was that I would never have been able to focus on me and get the weight off if I was still working. You had a huge year where focusing on you was quite impossible. Your focus was where it needed to be...on Butch, and now you just need to re-focus. I swear...obesity is such a 'caregiver's' disease. It seems to be how we cope.

I hope Carla is improving day by day, and my heart goes out to Connie. I agree being nearer to her family changes her whole outlook and she'd be better off close to them. She deserves a friggin break!

SORRY I AM JUST POSTING THIS...TYPED THIS MORNING & FORGOT TO SEND...SMH

Hi Ladies -- a quiet day for me.

I went to see the psychologist my PCP referred me to today. Very basic stuff....she gave me a diagram showing the "stage of grief" -- everyone has seen it before, nothing new. Basically, she told me every day I should get out of the house for a while, and that I should talk to Maura and tell her I'm depressed and it would help if I could see her and Taylor more often. I'll talk to her about it when we drive down to NY this weekend. So what did I do when I got home? I went to bed and slept from 4:00 till 6:00. I have a follow-up appointment in four weeks.

So I'll be out and about - tomorrow I'll be going to the landfill to dump my 10 bags of leaves, Thursday is my last dental visit and maybe go to a WLS support meeting in the evening, Friday Maura and Taylor come to spend the night, Saturday Maura and I drive to NY for the wedding, and Sunday we drive home....a busy few days.

Mary

Mary,

Grief is so hard to deal with and it is so hard to find what helps. I imagine, like Vic, you are going to be dealing with this for a long, long time. You probably needed that nap for not only your emotional well being but also your physical well being...don't beat yourself up over the things you are doing to feel better and safe. Time won't heal the pain but it will give you the time to learn how to deal with it. There will come a time that your memories of the good stuff will override the memories of his death and that will help too.