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WHOOOOOOOOOOOOPIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE   HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
That's awesome news and you should cry any time you want girlfriend!! You've earned the right to every tear you want to shed.
Congratulations to both of you!!!
hugs, Y

Katie...

Congratulations to you both! You are doing an awesome job! and it just keeps getting better! 

OH MY GOD!!! Your date is one day before mine and Suzy's in one day after mine.   How freaky is that?  WONDERFUL!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Party hard in March!!I'm imagining next year!!

I'm soooooooooo happy guys!!!  
I'm jumping up and down and dancing!!! 

hugs, Y

Oh sweetie, thank you.  I want to respond to several more posts on this thread so I'm multi tasking.  I admit it....I'm watching American Idol and recording Lost. 

WOW, I don't think I knew about your mom having surgery.  How incredible that she could do something to save her life so she can be around longer.  I hope she does update her profile and I'd love to see it.  I hope you tell her how much I admire you because you are so very special.  That's amazing that you live next door!  And I so understand what you mean about "the pretty face".  I carry a before picture in my wallet and I've considered reprinting it and putting across the bottom "You don't have to be nice and say I have a pretty face".  I usually get 2 comments.  The pretty face one and "wow, you look really different:.  I tell them that's what I was going for. 

What a beautiful statement about knowing that you know you have to face it but not today.  I won't kid you that it was the most difficult thing I've ever been through.  I had forgotten this but before surgery I was in such isolation that I never went out in public.  I spent the last year of my mother's life driving home 3 hours every weekend because we knew she had cancer.  When it was time for the memorial service I was so messed up that I suddenly realized that all these people would see me after years of hiding.  They had to have all thought..."poor Yvonne, she's really let herself go".  It was unbearable.  I couldn't hide, I had to be there and I would have changed places with her in a split second.  I was so worthless feeling and just kept asking why would this world have to lose someone like my mom.  She was the ultimate gracious lady that had that ability to make you feel like you were the only person that existed when you talked to her.  She loved me unconditionally.  My dad loved me but he didn't like me very much because I couldn't beat the obesity.  I spent 99% of my life trying to win his approval. 

I truly believe that somehow some way she did something from where she was to line up this surgery for me.  Truly the sun and the moon and the stars aligned because there were so many reasons this shouldn't have happened for me.  I had the worst possible insurance and trust me, it was a miracle that I got this surgery at all.   I don't want to make this long and boring but I went from being a morbidly obese woman in hiding to a world wind romance with a man I had listened to on the radio for ten years.  It's a long wild story for another time.  I never take it for granted because all I have to do is remember how far I've come.  Wow, I would so much like to meet you and several other members here in person.  How great would that be?
smooches, Y

Wow what an awesome thing to pass along..thanks for the info :)