Recent Posts

I'm at a loss for words.

I'm very proud of you for making the choice to do what was best for you!  You are a very strong woman!!

I'm sure that experience made you an even stronger person and is part of who you are today.  God Bless you Yvonne.. I'm Lovin Ya..

Wow...I'm about to write a new blog post that's sort of about the same thing.  In fact I have an old blog post about unrealistic expectations and people telling us that we shouldn't expect to be able to do certain things.  NOT!  Here's the post:

http://bariatricgirl.blogspot.com/2008/08/unrealistic-expect ations-is-that-fair.html

If we do not believe in ourselves we will sabotage ourselves right into failure.  LOVE LOVE LOVE your post!
hugs, Y

Oh let me tell you.  The oldest was a girl who was stoned 24/7 and on other things too sometimes.  I knew it and her parents were in total denial and I was nobody.  When she finally got in so much trouble she was put in juvenile and was to stay there for 3 days and see a judge.  She was safe, she had a roof over her head and most of all there would be consequences.  Her dad got her out before she saw the judge.  She was stealing things that were valuable to me like my senior ring, cameras, a really expensive VCR (back then) and was destroying my house.  She was truly a sociopath and delighted in stealing her girlfriends boyfriends.  She would wear out her welcome with one grandmother, her mother, then us.  She kept switching around (one grandmother was smart enough to not participate).  It was because of sending her to a medical thing that they tested the whole family and found out I was a super bad co-dependent.  They were 2 point questions and I got a 98 so I probably lied on that one question.  It was thanks to that therapy that I learned that I could no longer stay in that house nor could I continue to work for my dad because I spent my whole life looking for his approval.  For 7 months I got up every day saying I am going to Dallas and leaving my house behind and my job and family business because if I don't, I will die.  I left with my clothes and some of my things and got a ride in a pick up truck with no air conditioning and rode to Dallas and started completely over at 33.  Because of a 401K I was able to buy a crappy car to get to work. A few years after I left I found out she took some PCP and broke through the front door of the condo (the door was metal) and she was 90 something pounds dripping wet.  No one learned still.  She finally was caught driving a get away car during a bank robbery and went to jail.  She was very very ill and I escaped with my life.  It was strained with my dad for quite a while but it was the smartest thing I ever did.  I learned that I finally broke free of the approval thing when my dad made a remark about my surgery one day when he said one of my cousins was looking great after having gastric bypass and she didn't take it too far like I did.  Before it would have crushed me but I just figured that was his opinion and I've got mine so we can agree to disagree.  So funny...I spent years being told I needed to lose weight and now I'm too thin.  It is what it is!
hugs, Y

WOW those must have been some bad step children to threaten going to the vet.. haha :)

There are days when I wonder myself how I do it??  It's almost like life after surgery, minute by minute, hour by hour and day by day.  I too love me some four legged children!

Hope everyone is doing well.  Up here in Indy we are getting one of our February snow storms.. BBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR  it's cold...

xoxoxo

Traci-
WAY TO GO GIRL!!!   This is a great WOW moment for you. So happy you shared with the group.


Sharon