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Married this afternoon in Northfield Minnesota to my best friend David 29 years ago today!!.  Still married to the same boy.  It is delightful to be only 20 pounds heavier than I was then rather than the nearly 90 pounds heavier I was close to at the time I headed for WLS.  My marriage to the procedure (to use the analogy loosely) has been similar; there were second thoughts, lots of presurgical preparation, much ado about food, the "Honeymoon" period, and learning how to live with my sleeve.  Like with my real marriage though I made the best decision I could with all the information I had - and both have been successful in my book.  Perfect?  Never.  Who likes perfect?  It just makes everyone else around you irritated.

Thanks to my husband for supporting me in my decision to have WLS.  His first response was "why don't you just diet and exercise".  When I responded I had been doing that for 35 years he wisely stopped trying to dissuade me and was in my court the whole time.
Feeling very very good about both "marriages".
Anne

Hey girl you need to update your avatar!
hugs, Y

OK this is the best I can do as a quickie.  (That's supposed to be a red cape)

You ARE the JEllenator!! The picker upper of motorcycles and savior to all!
WOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
hugs, Y

Yvonne would say....

JELLENATOR!!!

But Kathy... I wasn't wearing my Red Cape with a big ol
 

           "J"

               on the middle of it!!!


You are right about that type of accident... being HIGH FATALITY rate.  I didn't get much sleep last night... I guess the idea of coming up on an accident that could have been soooo much worse was on my mind.

I've been driving for many years and have seen MANY MANY bad accidents. I've known of quite a number of people who have died in bike accidents. My former Weigh****chers leader for one. My husbands cousin. the thought of coming up- being the first one on scene and finding this guy- or any one in a heap busted up would have really messed me up.

I have to drop off his windshield to him this morning. I hope (this sounds bad but it's meant in a GOOD WAY)

I hope HE IS SO STIFF that he can bearly move! 
Don't want him walking away THINKING HE IS INVINCIBLE! 


So neat that you took a safty course... so you are getting a motorcycle??? post photos please! 

Ok so this is WAY off topic.... but then.... it is related....
Does ANYONE think that I could have done that a YEAR AGO???

NO WAY! not at 270 lbs!

So here's what happened...
Annually, in Lake George NY there is a HUGE motorcycle rally...
AMERICADE. We are an hour or so south of there near the NY State Thruway, so we see LOTS of motorcycles this time of year going to and coming from Americade.

Well....It's been raining here most of the day... showers with heavy downpours....I'm driving my husbands pickup home from work when I look ahead at the curve in the road and I notice a Red motorcycle in the ditch with a Guy wet & muddy, trying to get the thing out of there.
So i turned the truck around and asked if he needed help - if he was ok.  He said yes.

he looked a bit dazzed.  He said i flew over the handlebars and landed in the ditch. busted up his windshield- headlight and various other bike parts. Thankfully, somehow he avoided being busted up himself! no apparent broken bones. I guess MUD IS SOFT!!!

So as I was collecting stuff that had flown off of the bike another biker came by and assisted us with lifting the thing out of the ditch.
Also the forks weren't bent so he was able to ride it into town and get a room at a hotel... try to get the thing fixed tomorrow or MONDAY.

HUH... me lifting and pulling a decent size bike out of ditch...

another amazing WOW moment!

I'm really glad he is ok! could have been soooo much worse