Good luck to you too. I'm counting down when it's my turn. As a note my daughter is having the operation tomorrow. My wife got her wish that we both had it a the same time so she just had to take care of us at the same time. You see she had the operation July2004 and I know whats going to happen. We went to her doctor today and she met one of her goals of losing to get under 300lbs. She had been on a level that she wasn't losing any but she did go down in dress sizes. Got to go but good luck thursday.