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Sometimes I have to wonder how I can be more than twice the size of the average person, and only feel like half a person. I wonder how I can take up so much space but strive for invisibility. I wonder how I could have wasted 16 years of my life allowing my weight to slowly but surely crush the life out of me. I wonder at the higher power that led me to apply, interview and accept a job that my self confidence told me was impossible for a person like me to get. I wonder again at the higher power that put me into a job that surrounds me with people that lift me up on every shift and have made me feel human again, and that same job provides the health insurance that allowed me to see medical professionals that have led me down the road to WLS. In 18 days I take that big leap into the rest of my life, and so help me God I have learned from my past and will not repeat the steps that brought me where I am at this point in my life.
I have moments of near terror at taking this step, but then I settle into my decision as I feel I have been led here for whatever reason, and I have trust through to the other side.
I have moments of near terror at taking this step, but then I settle into my decision as I feel I have been led here for whatever reason, and I have trust through to the other side.
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Good day to all.So let me explain why we're discussing this today. The problem is, if your system gets too many (as in produces too many) it's a non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL) called Waldenstrom's Macroglobulinemia, and my husband was diagnosed in early 2018.Every monocloncal antibody or protein in your blood is essentially a blank, a slug, as they call coins that have been minted but not...
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My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...
Evidently your light is not completely hidden. Other are able to recognize it and are drawn to it. You will find the courage to change if you will look within. d
I had so many similar thoughts before my GBS.
I have a really, really good feeling about you, Golden. Something tells me you are going to absolutely rock this thing!!
JJ
off you go in 18 days on the bus to skinnytown...(im the self appointed official driver) lol
Shelley :o)
Then there is this little voice of reason in your head and you hear it say that there was a reason you took this step and you go through with the surgery.
I am 6 months post op-80 pounds lighter and wouldn't take it back for anything.
Let the little voice in your head guide you, as it seems you always have.
Good luck with your surgery and we will all see you on the losers bench soon.
Thanks for understanding everyone.