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Thursday will be my 2 year surgeriversary which will be bittersweet.   I have now lost 157 lbs I am still needing to lose 50 lbs more, I've also lost 2 inches to my heigth not sure why but I have.   I've also gone down one shoe size in shoes as well… lol   

I need to start exercising but my life is really crazy busy these days.

My surgery date came up for my triple hernia surgery for this Friday but I had to cancel it and will have to have it rescheduled.

A month after my gastric bypass surgery two years ago, my mom suffered a stroke, they did an MRI and realized she had suffered many strokes, and shortly after that at the age of 73 she went into a care home with the start of vascular dementia.   My husband and I cleaned up my parents suite as they live in the same building as us, thus this is where I did too much too soon after surgery and now have three abdominal hernias. We moved in here with the htought that when they get old we would care for them.   My dad had a stroke a year ago, but has recovered from it.   My mother never got better just worse from the stroke, and kept having more, she is in a special wheelchair, cant feed herself is on a pureed diet, and on a pain patch for the amount of pain she is in.  In Dec she suffered with two blood clots, edema in her body (swelling) which never went down, and the doc came in a month ago and said with the amount of pain my mom is in, and after checking her over, she felt a tumour in her stomach.   They suspected cancer all along but she is sure of it, because of all the above and the amount of pain my mother has.    They've said my mother has 3-4 months probably to live, and maybe a year.   She's not really eating or drinking these days much.  I go up and spend a lot of time with my mom everyday, there is only my husband, my father and me no other family, and I have no siblings.   So of course my life is on hold for now.

So I'm glad I had my gastric bypass surgery, but the two years has been very hard with my parents health issues, and now with my two year surgiversary I know that this year will be the hardest but I would have gastric bypass surgery again in a heartbeat as it changed my life.

Suzanne

You know Suzanne I read the story about this magnificent weight loss and this make me sad, I am thinking that this surgery is for most of us a time where we come first, for once in our k=life we finally come first. But not for you, you couldn't  and you still can't. So super congrats. Keep at it.

Try to think about you. You are important. You are great Know it ok?

I join Jayna CONGRATS 157! WOW

Julie

Suzanne:  I know that this has been a really difficult time for you – b ut you have done so well with your weight loss. You have been under soo much stress and still keep fighting. I admire what you have accomplished. I am here for you and I congratulate you on your successes. Frances

Thank you Carrie I appreciate your encouragement, support and friendship very much.

Suzanne