Necessary Mutilation

Weight: 197.8 lbs.

Well, I am a few days away from my one year anniversary since surgery. For us gastric bypassesers, this seems to be a momentous occassion, as I’ve read others write glowing testimonials on places like obesityhelp etc. I can’t believe that a whole year has gone by, as it still feels like much more recently that I was planning the surgery and agonizing over the process.Either tomorrow, if not on the actual anniversary day itself (Wednesday), I will do a special post complete with some pics. I am thinking I might do this a little early as I will have more time to enjoy the process tomorrow than on a work day.

Right now, I remain focused on other matters, including my friends’ well being and the garage sale. There is not much new word on the former, and as to the latter, Zoe and Dennis spent much of the day here yesterday filling their tent and fussing over their stuff. Today they are bringing over their pop-up tent camper, and we have arranged with our neighbor whose property borders ours, to have them set it up there. It will actually be sitting on their lawn for over a week, so it was nice that they are ok with this. In addition, Zoe is bringing over two lawn mowers and other large stuff that may or may not fit in her tent, so it is getting increasingly crowded around here. Yesterday we picked up a load of stuff from other friends in the city, including a Queen Anne’s chair and bikes and an end table.

While we were all out working in the tent and garage yesterday, some people actually stopped by to shop! Including a mother and grown daughter who said that they go to all of our sales, read about it on Craig’s list, thought it was today, and wondered if they could take a peek. They spent $16, and we made our first sales! Ha Ha!!

They also assured me that they would be back, as there is obviously way more to come as additional families join in the fray. Please pray for sunshine!

Also today, I have noticed that my sleep pants have been falling down on me, so I measured my waist, and see that I am down another inch or two, I believe. I am now at just under 38 inches, which although big, is a new low for me. Although I would have liked to have posted a greater loss weight and inch wise at my year anniversary, and remain aware that many others do way better, I am trying hard not to compare myself to anyone other than ME, as doing otherwise just serves to depress and demoralize me.

And speaking of me,  I must move on to other things early today.  Zoe is due back with more stuff soon and there remains much to do, and I have an arrangement with my brother  to have him walk me through the steps needed so that I can watch Ruby on-line. The link that I had tried did not work other than to allow for small clips of her show, and I need to watch whole episodes to see how she is faring in every way on her journey. I’d hate to miss everything and find that she got skinny without me knowing it. It would be like you skipping this blog for like a year, only to sign back in in 2011 and find that I now weigh 120 lbs., am a marathon runner, a spokesperson for all things healthy, and well balanced emotionally.

 Ha Ha!   If only…!