Re: Help me out guys!!!!

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Happens to me too. I don't understand it either. I don't even know if

I am posting correctly. I just keep ploughing through and absorbing

all the info I can...even if it is partial. lol.

Dinah in AL

Waiting!!!!!!!

-- In MiniGastricBypass (AT) e, DebLaMan@a... wrote:

> Okay Guys,

> This is really weird, and this has happened to me before, too. The

original

> message below (written by valmaboyz) I never received. So now I am

looking

> at Cathy's response to her and I see the part she copied, so I know

it went

> over the airwaves somewhere! Has this ever happened to anyone

else? I went

> back through old mail, new mail, but never did get it!

>

> Thanks to both of you ladies, and if someone would kindly send me

the

> original post, I would LOVE to read the whole thing!

>

> Thanks!

> Debbie in IL

>

> In a message dated 6/22/00 12:21:21 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

> CMo6331945@a... writes:

>

> << In a message dated 6/22/2000 2:29:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

> valmaboyz@a... writes:

>

> << I was a fat pre-teen ager, became

> a fat teenager, and lived my next 30 years as a fat adult before

I found my

> solution. I grew up with a mother who had never had a weight

problem and

> saw

> my weight as a poor reflection on her. When I was about Chris's

age, I

> remember her telling me that I would always have friends but as

long as I

> was

> fat no man would ever love me! Can you imagine thinking that....

much less

> saying that to a child. Anyway, it brings tears to my eyes to

see how

> supportive you are of this child and that you would stop at

nothing to get

> her the treatment she needs. >>

>

> Amen !!! I lived that life, starting gaining weight at 8.1/2

yrs. old

> and it drove my Mom crazy, she just couldn't seem to handle that

she had a

> fat child and never acted like it was concern over my health, I

was called

> names by her and insulted more times than I can count and one of

her

> favorite

> lines to me was " when I went shopping today I had planned on

buying you

> something but when I saw all those pretty clothes for normal size

girls it

> just made me sick so I didn't get you anything " , and I guess the

most

> amazing

> thing is, I lost my Mom Feb. 27th 1999 and God knows I loved that

woman more

> than life itself, but she helped destroy my self esteem and self

confidence

> and she never ever acknowledged that she was ever cruel to me, But

I guess

> maybe to her she wasn't. I harbor no resentment of my Mom I loved

her warts

> and all as I know she loved me, But I sure would have loved

someone to

> accept

> me and fight for me as Debbie has done for her daughter my

life maybe

> would have turned out different as in having more courage to shoot

for

> things

> instead of giving up so easy or not trying at all. Debbie I so

admire and

> respect you for being the kind of parent you are and I do so

know how

> you feel!!!!!!

>

> Cathy in Lenoir, NC

> >>