Re: Freedom!!!!!!!!/vicki

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vicki: gosh! it has been a loooong time since i have seen your name

in the emails! thanks for checking in with us. your progress sounds

fantastic! awesome wt loss, awesome life now! i am so glad they

have found a CURE for the PLAGUE! lol i'm still standing on line

for my " vaccination " . so glad you did this while you are still

so " young " . i am 43 and wish i could have done this a long long time

ago! but thank god i found out about it even now! while there is

still time to have a life.

keep checking in from time to time. we love to hear the success

stories from our postops!

hugs,

mary y st.louis

> Hello All,

>

> It has been quite a while since I have had the opportunity to

write. Recently I took a mini trip to Chicago and for the first time

in many, many years... I experienced true freedom.... I fit in an

airplane seat and had to tighten the belt... We went to see the Play

Mama Mia and I fit in the seat.... we went out to eat and I fit in

the chairs and the booths.... for the first time in years, I did not

even have to think about it. I was a " Normal " person! Noone stared

or looked at me awkwardly and people spoke to me like I was human. I

am 10 months post op and have lost 170lbs to date... I have about

75lbs to go... but am " normal " sized by sight to the general public.

I had a difficult time accepting my new found " acceptance " by the

world at large for quite a while... I am finally enjoying being

nothing special or different! Y'all know hwat I mean! It's as if

they came out with a vaccine for the Plague, which, while weighing

432lbs... most people treated me like I had it!!

> For all you pre-opers... it tr

> uly is worth it... the freedom to live life.... the quality of life

is so different. I walk with a confidence about myself... not

snobby... just content.... I Vicki, Age 30.... am content and it is

the best feeling in the whole wide world. Good luck and keep

fighting for your right to live a great life.

>

> Vicki in Sac

> Dr. Rabkin

> 9/20/00

> -170+