So, it’s the night before my big major surgery, double knee replacement, so it’s a big deal to me. I received a call frrom Karen, the head of the Rehab Department this afternoon. She asked if I’d be interested in being interviewed by a journalist reporting on people having double knee replacement. So, of course you know me, well no you don’t really, but you will eventually, and then you’ll realize that I don’t pass up a chance to voice my opinion and thoughts. I’m excited to be involved in this little endeavor. I’ll let you know how it goes and maybe even get a copy of the article and add it to my blog here.

Anyway, I told you I’d let you in on my newest and very interesting venture. I must lose weight, and I need to lose it quickly and safely. I have a friend, Tina in Ohio, who recently lost 28 pounds in less than 8 weeks. She, and her husband Keith, shared their secret with me and I can’t wait to get started. But, sadly I must wait until I get back home from surgery and physical rehab.

Tina and Keith introduced me to Eiro Research. They have some of the most state-of-the-art products in their arsenal for healthy, whole foods living. They have a weight loss plan that has worked for Tina, and several of her friends, relatives and co-workers. So, I am very excited to be in on the ground floor with this product. This is going to give me the opportunity to help people change their lives. There’s nothing more rewarding than knowing you played an instrumental part in making life better for those around you.

The weight loss program consists of – wait let me just give you my link to all the info you’ll need about this amazing new find, www.livinglifelessfat.com. Let me know what you think, I’m really interested in your feed back.

Success to all,

Wendy

OK, here’s the deal. I have to do something about my weight. As if this is some type of new revelation! I have been overweight since I was about 18. Except for a period of about four years when I was 20 to 24. I lost 82 pounds and I was hot! It was great! It was like living a completely different persons life. I was asked out all the time. I worked for a great guy at the time (he was married and loyal), but he used to tell our clients that he would have to beat the guys off of me with a stick since I lost all that weight because I was dating new guys all the time (it was meant as a compliment).

Anyway – I then gradually put the pounds back on. One at a time, slowly until one day I was fat, fat, fat. And again I took off about 40 of those dreadful, mean pounds. Then I met the man of my dreams, and we were married in a fairytale wedding.

About five years ago I was actually working out at the gym with a personal trainer, and as I was doing some of those steppity-up thingies, you know the one foot up, one foot down repeat thingies, my meniscus tore. There was no mistaking the sound or the immediate pain. So I had to have surgery to clean that up, and the doctor discovered that there was no cartilage in the knee but lots of arthritis.  So I was informed I would indeed need a knee replacement in the not to distant future.

Soooo,  I am now presented with a conundrum-  five years later here I am,  in need of a double knee replacement because the right knee has had to work so hard for the lack of the ability to use the left and so it too is in need of replacement. Well I have put this off until I can no longer take the pain.

On Tuesday the 26 I will have surgery (this is where the music goes – dum- dum- dum). Am I fearful? Yes, but not as much as yesterday. Yesterday my kind and loving husband (I really mean that) and I went to the pre-op class offered by the skilled and informative physical therapists at Health Central Hospital in Ocoee. This class helped alleviate a good portion of my anxiety about this double knee replacement.

My biggest fear is that I won’t wake up from the anesthesia. I know, I know the odds of that happening are minimal. But that doesn’t help my fear.  The other fears were about the long and unusually painful recovery process. I’ll be in the hospital for about 4 days, then in a physical therapy rehab center for 10 to 14 days, with rehab 2 to 3 times a day. Quite an intense program, but the goal is to get you up and functional ASAP.

My wonderful husband is probably more excited about all this than am I. This man has been doing everything for the last year. Over the past five years as the bone degeneration progressed and the  pain intensified the less I was able to do. Until finally things developed into being almost completely confined to a wheelchair.

All of this is to say that (I know it’s a long story to get to the real reason for this post, but thought some background would be interesting), because I haven’t been able to walk much over the past five years (and almost none during the past year) I have gained at least 70 pounds. Which, when you add that to the fact that I was already a cute little butterball to begin with, now makes me a not so cute obese, short, unhealthy person. And all this weight will only add to the struggle of recuperation from surgery.

But, I have a plan, and I feel it’s going to be a great way to be able to lose all this unhealthy weight once and for all.

Since I’ve rattled on long enough in this post I’ll give you all the details in the next few days before my surgery about my GREAT PLAN! I think you’ll not only be interested but intrigued, and maybe you’ll even want to come along on this journey with me.

It’s going to be a great year this new 2010. Stay tuned for more.

Success to all!

Wendy