Diane & Angie

November 3, 2005

I truly appreciate your responses. Weight is very

much a " soapbox subject " for me and with my emotional

state, I've been seriously over reacting to minor

things quite often lately. My mothers death and the

subsequent necessity to find a place to live and then

finding out that I can't qualify for enough to get

something the size that we need has been the major

stressor in my life right now and I knew I needed to

wait before responding or I'd have gotten myself into

deep doo doo. Been there, done that. Not what I want

to do to myself or my friends here. No one can ever

understand the horror of trying to live at 500 lbs+ (I

have been as high as 525 lbs. 415 just seems to be

the number that my body says it's gonna stay) unless

they've been there. I won't say that I will never

consider weight loss surgery, but it's not in my plan

right now because with my metabolism problems, it's

not likely to help me be any healthier and will just

be surgically induced malnutrition. I've known too

many who have had it done and have either died within

a week of having complications or have gone for years

suffering from the long term complications and then

dying a miserable death. It will take a lot to make

me consider such mutilation. Fortunately advances in

medicine are made quite rapidly and maybe soon there

will be enough pressure to properly treat or cure the

metabolic disorders instead of shoving pills at us and

telling us it's all in our heads.

Anyway, another soapbox bit from me. Sorry. Thanks

again for your replies.

Kathy >^,,^<

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