* THANK YOU * Re: S. Surgery! BEST WISHES LISA!!!!!!!, 10/12/2006, 12:00 am

October 11, 2006

Greetings Losers and Soon-to-be Losers,

First I want to apologize that I did not send individual emails to each of you

that have sent me well wishes over the past week. Second, I want to thank you

all so much for all of your encouraging words and happy thoughts.

I was so far behind in the posts as I caught a killer virus a week before

surgery. An imperfect chest x-ray last week almost delayed my surgery. The

make-up x-ray was acceptable. I've finally caught up on all the posts.

I go in for surgery in a matter of hours. Nerves are keeping me awake, but the

glow of the computer screen is slowly making my eyelids slightly heavier by the

second. Hopefully I will be able to sleep some tonight, but between the

annoying CPAP machine and my hyperactive brain, I'm not sure how successful I

will be.

Back to the point of my post...

I've found this board to be absolutely amazing. Even though I don't post all

that often, reading all of your stories is so uplifting and most of all amazing.

I sincerely hope that I'm even half as successful as you all have been. I'm

scared and trying to fight back tears - I so hate to cry - but I want you all to

know that I'm taking a part of each one of you with me into surgery tomorrow.

Each of and every one of you - pre-op, post-op - has amazing strength. I am

going to take your strength and make it mine.

I hope that I don't sound like a big dork; however, I am a HUGE dork!!

Thank you all so much again. I don't think that you'll ever fully know how much

and how positively you all have impacted me.

I will be sure to post as soon as I feel up to it. I'm sure that I'll be

drowning in posts when I get back!! =P

xoxo,

S. in NJ

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