ThunderWoman
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Tomorrow is the day! I'm feeling ready. I made it through the preop diet, got through a lot of psychological hurdles, medical tests, and nutrition counseling, and in about 16 hours will be in surgery. It's a lot, but my husband and mother will be with me and I'm blessed with a great support system of friends. I'm apprehensive of what my personal experience will be like with recovery; everyone reacts differently and I know all the most likely possibilities.
I'm also starting a new job 2 weeks after surgery: this is a recent development that will ultimately be good but I am a little worried about being fatigued and less than 100% on my mental game for the start of something like that. It's a promotion I've been working towards for a while and I'm not about to question God's timing so I choose to believe it is all happening now for a reason, a greater plan for my life that I will look back on later and be so proud of where I've come. I'm thinking positively that all this change at once will ultimately bring out the superhero I have inside and usher in a new era in the timeline of my life. I'm focusing on the woman who is waiting for me in 6 months. She is who I am working through all of this for, underneath a few layers of accumulated insecurities and destructive habits and not loving myself in the way she needed me to. I love that woman and am working towards being her every day!
This will be tough but not as tough as continuing down the well trodden path I was on towards unhealthy habits both mentally and physically. It's exciting and nerve wracking and heady and wonderful and unknown and scary and powerful. To those of you who have gone before, thank you for sharing your experiences and wisdom. To those with months yet to go, keep pressing forward to take your life back one step, one day, one positive choice at a time and you'll get there too.
Here we go!
I'm also starting a new job 2 weeks after surgery: this is a recent development that will ultimately be good but I am a little worried about being fatigued and less than 100% on my mental game for the start of something like that. It's a promotion I've been working towards for a while and I'm not about to question God's timing so I choose to believe it is all happening now for a reason, a greater plan for my life that I will look back on later and be so proud of where I've come. I'm thinking positively that all this change at once will ultimately bring out the superhero I have inside and usher in a new era in the timeline of my life. I'm focusing on the woman who is waiting for me in 6 months. She is who I am working through all of this for, underneath a few layers of accumulated insecurities and destructive habits and not loving myself in the way she needed me to. I love that woman and am working towards being her every day!
This will be tough but not as tough as continuing down the well trodden path I was on towards unhealthy habits both mentally and physically. It's exciting and nerve wracking and heady and wonderful and unknown and scary and powerful. To those of you who have gone before, thank you for sharing your experiences and wisdom. To those with months yet to go, keep pressing forward to take your life back one step, one day, one positive choice at a time and you'll get there too.
Here we go!
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