[Soft*Silver]

thank you for the lovely welcoming back posts. It is so nice to feel "part of". I am content at Rose Cottage. I just painted my front porch and put up pretty pots on the steps. I found a great deal at an estate sale...4 french provincial dressers for $60 total so now my spare bedroom is complete. Little things like that mean so much.

I can eat solid food now but my quantities are limited. I can eat a half a regular hamburger from McDonalds and a few fries. I cant drink while I eat or I get discomfort. Sugar doesnt affect me like people said it would. I can still indulge in some candies, etc, and it doesnt make me sick but eating isnt what it use to be for me. Its not a feeding frenzy nor a way to drown my feelings. eating is simply eating. If it taste good I eat it and when I am full, I quit. It is so successful my sister is even going in for one of these operations, which she vowed she would never do.

It was discovered that some of my meds were interacting badly and that it affected not just my memory but my personality as well. I am off those meds and feel so much less agitated about life. But then I also think its part and parcel of the whole life changes I have had over the past few months.

well, I am exhausted. I had a long day with family, after getting home from a two week vacation so I need to say goodnite. Talk to you all again later...