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| Hello friends, This is going to be short. I'm still here. I haven't been online much because I'm so sick. Please don't ever go off your antidepressants without help from your physicians. I'm so incredibly nauseated and can't keep anything down. Therefore I'm super weak. I miss you all very much, and I hope to be back online with you soon, but for now I'm struggling. If I miss your anniversaries and birthdays, I hope you'll forgive me. You all mean so much to me. Marci |
| Hey! Update on me. I was just in the hospital for 3 days. Stupid nausea sent me in for dehydration. So, I'm still really weak and I feel like this surgery is gonna kick my butt before it's over. BUT 55 lbs. down. |
| Hey, friends! I'm still around. I can't sit at my laptop very long yet. I'm still healing and still queasy a good bit of the time. If you want to follow my journey, I changed venues. Youtube wasn't working for me as well as facebook, so that's where I've landed. facebook.com/journeytowardlife By way of quick update, I have lost 41 lbs., 16 of which are post op and I'm only 2 1/2 weeks out from surgery. I've had a few complications and setbacks, but things are on the mend. I'm so blessed by the emails, cNotes, and such that I've received from here as well as DeviantArt and Facebook. Thank you for your love and friendship!!! |
| Hello friends, I know I'm still out of things for a bit, but just coming on to give you an update. I've had a few different little complications from my surgery. Weight loss has begun... YEAH! But side effects and such are keeping me down. I try to remember this was major surgery and won't be better over night. I'm just too impatient! LOL... I miss y'all but will be back bugging you before too long! |
| Dear friends! I want to wish all of you a very merry Christmas. I'm 3 days out from surgery. I still have a lot of pain in my upper left abdomen. But that's typical. My surgeon made a special trip out to meet my husband and get me some more pain medicine. If it wears off, I'm in a super amount of pain. So thankfully that is all taken care of. Meals right now consist of part pain meds and 1/3 of a sugar-free popsicle or a couple Tbsp of broth. Later tonight I'm going to try some sugar-free pudding. And I add unflavored protein powder to almost everything so I get enough protein. And though I've had the hardest time with my pain level, I know beyond a doubt it will be worth it. And I can't thank everyone enough for all your notes, cnotes, comments, and likes on my updates. This is the longest I've sat at the computer, and I'm about done, but I had to check in with the best bunch of writers a girl could ever know!!! |
| Please pray and such. This is the worst day of pain ever. I know it will be worth it but right now I want to sleep until this goes away. |
| I'm home. In lots of pain. |
Happy it's over and you're home. May you have a speedy recovery and feel better quickly, Marci Missing Everyone.  Merry Christmas!!!  |
| It's official! I just signed the contract with a respected agency within the Christian fiction market! I just want to jump for joy!!! And I have my surgery time for tomorrow. I have to be at the hospital at 7:30. I assume the surgery is scheduled for about 8:30. It will be at least two hours, but up to three hours. So please say a prayer for me tomorrow. I love you all and Merry Christmas!!! |
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Go Marci! So excited to hear about your progress. Best of luck for surgery.  I'm trying to do a bit of dieting and exercising as well, maybe we could join ranks. I use MyFitnessPal.com to log meals and exercise, but I don't have any friends.  I think friends provide really good motivation, so if you're interested (or anyone else out there)...hit me up.  |
| I had remembered a co-worker having some gum that was for dry mouth, so I asked her the other day what the brand was and where she got it. Anyways, at Wal-Mart you can buy Spry Chewing gum in the medicine department. It is supposed to be made to combat dry mouth. Maybe that will help since you can't drink water too quickly. |
S T O R Y M A S T E R   H A P P Y B I R T H D A Y I wish you all the best for the coming year, The StoryMaster  |
| Well, I've made the decision to just do the youtube video anyway. I've had a lot of support, so I'll just do my best to ignore the haters. So if you're interested in keeping up with my journey, I would love for you to subscribe to my channel! [Embed For Use By Upgraded+] |
Aw... we love ya Marse and we're here to support you! Haters? Try to ignore them, if you can. The people who love and care about you far exceed the others.  This sounds like a well-thought out journey leading to many of wonderful benefits along the way. I'd love to follow you!  |
| Everyone has run into haters in some way or another, even those people we think are "perfect". So, in Ms. Swifts' words..."Haters gonna hate,hate,hate,hate,hate,hate...Shake it off, shake it off"! |
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| Well, my dear friend, Dragon! I play southern gospel style music on the piano. I've been playing since I was six. And crime shows include a few true crime shows from Discovery ID and then I like quite a few others... All 3 NCIS shows, Criminal Minds (my fav!), Hawaii five-0, Elementary, the Black List, Blind Spot, all of the Chicago shows, you know, Fire, PD, and Med... and in January they are adding a fourth show... Chicago Justice. Oh, Law and Order:SVU is my other favorite. |
| Hello my friends! I hope y'all are getting excited about the Holiday season in however you celebrate it. We have our tree up and decorated. We have some other decorations put out around the house, too. And the kids talked my hubby into getting some outside lights for them to put up. I'm looking forward to many things this season. We've already had the Christmas party at church, but since I have been ill, I wasn't able to go. Tonight at church the children are putting on their Christmas program. I hope I'm feeling up to that. For those who haven't heard or read the news, I am having Gastric Bypass surgery on Dec. 21. I have been prepping for this since August, but the tough part is really beginning now. I have to change my diet right now in order to shrink my liver before the surgery. The diet is making me feel really sick, but hopefully that will change in another couple of days. And instead of high blood sugar, it's now getting low, and I haven't even been taking insulin. So, I'm navigating through that right now. As soon as I have the surgery, I will be off all daily diabetic meds, and probably won't even need sliding scale insulin. Okay, now that I've posted this entire business out here for all to see, I wonder if anyone is interested in following my journey through blogging or youtube? I just want to know if it's worth it to my really personal thoughts out there for all to know. In fact, it's really hard for me to even share all of this with you. But I'm working on changing how I deal with emotions. Saying all this, I probably will be a little more out of the loop for this month and next. I'll still be popping in to like and comment on the newsfeed, edit my newsletters, and such. In the meantime, I'd like your prayers and vibes sent this way. I don't know what I would do without this amazing community!!! |
| May this next chapter of your life bring you more out of life. Remember you are starting this chapter with a great action scene and being the main character you will face obstacles in reaching YOUR resolution. Having read your work and feeling the emotion in this newsfeed, I believe you will have a victorious resolution! My prayers, thoughts, and positive writer vibe are on their way. |
Such an awesome day!!! I love all the Merit Badges I received, but I had even more fun sending a bunch out. Although, I'd go broke if I tried to keep up with Elle  . She is so generous! So here are my awesome badges: ![Merit Badge in Nano Participant
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Just because I'm thinking of you and appreciate you in my life! Thanks for being a friend!](https://images.Writing.Com/imgs/writing.com/writers/badges/WDC-Special_Appreciation-60_60.gif) ![Merit Badge in Fairy Tale Princess Elsa
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Wishing you all the best.*^*Hug*^* You are in my thoughts, Marci. Thank you for being YOU and one who means so very much to so many of us.
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