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[MsJacquiiC]

Hello and Welcome to The Journey.

I'm Jacquii Cooke, the Administrator and Owner of The Journey Community Forums. It is a pleasure to welcome you to this new online WLS Support Community. I truly hope that The Journey will become your primary online source for WLS support ==> So pull up a seat with your favorite protein drink in hand and make yourself comfortable.

A Few Tidbits About Me:

I'm a 34 year old Webmistress & Published Poet from Oak Ridge, Tennessee. As a Poet, I have published works in a variety of online and print journals, including my online poetry portfolio at JacquiiCooke.com. As a Webmistress, I am the primary developer & designer for a myriad of online venues, a seasoned graphics artist, and owner of several other websites. Amongst the notable is one of the internets most popular poetry forums, JPiC Forum For Writers.

My Own Personal WLS Journey:

I first became interested in the prospect of weightloss surgery after seeing an intriguing program on the Discovery Health Channel. I believe that was back in 2006 perhaps... Being a procrastinator, it was not until 2008 that I actually considered WLS a viable option and began acting like it mattered profoundly. Generally profound things take on the roll of obsession for me... So after doing an interesting rendition of the obsessed person's dance, I sweated a bit then got on the phone to schedule for one of the WLS Introduction seminars.

I was so thoroughly jazzed after the seminar that I directly scheduled for my first consultation with Dr. Stephen Boyce of then Parkwest Comprehensive Weight Loss Center in Knoxville, Tennessee. My consultation was on April 20, 2008 - at which time Dr. Boyce told me verbatim that at 400+ pounds I was a perfect candidate for weightloss surgery and that in no uncertain terms would he operate on me as a smoker. (I was a 2-pack a day smoker the day of my initial consultation. Apparently Dr. Boyce could smell the cigarette smoke ) It is with no chagrin and a lot of awe that I call April 20, 2008 the anniversary of my last-smoked cigarette. Thus far I have not lit up again.

Moving on... Long-story short: After having successfully jumped through all the hoops put in front of me (and some that were loftily laid behind my big booty -- apparently I'm ambidextrous in the hoop jumping game ) I was finally able to schedule my own weightloss surgery. Dr. Stephen Boyce of the now New Life Center for Bariatric Surgery performed my laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass on April 28, 2009. I'm happy to say that I have had no complications what-so-ever and have been feeling better the past couple months post-op than I have felt in years!

So... As the Owner/Administrator of Jacquii's Poetry in Color Forum - I thought it would be well worth my time and effort to invest a bit of dedication in creating this new online WLS Support Community! I've come to the realization that I am going to need all the support I can handle in order to make my own WLS a success for years to come. I truly believe that in this process of receiving support I too can do my part in offering support to others in hopes that success will forever be the name of the game. Thus WLSJourney.org and our WLS Journey Community Forums. It's a total mutually beneficial thing that I am quite happy to offer!

Again - I say: Welcome to The Journey, where we are shaping ourselves into healthier people! Be sure to introduce yourself over at the Howdy Hi Introductions section and tell us all about your WLS Journey. We look forward to many years of sharing our WLS journeys, supporting each other through the rough patches and smiling during all the phenomenally new healthy days!

Jacquii.
Jacquii@WLSJourney.org

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