Meeting WLS people at Goodwill
I need a coat. My 3X is too big and the wind is whistling down my back. So into Goodwill I go. Too late in the winter to find a good one, but while I was perusing the long sleeve shirts, this little wild-haired, dried up looking little lady was muttering about how this and that one was too big. I leaned over and said, "Isn't it nice to be able to say that." She said that she had WLS in November and had lost 80 pounds and she was in between sizes. It was on....swapping stories about, droopy butts, mud flap boobies and shrinking feet. I laughed at her till I cried. She told me that she was a shoe enthusist (more like possessed) and that she had 70 pairs of shoes that were 9 1/2 and she now wears a 7 1/2. 70 pairs of shoes OMG I doubt I've had that many in my whole life time. Today was her first day back to work and she was feeling pretty crummy, but had a wedding coming up and wanted to surprise her family with her weight loss and also wanted something nice to wear and that she was jumping sizes and didn't want to spend a fortune to have someone else wear it out. She kept hitching up her pants, because her underwear was falling down which started me into another laughing fit. She tried on a shirt and she has the pear shape with the stick leg thing going and the shoulders were down to her elbows and the belly wouldn't button. Same here. She had been on a high amount of insulin daily and now no medications at all. She was still fighting nausea daily, but said WLS was the best thing that she had every done. AMEN!!! The Goodwill that we met at did over a million dollars in sales last year and I'll bet you that it was probably cold, shrunken, dried out, WLS patients like us that is keeping them in business.
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