Help Request

I'm writing this letter to ask the good people of this for your help.

My wife's birthday is soon approaching and I would like to give her the
type of birthday that she deserves. This year has been a rough year for
us and I think that she's deserving of some special presents for her
birthday.

In May of 2003 my wife underwent gastric bypass surgery. She did this
because she has diabetes and her blood sugars were out of control (in
the upper 200's). She had tried to get them under control herself and
was also on two different medications to help control them but it
seemed as though nothing was helping. We had heard that people that had
gastric bypass surgery were seeing amazing changes in their blood sugar
levels almost immediately. It was a very big decision to undergo the
surgery. My wife told me that if all she needed to do was to lose
weight than she probably would not have had the surgery, but with what
was happening with her diabetes she felt that she should have it
before it was too late.

The surgery went fine and my wifes blood sugar levels went down almost
immediately. It's quite amazing, my wife has basically not had a
reading above 100 since the sugery. In January of this year we found
out that we were pregnant. We were quite excited about the news, but
also aprehensive because my wife was also only 8 months out from having
her surgery and at the time they recommended that you wait at least a
year before getting pregnant.

All seemed to be going well with the pregnancy until around June. My
wife started having abdominal pains that were serious enough that we
went to the hospital when she had them. The doctors were convinced that
it was her gallbladder and it needed to come out but did not want to do
surgery while my wife was pregnant (understandably). Well, after
several weeks of going back and for to the hospital the doctors finally
decided that the gallbladder had to come out. They took my wife in for
surgery to have her gallbladder removed and afterwards I found out that
they also found 2 litres of fluid in her stomach, that they felt was
related to the gallbladder problems, that they drained off. My wife
felt better immediately but, it wasn't to last.

Over the next couple of days her pains started coming back just as bad
as they had been originally. Our doctor was out of town and the surgan
was out of town. The people that filled in for them that weekend were
convinced that there was something else wrong (no kidding!). They tried
for most of a day trying to find a hospital that would do major
exploritory surgery on my wife and have the ability to take care of a
premature infant. They couldn't find anyone so they decided it would be
best if they just went ahead and did the surgery at the community
hospital where we were at.

That surgery went fine as well. This surgan discovered a 3-4 inch
section of my wife's intestines that had died and removed it and
reconnected her bowels up to a new part of the intestines. He said the
intestinal blockage was what was causing the fluid backup. They put my
wife in the IC unit for observation for the rest of the night. Later
that night my wife went into labor while still recovering from the
surgery. The doctors made the decision to airlift my wife to a major
hospital near Chicago at this time so that they could take care of both
my wife and the baby.

While in flight to the hospital my wife almost died twice and they
thought they were going to have to do an emergancy c-section to save
both my wife and the baby. They were able to get the labor under
control. Over the next month and a half that my wife spent in the
hospital there were a few more scares, but in the end everything ended
well and my wife went home and had the baby just 3 weeks early at our
local hospital.

The problem now is that with all of the medical bills and having to
travel back and forth to the hospital so much, we are extremely
strapped for cash and I have almost nothing to be able to get her
birthday presents.

Don't get the wrong idea, I'm not asking anyone for any money. All I'm
asking for is for people to check out the offers below. For each one if
enough people sign up and complete just one offer I'll be able to get
my wife some nice gifts for her birthday. The offers are things like
trying out a 15-day trial of blockbuster online or ancestry.com and
such.

I appreciate everyone who is willing to help out in this matter and
since I do web design on the side, for everyone that is a contributer
to getting my wife a gift, I will do a basic 3-4 page website for them
at no cost.

Again, thank you so much for your help

JRW

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In January of this year we found
out that we were pregnant.

What an insufferably stupid phrase.

Em
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