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  1. 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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