Lynn Sarasin:  

Life I am married to Jeff Sarasin and have 3 beautiful children, Chelsey, 21, Chase, 18, and Lorenzo, 13. I truly feel blessed in my life. My husband is my friend, my rock and my confidant. My children each have their own personalities, talents, etc., and I love them all unconditionally. I have truly enjoyed being a parent for 21 years and I have at least another 6 and then maybe we will have an "empty nest". That will be weird but I do welcome the day they each have their own families and we can look forward to beautiful grandchildren. Boy, they will be spoiled I know this already. My daughter, Chelsey, is due on November 14th so I am becoming a grandma. I found out right after graduation in 1982 that I was an insulin dependent diabetic. This has been a real roller coaster ride for me over the years and has caused other medical complications. I was placed on the waiting list in April 2007 for a pancreas transplant. On October 29, 2007 I had the RNY gastric bypass (stomach stapling) surgery as I had gained over 100 pounds on my insulin because of very high insulin resistance. It is amazing already in just a couple of weeks what this surgery has already improved. I only take about 10% of the insulin I did before the surgery and have completely went off the other eight medications I was on for fibromyalgia, neuropathy, high cholesterol, etc. My surgeon spoke to me after the surgery and said if this surgery does what they think it will do, I may not have to have a transplant now. I am so crossing my fingers, toes, etc. I am hoping to get my quality of life back and live it to the fullest. I have done a lot of things through the past several years such as traveling, sky diving, bungee jumping, whitewater rafting, etc. I am a very adventurous, spontaneous person who loves to have fun. My husband and I just bought a really nice motorcycle last Spring and love to ride although we didn't get to do as much riding because of my medical condition as we would have liked so next Spring.....watch out! We plan on taking some longer trips and just soaking up the sun! I would still like to make it to Hawaii and Alaska before I die. I love country music festivals and go to one or two every summer with my girlfriends. That is my getaway and my husband's getaway is in the Fall when he goes hunting Elk and Mule deer out West. Then we take our one or two family vacations also We really love living in the U.P. but love VISITING the bigger cities also and the e...Expand for more