These past five months have been nothing but hectic on my end. Trying to battle classes, work, and figuring out how I am going to pay for this next surgery, while still maintaining my sanity has been extremely difficult. At first the doctor decided that he wanted to get this surgery done as soon as possible and that he would lend me the money and I would just pay them $100 per month. Sounds nice.. but at the same time I'm already paying for the initial surgery and the port revision surgery payments each month. I agreed to it at first because I do want to get the problem fixed as soon as possible so I can get back on track, but then I just found out that I will be losing my job at the end of this month.. what else can go wrong, right? So I called back and told them that the surgery would have to wait because I can't afford to get in over my head and will have to hold off until I find a new job.

After thinking a lot and talking to numerous people I came to the conclusion of why am I paying for another surgery when I was just operated on for basically no reason and when the band is obviously defective. So I decided to do something about it and had a conversation with my doctor about how this situation is not right. Turns out... there are good people in this world... he is willing to cover the cost of the surgery! I can't wait to get the new band and continue on with my journey to becoming thin.

Just thought I would keep you all updated on what happened.. I scheduled the surgery for August 21st so until then... I hope all is well with everyone and happy weight loss!

-Allie :thumbup:

That's the way it should work. Way to stand up for yourself and be your own advocate. Hope everything goes well for you onthe 21st. Keep us posted.

So, Allie, how did the surgery go and how are you now??

I found out yesterday that I have a leak and I'm a little freaky (on the inside) so please tell me that you are okay now. How long did you have to be off work with the second surgery??

My very best wishes to you...