jencomenz

I'm with you Holiday I have no choice but to jump through insurance hoops rather than pay out of pocket. I am hopefully looking at being sleeved in early July 2011 and I officially started this process in August 2010. Oh well, I just keep telling myself that I've waisted far longer than a year on various diets in the past. And to be fair: my insurance only has 6 month of requirements....I spent Aug - Dec researching and waiting for my new insurance to take effect because my old insurance didn't cover WLS at all.

Laura I'm so glad to hear that you are home and doing well! Thanks for the update and keep walking walkng walking Jen

I live out by the speedway but work up north. KU Med has support groups but they are only monthly and they are not sleeve specific.

Hello all! I am also in KC. Will be having my surgery at KU Med this summer.

Seriously! The words you are using are so crazy similar to my own. Mono, flu, fatigue, achy. I have these constant feelings too! My skinny brain can't keep up with my fat body. It makes me feel so lazy. I constantly have a huge to do list of things that I want and need to do and I can't find the energy to do them. We get by. Somehow things happen, but I feel so unorganized all the time because I'm scrambling at the last minute due to procrastination. And my kids - I SO don't want to be a fat mom. I want to swim, bike, swing, run. I want to be active with my kids. But my activity level is practicly nil. It's a vicious cycle. And again with the skinny brain/fat body thing. I have good intentions and zero energy.

Laura this is totally me too. I was skinny (120 lbs or less) right up until the summer after my 21st birthday. I began to experience some medical problems and certain medications ballooned me up very quickly to 165, which at the time, felt SO fat. Add marriage, 2 kiddos, a desk job, major depression and 10 years of age to the equation and here I sit at 240. I avoid any and all social functions where I might see someone I knew from H.S. I un tag all pictures of me on facebook. Quite frankly I am still walking around with a chip on my shoulder from that summer. I find myself "hiding" in my own body pretending that I'm so fat that if I see someone at the store and don't say hi they won't even recognize that it is me. It only very recently hit me that most of the people I know now have only known me fat. It only very recently hit me that I have been overweight my ENTIRE adult life. It only very recently hit me that I can't just sit around angry and wait for the old me to magically reappear, that I have to take action. My ultimate NSV will be seeing someone from my past and having them say to me "you haven't changed a bit". Jen

Thanks so much for offering! Please add me to the list : JenCoMenz@aol.com Jen

I am from Kansas City, KS. Going through the process at KU Med. I hope to be sleeved by the spring.

Thanks everyone for your insite! I think that I knew in my heart what the answer was, but I didn't want to admit that I might be waiting until July for the first day of the rest of my life. I will set my cut off date at 12 weeks and that would mean unless by some miricle I'm approved in early March then I will be stuffing myself silly on this cruise

I've been on this journey since August and finally get to meet with the surgeon on February 24th! So needless to say: no approval from insurance yet and no surgery date yet. My family has a cruise booked for June 12th. I was wondering if I should have a cut off date in mind for surgery before the cruise vs surgery after the cruise? I don't care about being skinny for vacation (although it would be nice) I am mostly concerned about being healed and comfortable. It would be hard to pass up any surgery date at this point but I don't want to be miserable on the cruise either. Any suggestions on a realistic timeline would be helpful. Thanks, Jen