FatGirlSlim

Good luck on getting financed!!!!

I just dont know how you guys did this waiting thing. I have a month and 1 week to go...to be exact I have 36 days, 19 hours, 48 minutes, and 36....35.....34 seconds before I have my surgery.... yes I have a ticker on my phone... that may be part of my problem right there.....having the dang ticker... but I promise I only check it every other day :DDD I wish that I could just go tomorrow... but this wait is killing me...so can someone tell me how you coped or how are you coping with the wait??? I am so ready for this life changing event to get started that I think of it constantly... help me

There she is. So glad that everything went well and you were treated as VIP!!! Remember to take it easy!!! But enjoy the losers bench... I will be joining soon!!!

Congrats on your date and having so many people to support you through this process!!!

Call me clueless but what is OH?

great list!!!!! thanks

trying to stay busy and all that stuff...of course with 7 kids that shouldnt be hard right..plus a full time job.... I am going to make it through though. I figure once I hit that 2 weeks before surgery when I have to start that pre-op diet, things are going to become real for me... and I will be even more miserable thanks for the advice though

I am violent towards relatives because they seem to always know how to push my buttons... I think I would have dropped kicked her if my sister would have said some crazy mess like that. Terrible... But Andkel you are so right. Most of my friends are smaller than me (although not skinny) and I know that they will have issues.... but I know how to curse a ***** out and defriend (is that a word lol) real quick... NO PROBLEM

That is wonderful!!!! I am using Dr. Garcia as well and each time one of you ladies go I am so excited as if it were me!!!! Have you posted your story yet?

Yeah I was gonna suggest putting it in the blender as well!!!

If you see her tell her she is in our thoughts. How are you doing?

Noydb .... None of your da?m business. Lol really it isn't. But seriously I plan to tell people that I am comfortable with knowing. But for those Nosey ones I just plan to tell them to lower their food intake and up their Protein....but if they are really Nosey they are gonna snoop around to find out what they can.. Cause they have no life

Sorry to hear that you are in so much pain. I hope that as the hours and days go on you start to feel better. Congrats on joining the losers bench and I look forward to joining you very soon!!!!

Has anyone heard from ursiboo72 lately??? Hope that all went well and we get to hear from you soon

Congrats on your surgery!!! I am sure that as the days go by, your energy will return and that hand will go down. You have the same surgeon that I will be using!!! So exciting!!!

congrats!!!!

So I turned in my FMLA paperwork ahead of schedule because my job can be such a pain in the a&&... But i asked for the doctor to be as vague as possible since I didn't want too many people to know whats I am having done... And he puts great medical information on there and do you know those pricks want more info... I mean... What ever happened to privacy and patient rights. Sheessh

So slowly though it seems

Seems like its so close but so far away...but I am so happy to be able to final get this done and also get some relief both physically and mentally....

which dr are you using??? My surgery is May 22 with Dr. Garcia in Tijuana

thanks everyone for the advice. I have always had problems with FMLA. My son is disabled and I have to renew every year...despite his condition never changing and each year they give me an issue. But I will talk to them sometime next week...as my son is having surgery tomorrow. thanks again!!!

I didn't think so. And I don't plan to give too much more information. I am going to call the hr department tomorrow.

Good luck and many prayers sent your way!!! Please try not to stress!!

I am scheduled to have my surgery on May 22 with Dr. Garcia in Mexico. I have had previous surgery in Mexico (tubal ligation reversal) and figured I might as well tell my mother this time. (last time I waited until after I got back and she wasn't too happy. So this time I fully expected her to give me grief!!!! Wrong, she is very supportive. She knows the medical issues that I have been having and how my insurance (Kaiser Permanente) has denied me twice. She says, that she is here to support me to help me a happier and healthier me. She is even going to travel with me for my surgery. I am totally happy that she didnt give me a hard time. Now, I wish my doctor was the same way. If anyone has Kaiser, you know that they are crazy strict with their guidelines and blah blah blah. Well I broke down and told him that I was "considering" going out of town (didnt say Mexico) and self-pay for my surgery. This is the same doctor that referred me to the board for consideration for bariatric surgery in the first place. But now that I am going to an outside doctor he is being a jerk. Says that if I come back and have any issues, that he will not see me and Kaiser wont cover it. Urgh. I don't anticipate any issues but dagnabbit ish happens. My friend and sister both work at Kaiser and just told me to switch my primary and never mention to anyone (at Kaiser) that I had the surgery. Urgh, but up until now I really liked my primary. So now I have to go through the whole process of finding a new one just because I decided to take matters into my own hands. Just because my bmi is "only" 39 and I only have 1 health issue(instead of two), I don't qualify in the eyes of Kaiser.... but now I am being blacklisted if I go through with it.... KAISER SUCKS But the one good thing about this is... MY MOTHER APPROVED AND IS SUPPORTIVE....so I am still on cloud now... thanks for letting me vent

The BMi requirement is 35-39 for two years but you have to have two things wrong with you... Like diabetes and joint issues. To qualify outright you have to have a BMi of 40 for two years even of you have no other issues. I thought of doing that but that's just too much for me. My knees are killing me from the weight I have on me now. To add more weight would kill me... So forget kaiser I'm going to Mexico