I am done mooing!

After all the research and digging today I am exahusted. I learned though that I can have it done at the same hospital that my bestie is having it done at, over an hour away...ugh. I have to call there tomorrow and see about going to one of their seminars and to see if I can go to the support groups in my area as opposed to driving all the way out there all the time. Hopefully better news tomorrow, or Wednesday since I have Wednesday morning off work Fingers crossed! It really sucks that the dr here will only do the bypass. Just because I am a cow doesn't mean I want to be butchered.

More bad. The surgeons office just told me that they don't do the sleeve procedure. I feel like I am back at square one again.

I am looking forward to those hormones!!! I have had very little sex drive for the past few years. I would like to feel desirable!

Share water hahaha I love it Admit it, it's going to improve our sex lives and that is going to be fantastic lol.

I want to know if any of you have been sleeved in Elmira NY at the Arnot Bariatric Center? If so, how was the experience?

My list so far 1) Going to an amusement park. I have never been on to an amusement park. When I was about 8 we went to the county fair and I was too fat for a ride so I never went to another one because that was the most embarrassing thing of my young life. 2)Traveling. My best friend has to travel a lot and she is smaller than I am but still quite large. She always has to pay extra because of her size. I have never gone on an airplane because I don't want to deal with the embarrassment that she has. 3)NO MORE INSULIN!!! I am so sick of injections! 4)I can not wait to be able to shop at the mall! I have never been able to. Even when Lane Bryant was in the mall, I was too fat to shop there most of the time. 5)Being on top... 6) Playing with my son. Right now I get to sit and watch him play because I am so exhausted all the time that all I get to do is sit and watch him. 7)Enjoy fruit. If I want a piece of fruit it costs me 2 injections so I don't eat fruit I am sure there is more on my list but this is a good start

Anyone have surgery in either Elmira or Syracuse? Those are my 2 options and I have yet to see anyone post about either hospital

I have been extremely overweight ever since I can remember. I joke and say that the only time I have ever been thin is when I had lead poisoning in 3rd grade. Sad, but true. When I was in 5th grade I weighed 250 pounds and I was diagnosed as type 2 diabetic. I have been battling with diabetes(insulin dependent since 2008) and weight loss ever since. I am now 28, weigh over 400 pounds (my bmi is over 60), have a whole list of health problems and have had enough! I am ready to take back my life. I have been looking into weight loss surgery since 2004, but had always heard that you can't have children after you have the surgery. I told myself I would wait until I was done, then I would have it. I now have a daughter and son in the ground next to my brother and a 3 year old little boy who barely made it. All because of my weight and diabetes. It is painfully obvious to me at this point that there will be no more children because of my obesity and diabetes. Now I begin the next step. I have an appointment with my endocrinologist on June 4th, he has to give me the referral for the surgeon. I am going to my seminar on the 30th, and I am half way thru the book by Barbara Thompson that they make you read. I have been researching my insurance to see what they will cover, and it looks like they will cover all parts of the surgery itself but none of the skin removal after the surgery. Woot for the surgery being covered! I don't yet know what hoops I will have to jump through, I really don't even know what my next step is from here but I am determined and that's what matters

I accidentally found this site last night while doing research and am very greatful for it. I have NO support. Everyone thinks that surgery is the easy way out. I would love to see them last a day in my shoes as a 405 pound woman.

What steps did you guys take when first starting your journey?