TannsGranny

I wouldn't go self-pay just yet. There are two good obesity lawyers that can help you on this. Go to either WWW.Obesitylawers.com or WWW.Obesitylaw.com . I think nearly all insurance companies deny the first time around. And there's no legal standing for the supervised weightloss being a pre-requisite, at least not any that I have read about. Hope you win soon!

Ok, now ya'll got me confused! Any way we can email her and get the REAL story on this? I've been hearing it's Lapband for her. I like her also and it's amazing that she's as well grounded as she is since she lives with Ozzy. :cross-eye He'd make me :banana just trying to UNDERSTAND what he's saying! LOL! Laura Pre-band 240/130

A Dr. Barker will have a seminar this coming Tuesday in Mesquite, TX. Wondering if anyone is near by? Like to meet someone and see a real live banded person!! :banana I'm hoping my aunt can come with me but if not, I'll be going alone because I want to be banded ASAP and going alone ain't gonna stop me!! :rambo Laura a.k.a. TannsGranny or Granny LaLa

I live in Arkansas, around Texarkana so Dallas/Ft. Worth is about a 3 hour drive for me. I did try to go to the seminar in Mesquite and ended up on the road a total of 7 hours and couldn't find the darn place! I left a little bit too late and so hit the going home traffic making it hard for me to look and drive at the same time. I don't see that well at night and for this small town girl, night driving while looking for the right exit in the middle of Dallas can ruin the nerves!! I've been to Arlington many times so I knew where Mesquite is but I was told LBJ freeway and I couldn't find that exit!! I called my son in law, a trucker, and he said it's the same as 630 or 635, I forget now. Anyways I'm going to try again and hopefully I'll get out of town sooner so I can find the place!

Congratulations! I can't wait to post my first SV like this!!

I was hoping that anyone that lives in or near Mesquite could tell me if there were any meetings nearby of bandsters. I've read where everyone meets offline and would like to do so too! Of course, you'll have to come find ME because I'll be lost in Mesquite! I can find I-30 and that's about it. If not this time, then when I'm banded and drive up to get my fills, I can meet up at some meetings! Laura pre-band

Hello there everyone! Well, I am a granny, how did you guess?? My grandson just turned 4 years and my granddaughter is 4 months old as of today. Both are spoilt but I have NO CLUE how that happened. As for how much I want to lose, I'd like to get down to about 130lbs, I'm 240lbs right now and it's killing my back and I have 3 heart valves leaking. The weight is causing me to have a lot of tiredness and it's hard to breathe, especially at night when I retain more water. Penni, I don't shave my chin, I'm in competition with my 21 year old son to see who can grow the most chin hair! So far he has me beat by a hair or 2 or 4 but I'm gaining. Speaking of hair, I had a stress test done for the first time about 2 years ago and when the electrodes were pulled from my chest it hurt! I went outside to the waiting area rubbing the top of my chest. Hubby asked what was wrong and I told him I had my chest hairs pulled out by the electrodes. He said I didn't have chest hair, I answered I didn't think so either but was just proven wrong. We were overheard by a few people that started laughing. Just amazing what you start cultivating on your body when you hit middle age, ain't it? As for being banded, I'm trying to find an experienced doctor that's in my PPO and around here in southern Arkansas, there isn't anyone so I'm looking over in Texas. I have Cigna insurance and from my reading of other posts, it's gonna be a long hard battle to get them to approve. I'm just about at the end of my 6 month supervised diet and guess what? I've GAINED while trying to diet! And not on purpose either. Well, I'm off to get hubby up and going, he has to go into work 3 hours early today Hope to talk to ya'll soon!

Just joined this site and hope to find friends, encouragement and information!

I'm new to here also and have been on a few other sites. There are a lot of very unpleasant people out there! I'm here to learn and lose weight like the others so have no clue why there should be anger or hatefulness among us. We have enough problems with the world seeing us as fat slobs to be made fun of without treating each other like crap!

Thank you! I've been researching on another site but I wanted to go somewhere else to see what others are saying. I'm hoping to go to a seminar in Mesquite, TX this coming Tuesday. I did go to another one a couple of months ago but the doctors are very inexperienced with banding. I hope to keep a smile on my face while here!