Sandy63

Try an Epson salt soak. Run bath water as hot as you can stand it. Add Epson salt, get in the tub and take a nice long soak. Works wonders for getting the soreness out. Good luck!:confused:

I went on 9/24 to take mine. I spent 3 hours answering mostly true/false questions. I also had to take an I.Q. test. On 9/25, I had to make the drive back to the doctor's office the next morning to get the results. He told me that I passed the I.Q. in the 85 percentile. However, I didn't pass the psychological part. He said some people will come in and take the evaluation and make their life sound so depressing and bad. Then there are others who come in and unconciouslly answer in ways that make them sound fine and seem like there is nothing wrong with them. I fell into this group of people. He told me, and this is the very words he used, "according to the results of your evaluation, your scores are invalid, simply because you seem too good to be true." I could have fallen out of my chair. I just looked at him in disbelief. He said I would have to come back on 10/1 and take the evaluation over. I told him that if I come back and take the test over he will get the same results if I answer the questions honestly like I did the first time. He told me I would not get the same results. The questions were to be answered with how you have felt in the past two weeks including the day of the evaluation. I was asked if I had thought about suicide, if I was happy, if my relationship with my spouse was good, if I lost my temper easily, if I was hotheaded, if I kept my anger inside, if I had ever been abused, if I loved my father/mother etc. I answered everything honestly and still failed! The impression that I got from the psychologist was that he wanted to hear me say how depressed I was and how I thought I had no reason to live because of my weight. I am happy with who I am as a person, I have a healty relationship with my husband, I love my parents dearly. I do lose my temper, but I 'm not a hothead. I can control my anger. I don't tend to overeat, it's just that I was raised in a family where you cleaned your plate before leaving the table. I have also inherited the "love to eat and socialize while doing so gene." We have get togethers at my parents house every other Sunday. I have gained over 45 pounds just because of some stupid steriod shots in my shoulder. I also have joint pain and sciatica and am recovering from foot surgery, so I haven't been very mobile over the past few months. I know I packed on around 20 pounds due to that. Why do people automatically assume that because you are heavy that you would take your life? I love my life, I just want some of this weight off so I can be healthy and do more things with my family. I am the mother to a 20 and a 15 year old. I would like to live long enough to see my kids married and raising families of their own.

Hello all, I am from Dahlonega, I am still waiting for a surgery date. I have had the psychological evaluation and for the strangest reason, my score was invalid! I have to take the thing over! I'm scheduled to do that Oct. 1st and my sleep study on Oct. 4th. Maybe it won't take too long to get the surgery after that. Insurance is paying 100%! I've had foot surgery this year and all my deductibles and out of pockets have been met. Good luck to all ya'll!!

My DH is against me having the surgery. He will not even talk about it with me. I had a first cousin who had the gastric by-pass surgery about 8 years ago. She started out pretty good at first, then she got to where she couldn't eat. She would throw up everything. She ended up malnourished and was put in the hospital for 3 months. She has permanent nerve damage in her legs and it is very hard for her to walk. She has gained all but 100lbs of her loss back. However, when I talked to her about the lapband, she was very supportive of it. DH just worries that something similar will happen to me. He also has problems with his weight. He diets and looses down about 70lbs, then when he stops watching what he eats, he packs it back on. He has yo-yo'ed like this for the past 12 or so years. I also think he might be a little jealous if I loose weight. I have always been heavy. I think he is secure with this and he knows if I loose weight then men will notice me. But, I want to do this for me and my family. I want to be around to see my kids have kids and so on. I'm tired of being FAT!! I have returned my application packet to the surgeon. I am waiting on a reply. My PCP has already done a referral and the letter of medical necessity and the insurance has already approved it. I had foot surgery earlier this year, paid all my deductibles and out of pocket expenses for the year, so all expenses from the lapband surgery will be covered 100%. I just hope I can get it all in before the end of the year.

I have a few.. 8th grade, we had to participate in gymnastics. I couldn't do the cartwheels, but I could tumble pretty darn well. Two of the most athletic girls picked me to be their teammate. Low and behold, our physical ed teacher decided that the whole class would perform in front of the entire middle school. I will never forget this as long as I live. We did our routine to Island Girl, by Elton John. Every time it came my turn to tumble, there were several boys who would yell "kaboom", "kaboom", "kaboom." I have never been so embarrassed! After the performance was over, I was in class, and there was a knock on the classroom door, Mrs. Yaeger, the gifted student's teacher, brought those boys into the classroom and made them apologize to me in front of the entire class. The whole class started cheering for me, made me feel better, made them look like aholes! My dear old grandpa, bless his abusive soul, would make me so mad. I have a first cousin who is also pretty large. Everytime I saw him, which was about 4 times a week, he would ask if Doris and I were trying to run a race to see who could get the fattest. One day just before he died, he asked me if I liked being fat. I had tolerated him up until this point. I turned to him and said, "I'd rather be fat than a dried up, old hateful fart like you!" He never mentioned my weight again. My most embarrassing moment was when DH and I went shopping at this craft store on Atlanta Highway. I used to always wear dresses, well this particular day I put a run in my pantyhose and we had to stop at a convience store to buy more. Weren't the kind I usually wore, with the built in panty, so I had no panties on. I put the pantyhose on in the car. We arrived at the store. I got out of the car. Walked to the store window and bent over to look at the window display. This store was on a corner at a very busy intersection. Low and behold, car horns started honking, guys were whistlin', yelling ooohhh baby. I turned and looked at my DH, who was laughing his butt off. I said what are they yelling at? He said I don't know....trying to hide his smirky smile. When I got inside the store I figured out why they were yelling. My dress tail was tucked in the waistband of the pantyhose and my big butt was shining! So embarrassing!!!:embarassed:

I live 4 miles from the newest Wal-mart SuperCenter in Dawsonville, GA. I live 12 miles from the Wal-mart in Dahlonega, GA. Both of these stores are clean, orderly, and the cashiers are very friendly and helpful. The Dawsonville store seems to have a better selection of items. The isle are really wide, and the shelves always seem to be well stocked. Both stores stay very busy. I like shopping at Wal-mart. However, if I only need a couple of items I will run into Kroger. If I go into Wal-mart only intending on buying a couple of items, I come out with close, if not over $100 worth of stuff!