Sochling5

i totally know how you feel! Pizza is like... my life lol. it's sad but i could totally eat pizza morning noon and night, cold or hot... i don't care. my gf is *killing* me! i'm only on the pre-op diet but omg. *dies* she's always like watching Food Network and saying "oh i should make that!" and then makes it and i'm like... "i hate you." lol, granted she's a chef in training but i feel your pain.

ugh this sucks. lol... my doctor got me on the 6 month diet... lets all pray for liz

thanks! i'm trying hard! she took away everything white... sugar, flour, potatoes etc... i'm down to 1000 calories a day. it's not an insurance necessity really, just something she wanted me to try first... which is irritating seeing as how i've already tried all this... but what can you do

i think my insurance is called Mutual Assurance Administrators but then my card also says "First Health" on it... i work for a police dept. so I also have paperwork that says Oklahoma Municipal Assurance Group. does anyone know who my insurance company is?! lol this is nuts... *sigh* i read further on in the novel that I was provided with when i was hired and there's a page that says "Procedure for appeal of denied claim" this paper says that if i were to be denied and did an appeal i would mail the appeal to the Mutual Assurance Administrators. so does that mean that my company is MAA?

hey girl glad to see someone else from OKC! let me know how it goes! i'm not banded yet, really just started doing my homework on the whole thing who's your doctor? I'm trying to find one that is on my insurance... honestly... i'm confused right now about how to find out if my insurance covers it... O.o welcome!

well... I'm actually in the very first stages of deciding whether i'm going to do this. I'm not nervous at all, which is odd i think considering what i'm thinking about doing. i hate doing these introductions I never know what to write lol. I hate throwing up, so that's really and honestly my only issue with the whole thing. i'm 21, 22 in a few weeks actually. I've always been pretty heavy, my doctor says "i carry it well." w/e that's supposed to mean... i guess it means that it's spread out evenly lol i'll go with that. i'm about 5'7 and come in about 267. I checked my BMI in a few places and i got anywhere from 40 -41.5. *shrug* idk what made the difference. i've always been pretty active, even now I still lift weights at work (I dispatch for police and fire) with my officers, I even go out and do the yearly physical with them I get my tail handed to me in places where long distance running is involved but hey they're proud b/c i try. anyway, it's getting to the point where my joints are really starting to hurt and every once in a week or so I get little chest pains, they're nothing to hoorah over, just like... little twinges that come and then they're gone. nothing makes them come or go... they've got a mind of their own. anyway, i'll stop rambling... any questions fire away Liz

woot! i'm glad to have met someone my age! and someone kinda in the same field as me... well, as far as emergencies go that just means i can tell you where to go lol j/k i'm on the fence as to whether or not to tell anyone here at work about the surgery... i would only have to tell my boss and that's not a big deal. I just don't want ppl fawning over me... does that make sense? ugh... i hate that stuff lol. but I imagine that i won't really be gone too long when/if i get to go through with it... i know your pain! so to speak... about the boredom... i'm having to go on forced vacation b/c my time banks are full. ugh. what am i supposed to do on vacation!

not yet, but there's one in a week on the 30th that i'm stoked about it's pretty neat b/c the dr. putting it on is actually one of the ones i was looking at for the surgery. i remembered what it was that made me nervous other than the whole throwing up thing, it's that i will be *so* irriated if it messes up not b/c of me but b/c of the doctor that I choose. lol, it's just my luck