MissRissa922

So. I was approved for my surgery but I still needed to complete my insurance required medical weight loss for six months and find the hospital that has a medical center of excellence. Well I found out today that the nearest one is 6 hours away from me. And I'd need to stay about a week since they would acctually have to open me up (scar on my stomach is too rough or thick for the liproscopic. (At least I think that's what they ment) and I sit and think. How am I going to be able to get there and afford to stay there for a week and make sure all bills got paid and have someone willing to watch daughter for a week. Then drive the 6 hours back.. I'm feeling discouraged

Yeah

Dallas. As far as I've been told. There is one 3 hours from me but they said it's better if I go to the one In dallas.

Yeah. Thank you

Yeah. I just. Don't want to put it off then never go back to it... I'm afraid I'll get father behind and it will just get more and more out of reach

My "family" doesn't support me in this. And won't watch my daughter. And if they do they expect to be paid for it being that long. And I already have enough trouble with bills and need to save for the 6 hour trip there and back and for whom ever goes woth me to have food money. I'm praying hard. But it's hard..

hello. my name is marissa. and im new to all of this. i have been overweight all my life. i often look back and think. when did i start eating for comfort. or when did i just stop caring. my senior year of high school. i became paralyzed from the waist down. and after having surgery on my spine to repair the discs that had hit my nerve. i got by butt in gear. and lost almost 90 lbs. i felt great. things were turning around for me. my family life got horrible. and i made a big move from oregon to texas. it wasnt untill i was here in texas a year that i realized that i fell back into my old habbits.and i started working on trying to loose it again. then i found out i was pregnant. and had alot of complacations with it. and to add my spine injury i was on bedrest. so i gained alot during my pregnancy. my daughter is now two. and i loose and gain quite a bit. but i could never keep it off. i have been doing zumba (my daughter does it with me as a game) so i loose a little bit but my back has gotten worse. my current weight is twice as much as i was in high school. and my doctor said i would be a great person for the gastric bypass surgery. and that it would help my back to loose the weight. and keep it off. so talking to my family. they are compleatlly against it. most of them are saying its an easy way out and that i dont try hard enough to loose weight. i dont know exactly what to think. i want to do this. so that with this and working out like i have been and eating better like i have been and acctually do better than i have been.. how did you all make your decision?

Awesome Susan. Keep up the good work

I have 6 months of medical weight loss monitoring and they are also going to put me in physical therapy so I can build strength in my back safely so it won't be so hard on my back after I have the wls that's all I've been told so far

Thank you beauty+5. I was in a really bad place this morning and your post helped. Thank you again.

Panhandle.

Im in Plainview sparksrn

Is pcp primary care physician? If so he recommend the bypass because he himself got his done. But yes I'm writing down questions and things I've seen on here to talk to my surgon about.

My doctor recommend the bypass. I've been looking at the other options as well but I think I might go with the bypass. Good luck with your recovery mal0712.

My appointment to meet my doctor is next week so I will ask him all of this. Thank you for replying

I am trying to find more information but most of the places I've looked seem to try to talk people out of it. Where did you find your info