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I am hesitant to weigh in here but what does one do when they have an opposite reaction to #3? I was seeking surgery, jumped through all hoops my insurance and bariatric practice requested and/or required. Now I am told they no longer desire to perform my surgery. The excuse I was given sounds suspiciously like a professional version,of #3. Since I was given no input as to how this could be repaired or circumvented- I will seek enterance into another program.My ex-program was in a Center of Excellence hospital, my new one will be be also. I am still committed to a future WLS bottom line, I feel the ex program was a waste of my precious time. I am neither a troll nor a spammer, merely a person hurt by the turn of events. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

You can't put a frame on time, it's like organizing a drill team of earthworms, very fruitless and frustrating. Instead try to face the remaining time until June with a cheerful frame of mind. Get your fluids in, don't forget to also to get adequate Protein and exercise. Exercise doesn't have be a fancy schmansy gym it can be something as simple as making laps --walking inside or outside your house. Smile it will make you look prettier and the confidence will make you fun to be around. You've done a lot and you're going to do even more great things. There are no boundaries unless you impose them on yourself. God Bless Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Yeah but try to restrain youself in the middle of Mass, resturants and the Metropolitan Museum. Gonna get some stares otherwise. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Life isn't fair we girls get a Dunlap (cause it done laps over) whereas you guys get more length. Tain't fair I tell you it just tain't fair! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Good luck Trixie82, I hope it all works out for you. If I can be of any help for you or answer any. questions I'll be more then happy to. That's something nice about Bariatric Pal, we all,try to help each other. Good luck with your future surgery. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Hi and welcome sammi123. I hope you will have a successful WLS journey. There are newbies like you, people who are on their way to fulfilling their prerequirements for surgery, ones who have recently had surgery, others who,are veterans and mentor the rest,of us.I have learned so,much myself from them and now I want to help others. I haven't had my RnY yet it was supposed to be early-mid March in Columbus, haver run into a delay, hope to have it fixed soon. Beleve you me ,when it gets straightened out, I'll shout it from the rooftops. So if you have any questions please ask, if I don't have an answer somebody else will. Where do you live? I'm switching programs and have to go to a. Seminar myself on March 9th. I live in central Ohio, I've lived within 60 miles of my hometown my entire life. Let's be friends ,we could end up surgery buddies even. Have a good evening. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

D Roseman and I share a state, we are both Buckeyes. I'm from the center part, she's from the NW part and not too far from Lake Erie. I've been following her journey and I imagine she's been following mine. I'm guessing she'll have hers hefore I have mine but we'll see. After your surgery they'll be wrong about everything being bigger in Texas, because I have faith you're going to be smaller. It may be a bumpy ride but it's going to be so worth it. If there's anything any of us can do to help you we'll be only too happy to. I myself have learned so much from the veterans here I'd like to pay it forward. Welcome to Bariatric Pal. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

We are all here for you, some of us are newbies like you, some are partway through with requirements, some have just had their surgery, and others are long time veterans. We've all had our own life journey that brought us here but we are united in helping others as we have been helped. Welcome Aboard! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Good for you and God Bless, you are an inspiration to me also and you didn't even know it. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

I'm here, always ready to listen, I'm the Bariatric Grandma, probably the oldest pal currently, doesn't mean I have everything together, just means it took a few more years for me to have my "come to Jesus" moment about weight loss. Like many I tried diets, most every one to come out under the sun, least I ever weighed was 7lb12oz, most 355 last October. I'm currently 323 on a 5ft8in body so I have a BMI of 47-48. I'm widowed have 1 son who lives with,me code name on here is Tomkitten, real name is Bryan, 1 daughter R D short for Rotten Daughter and she so richly deserves the title, and 1 son who died suddenly at 31, of an underdiagnosed heart abnormality. So I have had some sorrow in my life, but then we all have. I am 72,recently parted company with 1 bariatric program and will be switching to another. I had contact with ex program for 2 1/2 years, after putting my faith and trust in them they kicked me to the curb. If you want to hear more I can tell you or you can go to my posting on "Change Your Hospital" I wrote it shortly after the experience. I am not soured on WLS in general, only on them. I will be happy and proud to answer any and all questions you have. I originally was having bariatric surgery early-mid March in Columbus Ohio, now maybe a slight delay but I still plan a roux n Y gastric bypass. I have done oodles of research, feel it's best for my case but know about VSG and the others. Also had a lot of life experience, a straight shooting type of gal, I promise never to tell you any lies. I've suffered with esteem issues also, low confidence. Don't sound like it? Well I'm a lot braver on paper than I was in the real life. I was a wet soggy doormat for friends and family, went through a lot of belittlements and putdowns trying to win love. First thing I thought was I'm not worthwhile, I'm a nobody, I don't deserve to be treated better. Then I reared back on my haunches, said I gave no one permission to treat me shabbily and I'm trying to stand up tall and proud again. I've had 2 knee replacements so not as easy as it once was. But i will make it through, I'm tough, I'm strong and I deserve the best of everything. Also have sleep apnea, GERD and arthritis but I'll still keep going. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

So are we all better now Kathy? I'm praying so you'll still be my bariatric god-aunt, my natural family's pretty well died out. I need you, Fluffy Chix, Creek Imp and Little Green to have my back, life has been pummeling me recently. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

And then and then? You haven't lost me yet, I always loved ghost stories so I'm feeling more empathy than fear. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Is CBT cognative behavior therapy? Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

I too would like to hear your story . My WLS itself has become even more convoluted in the last few days, I feel hearing yours may give me some insight on how to handle my own, please please share! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

I intend to land on my feet, I may look like a sweet Puddycat on the outside but inside lies a sleek fawn colored cougar ready to pounce. Tonight,i feel like biting a surgeon or 3, maybe by morning I may mellow down but tonight I will roar if necessary. Fool me once -Shame on you- Fool me twice -Shame on me. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

And the angels sing, the trumpets sound forth, and Ms Fluffy Chix soars like an eagle and lands on the Bench,of Victory. Hallelujah hallelujah Amen! And the angelic host (Billy Graham included) answer back Amen.[emoji324][emoji324][emoji324][emoji324][emoji324][emoji197] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Nikkinikolle and breholly, now don't bicker, those mean ole doctors don't understand do they? Everybody wants to be m*e*a*n to my little darlings, tain't fair is it? H20 every 15 minutes, who would have thunk it? Want Mama Kat to pound on them? I'm feeling in a mean mood toward surgeons tonight, if you read some of my other postings you'll know why. Hasn't been a bright shining day for me. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Hey it's 9pm Wednesday where I'm at, has anybody heard from Fluffy,Chix since her surgery Tuesday morning. Hope nothing plucked off her feathers, she's going to be a naked little birdie if they did. Worries me. Update: Fluffy just posted; go to Out with the Old'[emoji7][emoji7]In with the New thtead, it is GOOD news!!!! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

You know this is like beating a dead horse. Pretty soon someone's getting cited for abuse of a corpse Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Just saw today somebody was asking about a doctor in Estonia. The one in Belgium is Chris De Bruyn.and the one in Estonia is Dr Ilmar Kaur. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Aussieslady ---things did not turn out well, read my topic" Change Your Hospital", I was original poster on it. I am a soap opera and a cheap,non well- constructed one at that. I could consider not living anymore but I'm the wronged person here, so why punish me? Let my persecutors be struck down instead of me. I've never cried down a vendetta on someone but does anyone have a spare Uncle Vito I could borrow? Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Thanks L G , I hate to sound whiny and clingie but I feel like my barifriends are the only ones who understand. Ah I'll keep on Keeping on, like I have a whole lot of choice. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

I would have too, her" Because of You",describes my relationship with my own mother. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Update and cold*** sober serious**** After a relationship of 2 1/2 years, off and on, I feel my bariatric program has kicked me to the curb. I completely finished the program once- in Spring 2016 and after a change of insurance, the new insurance had approved me for surgery and I could have had it then. They never told me of this fact until maybe a week ago. I started the process once again in November 2017, got all my prerequirements done December 2017 thru January 2018. Things looking well , yes? Not so you' d notice, when checking over my paperwork the contracted psychologist not even affiliated with the hospital had given me a less than stellar evaluation. This self-same person had told me face to face I had passed all testing and she would submit it into my records. Not my word against hers for my son (who is an adult) heard her also. So they had a meeting yesterday, I called it the Bariatric Court of Appeals. I was ruled against, none of the 3 surgeons were willing to continue the case. The scheduling woman who called me back suggested I get counselling, how can I do that when I don't know where I did wrong or what hidden flaws I may have? I did receive a grudging admittal that the records belong to me and could be released to another program of my choosing. So I called the other programs in that city, both Centers of Excellence Hospitals, one wanted the paperwork and then they would consider me, the other invited me to the first informational seminar they had open during the day, March 10th, said I could fill out release of information paperwork that day and get things moving.Which one do I really want? To tell the truth I wanted the place that was not faithful to me. I had re-arrainged my life to have nothing bar the early-mid March date they had originally promised. Will I have to start back at the total beginning of a new program, Gee i hope not for I am not getting any younger. Do I feel my deepest wishes and desires were violated? Dang straight! Those if you who have read my postings know me to be a level- headed straight shooter of a gal. I hate duplicity in any form, always have, always will.I am not doing well being told I am unworthy, not good enough or important enough to go forward with surgery. I would have tried my best to be a model patient, wouldn't have complained of pain or anything else. They did not give me a fair chance to be successful. Do I go along losing a pound or 2 a week and hope that's enough to prevent me from dying prematurely? I can't lose any more sizable amount without surgical assistance, Lord knows I've tried everything up to and including starving myself. No diet really works. Any advice Bari-brothers and Bari-sisters?----- kakatlady 612 Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app