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And what is so rare as a day in June? Then if ever come perfect days. And your perfect day will be June 29th. You will go forward from that day forward into health, fitness and achieve your Weight and,live goals. Pretty cool when you consider it all![emoji13] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

I see I see it, you are in the process of renovating and it looks fine[emoji14] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

And you are Flat Cats! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Anxious to see where I lose mine, make you a bet. Yeah I'm still pre surg but if my post surg goes the way my feeble attempts at weight loss before- it will be waist-boobs- thighs-tummy-a**. The butt fat never seems to go for me.[emoji34] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

My dream weight is approximately 175, guess what?-- at my height that still puts me at above normal and somewhere in pudgy-ville, don't care, ain't no one gonna stomp my dream into submission![emoji38] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

And I want to hear all about it too[emoji566] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

I think I can see a little Adele but. I also see a little of Jennifer Garner, so you're a singer and a movie star both. Pretty cool! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Fluffy please tell me that wasn't you modeling for the 3 week stall pix? That is one angry angry bird there.[emoji26] Or is it a reptilian dinosaur cousin? Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Thank you for all the shared photos on this lovely Friday. You are all good looking people, especially Sunshine[emoji365]Tinks who lives up to her pen name, very cute. I would be happy to know any and all of you and would be proud to call you FRIEND.[emoji121][emoji13] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

And. The Bariatric [emoji365]Godmother wants her RnY[emoji70] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Oh such a lovely list, [emoji48]we should post it above a dessert table to lessen any wayward temptation.[emoji48] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Mila it could actually work,in your favor. I have known of cases where insurance (confound their devious devilish souls) started to pull a balk at covering weight loss surgery, it got billed as hernia repair and the sleeve or bypass got slipped in under the radar. Sometimes you have to fight them at their own game. I shared on another thread how I had 2 procedures done, my ENT surgeon only billed for the one UHC would cover, the,other in some circles, especially insurance ones, could have been considered cosmetic although there was an underlying risk to my health. There was a small chance I could go septic without it. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Thank you for your bravery,both living through it and for sharing it with us all. If you have more to share, I will be happy to listen.[emoji13] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

You will be moving around so much nobody will notice how little you're eating. You are like a hummingbird flitting around and no one counts how many times Ms H-bird makes it back to the nectar feeder they just enjoy seeing her. You'll rock this! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Welcome welcome. We hope you'll hang around and get to know us better. There are people at all levels of the weight loss journey, newbies like yourself, pre surg like me who have or are in the process of finishing up requirements, ones whose surgery dates are shortly coming up, people who have just had their surgeries and are in the process of recovering and many seasoned veterans who are still active. We[emoji173] them especially as they mentor the rest of us. We treasure their advice for they have walked the walk ahead of us. Ask any questions you like,if I don't have an answer somebody else on Bariatric Pal will. We all may be having different approaches and viewpoints but we are unified in wishing you well and hope we can ease things for you. Welcome again, we think you'll find yourself at home here. [emoji14] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Thank you for sharing, I for one will be following your story. What you said about nursing homes is only so true. I admit this having been formerly a STNA for 25 years. 3 1/2 years ago I had my right knee replaced,.insurance insisted I go to a LTCF which is the abbreviation for long term care facility. Having worked most of the ones in my town,we have 6, I chose the one I had worked the longest for, over 11 years. Things had changed there. They met me at the front door and crammed me into small sized wheelchair. I am sorry to say even in 2014 my rump was big enough to have his own zip code. It took 3 people to transfer me out, one under each arm and one to hold the chair steady. They then took me to be weighed on the whirlpool chair because of course I couldn't stand on a regular scale. Came back to the room and my friend Becky who was working there marked the clothes I had brought in. They did bring in my supper tray and remove it that night. But by the next morning I must have had a miraculous recovery because although they might bring my food tray in They never returned to pick them up. You are supposed make notations on how well each patient is eating, part of the job. Well I could have been flushing it down the toilet for as much they cared. I never attended any activities, why? Because I was never invited and I wasn't sure whether my doctor had okayed it. I did get therapy twice a day, but with the assistance of a walker I was taking myself to the bathroom and back, bathing myself in the washbasin, carrying my own food trays etc. The nurses came in and dispensed medicine, gave me a breathing treatment now and then, finally when the house doctor came in I demanded to be released to home.I told him I'm performing all my ADL myself,that's medicalese for activities of daily living, so I saw no reason to remain. Let me tell you how I greeted my patients:" Hi my name is ***** and I will be your aide today.Welcome to our facility. We have many fun activities here. The Doo Woop Trio will be presenting music from the 50s tonight, tomorrow Mrs Jones our activity director will be teaching us how to make small floral arrangements for our rooms. If you would like to go either time,please turn on your light. We will be happy to either walk you down or take you in a wheelchair. If you have any other requests please turn you light on and myself or one of my co-workers will be happy to help you. We all hope you'll enjoy your stay with us". Was I the last person who cared like that? After staying there for 3 days I wonder? True tale: Little gentleman was in pain and/or suffering from demetia catercornered across the hall from me. Had tried time after time to climb out of his bed. Should have had a mobility alarm on if they weren't going to watch him closely. Well lo and behold he clumb out of the bed crawled to the hall and collapsed. I tried my light,no answer, I called out verbally for an aide, no answer. What did I do next? Well with a freshly repaired leg I surely could not pick him up. I yelled at the top of my lungs. "Nurse to Room 203 STAT! "That did get results. She came running then tried to bawl me out. She said "That is very unprofessional to act in THAT MANNER!" I looked her right in her beady little eyes. I said "Ah but I am not an employee, least of all Your employee ,I am now a patient and we can do whatever we ***-**** please. I have worked in Long Term Care and,know legally thats the way the mop flops in this state and I have been on both sides now!" She slunk from the room, knowing she was in the wrong, I could have reported her to management for neglect of duty as my poor neglected neighbor's room was in direct line of vision from her duty desk, and LOL I was right, she was wrong and she never darkened my door the rest of the shift. Sure I felt some vindication but I still felt so sorry for my neighbor, he deserved a better standard of care than he received. I'm sorry for going off on a rant but I cared about and for those entrusted to my care & it hurts to feel I was the last of a dying breed.[emoji40][emoji34] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Ooh I am going to stay the course, friends like you help me to stay on track. I'm sitting here taking a hit off my nebulizer. Promised. PCP I. would use it more faithfully. My son said I looked like a jet pilot when I started with my Cpap, you can imagine his remarks when,i sit here with flexible plastic tubing and a mouthpiece clenched between my teeth. He inherited my dry wit, alas. 1st time he saw it he said "Hmmm are we going scuba diving or snorkeling ?" Now he just walks by and shakes his head.. I guess it does help some, hope he doesn't submit a picture of me like this or the C Pap to B.P.for comic relief. I just hang on for the sake of hanging on some days, but we all have those at times. Someday I will look all fit and thin and submit an after pix. Doubt if I'll ever submit a before because I find it depresses me. I don't have enough self love or confidence to show the world at large my exterior. I'm not ugly enough to stop a grandfather clock but I have made a few alarm clocks stop ticking. But the new improved frust8 with a little work and,my future tool, I can maybe look GOOD. Bottom line I will feel better about myself.[emoji13] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

On the road again- just can't wait to get on the road again, sorry Willy Nelson but I do like your lyrics a lot. So the,path from Haverhill to Boston has suddenly got smoother! Great great great. That's only a little over a week, excitingly good news. Are you getting ready emotionally and physically for it all? Gosh I am happy for you but so so envious. I know my day will come also but I want it NOW! [emoji20] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

And I am 72 and having a RnY, come on with me & we will show these young'ens how it's done. And we will do it with the Grace and class our mammas instilled in us. I'm a Buckeye, if I can do it surely the Southern Belles and the New England ladies of pioneer stock can do it as well! As the late Bette Davis said "fasten your seat belts, its going to be a bumpy ride!"[emoji12] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Way to go sista, you will be a quite a success story and I forecast,good things ahead for your future. Please check back in wth,us when surgery is over,,okay?[emoji12] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Jiggly jiggy just want to weigh,in. Might be a semi- stretch but if you had an EGD and you turned out to gave a hiatus hernia which. A lot of us Plump Princesses do, it could be billed to insurance as a hiatal hernia repair and your bypass would be a happy hidden benefit. My own case I'll quote: I had what is called a preaurical cyst, it's like a reoccurant boil that festers up from time to time -leaked pus, nasty[emoji21] little booger. When I had my surgery, since I had never had one and it was a good thing to check, I had an EGD done transnasally by my ENT, she forwarded a report on her findings to my PCP, but as far as insurance knew she only billed it as Cyst Removal and United Healthcare paid without a quibble. Sometimes you have to beat the verdompt insurance companies at their own game.[emoji13] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Finer than frog hair, I'm like a Tommy Tipee cup or a Weeble, I may wobble but I don't fall down. I keep going on with my infantistimal losses, 2 pounds in a month. Feel like I'll lose more when Ohio's Weather,moderates and I can exercise more outside. Saw PCP yezterday, I have a sinus infection that won't leave. Here I sound like a old(well I sorta am) lady talking about her medicines and surgeries. We have gone from Augmentin to Clindamyacin and now we are trying Levaquin. I've had Levaquin before for something else. 3 bad things about that medicine: it would be expensive- expensive if I were,paying cash, luckily I have only $1.20 copay on it. 2. It leaves me looking like I have sunburned cheeks, medical term is "malar flush" and 3. You have to space it 2 hours before or after anything with Calcium or Iron including dairy products or the body doesn't utilize it. Wahhh! So now I have to figure where to fit it in for its once a day. I eat oatmeal in the morning, usually eat something like 1% or skim cottage cheese with either peaches or pears for lunch, they are usually Water or splenda juice packed, oh I will figure out something. At least I don't have to space it between Water and Protein Shakes post surgery. When I blow my nose I wonder if maybe that Barbie woman was right, maybe I am rotten inside! I have a 2 hour presurgical psych appointment with OSU staff psychologist Dr Kramer at Martha Morehouse Pavilion in Columbus on April 25th. A little scared, a little apprehensive they won't like me, find me unworthy, tell me I'm too old and that it is silly at my age to seek surgery. Am I expected to sit in my rocking chair or even worse a wheelchair fat, tired growing weaker and fatter until the Death Angel comes and claims me as his Own? Nope this old broad is leaving kicking, squalling at the top of her lungs and causing a general disturbance. That's the way I came into this world, at that time it was clothing optional, but I will not fade away and I intend to remain fully clothed unless there is a very good reason for removing them. Dang it I get COLD! Beside at my age there aren't too many offers, I have trouble hearing sweet nothing's whispered in my ear, even if I do I'm not sure I'm too interested. My body is now mine, no touchie no feelie without my permission. They can touchie feelie me while I'm in surgery but I will be checking afterwards for excessive fingerprints on my personal regions. May even ask they forego the urinary catheter, I have 3 natural kidneys and I'd have no trouble producing and voiding urine. If they want me up to walk they can just walk me to the bathroom. Don't you feel sorry for my future surgeon? After being burned by my previous program to the point of scarring I will be strident, militant and no longer gullible as I was! My mamma,may she rest in peace, raised me to believe if you treated people nicely they would be nice in return. Wrong, ex-program never read that manual. So just call me H*** on Heels,when I land I may with all 4 sets of claws extended. Treat me decent, treat me kind, Give me my surgery And everything will be fine! A little poem for everyone there. Thanks for caring about me, I'll try to make you proud but bottom line--I'll try to,make ME proud too,[emoji70][emoji12] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

And you Mattymatt,are a beautiful person yourself as I've told you before. Even if you end up looking like Rowan Atkinson aka Mr Bean that's okay. He has a good group of followers himself. And I firmly believe somewhere out there is a Mindymindy or a Suziesue looking for her Mattymatt we have just got to get the 2 of you together[emoji12] Hugs to you Mattymatt! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Hi I don't think I'm her. but I might be because I'm a preRnY but I got accused of chiming in too much, I accidently responded to,a lady who took umbrage with me, felt she had extends her query to post surg people only and basically told me to jump in the lake when i only tried to help. [emoji8] Oh the world is full of all kinds, I still wished her well even if our paths never cross again.[emoji26] If you ever want my,opinions on anything I'm usually lurking somewhere on B.P. just pull my chain and I'll be there! Okay?[emoji13] P.s. I am 72, red headed and spunky! Hoping for my surgery yet this spring, had to change programs (long story) but,praying this one comes through for me! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

I have a question I haven't heard answered. Does anyone else get dizzy in the shower? I don't take real hot ones, I never noticed it until I started losing weight. I have cut back showering from daily to a couple times a week. I hold on to the bar built into the tub surround with my left hand and do my soaping with right. Try to enter and exit smoothly but I'm a little woolly leaving. Is this normal or should I bring it up to PCP?[emoji21] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app