My last @%$!^# effort.. EPIC FAIL.

[Wheetsin 714]

Ackphbhth, I had replied, then hit the wrong button, went "back" and lost my response.

Let me start off my saying you didn't strike a nerve with me. I think your post is very hypocritical, but it doesn't anger or upset me, you're coming from a place of anger and frustration and jealousy so it's pretty much to be expected.

Sorry, but I haven't weighed that since high school. I would have a harder time w/o this surgery than you!

That's something I think you'd find nearly impossible to support. You've been overweight your entire life, I have not, yet my pre-op BMI was probably on par with yours, if not higher. That you've been fat longer than I had doesn't mean we wouldn't have had equal difficulty without the surgery, and it's just not something you can rationally put a value judgment to (e.g. I need it more than you need it). There are people for whom 40 lbs is unbearbale, medically. In other words, people for whom gaining 40 lbs does more damage to their body than me gaining 200+. Even though they have 40 to lose and I had about 210, I couldn't say "I need it more than you" or "I deserve it more than you" because surely they would disagree.

Your price quote is on the high end of self-pay costs, roughly twice some of the lower quotes I've seen. Have you considered looking for a price that's easier for you to swallow? I see you talking a lot about the money, but nothing about the skill of your surgeon. Is your surgeon someone you personally selected, hence you're going with them and don't want to try for a lower price?

BTW, I'm certainly no fan of welfare, if you frequent RnR you probably know that. But because someone on welfare if wearing designer clothes doesn't mean you should judge them for it. I have friends who ship last season's designer fashions off to Goodwill and the Salvation Army each Spring.

[Daisalana 33]

And let's not forget what a true epic fail is...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/diyablo/epic-failure08.jpg

[green 6]

And let's not forget what a true epic fail is...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/diyablo/epic-failure08.jpg

Bwahahahaha!

[plain 12]

And let's not forget what a true epic fail is...

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y38/diyablo/epic-failure08.jpg

How do know that was a failure? Maybe that person wanted her loved one to look live a creepy zombie...

[Fanny Adams 7]

"Not to be a complete bitch, but I need this surgery more than someone who weighs 225. "

Now THAT's an epic fail!! At not being a complete bitch, I mean, in case anyone was wondering...

[green 6]

I didn't need my surgery at the time I had it - I was one of the lower BMI gang when I had it - but I was gonna need it within a year or so.

[Daisalana 33]

Might want to find a more appropriate threads in fills and/or complications for this.