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Blog MONstah !

A blog by BanTam in General

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:cool2: Okay, I just did it. I just completed my online loan application for my surgery. I expect all to go well, but.....you just never know. A few years ago we were trying to get a home building loan and we were turned down. Credit scores in the 80

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Surgery cancelled as I lay on the bed!

I'm pretty bummed right now. :thumbup:   I went in for my surgery today and I was told my doctor was running an hour late (it ended up being closer to TWO hours late)and during the wait I was talking to anesthesiologist and I mentioned how I had to be intibated while still away for my last surgery. He seemed surprised but nothing too bad. My IV's were in place, I'd been given the shot in my belly for blood clots and the anethesiolgist gave me one to "dry up mucus"...I'm still feeling that on

Imredy

Nope, not a misspelling. It was a message.   While driving to my exercise consultation I was still mulling over in my head the decision to get the band. I am self pay and we had to take a loan out to cover the $16K surgery. The little bit of savings that we were putting away is going to have to be used to make the loan payments for the next five years. That brings a lot of guilt. BUT on the other hand if my husband needed this surgery I would not hesitate to spend the money. So, you g

One week to go!

The holiday was a little tough. We went to a friends party and there wasn't much for me to eat on the lc phase. We had taken some fried chicken and I pulled the crust and skin off and ate that. I DID have a small piece of cheesecake; no crust or topping. Considering I didn't eat a whole lot yesterday, I think I'm fine.   Today I think I had even fewer carbs I need to check fitday.   AND...I rode my stationary bike for 30 minutes. Something I hope to start doing every day.   Tomorrow...anot

Date is set...

:scared2:Dear Blog MonSTAH...   I am scared or worried or anxious or ALL of them. But never ever before have I wanted to look into a crystal ball and find out what my future brings more than I do right now.   June 2nd could be the greatest or the worst day of my life. I keep pumping myself up and telling myself if I don't do this where will I be a year from now? Fatter. I know that. If not fatter, then struggling to keep my weight "down" to 285...not quite bikini weight, is it ?   To

Egads! They want to operate on June 2nd ?

Wow, talk about FAST! I was expecting to have surgery the mid/end June, not the first Monday in June. Hmm...I don't have my psycho eval until June 4th, so wonder how that works? Will they do it after ???   All of my appointments are all lined up over the next couple of weeks with my physcial scheduled for Friday. I guess that's enough time for the blood work to come back.   STILL no final freaking outcome to my job issue...more than two months now....I wish ED on them all. :thumbup:  

I've had a Great Day !

You know, it's been a wonderful day.   Last week I found out from one of the "higher ups" that they were dropping all allegations against me at work! Thank God for witnesses!!   While I am truly grateful for my job, I am still a bit pissed off that it went this far. One more meeting on Thursday and it should officially be over. Seventeen years, with 13 of it being at the same position and they treated me like dog doo.   The best news is I also had my surgeon consultation today and it

Maybe my Tide is Turning ???

I decided I wouldn't write again until I had something GOOD to write. Now I do... After all of the drama with my work the recommendation is now instead of firing me that they will "give" me 40 hours suspension w/o pay and I have to take a counseling class on "inter-personal office relationships". Whatever. I put in an application for another job today. :svengo: I'll keep "yes sir, no sir, whatever you say sir" until I can get out of there. Who needs that in their life, right? Everyt

Still in a holding pattern

Nothing at work is resolved yet. My Union Rep says not to worry and he thinks it will all be dropped or at the very worse we’ll win at appeal….hopefully it won’t come to that. I can’t wait until this is all behind me and I can finally schedule my surgery consult. And I HATE all of my frigging depressing blogs !!! ARRGH!

Work thing STILL not resolved...

Dear Blog-Monstah...   Thursday is a meeting with our supervisors to determine if they are going to send the recommendation (of one of the supervisors) up the chain to have me fired. It's unbelieveable. If I had actually done something to warrant being fired, okay, but I just don't understand this...   I've waited years to have WLS and now I have the money in the bank just taunting me! Oh, and we received the payment book from the bank too, so the first payment is due in a month IF we hav

Good News...Bad News...

:thumbup:Good news: I got my call from the surgeon for our first visit set for April 22.   :thumbdown:Bad news: I'm being recommended for termination at work and I had to cancel the appt !!   SEVENTEEN YEARS of my life, 6 1/2 years from retirement and this is how it's going to end ?????? Are you kidding me?????   My salary is half of our income w/o it I lose more than just my ability to have surgery, WE lose the house we built five years ago on the property we've lived on for 25 years,

Got the $$ sitting in the bank...and work stress

Now I'm just waiting for the call for the surgeon consultation.:thumbup:   I am scared of surgery too. But I did have an abdominal hysterectomy. I doubt if the pain for lapband would be worse than that and that wasn't horrible. People don't think of hysterectomy's as amputations, but that's what it was...   I'm feeling sad. I haven't been having a good time at work lately (17 years). A full month ago I get a call from a supervisor who said this other person told him I said he "goes both ways

Wooooooohooooooo!!!!!!

:thumbup: Our loan was approved for the surgery !!   Thank you God !!   After making my online loan application yesterday I checked my email after my blog...the email said they were unable to approve the loan. crap. After a good, silent cry I started thinking....you know, anything could have gone wrong with that stupid online form....so today I called the bank and spoke an actual HUMAN! After a few minutes the loan officer said we had been approved, for even more than we had as

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