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I found this website by accident looking for blog's on patients that either have had VSG or planning to.
I have been in the process of making the decision to have the surgery. This website has helped helped alot in moving me closer to that decision. I have until Feb. to decide since I have to be with my insurance plan a year before they will pay for the surgery.

Hi, everyone, thanks for your comments. They are helpful to put things in perspective.
I am extremely happy to have had the surgery and was happy to deplete my small nest egg to have it. I think mostly this is an aging issue that is coming out through the weight loss process and am going to do a few sessions with a psychologist to try to work through that. I thought I had worked through this stuff in my mid-40s when I had a mid-life crisis sort of thing when I had to face up to that fact that there wasn't going to be a husband and children. But almost 64 is a whole different ball park than 45. I'm smiling as I write that. 60 is NOT the new 35. It's 60.
Most of the time I feel like the rest of you -- happy to be getting healthier and more mobile/energetic and likely extending my life. But every so often that anger at having to wait until 60s to have it and ending up looking like a walrus comes through.
Thinoneday, you are amazing at juggling the surgery and putting your daughter through college! I teach at a university and am well aware of the great costs involved in putting a child through college these days. Kudos to you!
thanks again everyone.