Angie4b1g

12th here, too!

Click on Edit Signature on the right. Option 1 - Enter the URL to the Image on Another Website paste this: http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/9901/myvalentineblinkiexo9.gif Preview it and tell me if it worked. :frown:

Uh, I figured the crack smoker was kidding. :biggrin:

Ack, I'm sorry!!

Yikes! I've already made plans to stay at a hotel near the hospital the night before so that I don't have to add the stress of "omg I'm going to be late" to the stress of the surgery. Now I'm wondering if I should stay 2 days!

Here ya go, Gibson. And I also added a 2nd option to the first thread. :biggrin:

Here it is here, as well.

I will add a more masculine one to the blinkie thread. :biggrin:

Woo hoo! The countdown is on! And lucky you no pre-op diet! Awesome!

Good luck tomorrow! I'm so excited for you!!! How much did you lose on the broth? lol

Here's what I have so far. The smaller one is "standard" blinkie size. And then a larger version. Opinions? It's not very manly, but neither are blinkies or the name Victorious Valentines. LOL

Oh woo hoo! Will make the blinkie RIGHT NOW!

Yay glad to see another Feb 12ther!!!

We're about to switch insurance and my husband said "it's gonna suck if the new insurance would have covered this after paying all that money". I told him it was worth it to not have to DEAL with the insurance company!!!

Just when I thought I was the only Cleveland person here, I find out there are 2 more! Am I too late for the party? LOL

That's awesome, Debbie! I'll have some 20s to pass on soon - it's my current size. I have about 12 pair of 18s from when they actually fit already on reserve, so no need to wear the 20s once I can fit in the 18s.

I'm all about the pampering - massages and pedicures and such. Also, NEW UNDERWEAR! That is always such a treat and something we don't do often enough. :redface:

I'm a photographer, so I'm going to head over to the studio in a couple days and have my husband push the button for my official "before" pictures. I don't really look forward to it. But, on the other hand, I want a TRUE before picture so that when I'm fit and fabulous it'll be as dramatic as possible. :redface: Anyone in the Cleveland area want to swing by and get one taken, too? We can have a fat party! LOL

I'll make us a blinkie when we decide, if ya want :redface:

I guess I should jump in here. I'm 37, does that make me on the old end? Like Erin, I used to always be the young one. When my oldest started school, I was the youngest mom by far. Now I'm older than many of the teachers, and still have one more to start kindergarten! How'd that happen?? I live in Cleveland, my surgery is in Cincinnati. Still working on the logistics of that and how I'm going to get home, but I'm sure it'll all work out so I'm trying to go with the flow. I have 5 kids, ranging in age from 3-15. Seems I've averaged a 20lb gain with each, but that's not exactly how it went. I held on to 20lbs with the first, and the same 20lbs with the 2nd and 3rd (which isn't bad considering I gain 60-80lbs with each pregnancy! lol). So after #3, I was about 40lbs overweight - 20 from before kids and then the 20 I held onto after. Joined WW, made goal and then lifetime. Was revoltingly thin, still thought I was fat. Meanwhile, I was still in my crappy marriage. Then, I got pregnant again. I was NOT happy about that and combined with the bad marriage, it just sent me over the edge. I gained 80lbs with that one, and only lost about 40 of it after he was born. So, there I was back at my 185-190 range, which by this point I had convinced myself was just my body's happy range. I wasn't that terribly unhappy with it, so I just decided to leave it be. Then I got remarried. We decided to have a baby. Then it all went to hell. :redface: I'm up about 50lbs from when we got married 4 years ago. In fact, I'm heavier now than I ever was WHILE pregnant. Sigh. My 40lbs turned into 85lbs, and my quick intro seems to have turned into a novel. Anyway, my husband loves me either way, but I'm just downright tired of being fat. Tired of being tired, tired of being winded, tired of having to rearrange my fat rolls to get comfortable in bed. So, with his support, I decided to go for it! I'd been researching WLS for over a year, gave WW one or two last tries (I can lose 20lbs easily, then I fall off the wagon. Then it backs over me twice.), and here I am. We have an exclusion on our insurance policy, so I'm self pay. It has its good and bad points. The bad being the $13k I have to spend. The upside being not having to jump through all the hoops to get the insurance approval. I go for pre-op on the 29th and then surgery on the 12th of Feb. Pretty fast considering I went to the seminar on Jan 16th. There can't possibly be anything else you need to know. LOL

I HATE HATE bugs, but I hate the idea of squashing them worse. So I just freak out and scream a lot.

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How long does it take? I haven't applied yet because I figured I'd go to consultation and stuff first (Thursday). Does it take long to get approved and then come through or is the process fast?

Now that's funny!

I just now applied and got the approval instantly. Guess I worried for nothing. LOL My consult was today, so surgery should be around 3 weeks or so from now! Yay!