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50 pounds GONE!!!! Penni, thats great!!! That bear looks FABULOUS with the boa!

Aaahhhh! Lanie, I'm so sorry! How frustrating this must be for you. Hang in there and do everything your supposed to do. You new date will be here before you know it!

Oh, Geez!!! I am already a shedder. I have very thick wavy hair and I have left hairs everywhere I go my whole life! Now your telling me its gonna get worse?!?! :ermm Well, maybe it will grow back straight and sleek... :cheeky

Michelle, I just read this thread. I am so sorry you and your family are going through this. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Congrats HarleyNana! Good luck with your surgery! Hey, what's with all the Harley's on this board???? LOL, I'm starting to wonder if I am missing something!

Nora, my DH was skeptical at first, too. But I sat him down and had him read the Inamed info and then read a few posts on this board and now he is convinced that it is the right thing for me to do! I can tell he is getting a bit nervous now that the surgery is approaching, though.

So, Betty....How long were you in surgery?

Good luck, Denise! I hope it all goes well for you.

Welcome, Kim!! Great to see yet another Texan here! Good luck with your surgery!

Hi, Denise! Welcome and congrats on your approval! I will be right behind you with a date of Nov. 5. Good luck!!!

Tanise, welcome and thank you for sharing your story!!! You truly are an inspiration!

Good luck, Sharon! Have a safe trip and easy surgery!!

Thanks for the link, Nana! I just ordered the chocolate and the unflavored.

Wow!!! At this rate you'll be in onederland in no time!!! Congrats!

Good luck, Willpower!!! Waiting is soooo hard to do, but you will make it!

Thats great news, Rica!!!! I cant' imagine me jogging half a block much less half a mile. Glad to hear you knee is so much better.

Congrats, Joanne!!!! Glad to hear all is going well!

Bright, Congrats on the 80lbs and going back to school!!!! Good to see you here again!

Paula, no I am not going to Spiegel. Did you have a similar experience? I am going to see my dr. this morning and I plan to tell him about the staff. I'll let ya'll know how it goes.

Wow! Betty, thanks for the details. I didn't know they put you on bean bag!!! I'm so glad all went well for you and you are home and doing fine. YOU'RE BANDED!!!!! YIPPEE!!!!!

Good Luck, Kelly Ann! I'm sending positive thoughts your way!

Betty, I hope all went well for you! You are in everyone's thoughts. Please check in as soon as you feel up to it!

Well, I got a message yesterday from the dr's office that he wants to set the date for Nov. 5 and I should call them right away to make a pre-op appointment. I will call later today (when I am damn good and ready!). Neicy, I think the B*TCH that I spoke to on Friday WAS the office manager! Nice staff, huh? I will probably stick with this dr. because I am sick to death of the wait. And I intend to move away in the next year, yet still be within reasonable driving distance of this dr. However, if I hear any more crap outta the staff, I already have another dr in mind who is just half an hour down the road from this one. As far as the experience of the dr, he has been preforming the surgery in this community since July. I believe he said he had done it somewhere else previously, but his dream was to come home to Texas, so he is a new dr here in this town. I guess I should be happy that I actually have a date now, but somehow it just all seems spoiled.

I am so frustrated with my drs. office!!!! I can't seem to get a definite date from them. The best I have gotten is a tentative October 28, and now a tentative November 1. The only communication has been when I called the office, they never contact me. It seems to me that with either of those dates, I should already be going through some kind of testing. When I asked about it I was told, Well, yes there is testing to be done, but I couldn't get any more info. I called again this morning and the woman I spoke with was a real b*tch to me!!! She said she was sorry I felt like they weren't doing a good job (even though I NEVER said that). I told her that I had been working towards getting the band since June, I have had insurance approval for a month now and we have still not taken one step forward. She replied that I should keep in mind that this is all new to our community and it just takes time and that there are plenty of patients who have been waiting for insurance approval longer than me! Is it just me or should I be looking for a new surgeon? Will I have to apply for insurance approval all over again?

Good luck at the dr., Penni!!! Lisa, please get your butt to the doc, as well!!!