Sandy63

Hello all, I am from Dahlonega, I am still waiting for a surgery date. I have had the psychological evaluation and for the strangest reason, my score was invalid! I have to take the thing over! I'm scheduled to do that Oct. 1st and my sleep study on Oct. 4th. Maybe it won't take too long to get the surgery after that. Insurance is paying 100%! I've had foot surgery this year and all my deductibles and out of pockets have been met. Good luck to all ya'll!!

My DH is against me having the surgery. He will not even talk about it with me. I had a first cousin who had the gastric by-pass surgery about 8 years ago. She started out pretty good at first, then she got to where she couldn't eat. She would throw up everything. She ended up malnourished and was put in the hospital for 3 months. She has permanent nerve damage in her legs and it is very hard for her to walk. She has gained all but 100lbs of her loss back. However, when I talked to her about the lapband, she was very supportive of it. DH just worries that something similar will happen to me. He also has problems with his weight. He diets and looses down about 70lbs, then when he stops watching what he eats, he packs it back on. He has yo-yo'ed like this for the past 12 or so years. I also think he might be a little jealous if I loose weight. I have always been heavy. I think he is secure with this and he knows if I loose weight then men will notice me. But, I want to do this for me and my family. I want to be around to see my kids have kids and so on. I'm tired of being FAT!! I have returned my application packet to the surgeon. I am waiting on a reply. My PCP has already done a referral and the letter of medical necessity and the insurance has already approved it. I had foot surgery earlier this year, paid all my deductibles and out of pocket expenses for the year, so all expenses from the lapband surgery will be covered 100%. I just hope I can get it all in before the end of the year.

I have a few.. 8th grade, we had to participate in gymnastics. I couldn't do the cartwheels, but I could tumble pretty darn well. Two of the most athletic girls picked me to be their teammate. Low and behold, our physical ed teacher decided that the whole class would perform in front of the entire middle school. I will never forget this as long as I live. We did our routine to Island Girl, by Elton John. Every time it came my turn to tumble, there were several boys who would yell "kaboom", "kaboom", "kaboom." I have never been so embarrassed! After the performance was over, I was in class, and there was a knock on the classroom door, Mrs. Yaeger, the gifted student's teacher, brought those boys into the classroom and made them apologize to me in front of the entire class. The whole class started cheering for me, made me feel better, made them look like aholes! My dear old grandpa, bless his abusive soul, would make me so mad. I have a first cousin who is also pretty large. Everytime I saw him, which was about 4 times a week, he would ask if Doris and I were trying to run a race to see who could get the fattest. One day just before he died, he asked me if I liked being fat. I had tolerated him up until this point. I turned to him and said, "I'd rather be fat than a dried up, old hateful fart like you!" He never mentioned my weight again. My most embarrassing moment was when DH and I went shopping at this craft store on Atlanta Highway. I used to always wear dresses, well this particular day I put a run in my pantyhose and we had to stop at a convience store to buy more. Weren't the kind I usually wore, with the built in panty, so I had no panties on. I put the pantyhose on in the car. We arrived at the store. I got out of the car. Walked to the store window and bent over to look at the window display. This store was on a corner at a very busy intersection. Low and behold, car horns started honking, guys were whistlin', yelling ooohhh baby. I turned and looked at my DH, who was laughing his butt off. I said what are they yelling at? He said I don't know....trying to hide his smirky smile. When I got inside the store I figured out why they were yelling. My dress tail was tucked in the waistband of the pantyhose and my big butt was shining! So embarrassing!!!:embarassed:

I live 4 miles from the newest Wal-mart SuperCenter in Dawsonville, GA. I live 12 miles from the Wal-mart in Dahlonega, GA. Both of these stores are clean, orderly, and the cashiers are very friendly and helpful. The Dawsonville store seems to have a better selection of items. The isle are really wide, and the shelves always seem to be well stocked. Both stores stay very busy. I like shopping at Wal-mart. However, if I only need a couple of items I will run into Kroger. If I go into Wal-mart only intending on buying a couple of items, I come out with close, if not over $100 worth of stuff!