Forsythia

Dating is right up there with interviewing for jobs and going to the dentist on my list of things I don't like doing. Thank god I'm married. I had the worst date once. This guy and I went out. Only he tells me that he ate before we went to dinner. So he didn't eat anything. He only got a beer. Then he took two phone calls during the date. And then was all, "Hey can you pick up the tab" (mind you I'm okay with picking up the tab but at least offer to pick up the damn tab). Then he walked me to my apartment and had the unmitigated gall to ask if he could come up. As in for sex. NO. NO. NO.

@@happymama2014 It's not as intuitive as one would think. But from the main site (not the phone app), up in the top right hand corner by your name is a little gear. Click on the gear. Then click on my surgery. Scroll down to where it says your current weight and put it in and save it, and it will update your stats.

Are you factoring in the time spent pre-op waiting around as part of the time? I don't know how long the actual surgery was (and I went in by myself, so no one was around to tell me how long they waited), but I spent about 45 minutes in the staging area before they put the IV in me and wheeled me into the actual OR. I think the actual surgery was a couple hours. Then post surgery, I had to wait another hour in recovery until a room was free for me.

I think approval depends on how well run your surgeon's office is RE: paperwork and your individual insurance company. Some companies will get the documentation and take their sweet time and fine tooth comb the application regardless of how busy the season is. Some will pump out your approval easy peasy. After my endoscopy, in February, I was approved in what seems like a couple of days by BCBS IL. I got a call from the surgeon's office calling to schedule my sleeve before I got the actual letter from BCBS. You might call your insurance and find out their policy on approvals.

@@swimbikerun Considering that I was at one point a size 28, yes, a size 6 is tiny. Hell, I look at my size XL clothes and they seem small to me. Tiny is a matter of perspective.

Well, more like, my face. When I look in the mirror, my face looks the same as it always has. I never had a fat face to begin with, but now, when I look at pictures of my face, it looks too skinny. Yet I'm still above 200 lbs. My face needs to stop losing weight. LOL! Also, this morning, the scale said 211.5, which is over 100 lbs from my program start weight (and well over 120 from my all time high). Anyhow you be the judge on my face. The first picture is of me and my husband from a few years back. Please note my face was not fat. The second one was taken Thanksgiving weekend. I think my face looks weird. I do realize that they were taken at different angles. But still. I guess if my face is the one thing I have to b***h about then I can't complain too much.

Yeah but a 14 in 1950-whatever is like a size 6 today. She was tiny.

Updating my surgery stats so that my weight is lower gives me a special kind of joy. Sometimes I log in just to do that. LOL!

Like @@Miss Mac I got my surgery done at a teaching hospital (Northwestern Memorial in Chicago). So there was a whole team of surgically minded minions and interns in there assisting him. I actually saw them more often during my hospital stay, as they were in to check in on me multiple times a day. He actually only stopped in once!

RJ what is it with these rude doctors in your part of Canada? CANADIANS ARE SUPPOSED TO BE NICE! Your stories are ruining my impression of Canadians. I don't think any doctor who makes you cry on your first visit has a good bedside manner. There is a way to deliver bad news without being an assclown. Dude sounds like an assclown.

FWIW, I don't think the straw thing is hard and fast. In the hospital, I was given this big plastic travel mug thing.. with a straw. I had to finish it off before they discharged me. Some people have issues with straws causing gas. But a lot of people do better with a straw. So before you get it in your head that straws are bad, try one out first. You might be able to get your sips in better with one.

So was the midget named Ted?

You might have a deductible. And/or an out of pocket max. I had both. So once you meet the deductible for the routine stuff you still might have to pay for part of the surgery. And that stuff resets itself at the beginning of the year. I met both, but still had about $1800 I had to pay out of pocket because of it.

@@IcanMakeit That is such a ladies who lunch sweater! I wanna be a lady who lunches, my charity work would include going to animal shelters and playing with cats and dogs, er volunteering! I have an active fantasy life. Lol!

I only took a week off work. Everyone thought I was on vacation. And everyone bought that I was just working out and logging my food which was true. No one knew about my surgery.

Hola from the NW side. I'm not a recent sleeve, it's been 7 months. Good luck with yours. I had a really easy recovery, didn't need to use the pain meds they sent me home with, and was back at work within a week. I'm sure you'll be fine!

I stopped using the pain meds the same day as the surgery. They made me want to vomit (both dalaudid and morphine) and I wasn't in pain anyhow.

@@laurenella82 Sassy!

@MistyAnnMoon829 I'm in Chicago. The legging under a skirt in this weather is mandatory! Of course, there are the more opaque type that are really cotton/spandex knit and are really pants which you can wear with a tunic or sweater and boots for that cute casual look, and then there are the nylon/spandex type which are NOT pants. Just because they have a seam down the leg does NOT make them pants. They are really double thick tights. At this point I've pretty much cycled out all my old stuff. Even some of the new stuff is being cycled out. And I need new sports bras desperately but I'm trying to hold on because good ones are not cheap! The other day I went into a Loft store and it was like, weird to me that things there would fit me. I'm still working on getting into that Kensie dress. But I'm edging closer. Even if it sells out before I get below 200, well, there are always new dresses!

I was one of those people @@Bufflehead speaks of. I was given regular black tea in the hospital as part of my liquid meal! But still, I didn't start back on coffee until I was about a month post op. Now I put my protein powder in it. In fact my nut suggested it since she knew that post op the shakes with milk tasted gross to me.

I'm type 2. WLS won't cure your sister's type from what I hear. I don't know enough about type 1 to offer any advice either way.

Sadly even after 100 lbs I'm still wearing a size 9. I tried on some 8.5s and they are too small. I have lost an inch in the calf and ankle so boots fit better.

I was sleeved on may 5th 2014, and since the surgery I've lost just under 100 lbs. My recovery was pretty textbook. No issues or complications. My diabetes is gone and my HgA1C level is now 5.5%. My high weight was 335. Started the program at 312lbs.

I've not lost much hair at all. I also have very thin fine curly hair rather than coarse thick kinky texture. I'm 7 months out as of 12/5. Despite my hair being straight in my picture, it is unrelaxed and has been for the last three years as my stylist refused to highlight my hair if I was relaxing it. So I went with the highlights.