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Summertime 2018 and the livin' is easy, except you're getting ready for SURGERY. Check in here and share your joys and trials! We're in this together to the end! Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

This week there is a new season coming. If you are in the Northern Hemisphere you welcome Spring,if you are in the Southern Hemisphere you will be greeting Autumn. How do your exercise plans change so you can better reach your Weight Loss Goals? [emoji563] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Welcome Heales I hope you'll stay around with us awhile. You're the first person,I've met from Oregon. Where in Oregon do you,liVe? [emoji13] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

My son when he had his colonoscopy woke up apologizing to the nurses and was still apologizing when her returned to the ambulatory section. To,this day neither of us know what he was apologizing for. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

@m79m79 you may find a few more friends on here. Good luck on your June 9th date. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Don't be nervous. You just take,a,little nap and,when you wake up and,have a little more rest you get dressed and go home. The last time (I've had 2) my throat. wasn't,even sore. It went smooth as silk and I even got a printout with,full color pictures of my gastric system. I thought it was really neat. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Give DH love from all of us. I'm so glad to hear such good news,thank you for being so supportive. My support when my time comes will be my son, and I believe he will be as good for me as you are for DH. You get some rest,yourself. Hopefully,my,own RnY will be next month, without him I would be anxious about doing it at 72. Support people do mean a lot. God Bless and keep you both [emoji14] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Just a matter of time until someone asks if you,know Bugs or Harvey the big rabbit friend of Jimmy Stewart from the movie iofvthe same name. [emoji195] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Remember you had a breathing tube down your throat and in to your trachea, probably,scraped or irritated,your goal cords a little. I'm sure you'll get all better soon. In the meantime rock,your husky bedroom-type voice.[emoji14] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Hi new friends, see what happens when I turn my smartphone off and charge it! A whole new group of May friends show up, glad I didn't miss any of you. I hope to have a RnY with you all in May but I don't have a date. Makes no never mind, I'll still be your friend no matter what. Tell,me more about yourselves,your,plans for your surgeries, where they are going to be performed? Are there questions any of you need answered?. I know a lot,but anything I don't have answer to someone on Bariatric Pal will. Feel free to hang around with us, we like to help and we want,your experiences to be good. [emoji14][emoji13] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Bet you do, I would too. Oh I look forward to my day when I can be saying,such words to,you. I pray OSU accepts all my records and grants me a surgery day soon. I would love for it to be May and a beautiful day.[emoji259][emoji13][emoji254] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

See it's all better, sometimes worry makes things seem worse than they really are. Congratulations on a successful surgery. Now heal and get better.[emoji14] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Really looks good, I would say that's a very good sign things are moving along. So happy there is nothing bad at all. You've got,a little scoliosis, perfectly normal. I have it, as do many girls and some boys. Mine and that of my daughter were bad enough both boys had to have Xrays,too. This is one place in life where unremarkable is to be desired. Please keep me updated on your progress, we're going through this journey together, it's a lot less scary when you have someone to walk it with you. God Bless. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Check with Bariatric Pal MX hospital, they seem to be very transparent with their pricing etc. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Try Injury,heard good reports that say, it doesn't have a nasty aftertaste. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Congratulations Star a good surgery couldn't happen to a nicer person. Now get well and have a smooth recovery[emoji14] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

So good to hear. Every time I read a good report like that it keeps me pressing on toward my goal[emoji171][emoji14] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Well as the Aussies would say Good on you. @ Aussie lady. Now recuperate, get healthy,and stay my friend[emoji14] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Have them fudge a little, put down testing for other reasons than WLS since your insurance didn't see fit to cover weight loss. Even if it's billed as a to rule out condition X, the insurance dudes might do it that way. Just a,little advice[emoji14] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Congratulations Nisha and welcome. I'm one of the waiters I'm hoping for surgery, a RnY in May, but I love all you sleevers too. Our innards may get rearranged a little differently but we are co journeryers on the Weigh Loss Trail. Where did you have your surgery at and how are you feeling? Hope you'll want to hang around with us here. Bunch of very nice people I've learned so much,from[emoji14] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Yeah but no one closer does RnY! My local hospital started in November doing lap band and sleeve, that's not what I require. I'm already on Dexilant for my GERD, gastritis and Hector my little baby ulcer from too many NSAIDS. Trying to keep him asleep so he doesn't grow and either bleed or perforate someday. Thank goodness I have insurance because Dexilant,costs $350 a month and that's at Wal-Mart where medicines are cheaper, they would charge much more at the other local pharmacies. I have gone through 2 sets of bariatric requirements, only 1 requirement I could do locally, the rest back and forth to Columbus. Why have I not had surgery yet? You would have to ask the stupid son of Seabiscuit the Horse who capriciously kicked me to the curb February 20th. The excuse I was given was so bogus, basically he and his 2 partners had themselves a little meeting and decided they didn't want to do my surgery. I'm sure Medicare/Medicaid paid them and all the other doctors I was sent to for consults handsomely.What did I get out of it? The fuzzy end of the lollipop, sorrow, frustration and a temporary lowering of my self-esteem. I cried for a few days, picked myself up, dusted,myself off, looked myself in the mirror and said F*** the 3 of them, I'm going to still have this surgery, called the 2 other Center of Excellence hospitals in Columbus, made appointments, attended 1 seminar Match 9th, liked what I heard, filled an application and in April 25th I have an appointment with OSU staff psychologist Dr Kramer for 2 hours 10AM-noon, after that since program#1 released everything to them, signed a release form March 9th, barring any further questions or requirements I could have surgery in May. That's how things stand now, I don't drive so the transportation I've had to be ingenious about, called in past favors, been transported by my local senior citizen center and once had to hire a taxi,from local transportation company, that I'm still paying off in increments. They aren't as worried about that as I am, they don't have to come up with the money and besides they know where I live. There is the current status of the Frust8tion Kid, ME[emoji13] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Sounds like he should have been run out of town on a rail instead of slinking off into the sunset and leaving you people high and dry! [emoji20] I suppose he kept his medical licence current, people like that usually do. Does he have. no shame,or compassion for anyone? I don't even know the dude but I'm angry on your behalf! Bariatric Pal people are my friends and I don't like my friends trifled with.[emoji107] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Good idea Sadiebug, I am 50+ miles from my future hospital and surgeon. Going to take your advice to[emoji171] Thank You. Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

Good thinking. Most people wouldn't think to do that[emoji106][emoji14] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app

That's something Mr Gastritis hasn't done to me yet. But I do get "the don't eat anymore sensation"-- I'm willing to rock with it, if my stomach isn't all distended the surgeon might be gentler and I would not have the post surgery spitting up of dried blood --although most of the people mentioning it were sleevers, there were a few Bypassers there too.[emoji14]I figure prewarned--- pre-ready.[emoji14] Thank you, kangaroos I hope to be hopping along with you soon[emoji106] Sent from my VS880PP using BariatricPal mobile app