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hollyncharm

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  1. ok so the only thing my insurance says is that is covers either 80% or 60% of out patient surgeries. so..... i dont know anything about insurance and none of this crap makes any sense. it's all talking about, "blah blah blah if it satisfies the deductible..." i dont know what that means. so if y our have advice please help
  2. really i havent read about any one else having the sleep test do you think its cause you are young?
  3. i didnt know they did that? do you have to sleep there while they watch you or do you just answer some questions?
  4. hollyncharm commented on hollyncharm's blog entry in Blog 35981
    ok so i have sent the past two days reading as much as i can about peoples experiances andhow the surgery works and my mintal soaz about dr.s cutting my skin is about gone. im getting excited. im seeing comercials and thinking...im gunna look like that! so i tried contacting my insurance company to see how much they cover but the otomated answere thing gave me the run-around then disconected so il going to try some more monday! wish me luck! ps: help me stick to this. i tend to make excuses and then crap out of stuff and never do it. i am bad with half doing things. my thing right now would be that im moving and blah blah blah but help me stay on track! i always need that! thanks
  5. hollyncharm posted a blog entry in Blog 35981
    ok so i have sent the past two days reading as much as i can about peoples experiances andhow the surgery works and my mintal soaz about dr.s cutting my skin is about gone. im getting excited. im seeing comercials and thinking...im gunna look like that! so i tried contacting my insurance company to see how much they cover but the otomated answere thing gave me the run-around then disconected so il going to try some more monday! wish me luck! ps: help me stick to this. i tend to make excuses and then crap out of stuff and never do it. i am bad with half doing things. my thing right now would be that im moving and blah blah blah but help me stay on track! i always need that! thanks
  6. WOW you look great! 17 lbs has made a huge difference! like the others have said i see it in your arms big time and your neck..... and you know i didnt realise you were so pretty either. these tine pictures really dont do justice its nice when some one posts a picture that you can actualy see! keep it up! your getting me excited.im no where near as freaked out as i was before i read all of your blog. i really feel like i was there with you and its foinf to be my turn to do it by my self soon. that excites me!
  7. hollyncharm commented on minpinmom's blog entry in Blogin along
    OH! mynmann i know what you mean... i have always been over weight and i swore that if i got this position as a receptionist i would look good every day. it worked for like a month and then i put on some more weight and my cloths started fitting tighter, clothes that i had just gotten about 2 months before. i even went and had my hair cut off to half the length and colored (it felt great!) and then i went right back. i really feel like what is the point. my boyfriend of two years has never seen all of me naked at once with the lights on....i just cant handle it i feel like he will say, "oh, sh*......really.....turn the light back off.." and i know he wouldn't ever, but its still there. he and i do not live together...and i have now gotten so bad that even if i have nothing to do and he has the day off i still will not go see him because i don't feel like its worth it to put the make up on or fix my hair... and i feel like i have to with him cause he acts funny if i dont.....maybe its just in my head but either way its bad.....so i get you i really do and I'm sacred poopless to have surgery but i think i might just so i can be naked in the light and not, not feel comfortable but do it and not even think about it because i have that self worth inside.... you know what i mean?
  8. wow i didn't even think about the IV. i have never been a patient in a hospital.... i feel like puking just thinking about it. I'm so scared..... i don't have any one to go with me.... is it really important? will i be able to drive?...... you're blogs are really clearing up those grey area thank you so much.
  9. thank you both very much! i really appreciate your help. minpinmom i will check out your blog as well as your minpin! I'm a doggy mom of a Yorke with a quart bichon! yay dogie babies!
  10. so i haven't gotten the surgery done yet and i am using this site for info I'm the type tho that if it looks ultra scary i just don't read it....but that seems to be what most people are addicted to... when it comes down to it there are a lot of freakin morons out there and they do throw each other pitty parties and stuff their faces with cake... but i just wanted you to kow that encase you are worried about the image this site it portraying is freakin people out...it hasn't done so to me yet but i agree that they should try and fix the problems before they post winnings about it like 100 times!
  11. ok so i am SUPER afraid of doctors and like 5 times more afraid of them cutting my skin and bing inside of a part of my body that they shouldnt..... this is how i keep looking at it. I'm so scared but I'm over 100lbs over weight and i need to do something for myself and getting over this fear would be a great thing to do for me....but its so hard. i have talked to a few people and they keep saying it wasn't that bad having a baby was worse......that is exactly what i don't want to here i want to talk to some one my age who has not had a baby and i want them to tell me everything not just a summery of how it was.... i mean like.."well i put the robe on and they wheeled me down to surgery......they put the mask on my face...i had a dream about blah blah blah and then i was soar for 3 days!" something like that.....cause i am horrified of a cut, injury, and anything painful. i cant even watch it in cartoons. please help!
  12. ok so i am SUPER afraid of doctors and like 5 times more afraid of them cutting my skin and bing inside of a part of my body that they shouldnt..... this is how i keep looking at it. I'm so scared but I'm over 100lbs over weight and i need to do something for myself and getting over this fear would be a great thing to do for me....but its so hard. i have talked to a few people and they keep saying it wasn't that bad having a baby was worse......that is exactly what i don't want to here i want to talk to some one my age who has not had a baby and i want them to tell me everything not just a summery of how it was.... i mean like.."well i put the robe on and they wheeled me down to surgery......they put the mask on my face...i had a dream about blah blah blah and then i was soar for 3 days!" something like that.....cause i am horrified of a cut, injury, and anything painful. i cant even watch it in cartoons. please help!
  13. ok so i haven't had it done yet but i wanted to share with you how i look at weight loss.... i have never cared about if i lost a pound or two it was all failure unless it was 10+ lbs.. but then one day i bout 5 lbs of ground beef and cut it open and laid it on the counter...i was disgusted and amazed at how BIG 5lbs are. 5 POUNDS! I'm well over 100 pounds over weight and that was a huge pile of beef! now go to store and pick up the largest amount of meat they have and i bet it will be heavy and still be less than 45 pounds! don't loose sight of the fact that you are loosing it. it is leaving your body and does not exist any more. you are 180 quarter pound hamburgers lighter! thats allot of burgers! sorry about all of the beef analogies it just helped me when i had a physical substance to compare my weight loss to...and if your a vegetarian then you will be super happy about there being less beef...lol congrats to you and i hope when i have my surgery it will be as successful as yours has been.

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