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Only a money grubbing lawyer who has no interest in your success would take the case. It sounds like you don't even really have a case. Nothing went wrong from what I read in your OP.

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Even a money grubbing lawyer would not take that case. He or she would not make a dime, because there is no case.

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I am a lawyer who does some plaintiffs med mal work. I can tell you that there is no way that I would take your case on a contogency or for a fee. The primary problem that I see is that you have not followed your doctor's instructions by not getting fills. In my opinion you would have no chance to win.

Find the money for fills and odds are the band will start working for you. Hell, I find that the money that I am saving in food more than offsets the cost of fills.

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I go to Tijuna anve my fill it cost $100.00 , They pick me up and drop me by my car. Very nice Dr.

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I am a lawyer who does some plaintiffs med mal work. I can tell you that there is no way that I would take your case on a contogency or for a fee. The primary problem that I see is that you have not followed your doctor's instructions by not getting fills. In my opinion you would have no chance to win.

Find the money for fills and odds are the band will start working for you. Hell, I find that the money that I am saving in food more than offsets the cost of fills.

This is so true!!!! Good point!!

One of the earlier posters on this thread suggested that the thread starter rlynn, posted a scam! Maybe but either way, we have to assume that since rlynn has never replied, we must have chewed her up and spit her out enough that she is likely not reading these any more. My hope is that we planted a seed of hope.

Today is my 6 month bandiversary and I am so happy still that I made this decision. I am getting a hold on my food issues, and I am caring less and less about food. It is true that it is not a picnic all the time, but I have learned so much. Here is to the next 6 months. My goal is to be at goal by September..... Here goes............ Hugs........

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You have to give the band time. With only 1 fill under your belt, of course youre not going to loose a lot of weight. I (like a lot of others) had to have several fills before I was able to tell a big difference. You also have to believe in yourself which by your post, and what you have told your sister, you don't believe in yourself?

Why would you even consider legal action if you aren't willing to do your part and continue with your fills? I understand that the fills are pretty expensive I think at my doctors office it's like 100 bucks a fill. Cant you just give up something when you know you need a fill and spend the money on that instead?

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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