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Sorry, shoulda finished reading posts before duplicating.

My hubby spends a lot of time surfing USAJOBS as he's federal and we've been through the process many times. Gotta move to move up, so to speak. He could answer questions if you want to PM me.

Ha! Hate when I do that! :)

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I am a professor--love my job! Sleeved July 1 and glad I only taught online courses this summer so I could work from home.

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Medical Technologist, or lab geek for those who don't know what an MT is. When they say they're sending your ______ for testing, that's me doing the testing. LOL. I noticed a large number of medical people had had this done too while i was getting all my pre-op treatment done. Every doctors office I went to had someone in it who had surgery.

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I am a critical care nurse in icu......have lost 113 lbs in 8 months! I lovvvvvvve my sleeve.......never ever have i eaten this consistently healthy in my entire life! :D

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I was reading a study this morning..

55% of nurses are overweight or obese..

my profession ??? I am of the oldest profession

(Not that! get your minds out of the gutter <img src='http://www.bariatricpal.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' />)

I am a mom and a wife. The woman on the block that all the other women send there kids to after school if they are stuck at work..

So much for ...

"If a man will not work' date=' he shall not eat" (2 Thess 3:10)[/quote']

You have a great and much needed job. Working

(Away from home) moms need someone like you who can and is willing to be their when they can't. The best thing for children is to have mom at home. But now days even more so that's not always an option. So thanks for being there.

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Business Analyst in Newark, New Jersey.

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I'm thankful that we have so many nurses in here. If this were not the best WLS procedure, the nurses would know that. Being pre-op, it's reassuring that I've chosen the right path.

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I am a learning and development specialist for a very large travel company. I have worked in the same industry for the same company for 24 years. I love to travel and absolutely love my job! I am also a single mom to 2 amazing daughters, 9 & 11. Surgery is Aug 14. Getting so close : )

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I'm a High School Counselor for the last 9 years. I love it!

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My reason for being and most important job is mother to three amazing sons. They are 13, 9 and 4. My other full time job is as a speech pathologist in a nursing home. I've worked with geriatric patients for 18 years and I see the effects of obesity in the later years. Later being relative. We've had a recent run of people in their 40's and 50's who have had strokes related to weight, high blood pressure and diabetes. It's not pretty and I plan to do whatever it takes to avoid it. Nothing depresses me more than seeing a young person that I know for sure is going I be living in the nursing home starting in their 50's. That is a horrible sentence. I commend all of us on here who are fighting the good fight and trying to improve our odds. It's worth it.

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I am one of the geeks on the board. I manage a Technical Support team for a software / hardware company. My team works with our Enterprise level customers and our products are used by the large fleet / logistics companies in the country.

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CVT certified veterinary technician for 12 years. Raft guide, ski instructor and property assessor for an environmental consulting firm in previous life (lives). Surgery in Jan and hoping to get back to my raft guide "fighting weight" ! Course my diet in those days consisted of Cliff bars, coffee and beer so hoping to be a little healthier ;)

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Great topic! I'm a firefighter/paramedic in Washington state.

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Nice to see some people that are in this state on here!

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      Iʻm roughly 6 weeks post-op this morning and have begun to feel like a normal human, with a normal human body again. I started introducing solid foods and pill forms of medications/supplements a couple of weeks ago and it's really amazing to eat meals with my family again, despite the fact that my portions are so much smaller than theirs. 
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    • BeanitoDiego

      Oh yeah, something I wanted to rant about, a billing dispute that cropped up 3 months ago.
      Surgery was in August of 2023. A bill shows up for over $7,000 in January. WTF? I asks myself. I know that I jumped through all of the insurance hoops and verified this and triple checked that, as did the surgeon's office. All was set, and I paid all of the known costs before surgery.
      A looong story short, is that an assistant surgeon that was in the process of accepting money from my insurance company touched me while I was under anesthesia. That is what the bill was for. But hey, guess what? Some federal legislation was enacted last year to help patients out when they cannot consent to being touched by someone out of their insurance network. These types of bills fall under something called, "surprise billing," and you don't have to put up with it.
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      I had to make a lot of phone calls to both the surgeon's office and the insurance company and explain my rights and what the maximum out of pocket costs were that I could be liable for. Also had to remind them that it isn't my place to be taking care of all of this and that I was going to escalate things if they could not play nice with one another.
      Quick ending is that I don't have to pay that $7,000+. Advocate, advocate, advocate for yourself no matter how long it takes and learn more about this law if you are ever hit with a surprise bill.
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      Still purging all of the larger clothing. This morning, a shirt that I ADORED wearing ended up on top. Hard to let it go, but it was also hard to let go of those habits that also no longer serve my highest good. Onward and upward!
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