I just found out my surgery will be in July (granted my pre-op testing goes okay) SOOOOOOOOO

Here's a thread for everyone getting banded in July 07!

Does anyone have any good ideas for a neat name we could call ourselves?

Really, Lynette, is he being helpful? If so, I would make it last as long as possible, lol!!!

DO I MIND YOU ASKING ARE YOU CRAZY LOOK WHAT WEB-SITE WERE ON ITS ALL ABOUT THE WEIGHT AND SUPPORT!!!!!!!

I'M 195LB AND 5'4'' I CARRY IT ALL OVER BUT MY TUMMY IS OK. JUST A BIT WOBBLY FROM HAVING THE BABY NOT TO BAD. I'VE GOT THAT MORE BROAD SOLID BUILD, GET ME???

Heck yeah, he's doing wash, and dishes, picking up around the house. He went night fishing tonight with the kids and my FIL, so I've got the house to myself. He has been good this week.

Dini, I know what you mean. I have the broad build too. No one believes me when I say I weight 232. They guess me around 190.</p> <p>I wish. But I have the tire thing going on around my waist and lower

Heck yeah, he's doing wash, and dishes, picking up around the house. He went night fishing tonight with the kids and my FIL, so I've got the house to myself. He has been good this week.

isn't it well for some. i'm staying at my mothers house today cos i dont want to be around adam. i'm afraid i'll throw him off the balcony. actually i couldn't do that it would make my band slip and i wouldn't want that would we!!!!!!!!........

Nice question Lynette!

My screen name? :heh: Kind of obvious, but I'll relate the story behind it.

I can't recall how I stumbled over the forum, but I reading over it and hadn't yet registered. Looking for information on my impending surgery. All the paperwork had been sent to the insurance co. a couple of weeks earlier. I'd taken a break and went to check the mail. There was a letter from the insurance co. denying me because it was deemed "not medically necessary"

I called the number on the letter and was given the number for the person who actually made the decision. I was furious at that time and couldn't believe my luck at being able to talk with the ass who didn't know what the hell he was doing.

Apparently I wasn't fat enough. My BMI was 36 and I believed because of my PCOS and insulin resistance, I was on the fast track to diabetes and more if I couldn't stop the pounds from piling on. He said I hadn't had an official diagnosis of diabetes, so I didn't qualify for co-morbidities, plus the fact I was only on one medication for it and they required I be on two. Was he serious?

I was astounded!:omg: I asked right out "So I'm not fat enough or ill enough to qualify and I have to WAIT until I am?" He said, "Yes, pretty much." So then I asked him what I needed to do. He pondered for a while and said "Well if your BMI was 40, you would qualify without the need for co-morbidities." *blink* "So I need to get fatter in order to be able to get thinner?" He responded with "Yes, but there's no way you could gain that weight.*chuckle*" I don't know what bugged me more, the fact that all it would take would be to gain more weight, or the fact that this moron thought I couldn't possibly do it.

I saw it as a challenge! I hung up the phone, had a good cry, complained to my hubby and got him to calm me down. Then I came online and was feeling "Frustrated" by the whole experience. The rest, as they say, is history.

Hi Frustrated... my band date buddy. I'm so sorry for your experience with the Dr.

6 years ago my girlfriend was banded. She was one of the first in Canada at the time. Her BMI was 35, and the surgeon wouldn't do it unless she was 40... so she did the exact same thing... ate her face off for 3 months. Today she's 100 lbs lighter and in great health.

NO, we don't want that. But isn't there some stairs he could 'accidently' fall down!!!

Well hello miss Kathybad.

no-one knows my weight. not even adam. if they were to guess they would say around 168lb ( 12 stone) even adam thinks around that.

did i tell you i can feel 2 parts of my part its really strange i feel this round thing then a line then another round think!!! i think i need an xray to make sure all is ok

Dini, You are just a little thing! You go, Girl!

kathbad how you doing?

Dini, maybe they gave you 2 of them!!Hehehehehe. Have them check at your apointment.

Jeanie,

It is pretty here. I do not go to the beach much b/c I am crazy. long story short-I am use to the white sand from the gulf and the sand here just looks dirty to me. Isn't that nuts? LOL

Dini-the bouncing is funny LOL

Lynette, I think I will be posting alot here as well. I am finding the reading entertaining and educational.

Jessica, we've been a little slap happy tonight. Just having fun!!

Dini, maybe they we're having a BOGO sale they day you went in. That's not fair. Hehehehehe