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MissNilsa

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MissNilsa    0

MissNilsa
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I'm ready for my banding. My date is 6/18. How is everyone? Anyone banded in NYU Weight Loss Program with Drs. Fielding and Ren?

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:biggrin1: Dr ren did my surgery 2 years ago. she is a fantastic and very skilled surgeon. i felt very comfortable with her and her staff. i would highly recommend seeing their NP gaspar for fills. hes the best and really understands his patients. he is also banded. good luck neighbor! im just over the pulaski bridge in greenpoint by the way. drop me a message some time if i can help you along your journey.

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hey:

I was wondering if you could help me with something. Thanks for offering. Turns out my insurance denied me on Friday! one business day before my surgery was scheduled. the day was a disaster. My firm ended up getting involved because the surgical coordinator at NYU told me that my doctor did everything right in terms of giving the information needed for my surgery. I don't believe that because every time I went in to see him for the six months, he would only write a little bit of information.

Aetna and my firm ended up on a conference call with me on Friday afternoon and the insurance company claims that they wrote to my doctor and told him exactly what they needed in order to approve. They said they were missing diet information and also BMI index.

my question to you is: do you have Aetna? if so, what exactly needs to be written in terms of diet information and bmi index? is it for the entire time that I've had weight problems and monitored by my doctor. I think he only wrote that I've been on a lo carb diet. I think this entire thing is his fault.

Can you please tell me about what was written on your behalf so that I can have my surgery. I'm afraid that my doctor doesn't fully understand and will mess me up again.

I would appreciate your help.

Thanks!

My email address is Aslin1@aol.com

Thanks again.

Nilsa

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I'm ready for my banding. My date is 6/18. How is everyone? Anyone banded in NYU Weight Loss Program with Drs. Fielding and Ren?

I had it done last June 5,2006 @ NYU with Dr. Fielding. I am now down 75 lbs.

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LIGHT ER NYC    0

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Hey Miss Nilsa ,PIPPIMCC & Uneedapete,

So glad to find you all! I am in pre-op phase now at NYU and very nervous, yet excited. All these thoughts crossing my mind-Which Dr shall I choose?-Can I ever eat steak again?-AND........I will look and feel unf---ingbelievable!!!! Funny thing is I was not a big red meat eater before this. Ah, thats me. Tell me I cant have it and I want it.

Enough about me, I would LOVE to hear how life is for you bandsters!!!!!!!!!

THANKS LIGHT ER NYC:whoo:

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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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      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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      1. summerseeker

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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.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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