Rene, I ultimately realized that about the local surgeons. I was depressed for months and it delayed me ultimately finding another doctor and getting my surgery almost two years. What angered me what the fact that they just said they couldn't do the surgery on me and gave me no other options. They didn't offer assistance in losing the 44 lbs. that I would have had to lose at that time to get to 400 and they didn't tell me that it was just them but that other surgeons were able to operate on heavier people. Wnen I told them that I had read about much heavier people having the surgery, the nurse there told me that was the exception rather than the rule and if someone what was much heavier like that was having surgery it was probably being done outside of that United States. Now, of course, I know that's not true. I am two days away from my surgery and couldn't be happier with the surgeon I ultimately chose!
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