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Old 11-25-2005, 12:48 PM   #14 (permalink)
Heatherused2BAfeather
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Originally Posted by Mavisavis
Mine was the old "you aren't fat enough to get surgery" comment. I started saying that I had a bariatric surgeon, pcp, and insurance company that disagrees! I guess 100 lbs overweight isn't fat enough? lol I think it's really just that people wanted me to know they accepted me as is........that's how I took it anyhow.

This is the comment I got when I told my boss that I was going to have WLS. I thought I was the only one that got frustrated by that. It made me feel like I was being vain to be going through with this. There are a lot of women at my workplace that would be candidates for the surgery, my boss included, and I guess maybe they do see me as being vain but I want this for my health and they don't have any clue what my health issues are. All they see is the outside and I can't see how they could think I wasn't big enough... I mean, once your over 250 how can anyone dare say such a thing?
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