Angzilla

Just re~starting the process, I have wanted this for a long time and am close to achiving the feeling of being thin. I have done many of the needed testing for the bypass, but i'm sure many more to go!

I'm Angela from Northern Ca, married for 12 years, 2 kids, 2 dogs, 2 cat's. Um what else, you can find me on facebook and myspace, have a twitter but don't use it. will have many questions and what a great place to fine all the answers and advice I'll need! Thank you all for being here!

Laureate

I'm still pre-op, but have learned so much from those who moved over to the loser's bench. I'm sure you will, too.

Welcome aboard!

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Terri
Over 50 BMI Member No. 9

Cigna approval for LAP RNY surgery: 9/4/09
Pre-op consult: 10/15/09
Pre-op tests: 10/21/09
Surgery date: 10/26/09!!

Highest weight: 319
Surgery weight: 287
Current weight: 269
Goal weight: To be determined, but probably 175ish
Other goals: To get back on the tennis court and back in my kayak again!

Angzilla

Thank you glad to be here and may be here for a while!

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poet_kelly

Hi, Angela. You are in for the ride of your life! Hang on....

Kelly

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RNY 11/4/08

surgery/current/goal
270/147/130

Marella

Welcome to TT, Angzilla. Congratulations on the re-start!!!

If I may ask, though you don't have to tell, why the re-start? I'm assuming that either insurance or nerves got in the way.

Me personally, I'd like to hold the hand of everyone feeling like I felt pre-op and guide them through toward the lighter side of life. I see them now, where I was, barely walking, riding in motorized carts, looking sad and often miserable. I wish I knew the right words to say to encourage them, but like me, I would have felt insulted if someone had suggested WLS to me.

Hey, someone actually did. I met a woman who was 7 months post-op and lost 80 pounds. She came right out and started talking about it. I guess she noticed how miserable I was (at a Boy Scout registration function) and before it began, she talked and talked and talked. I credit her as being the first actual post-op patient I met, and her happiness was honestly contagious.

I have that happiness, too, and I wish I knew how to share it with anyone who has ever thought of WLS. Just the mere thinking about it places a re-focus on the mind and, I hope, an optimistic spirit into the future. Here's to optimism -- I wish it for you and lot's of success, too.

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~ Marella


Day 77: TTwo-terville - 53 lbs down
Day 188: Century Club - 100 lbs down
Day 366: 1 Year - 146 lbs down
Day 396: One-derland - 153 lbs gone forever! (my pic progression)

Delane

Welcome to TT, You are in for the ride of your life, I am 7 1/2 months out, and Im never want to look back at where I was. I think you will find out that this will be the best thing you ever did for yourself and your family. Good luck and keep us posted. Delane

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Angzilla

Yeah I started the process years ago, lost the insurance and now getting insurance back again and going full force with tthe process!!!

Thank you for all the welcome's

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So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.