First Small Hurdle Conquered! :)
Hello!
I saw my PCP today as it was time for my diabetic med renewal and check up....I had to start taking yet ANOTHER oral med..this makes three!
I told him I wanted to have WLS and all the reasons why including comorbidities and it just so happened that my BP was up and my Alg is still too high...timing is everything! I had worried he would not support this...but he DOES!!! He said he will write a letter of refferal if this is what I want to do...he just encouraged me to look at more than one surgeon and of course tried to steer me to a MD in the Hartford Surgical Group...apparently there is a new young and well credentialed Doc there now that he likes....course these days EVERYONE looks YOUNG to me...it is really turning into a pheonomenom!!! (Did I spell that right?)Ye gods! 
.....so anyway..I'm off to see the Wizard!
"Dorothy"
.....so anyway..I'm off to see the Wizard!
"Dorothy" 
Hi Dorothy! Do you have ruby slippers? ;)
My 2 cents is that Dr. Aranow has such amazingly low complication rates, I went to him instead of anyone in the Hartford area purely because of his statistics. I'm so comfortable with that choice - you have got to go with your gut sometimes!
And as far as the young looking doctors....I SO hear you! I brought my son to the new pediatrician in the West Hartford pediatric group, and I SWEAR, the guy wasn't old enough to buy beer. I couldn't help but stare......
Good luck on your journey!
Love,
Tammy
Hi Tammy!!!
:Clicking heels together three times: 'there's no place like thin and healthy', 'there's no place like thin and healthy'......
My gutt says I am sticking with Dr. A...I have three coworkers who had it done with him...nothing like living proof!!
I don't mind if it takes a little time...will give me a chance to pay up the mortgage ahead of time and make other arrangements for the recoup phase.
Thanks so much for your kind and humerous response!
Be talking with you more I am sure!
Happy Weekend!
Sher'
Hi Carmen,
Thanks! 
This has not been an easy decision in some ways, but now that I have made it, I am getting excited at the prospect of having a new life basically. I am thinking I will have a better quality of life and that no matter what one's age. it is never too late...I can't relate to my own age at ALL...lol..I feel so much younger and some folks say I don't look my age...but man oh man, in the middle of the night when I get up and my back aches and I lumber to the bathroom I feel 110! I get tired of dragging myself up stairs....
I was in the grocery store yesterday and in the dog food aisle shopping for my Haxa (German Shepherd)....grabbed a 20 lb sack of Iams and the 40 lb sack caught my eye...and I thought 'Dag! Girlfriend you are walking around with three of these suckers on your back EVERYDAY!' I weighted at the docs and I am at 267!!! WOWSER!! I am 5'7...USED to weigh 335!
For whatever reason I have not been able to get below 246 and I am creeping back up. I have just had it.
In my research I came across some sites of folks who put their pics up before and after plastic surgery. To be honest, I had/have mixed feelings in that I will be very suprised if I don't come out looking like a sharpei and it ****** me off that I have maimed myelf this way through my disease.While in the throes of my food addiction I never thought about essentially deforming my body...it is amazing what I have been able to 'blank out' over the years and deny!
I know I am yakking a lot here...please bear with me....anyhoo..some of these folks had weighed 400 pounds or more and were left with serious pannis...I have a small one now and it is the thing I LOATHE...and I suspect it might get worse before it gets better....and I just think it is GROSS. It makes me so SAD that I have done this to myself...what was I THINKING?? But, I digress...these noble people had major overhauls in the plastic surgery department....leg lifts, lower body, boobs, you name it..and the scars and healing process were NOT pretty, especially in the ones who sadly got wound infections...a year later or so one woman looked GREAT....but the hell she went through to get there was unbelievable! Another had an amazing amount of skin hanging on her legs from top to bottom...it looked like hell and sadly to me after the PS, though the folds were gone...it STILL looked like hell! I had this idealistic idea that P Surgery could really restore everything to its origional condition and I am seeng that is not always the case, IF one is lucky enough to scrape the money or benefits together to HAVE it in the first place!
Oh well! I am not shallow and I know looks are not everything...but in my world it seems not many others realize that! (Guess I need to change my world! lol)... The whole point being...(and I DO have one..lol) what serious business this is and has ALWAYS been...is REALLY slamming home!
No matter what though, I look forward to the change!
Thanks to you and everyone for reading and 'listening' and for your support.
Sher' 
This has not been an easy decision in some ways, but now that I have made it, I am getting excited at the prospect of having a new life basically. I am thinking I will have a better quality of life and that no matter what one's age. it is never too late...I can't relate to my own age at ALL...lol..I feel so much younger and some folks say I don't look my age...but man oh man, in the middle of the night when I get up and my back aches and I lumber to the bathroom I feel 110! I get tired of dragging myself up stairs....
I was in the grocery store yesterday and in the dog food aisle shopping for my Haxa (German Shepherd)....grabbed a 20 lb sack of Iams and the 40 lb sack caught my eye...and I thought 'Dag! Girlfriend you are walking around with three of these suckers on your back EVERYDAY!' I weighted at the docs and I am at 267!!! WOWSER!! I am 5'7...USED to weigh 335!
For whatever reason I have not been able to get below 246 and I am creeping back up. I have just had it.
In my research I came across some sites of folks who put their pics up before and after plastic surgery. To be honest, I had/have mixed feelings in that I will be very suprised if I don't come out looking like a sharpei and it ****** me off that I have maimed myelf this way through my disease.While in the throes of my food addiction I never thought about essentially deforming my body...it is amazing what I have been able to 'blank out' over the years and deny!
I know I am yakking a lot here...please bear with me....anyhoo..some of these folks had weighed 400 pounds or more and were left with serious pannis...I have a small one now and it is the thing I LOATHE...and I suspect it might get worse before it gets better....and I just think it is GROSS. It makes me so SAD that I have done this to myself...what was I THINKING?? But, I digress...these noble people had major overhauls in the plastic surgery department....leg lifts, lower body, boobs, you name it..and the scars and healing process were NOT pretty, especially in the ones who sadly got wound infections...a year later or so one woman looked GREAT....but the hell she went through to get there was unbelievable! Another had an amazing amount of skin hanging on her legs from top to bottom...it looked like hell and sadly to me after the PS, though the folds were gone...it STILL looked like hell! I had this idealistic idea that P Surgery could really restore everything to its origional condition and I am seeng that is not always the case, IF one is lucky enough to scrape the money or benefits together to HAVE it in the first place!
Oh well! I am not shallow and I know looks are not everything...but in my world it seems not many others realize that! (Guess I need to change my world! lol)... The whole point being...(and I DO have one..lol) what serious business this is and has ALWAYS been...is REALLY slamming home!
No matter what though, I look forward to the change!
Thanks to you and everyone for reading and 'listening' and for your support.
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