Hello Everyone!

Just wanted to take a moment and introduce myself. I have been lurking on this board for about a year and a half now while preparing for surgery. After completing all my pre testing and going through the normal insurance company run around...sorry you have to have a 6 months supervised diet, OK (delay) here it is. Oh Sorry now WLS is excluded from your policy as of 1/1/05, I finally said the heck with it, I will self pay as I am not getting any better playing appeal games with them. I am a diabetic on insulin and have plenty of other co-morbities and I will not delay this another six months or a year. Well....my surgery is tomorrow morning and I am ready to go! I cant thank all of you guys enough out there, reading your posts twice a day and learning as much as possible from all your experiences. I think I have scoured through everyone's profiles and read each one...sometimes to the point of tears. As soon as I get back home hopefully Tuesday night, I'll post and let you all know how I made out. Then perhaps I can get a proper profile going so everyone can read mine as well. Again, thanks to all for being there.... Ken

Ken, We'll be anxious to see you on the losing side. Please let us know how things went after your surgery and keep us posted on how you are progressing. Best wishes for a successful surgery with minimal pain and no complications. Take care and thanks for coming out of the lurking shadows ! Amy

Good luck to you Ken I will keep you in my prayers. Please let us know how it goes. VickieK

Ken, WIsh we had known of the issues you were going through so we could have supported you more. I am SOOOO happy about your getting to the point of actually having your surgery. I wish you the best of luck, and I just said a prayer for you to have skilled surgeons and staff performing your surgery and follow-up and that you have a normal, boring, by the book experience with the surgery (no complications.) Good luck and best wishes...let us know how you are doing and thanks for coming into the light with us. Nice to meet you. Regards, Laurie

Hello Ken, So glad you came out of the shadows and introduced yourself! Please do let us know how your surgery went after you get home. We are here to support you in any way that we can. Conratulations on your new journey and Kudos to you for taking the bull by the horns in regards to your health! God Bless you and I will say prayer for you tomorrrow while you are in surgery. Sallykate

Hello Ken, Nice to meet you and congrats on your decision to have the surgery. I hope you never have regrets and things go very smoothly. That is the way it has been for me and so many others. If you have been reading this board you realize that we support and talk about it all so please keep us informed of your progress when you get on the losing side. Come join us. We are now living life. Carol

Ken I hope all goes well with your surgery and that you have a speedy recovery. Now that you have come out of the shadows -- please let us know how you are doing.

Hello Ken, congrats! good luck! and welcome! My prayers are with you.

Well Ken I would like to say congrats on yor decision to have surgery. myself I just got approved last week and I am scheduled to have surgery on june 9th... but I just wanted to wish you the best of luck with yor surgery and getting healthy... that was partly why I decided to have surgery I dont have diabetes yet but my mom does along with many other complications and she had surgery 3 years ago and is no longer on insulin and also no longer having high blood pressure, so i hope that with the surgery and the great weight loss you will have you will also no longer have the need for insulin.... congrats and best of luck with everything *** Jennifer