ATTENTION

My husband and I went to Sunday Brunch today at a military facility and they refused to honor my WLS card and allow me to pay a childs meal price. Their specific response to the question after involoving the hotel manager AND the restaurant within the hotels manager was this "We do not honor THAT TYPE of condition." Ummm "that type" of condition? Ok so which conditions do you honor? and If you honor any type of medical restriction at all then Dishonoring WLS patients, (which is a medical restriction) in my eyes, is Blatant discrimination. So I ask ALL of you to keep this in mind when patronizing not just military facilities, but any and ALLLLLL facilities that refuse to honor our "Gastric Bypass" card. In my humble opinion no establishment can justify charging us full price at a buffet style establishment considering we eat less than most infants in which they allow for free. I am livid over this. Please post any establishment that has dishonored your Gastric Bypass card so that we all with know about it. The establishment I went to was "The Banyan Tree" Sunday Brunch at the Hale Koa hotel specifically so you know to steer clear of the place. Steffie

Hey there steffie, im sorry about your experience, i would sooo be pissed too if i was you. actually ive been to Todai's (an all you can eat seafood restaraunt) in waikiki and showed them my card and the same thing they took it showed it to the manager and said they dont take it and that i cant take a childs price ???????? so i was PO'd but i just told the waiter ok im NOT ordering anything then. i went with the people i was with to the buffet line and told them what and what i wanted they took it back for me and i ate, they wanted to act like that well i got what i wanted hehehehehe. take care

Steffie, just wanted to say I'm sorry about the response you got on the main board... some people were nice about their opinions while most were not. (((HUGS))) We love ya though!!! I'm sorry they were so rude to you, that's awful! I'd have probably left! Thanks for sharing - I didn't even know about the card, is that something your surgeon gives to you?

Hey Steffie... That sucks that that happened. How did you get a WLS card? LOL, I want one!!! I have only been out once since surgery, and it was a while back, but we went to The Spaghetti Factory, and they let me just order a side of meatballs--it was $3 bucks....they were going to let me order from the kids menu but I didn't, and that was with no card. How are you doing? Did you get hair extensions? They look awesome if you did, and if you didn't, your hair looks amazing!! I have been crappy...I just got out of the hospital this morning, after 12 days there.

Hey Jessica. Alvarado issued it to me. I posted this on the main board and boy was it a bad subject to bring up. So for future reference never bring this up on the main board or you will get called everything short of a child of God. As far as my hair. I got a couple of wigs because I am losing hair so bad. I cut it way shorter too. Just gonna have fun with wigs and such until the hairloss phase passes. I called you earlier today and Jon told me that you were doing better but you were asleep. He also said they are gonna start doing the dialations closer together. I will be flying outta here Friday. I will get up with you when I get back. You need to post updated photos on your profile. Steffie