ty.  i was soooooooo  scared....  that cath was worth it...  both card drs were cute...  lol

 had my stress test done yesterday.

i hope i never have to go through that again.  I had a headache throughout the whole thing.  2 drugs to increase the heart rate and one to lower it...  my appt was for 9:45am and i didn't get home until 8pm

my scare came about 10 mins after I was done.  I got light headed n dizzy afterwards.  I ended up in ER.  I was white as a ghost and my lips turned white.  they ran blood tests, my heart enzymes were high...  they ran them again 3 hrs later and they were still high, so off to card lab for catherization I went.  They did that cause with my surgery coming up, Anesthesia dr would NOT wanna put me under for a major operation with questionable heart problems.  

I am glad they did the cath.  it showed NO blockage at all in my heart arteries.. plus they said I had a beautiful heart.  The cardiac drs also commended for going through the program and taking care of myself.  I told them how much weight i lost since new years and that the reason why I am doing this is to prevention.  I do not wanna end  up like my dad's side of the family with major heart problems and other health related problems.

They are letting  my bari surgeon know about the outcome of yesterday.  I told the cardiac dr that they should have a recover area for people getting stress tests done so that what happened to me doesn't happen to anyone else.   That is scarey to go through something like that.  I am glad that the er at Geisinger acted quickly and came to my aid over in the advanced med building lobby.  I got good treatment from the ER...

only thing bad about this is I can't make my cake pops for our family reunion tomorrow...  i use my right hand to use the frosting bags..  they went through the artery in my right wrist for the cath. 

Hello Members,

On a daily basis we get calls from members in desperate need of surgeons that will accept Medicaid and or Medicare for Bariatric surgery.  It breaks our hearts when we have to say "we don't know of any surgeons in your state we can refer you to". 

Can you please help us? If you know of any surgeons in your state that accepts Medicaid and or Medicare, will you list their:

Name

If they accept Medicare and or Medcaid

Phone number

Facility

Address

This list will remain here for our members to access and use.

Thank you so much!!!

ObesityHelp,

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Good Morning Folks!

Not much happening around here other than wedding preparations.

Shoe shopping should not be this difficult!!!!!  Monday night - nothing, last night found about 5 pairs of shoes - sorry we don't have them in your size.  Really, I wear a size 6 they used to be the last sizes left, now all i can find are 10's and 11's.  I'm about to give up and wear a pair of dress shoes I already have.  Tonight I'm heading to DSW, if I do not find something I'm done, out come the old shoes!

Today is work till 3ish, Phillies game this afternoon so I have to be ahead of the traffic that lets out from the game at rush hour. 

Hope you all have a wonderful day...

Ida

Good Evening!

I'm off to search for shoes again tonight!!!!  How can finding a pair of shoes be this difficult - that's right they are for me and my picky need to be perfect self LOL

One mall down last night - could not believe how understocked the stores were last night and how cheap the material is that they make clothes out of now a days.  Some good sales happening, no way was I paying even those reduced prices for the crap they have on the racks!!!!  Disguisting what they've done to the american clothing since shutting down all the sewing shops and textile factories.  Nothing but crap out there!

So much for that rant.

gotta get my butt moving...if I don't find shoes tonight I'm getting down to the wire....might just end up wearing a really nice pair I have, but I really would like a new pair - can never have too many pairs of shoes....

Hope you all had a wonderful day....

Ida