Thank you Penny for the information!! I am definitely going to send an e-mail to these people and explain that we are worthy of a long and healthy life just like anyone else in this province-country!! Let me know if you have any additional information - such as a reply from the ministers. Elaine

I will definatley be in touch with him! Thanks for taking that initiative and I will follow through. It may not benefit me but I hope it does others! Keep me posted. Tanya PS Did you post a new thread to let everyone know you did this and to encourage others to do so to?

HI Kris It's Penny I have booked my surgery with Dr. Kuri for Aug 6th. I am very excited & nervous at the smae time. Did you get your fill & how is that going. I talked to Shirley and I guess she had toot much & had to go back for a reduction. How is the weight loss going.. are you still doing well. I have a few questions about the port. Does it ever get in your way as far as laying on your stomach or bending over? Just something that has been nagging at me. I read somewhere that some one had pain when ever they bent over... Penny

HI Elaine Thanks for your support. I am very excited. I think I will send in my receipts and statements to Sask. Health.. I really don't understand why they would not pay for Lap Band when they will pay for the bypass surgery at least the same. They have now even copped out on paying for travel expences for the gastric bypass in another province. I think the province really needs to take a closer look and wake up & get with the program. I wish you all the best with your financing & surgery. I will keep a posting of how everything goes.. Penny

Congratulations Penny! I too have decided to do the Lap Band with Dr. Kuri in Mexico. I do not have a date booked yet as I am waiting for funding to come in, but I wish you all the best!! As far as Sask Health is concerned, I am going to submit my detailed bill to them along with a list for 20 years (because I think that is all I have left in me if I don't get the surgery) of "actual costs" it would cost them if I don't get this surgery done. Hmmm - lets see - diabetic medicine for the next 20 years, knee surgery..... etc. I am hoping that maybe they will smarten up and cover this needed surgery. If not for me, then for anyone else that deserves to live a longer, healthier life. I am very serious about this and will take it to Ottawa if I have to. You will have to let us know how you are doing Post Op.