PRE-OPS: THINK TWICE, CUT ONCE -- OR ELSE!!
It continues to trouble me GREATLY seeing so many new OH'rs coming on board having already decided on a WLS type and a surgeon having prosecuted NO MORE INQUIRY than perhaps a first seminar and consult and finding themselves already approved and scheduled for surgery. They present full of prescient, but such fundamentally basic questions as to demonstrate a nearly complete lack of understanding of their own chosen WLS type much less that of others perhaps more suitable.
It's my hope and prayer such VALUABLE AND CRUCIAL posts as yours, and so many others might provide that flicker of light necessary to look further into their options and ever just as importantly to examine the lifetime consequences of a single one and only allowable WLS intervention per insurance or cross insurance coverage including a subset of folks who self-paid.
I'm reflecting way back on my military experiences mostly medical per se, but the upper level snipers types I very occasionally saw clinically had an ever present dictate. "One shot, one kill." Seems appropriate here, too, in that our choices may be limited and likely will further be given over the healthcare debacle and fluxation this country finds to itself in. Certainly, I have my own views from a pragmatic viewpoint, but my sense our choices in regards to our special challenges as obese or greater may become more exacting as our health care fluidity progresses.
The metabolic and other challenges we face with obesity is rarely addressed appropriately or even remotely in an honest and forthright way in so called bariatric practices, large or small. Still, lots of folks do very well early out with other WLS interventions, but like you, I refused to be to be a victim of a lifelong need to diet for life outside the simple requirements our DS demands. Please, could eating our way to health so richly and easily with required labs ever be so effortless?
Tis as said with profound gratitude to ((you)) especially, and one and all who just gets it and posts similarly with our need to pay it forward. **Smiling with gratitude**
Warmly as always,
Rock
It's my hope and prayer such VALUABLE AND CRUCIAL posts as yours, and so many others might provide that flicker of light necessary to look further into their options and ever just as importantly to examine the lifetime consequences of a single one and only allowable WLS intervention per insurance or cross insurance coverage including a subset of folks who self-paid.
I'm reflecting way back on my military experiences mostly medical per se, but the upper level snipers types I very occasionally saw clinically had an ever present dictate. "One shot, one kill." Seems appropriate here, too, in that our choices may be limited and likely will further be given over the healthcare debacle and fluxation this country finds to itself in. Certainly, I have my own views from a pragmatic viewpoint, but my sense our choices in regards to our special challenges as obese or greater may become more exacting as our health care fluidity progresses.
The metabolic and other challenges we face with obesity is rarely addressed appropriately or even remotely in an honest and forthright way in so called bariatric practices, large or small. Still, lots of folks do very well early out with other WLS interventions, but like you, I refused to be to be a victim of a lifelong need to diet for life outside the simple requirements our DS demands. Please, could eating our way to health so richly and easily with required labs ever be so effortless?
Tis as said with profound gratitude to ((you)) especially, and one and all who just gets it and posts similarly with our need to pay it forward. **Smiling with gratitude**
Warmly as always,
Rock
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