Post Date 12/29/11 8:26 am
Topic: RE: What is going on over here?
On December 28, 2011 at 8:42 PM Pacific Time, stormechaser wrote:
Can't hear what? *****iness? Condescending attitude? Holier than though bull**** I'm sorry, but I chose nicer words to describe that person and attempted to be civil . She hid behind the gap of cyberspace and plunked out advice with a malicious dose of sarcasm. If a person not hiding behind the Internet spoke to me the way she did, well let's just say I wouldn't be so nice.
Cover my ears and not hear what? I saw plenty of people say how she helped them. Good for them. I am glad some people were helped. All I saw---and I read a **** ton of posts---was a controlling, ill tempered shrew bent on being queen bee of the duodenal switch. (add in the fact that the dsfacts.com site is
heavily peppered with her and her input. That in of itself is highly suspicious.) Which, frankly, aside from the band-wagoners on this particular part of OH, has yet to prove to me to be the gold standard of anything. I am still researching this. Hence, why I started poking around the DS boards to gain some insight. None to be found, I am afraid, unless I kissed her ass and followed her like a sheep. No thank you.
Her postings were filled with derogatory rhetoric and generally made me, or anyone else who dared to ask a question, feel like an ignorant moron for daring to ask. Ridiculous.
I initially tried to go over to the other site thinking that people had finally had enough of her, only to find out she had been banned from here. Good! I for one reported her several months ago for bullying. I read her bull**** story that smacks of Stephen King on a bender as to why all whatever happened. Oh my God, who the hell cares??? There is more to life than he said/she said on a damn Internet board!!! Get a ******g life.
Well, I hope that clears up whether or not I heard her. Yes, I heard a ***** try and tell me what she thought. And not as a helpful friend or someone who has been there. NO, it was a do as I say or suffer the consequences dictatorship of Queen of all that is Duodenal Switch!
I tried to be nice, but when someone is as cruel as she and markets it as "help", well then I guess Dr. Mengele was helpful too. I am done being nice. To hell with this particular part of OH. For every bad apple over here, there are dozens of good and caring people on OH. I just have to keep reminding myself of that.
Diana hurt your feelings. I get that. We ALL get that. That's not the point.
To quote your words, again, you said
I am so glad she is gone as her acid posts kept me away from some valuable information here.
It's not as if Diana alone was offering you this info. You could have blocked Diana and never been troubled by her again, and you could have gotten the same basic information from lots of other people here, and on other websites as well.
You covered your ears and refused to hear the message, because you didn't like the messenger. The responsibility for that lies solidly on YOU, no one else.
I think you should choose the RNY as your revision surgery, because I don't think you're capable of doing the sort of life-long self-advocacy the DS demands. I'm not saying you're too stupid to do it, because I suspect you're smarter than you act. I just don't think you're emotionally ready to separate the message from the messenger, to hear and accept the hard truths.
Sorry things didn't work out well for you with your VSG, and I hope you'll do better with your RNY---but remember, it WILL be your last shot at a successful WLS. Once they convert your Sleeve into a pouch, there will be no going back.