isolde0221
Well here I am! Like many of you I have been overweight all of my life. I have tried just about everything and know that my weight is largely due to emotional eating. In the last five years I have tried very hard to combat this trend and have had moderate success. The reason I am now considering WLS is because my health is beginning to come an issue. I have severe osteo-arthritis in both of my knees. My left is bone on bone and my right is getting there. I am too young to have knee replacement and various attempts at pain management have been largely unsuccessful. So here I am.
I am not even going to waste my time with trying to get my insurance to cover the surgery. What's the point? I know it won't. I am going to do self-pay and because of this (and for other reasons) I am going to do it in Mexico. I plan on having the surgery in January 2009. I would love to do it tomorrow of course but will have to wait until then. So I guess this is the beginning of my story! 
