Thank you so much!! I went from a happy family where my husband was bringing home over $1000+ a week down to scraping for money to survive because he decided not to be a family man anymore.

Hand outs??? Sure we just love taking this money. I usually go to the store at times where nobody will see me using the food stamps. Does that sound like someone that is proud of being in a bad situation? God help you if you ever become disabled, unemployed or old and need medicare. That would just be too damn shameful and someone else may not appreciate that.

Exactly.  At this point with my knee injury, asthma, and arthritis, WLS is deemed medically necessary.  I cannot return to work without it- significant weight loss in a short amount of time in order to get my knee fixed is necessary.  I'd rather look like a Shar Pei than have the extremely limited mobility I have now and to be stuck not working and living off of disability.

Well, I'm on Medicaid and they will pay for RNY if it's medically necessary.  In my case, I have several comorbidities that qualify me for the RNY.  If I had to pay for it on my own, there would be no way I could do it.  In my current financial state, I wouldn't even apply to have the surgery financed even though I could likely get financed. 

I think that as obese and formerly obese people who are seeking help on this site that placing additional judgement (in your case, I misunderstood and I apologize) on one another is simply not necessary or called for.  I am one of those that has no problem speaking my mind when I have to, even when faced with judgement.  Your response to my post may not have been meant to be judgemental, but it ceretainly appeared to be.  It had nothing to do with responding to my post, which was about seeking some help in having groceries delivered.  I wish you the best of luck in your journey.

If we could come up with that kind of money then we would not need food stamps or any kind of assistance now would we?