I hear you, when my insurance denied me I was crying for days. Then I got mad, took some really big color photos of all the open sores and the rest is history. For me the Plastic Surgery was just as important as my weight loss. It's been key to me not gaining all my weight back.

Once you have the surgery give it a least a year before you look in the mirror and see exactly what you are going to live with. Good Luck and keep us posted!

I am. I am going for a flapectomy (my word). The doc calls it a panniculectomy. I've only had the initial consultation so far where he described an inverted T operation. I've got a pre-op appointment in two weeks. I think there will be more details then.

My main complaint is paying for something for which I am receiving little value. What really galls me is being forced to buy something at a high price by government thuggery. We've had this insurance for all of three months now. Every time we've tried to use it, we have had trouble. Lots of trouble. So when they told me I was approved, I thought we'd finally had a breakthrough. I guess I should be happy they're paying some of it. But it is just one more in a list of frustrations that we never had before. We were with our former insurance for over 34 years. There were problems from time to time, but nothing on this level of frustration. I don't think I would have gotten so angry had it not been for some ongoing crapola with my kidney stone. That in itself has served to shorten my temper somewhat.

As for helping out, that would be great! You don't happen to have an extra 10 grand lying around you don't really need, do you? Haha, I was expecting to pay for it myself anyway so I'm set there. I'm just feeling like a line from a movie once. I don't even remember where it came from, but it went like this. "Don't pee down my back and tell me it's raining." That's sort of how I feel about this insurance company. They keep telling us how great our coverage is, but it pales compared to what we had until just recently.

Thank you. My wife is great. We've been together for almost 36 years, married for over 34. I'm going to as much stuff done as I can this year also.

Dr. Jonathan Hall in Stoneham is amazing. I would recommend him highly.

Yeah, really! It almost makes me want to get sick or something so I can get my money's worth. I have been blessed with very good health, beyond being extremely fat. Before surgery I had no real comorbidities beyond being at the low end of diabetic. I had lymphadema in my legs, but they didn't consider that a problem. I don't take any pills on a regular basis but one. And other illnesses have not shown up like they did when I was fat. I used to get bronchitis once a year. Nothing since surgery. Colds are rare, and I avoid doing stupid things so injuries in my shop are exceedingly rare.

I am glad to see things are improving for you. I hope it continues even more rapidly. I've been lurking here reading, not really knowing if I would go this route or not. My wife has been very supportive and encouraging. We'll see how she is once I'm a big baby post op. Haha, she was a huge help post op for my sleeve. She has an idea of what's in store.