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You're Most Like The Season Spring ...Fresh faced, with a young outlook on life - you smile at the world and expect it to smile back at you. You're mostly a bubbly, fun - innocent person. Described as cute possibly. However, you're a little naive about things and tend to be a little too trustworthy.As the first season, It Makes you the youngest - and so most immature - but people are inclined to look out for and protect you.Well done... You're the most fun of the seasons :)
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295 on the scale this morning!!! YAY! One more day till PUREE!! YIPPEE!

Well, I'm thrilled!! I weighed 297 this morning!! Goodbye to the 3eez and into the 2ooz!!! WOO HOO!!

Well it's been 3 days and BAM!! I've lost 1 more pound. HOORAY!!! One more pound until I'll never see 300 again!!! WOO HOOOO!!!!!

I'm so sick of liquids. 6 more days to go till I can eat baby food!!! I am on a plateau... the scale hasn't moved in 2 days. It's a bit scarey. I will be excited to look again in the morning!!

The thing is... as exciting as it may seem, I have heard before that you should NOT look at the scale every morning...Once a week is MUCH better. Checking the scale daily can become more like watching a pot of water come to a boil...especially if you are on a plateau.

I think once I get back to work and classes I won't have the time to be "scale checking"... For now though, while I'm stuck at home... I find myself checking it throughout the day... leaning this way and that way to see how low it will go...lol.

It will be great when this passes and I start losing again!!!
~~Jen

Well, I've had the surgery done now. It was finished in the late evening hours of August 13, 2007. I haven't felt like posting due to the crappy way I have been feeling.

At first I had so much of that gas to get rid of that it took 1 suppository and 2 enemas to get it rolling out the door. It's taken days it seems to get rid of it all. Walking helps!!

So, I'm on the liquids for now. It's not awful and it's not awesome, just very...very different. I feel full from just a few sips of whatever it is that I'm sipping on. It's very strange. It's like I don't have a stomach anymore it sort of feels like it gets stuck about 1/3'd the way down then it just spirals straight down. Like there's only one tube from enter to exit...lol. Anyhoo, it'll take some getting used to.

Can't wait to be off these liquids!!

Good luck to everyone else in the same boat...yeeesh .... I know how you feel... The support is great you all are awesome!!!
HUGS, Jen

Well, I haven't posted in a long time. I almost lost hope. BUT...the last 6 months have been a big turn around in my life! FINALLY!!! I got approved for surgery!!!! It's been a LONGGGGG hike but I think I am seeing a hue of light at the end of the long dark tunnel!

I changed jobs and started working at a hospital closer to home and when I signed up for insurance, I signed up for the Blue Cross Community Blue PPO. I used to have MCare PPO Plus and was unable to get approval through them. Anyhow.... Last year, I went to Barix and sat through the seminar on gastric bypass surgery, met with the physician and began the quest for approval.

After changing to Blue cross, I found that they required me to either have documentation of 12 months of medically supervised dieting or a letter from my doctor stating as such. I also underwent a psych eval with Dr. Medick who is absolutely AWESOME by the way!!! My BMI of 47 was enough to qualify me without co-morbid conditions even though I do have HTN, hyperlipidemia, osteoarthritis, PSVT, and a few other health issues.

So, my doc wrote me a letter - I had the psych eval - and BAM!!! INSTANT APPROVAL!!! I could not believe my ears when I heard the words, "OK Jen, you're all set... someone will be calling you to set up your surgery date and pre-op testing!!!"

So, today is my pre-op testing appointment. I can't sleep, of course. It's 3:45 am and my appointment is at 7:30am. I'm frantically thinking that perhaps something will go wrong and postpone my surgery date but I've come this far so I will not give up hope.

THE BIG DAY IS SCHEDULED FOR AUGUST 13th, 2007!!! Thats just 2 weeks away!!! I'm so excited!!!

If you are going through this and haven't yet got approved... DON'T GIVE UP HOPE!!! KEEP TRYING!!! I almost gave up and I tell you I'm so glad I didn't!

Here's some before shots!!!

UGGGGH!!!

Until next time, Jen

Well, I can't say I feel much better today. I still am playing the waiting game. I know this is going to take forever...lol. I just wish I had some sort of way to know when it will all come about.

School is absolutely killing me along with working full time. I am in my second "online" class, have 11 more to go to get my BSN finished. I hope I get this surgery done before I finish the BSN...lol. Classes are 5 weeks long each. That would put me in mid 2008 as finishing.

I hope to meet more people on here. I need to hear that it's going to all work out.

I have MCare PPO Plus insurance with PPOM. When I called my insurance company they said that RNY is a covered procedure. Does this mean I'm guaranteed? I wonder...

Anyow... just another day... same old, same old.
Jen

I know this is going to be a long - long journey. I know that it's not going to happen overnight. But today, between work, school, and just the mere fact of "not knowing" where this is going... is absolutely killing me.

I am depressed to the max today. It feels like I can't think. I just want the ball to start rolling. I know everyone starts somewhere and some journeys are longer than others. I just hate this waiting. Days seem like years.

I think if I find that I have so many hoops to jump through and it's going to take me forever, I don't know what I'll do. It just makes me want to give up.

It shouldn't be so hard to get this surgery done. It shouldn't be such a big deal. The insurance companies are SAVING money in the long run from all the complications that will potentially arise due to my obesity.

I am just having a bad day. It will probably still be over a week before I find out my "special hoops" that I need to jump through. Sigh... I hope I have the strength.

I had my first appointment with the Barix Center in Ypsi, Mi. I'm 5' 7" and weighed in at 301.7 pounds.

The Doc said I qualify based on the NIH guidelines based on my BMI alone.

I will be hearing from the Barix clinic within the next week or so to find out what hoops I will have to start jumping through I guess. =(