Hello!  I am a wife, mother and grandmother. I am desperately wanting to have this surgery.   I am on Texas Medicaid.  I was not thin all of my childhood, and my teen years my weight fluctuated.  Well I'm 48 years old with a 19 year old daughter and two sons; 28 and 26.   My husband and I raised his sisters after his mother passed.  The girls were 7 and 8  at that time when their mother passed away. The girls are 23 and 24 now. Our children are not obese, but my spouse and I are.  Well I want to congratulate all the losers who have achieved their goal and has a new lease on life.