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After Eleven Years...Scheduled! - After pursuing WLS for so long, after so many heartaches and frustrations, even after giving up for several months last year, I am FINALLY scheduled for surgery on April 3rd. Those...

Finally! - It's been nearly eleven years since I started this journey and it's been a journey of frustration, heartache, and self-discovery. Just last fall I gave up for a while because I cou...

Not Sure What To Make of It - Sent an email to my surgeon's office week before last asking when they had sent my paperwork into my insurance. Received a response last week from someone filling in for the insura...

Back on Track! - It's been a while since I've posted anything here. The reason? I gave up. I couldn't get a grip on my weight loss that the surgeon requires of me and I couldn't seem to pass the ps...

Finally! - Finally! After 3-1/2 years of trying I have passed my psych eval for WLS! At the moment I'm more relieved than happy, I think. I don't know what I did or said to change things but ...

Snapshots - I love looking through the before and after pictures here on OH. While the surgeons don't want me concentrating solely on what I'll look like, I can't help but look at those pictur...

Fighting Back - I spoke with the patient advocate for Foothills Weight Loss yesterday to schedule a day and time when I could go have my stomach tested for bacteria. During the conversation she ca...

Insurance Blues - Spoke with Dr. Colquitt's patient advocate yesterday and made an appointment to have yet another test done on Monday, this one to test for bacteria in my stomach. She asked how my ...

Lessons Learned - To meet the pre-surgical weight loss requirements I've been on the South Beach Diet since June 1st and managed to lose 16.5 lbs in the time since. Well, that was until tonight when...

Recovering - I had lithotripsy performed yesterday to rid me of the 9 mm boulder taking up space in my right kidney. I've been incredibly lucky so far because I haven't had any of the horrible ...

Resurrection - I've been away since my last blog battling a bout of depression. It's been a rocky road and my weight gain mirrored the many tubs of rocky road that I used to console myself. But t...

Not So Much to Ask - Tonight I went to TOPS and discovered that I'd gained 3.5 lbs this past week. I wasn't certain why until I remembered that I'd forgot to take my morning meds, one of which is a diu...

Goals and Dreams - I have been a member of TOPS (Take Off Pounds Sensibly) for nearly six years. Over the course of those six years I lost 50 lbs then regained 90. The TOPS program does work but its ...

Back Again - It's been almost two years since I was on OH. After my falling out with my original clinic I spent a few months cooling off then went back and stayed until September 2010. Then I w...