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I post an update here every few years.

Most of 2017, I jumped thru hoops to get approved for weight loss surgery in the USA by Dr. Nowzaradan out of Houston, TX, which including various medical tests, etc.., and driving hours each way.

In the end he said I have no co-morbidities, and do not meet my Insurance, at the time, criteria.

Tired of all this jumping thru hoops for NOTHING. This has happened multiple times.

My current plan is to save to self pay for surgery in Mexico. It may take up to 18 months.

Updates and details will be on my website at www.vickionline.com

It's been years since I posted so here is an upate.

I gained all my weight back plus some. I have insurance but I can't jump through the hoops they may require to get surgery here in the U.S. So I want to get it in Mexico.

I recently made a huge change in my life towards the goal of getting surgery in Mexico. I moved from Arizona to Texas to live with my mom. I will be able to save enough money to get the surgery in Mexico in about 8 months. The Dr. I am interested in, Dr. Ariel Ortiz, has great reviews. I want the gastric bypass and not the sleeve because the bypass restricts AND malabsobs which I think because of my morbid obesity, I need both. But I called Dr. Ortiz office today and they said he only does the sleeve, he doesn't do gastric bypass. I don't know if I should look for another dr in mexico or just get the sleeve. I weigh about 315 pounds now, the most I've ever weighed. I had gall bladder removal surgery this past April. For the first time in a long time I am feeling happy and hopeful.

I haven't updated in awhile. I never got the funds for weight loss surgery. However in July of last year I decided to try losing weight without it. Since then I've lost 43 pounds. I have 92 more pounds to lose. Its a long hard road and sometimes I don't stick to my diet and exercise plan but I am keeping pushing forward and not giving up.

I have a blog for my journey at www.fattofiguregirl.com

I am a member of a WLS blog on livejournal ( http://community.livejournal.com/wls/ ). One of the members ( http://wls-nicoleta.livejournal.com/ ) said she got surgery in Mexico from Dr. Joya for $12,000. So I read her blog and read all about her journey and it seemed to go well.
I wanted more information so I spent all yesterday reading most of the posts on the Mexico board here at OH.

$12,000 seems much more doable than $30,000

Two Mexican Dr's really stood out to me Dr. Joya and Dr. Aceves as being exceptional.

I'm going to change my website to reflect this Mexcio option.

By the way, my real blog that I post in every day is at: http://vickionline.livejournal.com/

Well I've been wanting to get bariatric surgery since before 2006. I can remember wanting it back in 2003 even. I went thru a trial with insurance and wasn't able to get it. I don't have a job, I don't have an income (I was on unemployement but that's over). I am a full time college student, expecting to graduate in May 2011.
Now I am just really broken and miserable. I lay in bed for days at a time, just incapable of pulling myself out of bed on most days.
I am miserable and feel hopeless.
I have gotten to the point of desperation.
I created a website with an offer to do ANYTHING in exchange for $30,000 the cost of the surgery.
The website is at www.vickinicole.com
I'm willing to make any kind of deal imaginable in exchange for the funds, so if anyone knows someone rich who needs a live in personal assistant or maid, please let them know about my website.

Also, you can find me on twitter @RealVickiNicole

I was cut off AHCCCS health insurance because I get Unemployement (after being laid off from work)
So now I have no health insurance.
 I weigh 291 lbs.
I spent the day watching WLS videos on youtube. I can't wait for the day I have a medicinal tool to assist me with weight loss.

I still don't exercise at all, except going to school which is about a mile away

I don't eat as many sweets as I use to it and I don't gorge myself in one sitting anymore. But I still eat whatever I want. Today I had a bowl of cereal for breakfast, sushi for lunch, and a sloppy joe burger with cheese for dinner. Jug it all down with cranberry juice.

I know one day, I will be blessed to have Weight Loss Surgery. It just hasn't been my time yet.

I don't think people think WLS is a quick fix, I think obese people know that it isn't an easy or quick fix, but we also know that without some sort of drastic intermediary we are likely to die from the repercussions of obesity.

If everyone who got Weight Loss Surgery were perfectly mentally healthy specimens, they wouldn't have gotten weight loss surgery. They would have focused really hard, exercised for 4 hours a day, and ate perfectly healthy to lose the weight instead of getting the surgery.

But that's not what happens. People get the surgery cause they realize they need help. Some people get it to be motivated, or so they can be healthy, or whatever excuse people come up with. The bottom line is they couldn't do it on their own without surgical intervention. That intermediary is called Weight Loss Surgery.

For me, I need intervention, I need something drastic that forces me to change my behavior. It can either be getting my foot chopped off because I have diabetes or it can be someone cutting into me and putting a lap band on my stomach. It could be a trainer coming to my house twice a day, or it could be having to take high blood pressure pills and fainting twice a day from HBP.

I need something to intervene before my health gets worse and if that means using my student loans to go to Tijuana to get surgery, that's what will have to happen.

No one says it's easy or quick, we just say it's necessary.

i need weight loss surgery
i stopped walking in the morning
i lasted 1 week of walking each am and gave up
didnt feel like getting up in the am

i'm scared for myself
I weigh 310 pounds.. and gaining
I went to walmart for groceries then came home and ate 1/2 lb of fried chicken wing dings and 2 cup cakes with frosting piled high today , they were really good, 1 cupcake was lemon with lemon zest frosting and the other was italian cake with cocunut frosting

i have 2 more cupcakes in my mini fridge in my bedroom

I want to lose weight, but I'm not trying to lose weight. It's much easier and more fun to lay in bed and eat cupcakes, than to exercise 3 hours a day

without intervention i think im going to have a heart attack or diabetes or breast cancer, black women who gain weight in their breasts have a higher chance of getting breast cancer
I wear a 46F bra size

I'm scared I'm going to get high blood pressure, or never be able to have a baby cause I am obese
 
I'm studying exercise & wellness in school because I believe it will someday somehow save my life being surrounded by fit people and health information
but now
I'm scared I will be discriminated against in the exercise industry, because, duh, I'm fat

Everyday I have this talk with myself. I ask myself why I don't get up and exercise. I lay in bed and wonder. I sit and wonder. I don't DO. I just THINK.

I think if I had a trainer come and get me twice a day, every day to work out, I would lose weight. I know that someday I will get up and do it, exercise, but I don't know when and I don't know what will be the catalyst.

I really want to get weight loss surgery. It's much more suited to the way my brain thinks and feels.

I think I can get it for about $8,000 in Tijuana , http://www.obesitycontrolcenter.com/surgery_cost.php

i just need the money

I am thinking of how I can steal, or borrow or get that money and get the life saving surgery

I really need it

I now have AHCCCS
Scottsdale Bariatric says they dont accept AHCCCS

I have to find a Dr. who does

So much has happened this year. I got laid off from work. My weight skyrocketed again,. I am over 300 lbs for the first time in my life. I am on food stamps and have ACHSS insurance now.

I'm going to see if Achss covers WLS.