Pair-o'-thighs Lost

I want to make a note that this insurance carrier does NOT require the 4 month pre-op diet, but the program at Community South DOES.   I posted my intro, but I wanted to add my medical experience up until this post. It was kind of hard to take that first step.  After 20 years of hoping for the opportunity, when the opportunity knocked, I was pretty nervous to answer. But I did answer.   And I'll tell you what.  When you are at that vulnerable point in your life when you have to make a phone call and tell a total stranger on the other end that you're just so fat you can't deal with it on your own, that person's response makes a big difference.  Had the person that answered the phone blown me off, or seemed insensitive in any way, I probably would have hung up out of sheer mortification. But she wasn't that way.  Her name was Tammy, and she was kind. She scheduled my first consult with the Doctor, which was a video conference.  The doctor was kind a...

Well....I'm fat. And for the past 20 years I have been interested in weight loss surgery., but every insurance company that we've had has had an exclusion. If you don't know what an exclusion is, it's when your insurance company simply doesn't offer that particular service.  And it's actually VERY common to have a bariatric exclusion on your policy.  There is no "appealing" an exclusion.  It's like getting pissed at Taco Bell because they won't sell you a Big Mac. It's because "fat" has become the last sanctioned prejudice in America.  It's still okay to laugh at the fat guy who fell down in the supermarket.  It's still okay to tell the incredible dancer that, despite a routine you skinny bastards could never pull off, she really needs to "shed a few pounds". But I guess it is what it is.  I doubt it will change. But anyway.... So we finally got insurance that covers WLS (weight loss surgery, as I will refer to ...