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slimmerkay

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I was just wondering, those who are pre-op - do you actually view your WLS as reality, something that will happen relatively soon? Or do you think of it as yet another pipe dream and not really believe you'll ever really get there?

I'm on the pipe dream team :sigh:
 
I have ups and downs to be honest, but lately i'm pretty positive that i'm going to have weight loss surgery but i won't truely believe it untill i've had it done xxx
 
What stage are you at hun? I'm just at the applying for funding stage. The surgery seems an awful long way down an awful long tunnel at the moment :(
 
Im almost there....fingers crossed, and still dont believe it will really happen.....when Im in recovery THEN I will believe :D x
 
Karen, this is a great question! I was only saying to someone yesterday that i fill like an outsider looking in, i don't think that this is happening to me, i'm not sure whether that is because i keep thinking i'm not going to go through with it or its not going to happen, well my bypass is 6 wks today so i'm thinking i really need to try & realise that this IS happening to ME!!!!
 
It does feel as though it's really remote Karen... so many hoops to jump through.... all I can say is that the wait is making me more positive and giving me a chance to help myself...

Does seem like an eternity though... xxx
 
every day i hope and pray that it is going to happen and its going to happen soonish! but i think untill that date finaly arrives on my doorstep i wont be able to believe 100% that it IS going to happen.
 
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We'll have to fasten you to the floor Keeley.. I can just imagine when you get your date! xxx
 
Yes i have just had a weight loss target set last week so i have some way to go. I talk about it constantly but i still can't imagine me having surgery and getting to a fit healthy weight because all my life i have never had that just always struggling. vowing every summer that this time next year i won't be like this (which i always am!) when now i can't get into my head this time next year i should have had my surgery on root to that healthy lifestyle i desperately need!! x
 
slimmerkay said:
What stage are you at hun? I'm just at the applying for funding stage. The surgery seems an awful long way down an awful long tunnel at the moment :(
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I'm doing weight management we had last week off so got 4wks left. Been told we get funding straight away but got to apply so could be turned down. If i get past this stage it takes about 8 mths or so i been told xxx
 
i don't know much about this funding. I went to my DR in march and he booked an appointment for seminar 31st march at sunderland, then i had appointment with dietician and bariatric nurse last tues and they set a Weight loss target. said it shud take about 8 - 10 months from now. so maybe this is just certain hospitals?!
 
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Yes i have just had a weight loss target set last week so i have some way to go. I talk about it constantly but i still can't imagine me having surgery and getting to a fit healthy weight because all my life i have never had that just always struggling. vowing every summer that this time next year i won't be like this (which i always am!) when now i can't get into my head this time next year i should have had my surgery on root to that healthy lifestyle i desperately need!! x
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This could of been wrote by me xxx
 
o deroooooo karen!!! do you even need to ask meeee? i fear EVERY day its gonna be snatched away from me, like a bully in the playground pulling my pigtails hahahahhaha i shall stand there and cry!!!! tho seriously i do worry EVERY day im not gonna get it for one reason or another, im not sure if any of you have picked up on it?!? hmmmm mmmm .... hahhaha i have even found myself trying to symptom spot ( when ive no reason to do this before) on things that i know could delya my op, god i hope it comes sooon ill be turning all your hair grey!!! xxx
 
you look at everyone before and after pics and you think omg how small will i be able to get down to post op???, me being big all my life... its hard to believe i can be small - and live a happy healthy normal life without worrying about people looking at me all the time because of how fat i am! to be able to go into new look and be able to pick some nice cheap clothes that are for girls my age will be unbelieveable. im rambling on a little rnt i, lol

yeah bev - ill run roud the world when i get that date, hehe! ill be sooooo excited! xxxx
 
slimmerkay said:
I was just wondering, those who are pre-op - do you actually view your WLS as reality, something that will happen relatively soon? Or do you think of it as yet another pipe dream and not really believe you'll ever really get there?

I'm on the pipe dream team :sigh:
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I understand the pipe dream mode...
I do feel this will never happen,at the moment.
But I am very determined to make this a reality.
I wont believe it until I wake up from surgery.
 
March 2009 when I first went to my gp who was very positive; then a little more along my journey I saw Mr Sufi my consultant who again said yes & told me to start to lose weight, yes I did see it as a real reality!
Until it got a little way through the application for
funding! It seem to all go pear shape ( major problems)
This as took the best part of 2010 to fight for my funding, not a nice thing to have hanging over you..!:(
After 17 months I finally got the news i had been waiting for.
Yes,yes,yes my funding I got my good news last week 4th August :winner: :party0023: now it again feels like reality.
I won't feel happy until I'm in recovery being told to open my yes it's all over ;)
 
well i did feel very positive until they postponed my op now i feel like it will never happen,and that i have just been cast aside x
 
I so know where you're coming from. I have my op next Monday and it really hasn't sunk in at all. It's as if I won't let myself think about it too much though incase I start to freak.
 
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