Several questions about the process and life after surgery

[Guest guest]

Hi, group:

It's Blair again. I'm mostly lurking here while I collect information from

the required 10 post-op patients, and now I need to send out an appeal for

help, and some questions I hope someone will answer:

I feel lost in the paperwork here. What's a possible way to work all this?

Get approval from my insurance company, get a surgery date from Dr. R., and

then provide the paperwork to Dr. Rutledge? Send the two in simultaneously?

I also have some questions for those of you who have lost 100 pounds or more:

are you noticing that people - friends, social acquaintances, strangers -

treat you differently or better, now that you're no longer obese? I've been

so convinced for years that I'm treated as a second-class citizen because I'm

obese, that I'm afraid I'll feel resentful if people begin treating me

differently!!! I think they call this syndrome " Fat Head " - I wonder if you

lose it when you lose the weight...

What's life like in general after you've had the weight off for a year or

more? Same family/work issues? New ones? I have a " pink cloud " belief that I

will live in that Land Over the Rainbow, once the weight is gone. I believed

that when I once managed to take my weight off - through Physicians Weight

Loss Center's program. I regained the weight too quickly to know what would

come down the road, once I got used to being a normal weight.

Anyway - I'm glad for this MGB community. It was really incredible to see

how the group handled the rogue emails from the Fort Bragg computer, and how

the group pulled itself together. Congratulations.

Blair