Drivers license (was Re: I was picked up!)

[Guest guest]

Eleanor,

Do you know the location where the Oakland Kaiser group meets?

Trying to find a group closer to home.

Cathy

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In gastric-bypass-support-kaiser-patients , Eleanor

Oster wrote:

>

> This one really struck a chord with me! I

> recently lost my wallet (insert expletive here!)

> and had to get a replacement drivers license. My

> previous license had UNDERSTATED my weight by at

> least 30 pounds, and probably more like 50. It

> feels really cool to put my weight as of THAT MORNING, honestly!

>

> Yes, you can get a replacement. Because I didn't

> have my old one, they had to look it up on their

> computer. Then my signature didn't look the same

> (it seems to change periodically), so the gal was

> looking very closely at the face and

> distinguishing characteristics (like moles and

> stuff like that) so she noticed. She kept looking

> at me, her computer screen, me, screen... I

> figured she was having questions about the

> weight, so I told her I'd lost a lot of weight.

> Because I'm not shy (understatement?) I told her how.

>

> Save your old license though, just for giggles!

> Remind yourself of how far you've come.

>

> At 09:18 03/07/2006, you wrote:

> >Thanks for briging that up Donna. When I was in Vegas a few weeks

> >ago, I had to show my DL all over the place. I was really

embarrassed

> >a few times because the people checking it made a big deal about

how

> >different I looked. So I was thinking it is time to get the driver

> >license updated. You just pay that 12 dollars then and that is it?

> >That is great you had that done! It is nice to be able to put

> >my " real " weight on it too, not the embelished weight.

>

> Eleanor Oster

> eleanor@... (personal address)

> www.smallboxes.com/gastricbypass.htm

> San , CA

> Open RNY (100 cm bypassed) 07/15/2003

> P. Fisher, M.D., Kaiser Richmond (CA)

> ~5'9 " tall

> 05/09/2003 319 Orientation

> 07/15/2003 ~290 Surgery

> Current 157±2 Goal until plastics?

>