Re: Dawn, me being an airhead and other stuff!

[Guest guest]

Hi Carole,

I read with interest your comments about acting " like an airhead "

when on the phone with the insurance gal. I guess I am new at this

and maybe a little dense, but why did feel you had to do that? I am

really interested in your reply and the ins and outs of the insurance

battle, since I am fighting one of my own. Any info you could givve

me would be helpful. And good luck with your DS surgery!

Blessings,

Sue Everett

> In a message dated 10/18/01 7:56:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time,

> duodenalswitch@y... writes:

>

> << Carole,

>

> Good girl!!! When it comes to the insurance company keep all that

knowledge

> of yours to yourself!!!!! Takes a lot of self control!! You of

all people

> say " I don't know what it is called " LOL

>

> Dawn--South Suburban Chicago area

> Dr. Hess, Bowling Green, OH >>

>

> Well, Dawn, I thank you so much for clueing me in on this. I know

I would

> have opened my BIG mouth and touted the wonderfulness of DS had I

not been

> warned by you and seconded on the warning by Chris! It was kind of

fun to

> play the " airhead " and I figured, probably most people would be

like that

> " duh, its weight loss surgery, I don't know what its called! " so I

figured

> she would " buy it " and she did! Of course, had I not been lucky

enough and

> guided by angels to know about DS, and found this list, I sure

would not have

> the knowledge I have!! A friend of mine told me it was a

> " God thing " that I was guided to the DS and I agree! Otherwise, I

would have

> gone to the RNY local meeting and been totally depressed to find

out I'd have

> to eat by the thimble-full of chewed up baby-food like foods for

the rest of

> my life. I even told my Mom today the difference between the 2

surgeries

> because she was going to see a woman who has a friend who had wls

and I told

> my Mom if she had it in Cleveland, it was the RNY because no one

here does

> the DS and then I told her about the differences. I told her how

RNYers gain

> weight back and she said she heard this woman was gaining weight

back - and

> when I told my Mom about chewing up food till its baby food she was

> horrified! I told her so she wouldn't fall for any " Oh don't let

your

> daughter have the DS, there is so much Malabsorption with that "

line, just in

> case she got it. Right now she is just going along with my

decision for this

> surgery, but I don't want her to start stressing too much over it!

Carole