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

October 18, 2001

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

<< 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

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