I'm sorry but I gotta vent...

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I am back from having my panni. The surgery itself was fairly easy

but the many mistakes of the nurses and such were insane.

I am sooooo angry right now and literally about to cry. After I woke

up from the surgery I could immediately tell that the binder was too

big. I tried to tell the nurse but she just kept saying " this is

what was ordered for you " ...well I was pretty drugged up and didn't

want to press the point, but hey when you can stick your hand down

the front of it, that probably means it's too big, you know? Plus I

could feel that I was not " being bound " .

Anyway I come home and have my husband take a look. Lemme put it to

you like this, it was so big that we literally couldn't match up the

velcro (it overshot the velcro and there was no place to fasten it).

So I callEd and spoke to an on call doctor. He tells me to pleat it

in the back with saftey pins and then to call today to get a new

one. So I do the pleating and take about 9 " in.

So today I call and I end up talking to another nurse. I am trying

to explain the situation, that I had looked and it said " large " and

it was so big that it was worthless as a binder. She gives me the

same line... " Well that is the size you need " ...I have to again argue

with her. I tell her, ok, maybe I was given a MEN'S large. Again she

disagrees. She tells me to take it off and measure it, so I do. Well

surprise surprise it measures 39 " . She proceeds to tell me that I

must have stretched it then. (At this point I am about to strangle

her). Well exactly how could I have stretched it when I could never

even use the velcro?

So I tell her, well that is too weird because I wear some size 2

pants (and mostly 4's), so why is it that I have this 39 " waist

binder here? She gets all high and mighty and tells me there is NO

WAY I can wear a size 2 or 4 at 145 lbs (I am 5'8 " ...and the 145#

was at the doctors scale fully dressed, just after eating etc..at

home in the morning I weigh between 138 and 140). I am sitting here

arguing with her...so I tell her, you know what? The sweat pants

that I wore to the surgery? They were a KIDS Large, ok??? And again

she sits and argues. I am so PO'd right now it is pathetic. Like I

would lie or something when all I want is a binder that fits right.

So she finally says we have a binder that fits from 30 " to 32 " , I

say ok send it to me (I live 2 hours away from the hospital). I

figure I am done fighting and even if that one is a little big, I

just don't care at this point.

Done deal right? She calls back and says " We have decided to send

you a MEN'S Medium instead " ...at this point I am almost crying and

just cannot believe that even after losing 160 lbs this kind of BS

weight discrimination still exists.

Done venting, just needed to put it in writing.

~Kricket