http://www.obesity-surgery.wordpress-by.org/2004/09/29/sharing-some-accomplishments/ About types of surgeries available, dietary, family, work, emotional.. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:52:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 http://www.obesity-surgery.wordpress-by.org/2004/09/29/sharing-some-accomplishments/#comment-1701 Neva Marjory Sun, 03 Oct 2004 08:40:27 +0000 http://www.obesity-surgery.wordpress-by.org/2004/09/29/sharing-some-accomplishments/#comment-1701 Hi all, I've been lurking here for about a month now and I am getting such a lot out of this site and another Australian site I have joined. I am from Perth, Western Australia (isn't the internet a great dissolver of distance) and I am in the research pre-op phase. I had a consultation with my doctor in December last year and he told me that he wouldn't operate unless I was covered by private insurance. From what I can gather Australia has an extremely different health insurance system than in the US (thank goodness) and I just have to wait out the 1 year qualifying period but if I had been responsible and had already had private insurance I wouldn't have had to wait at all. In retrospect I am sure I will get to appreciate the time spent contemplating and researching. I have decided to have the Adjustable Gastric Band done and I am looking forward to being on the other side. I was very pleased to read your message Kyndra, not only for the encouragement but also for the fact that your start and goal weights seem to be the same as <!--more--> mine. I say "seem" as we use a metric system here and I spend half my time reading the posts with a calculator in my hand (330 divided by 2.2 equals ...tap tap tap multiplied by 2.2 tap tap tap etc). Oh well a little mental stimulation never did anyone any harm!! Good luck to everyone, I'll keep lurking. Lin Now around 150kgs (6' tall) looking forward to around 70kgs (1kg = 2.2lbs) Hi all,
I’ve been lurking here for about a month now and I am getting such a lot out of
this site and another Australian site I have joined. I am from Perth, Western
Australia (isn’t the internet a great dissolver of distance) and I am in the
research pre-op phase. I had a consultation with my doctor in December last
year and he told me that he wouldn’t operate unless I was covered by private
insurance. From what I can gather Australia has an extremely different health
insurance system than in the US (thank goodness) and I just have to wait out the
1 year qualifying period but if I had been responsible and had already had
private insurance I wouldn’t have had to wait at all. In retrospect I am sure I
will get to appreciate the time spent contemplating and researching. I have
decided to have the Adjustable Gastric Band done and I am looking forward to
being on the other side.
I was very pleased to read your message Kyndra, not only for the encouragement
but also for the fact that your start and goal weights seem to be the same as

mine. I say “seem” as we use a metric system here and I spend half my time
reading the posts with a calculator in my hand (330 divided by 2.2 equals
…tap tap tap multiplied by 2.2 tap tap tap etc). Oh well a little mental
stimulation never did anyone any harm!!
Good luck to everyone, I’ll keep lurking.
Lin
Now around 150kgs (6′ tall) looking forward to around 70kgs (1kg = 2.2lbs)

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