I am sorry I need to vent because I am so fucking pissed off at our government my blood is boiling. There is an operation called a vertical sleeve gastrectomy (weight loss surgery) that not only saves lives but also greatly improves the quality of life a person has forever. It is covered by MSI here in NS but get this, there is only one, yes, one doctor who is able to perform this here in HFX. The waiting list is over 2000 plus people and grows and grows monthly and the wait time is 2 to 5 years. Yeah yeah, we have all heard it before stop shoving food in your face and exercise. Well, guess what the druggies, drunks and gamblers all get help with their addictions, lots of damn help!
Being obese has many risk factors like type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, osteoarthritis, some types of cancers and gallbladder disease. As well, some even suffer from psychosocial problems, functional limitations and other disabilities are associated with excess weight… Again, I don’t want or need you to bash me about my weight, I have been bullied and teased all my life about it. I bet you can all look over your own family and find a fat lady/man, so again, until you walk in my shoes don’t judge me. I don’t know who to turn to for help so your guidance and support is much appreciated. Well, that said I feel free but still pissed and mad as hell. —Big Momma
This article appears in May 19-25, 2011.
Apparently gastric by pass surgery can cure type two diabetes.
Hmm, I’m not sure how this works but what about going to other provinces or requesting surgery elsewhere?
Help on this one.
Also: the province won’t pay for my lantus, so I don’t have much sympathy for this bitch considering the same results could be achieved, likely, in the vast majority of obese people by eating a bit less (or a lot less) and moving a bit more. I mean, I know not all fat people are fat because of their own doing, but I’d venture to say the majority out there don’t have a “thyroid condition” (i.e.: they ate themselves that way).
Supply and demand!
Point 1 The doc can make tons more money anywhere here.
Point 2 Stop SUPPLYING your stomach’s DEMANDS for donairs.
Oh and a few years back there was actually a moratorium on gastric surgeries for weight loss, so count yourself lucky that they’re still doing them.
Also: FYI — my wait time for my carpal tunnel surgery in Halifax is 5 years. My doc got a letter from the plastics dept informing her/me of that. And it’s not like I can DO anything to fix my problem aside from cutting my hands open myself.
Ugh. The more I think about this bitch the more if pisses me off. Go on a fucking diet and get on a fucking treadmill. And yes I have/am walked/walking in your shoes and do you know how I’ve lost 30lbs so far? I went on a fucking diet and I drag my fat ass to the gym. Even when I had a metabolic issue that deterred the weight loss — I did the work to find out what it was and treated it. Not once have I thought of taking the EASY WAY OUT and considered gastric surgery for weight loss.
That’s almost as bad as blaming the government because your dog pissed on the floor.
“I bet you can all look over your own family and find a fat lady/man”
Actually… no, at a 215lb dude, I think I’m the fattest person in my family.
You need to start taking responsiblity for your own actions. There are many other ways besides surgery to get healthy. For you to feel that is your only option is sad. While you wait for your surgery try going to the gym and meet with a personal trainer and dietian and go over some healthier ways of eating.
Right on, hardduke. And hay! the wait to see a dietician is only three months max.
This is a classic case of wanting to take the easy way out. You can’t tell me all these people on the waiting lists aren’t loading up on 2 or 3 or 4 times as many calories than they should be per day.
Losing weight the hard way is just that — HARD and sucks so badly. Trust me, no one oves food more than I do, but there comes a time where you HAVE to just walk by the junk food aisle, stop loading your plate up with food and getting up off your butt and going for a walk instead of gobbing out on a bag of ruffles while watching Maury.
There is such a thing as food addiction usually driven by depression which, in turn, is driven by a lack of self-esteem. Big Momma, if you seriously think you have a food addiction, you should consult with a dietician or maybe even a psychiatrist.
Sustanence should come from food not comfort. Really, talk to your doctor about this addiction. I believe surgery is probably not the answer but a sense of meaning and well-being in your life is.
well big momma, you can’t get decent care here, unless you are into sports, or got money. this hellish thing is a fact of life, sorry.
go get a lapband instead in ontario – its reversible so if you wanna get fat again you can
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OP, don’t forget when you get this surgery that you can’t eat like you’ve been eating beforehand or else the bypass will just stretch out to the size of your old stomach.
Exactly, PDG.
It’s not a quick fix. It’s a bandaid solution and if you say you have a food addiction you most certainly aren’t eating because you’re hungry, which means you’ll likely start eating your way back into morbid obesity in no time.
But I’m sure you’ll find someone else to blame again.
My old boss (best boss EVER – small sigh) had a gastric band done, lost 100 pounds and gained 150 so, like PK says, it’s not a quick fix. As someone who spawned from two obese parents, keeping myself from ballooning to obesity has been hard fucking work for the last 40 years but, in the long run, well worth it.
Get off the computer and go get some exercise. If the province pays for this then they better pay for me to get a boob job. If you get a surgery for free that YOU CAN FIX ON YOUR OWN, well, then I deserve some rocking titties because I have no control over those.
Fatty.
Wrong. Blame God for your flat titties. Go to Access Nova Scotia and take a number under “Disgruntled Racks.”
Putting down the fork also cures weight loss. Try it sometime fatass.