Posted On: June 10, 2009, 10:09 am CDT

Posted By: dawn

No offense taken from you- I've had discussions with you long enough to know that you don't usually intentionally offend people.

I also know a few that have had it- unfortunately, insurance companies aren't always ready to pay for this one. Medically necessary or not. BCBS approved it for a friend of mine in July, but the plan renewed in Sept, and since there are 15 less employees this year, they had to change the plan- not covered now. $26K on her credit cards and now she's in debt consolidation. But whatever it ends up doing to her credit was worth it. She'll always have issues- they literally pump her with thousands of mgs of prednizone for Lupus, but right now she feels better then she's felt in years.



Cheyenne Phillips, Ann Wilson, a few stars had the gastric bypass (the most invasive, dangerous, and permanent) and still, over a period of a few years, gained the weight back. I would be willing to bet that theirs could be classified an addiction?

But it's hard to see people that I really adore being tormented by the public in general. I was on a LOT of steroids as a child for Asthma- long before they realized what steroids did to the human body. My nickname in Elementary school was 'fatso'. Couldn't shake it even as I grew taller and lost a lot of that extra weight. People in general are cruel.

Have a good one!