Convincing my Doctor

Since my appointment is on the 5th, I needed to prepare my speel for him. I don't want him to think that I just came up with GBS out of the blue. I don't want him to think that I believe I'm taking the easy way out, because from what I understand, there is nothing easy about GBS, or the decision.

I typed out a few ramblings that I printed out for him. Over the course of the next week, I'm going to post these ramblings. I found after writing about one subject, that you're going to need to clarify much more.

So I wrote about Apprehension. I wrote about How Obesity Effects My Life. I wrote what about What My Life Would Be Like With Surgery, and I wrote about What My Life Would Be Like Without Surgery. My Story is about what I was like before I gained all this weight and why it got so out of control. Pros, Cons and Risks tells my doctor that I'm going into this with my eyes wide open. I am also posting the criteria that have to be met in order to have the surgery.

I will also provide my doctor with the bylaws from my insurance company regarding GBS, and of course, I have a long list of questions for him.

I guess I'll post them in the order that I put them in my dossier for my doctor. I am going to edit a bit of the first one, because there are personal issues I don't want shared with the internet.

Oh yeah. I tried posting pictures last night, showing before and after pics of me. But this time, before will be me when I was skinny and after will be me now. Next time I post before and after pics, they will represent before surgery and after surgery.