# Weight loss surgery dopers: I'm coming! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 4, 2006, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246 "2006-04-04T13:31:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ThreadPirateRoberts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9a28c/32.png) [@ThreadPirateRoberts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThreadPirateRoberts)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/61 "2006-04-11T02:02:29Z")
Like i said this has nothing to do with family issues. The women is fat and thats all there is to it ok. Not only fat but not a good mom to any of us. Norinew keeps her house dirty and smelly. Then my little sister is going to be as big as she is. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/62 "2006-04-11T02:22:28Z")
> [@DarkButterfly](#): > > Like i said this has nothing to do with family issues. The women is fat and thats all there is to it ok. Not only fat but not a good mom to any of us. Norinew keeps her house dirty and smelly. Then my little sister is going to be as big as she is. Attention, guys! Wtihout dragging family stuff into it, I will say that **DarkButterfly** and I had a falling out over the weekend, so this morning, I really thought she was in here being malicious. But now I’m pretty convinced that it’s not my daughter posting this stuff. I talked to my daughter earlier and said to her “How are you accessing the 'net these days?” and she just sounded confused about why I would be asking and said “Well, I haven’t been on in a few days, but I guess I could access it from the library”. And I just now spoke to her at a location where she _does not_ have access. She had a roommate when she first joined, and the roommate knows her username and password. I’m pretty sure this is just the roommate trying to stir up crap. ---
**Author:** ![GillyBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5ac83/32.png) [@GillyBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GillyBean)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/63 "2006-04-11T02:59:32Z")
Hi i may be pretty new here but congrads Norinew on your surgery my mom had it and went from 250 to about 160. But may i say i think u should hold off on blaming the roomate at this point. I know when i would do something i just knew my mom was going to ask me and i acted surprised and confused. Sadly i don’t know your daughter or her roomate to say but maybe that is something to think over. ---
**Author:** ![SkipMagic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skipmagic/32/20706_2.png) [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/64 "2006-04-11T03:20:16Z")
**DarkButterfly** , if you’re reading this, your account has been put on hold until we can get this resolved. Please check your e-mail within the next hour. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/65 "2006-04-11T04:32:08Z")
**norenew** , congratulations! I saw this topic and thought “oh cool” then I saw who started it and thought “OH COOL!!!” Email me any time if you want to… @gmail.com 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 9:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/66 "2006-04-11T09:09:24Z")
**GillyBean** , thanks for the words of encouragement! As for the whole roommate/daughter thing, we’re working on getting it resolved. It’s not just that she acted surprised, it’s that by this point I’ve gotten pretty good at telling when she’s lying! 😉 **Opal** , I tried emailing you _months_ ago, at whatever acct. is listed on your website, but I guess you thought it was junk mail, because you didn’t respond. You’ll be getting a line from me soon. ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 10:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/67 "2006-04-11T10:56:33Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > As promised, here are some shots, before and after > > [May 10th, 2005](http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a378/VunderBob/atgrad3.jpg) , a month before surgery. > > [Tonight](http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a378/VunderBob/10apr06-229lb.jpg) , -110 lbs. Sorry that all my t-shirts are too big. That was the clingiest one I have and it still looks big on me. > > This one is me right around Thanksgiving, trying on my [suit](http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a378/VunderBob/suit4.jpg) that fit me when I had surgery. It’s a trophy now… So - how _you_ doin’? 😃 VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/68 "2006-04-11T12:09:06Z")
> [@Veuve\_ClicquotNJ](#): > > So - how _you_ doin’? 😃 > VCNJ~ My first returned flirt. I’m so honored! 😉😃 ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/69 "2006-04-11T12:13:53Z")
**Veuve** , while we’re posting pictures, you should put up your Halloween shots. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/70 "2006-04-11T12:28:13Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > **Veuve** , while we’re posting pictures, you should put up your Halloween shots. Yes, please do! ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/71 "2006-04-11T13:07:52Z")
Congratulations, Norine!!! I’m so excited for you. And a bit jealous as well. I want the DS too, but my husband’s insurance has an exclusion for all WLS. My only hope is that his employer will switch to a better insurance company in the future. I eagerly await your updates and lots of pics as you slim down. Good luck! ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/72 "2006-04-11T13:28:04Z")
> [@Kitchen Wench](#): > > Congratulations, Norine!!! I’m so excited for you. And a bit jealous as well. I want the DS too, but my husband’s insurance has an exclusion for all WLS. My only hope is that his employer will switch to a better insurance company in the future. > > I eagerly await your updates and lots of pics as you slim down. Good luck! I don’t know how much disposable income you guys have, or what kind of loan options might be available to you, but this surgery can be done very competently and very affordably in Brazil. This was the route we were going to take if the insurance wouldn’t pay. If you want more info on this, feel free to email me at (username) @atlanticbb.net And thanks for the kind words! ---
**Author:** ![Kitchen\_Wench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f08c70/32.png) [@Kitchen\_Wench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kitchen_Wench)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/73 "2006-04-11T14:02:54Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > I don’t know how much disposable income you guys have, or what kind of loan options might be available to you, but this surgery can be done very competently and very affordably in Brazil. This was the route we were going to take if the insurance wouldn’t pay. If you want more info on this, feel free to email me at (username) @atlanticbb.net > > And thanks for the kind words! Email in transit… ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/74 "2006-04-11T14:06:31Z")
> [@norinew](#): > > Yes, please do! lol Here’s me as Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” - pre weight loss. I actually won 1st prize at my office. You can’t see it, but the glass front of my office looked just like the Tiffany & Co. window - you can just see the table in front of it with the jewelry & a bagel 😃 [![](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/Halloween2004.jpg) ](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/Halloween2004.jpg) [![](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/Halloween2004.jpg) ](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/Halloween2004.jpg) And here I am for Halloween 2005 - as Tippi Hedren in “The Birds”. I did my office window up as the lobby poster for the movie & I taped _hundreds_ of bird silhouettes all over the office. Hilarity ensued. [![](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/pam_is_for_the_birds.jpg) ](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/pam_is_for_the_birds.jpg) I have no idea how to top these two this year. (and yes - I’m well aware I need a life) 😛 VCNJ~ ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/75 "2006-04-11T14:17:48Z")
> [@Kitchen Wench](#): > > Email in transit… **Kitchen** , I also knw someone who had it done in Brazil, and someone else who had it done in Mexico. I have email defined in my profile… ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/76 "2006-04-11T14:23:45Z")
> [@Veuve\_ClicquotNJ](#): > > lol > > Here’s me as Audrey Hepburn in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” - pre weight loss. I actually won 1st prize at my office. You can’t see it, but the glass front of my office looked just like the Tiffany & Co. window - you can just see the table in front of it with the jewelry & a bagel 😃 > > [http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/Halloween2004.jpg](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/Halloween2004.jpg) > [http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/Halloween2004.jpg](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/Halloween2004.jpg) > > And here I am for Halloween 2005 - as Tippi Hedren in “The Birds”. I did my office window up as the lobby poster for the movie & I taped _hundreds_ of bird silhouettes all over the office. Hilarity ensued. > > [http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/pam\_is\_for\_the\_birds.jpg](http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y206/PamelaNJ908/pam_is_for_the_birds.jpg) > > I have no idea how to top these two this year. > > (and yes - I’m well aware I need a life) 😛 > > VCNJ~ Lol! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2006, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/77 "2006-04-11T21:51:48Z")
Hey, **Veuve** , can I steal that “Birds” idea for next Halloween? ---
**Author:** ![GillyBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5ac83/32.png) [@GillyBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GillyBean)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/78 "2006-04-12T01:42:17Z")
I know i am stupid for asking i was wondering if Norinew found out if her daughter was posting or the roommate or someone else. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/79 "2006-04-12T01:52:21Z")
> [@GillyBean](#): > > I know i am stupid for asking i was wondering if Norinew found out if her daughter was posting or the roommate or someone else. Not stupid. Enquiring minds want to know, and all that. I don’t think it’s appropriate to post the gory details here (my email is in my profile, if you really, really want details, but believe me, it ain’t that exciting; just be sure to put SDMB in the subject line). Suffice it to say that it definitely wasn’t my daughter, our recent falling out notwithstanding. Teenagers. Aren’t they exciting? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2006, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246/80 "2006-04-12T02:08:18Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Hey, **Veuve** , can I steal that “Birds” idea for next Halloween? Sure! I think the whole costume cost me $35 - some fake blood & a wound at Party City, a pair of pantyhose that I had to rip up & “scratch”. Other than that, everything else I had. VCNJ~ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weight-loss-surgery-dopers-im-coming/351246.md?page=5)