Not Much Of A Support Group

I didn't get a chance to work out today, but I'm not going to lose sleep over it. I've been really tired lately so I think it's good for my body to rest. I went to another support group tonight for my program. The topic was self-image, beauty inside and out or something like that. It was mostly about how we've changed the way we see post-op (and post-weight loss) selves and things we do now to pamper ourselves in our new bodies. Well, there's a problem here. I don't have a post-weight loss body. I see myself the same way because not much has changed. And I'm not doing anything new for myself because I'm not to a point yet where I would. So I just listened most of the time.

But I did meet a woman tonight who was banded in January and is having some problems. She is retaining this weird pouch of fluid in her abdomen. She saw our surgeon April 1st and was sent over the same day for an ultrasound to see if it was an ulcer or fluid. She hadn't heard back from the office yet. She has tried calling 5 times and nobody has gotten back to her about what she's supposed to do; if she's supposed to schedule an appointment to get it drained or what. This is really echoing the situation from an LBT woman that had my surgeon and had a flipped port and lots of pain but couldn't get a hold of anyone in the office to address her emergency for weeks. I had been warned about the office staff and I'm experiencing my own issues with them, but this new woman is really stressed out about getting this taken care of and she just keeps running into a wall. I keep losing faith in my surgeon's office, even if the program coordinator seems to be on our level and trying to do what she can.

I asked her if she got my email yesterday and said she's going to work on it tomorrow, to see if I can schedule a fill and get weighed during an office visit in the meantime instead of having to wait to schedule the fill until I have the appt. Hopefully I'll hear from her tomorrow; I can eat a frickin horse right now and I'm getting really impatient for a fill.