Hi, I?m Jill from Germany

[jazzdiva04]

Hello, Howdy, Guten Tag and Hi!

Just found this forum tonight and thought I?d check it out.

I?ve had my first appt. with a very good surgeon (he?s the president of the adipositas surgical society in Germany) and now am getting my application ready for my health insurance. Have a great self-help group with a wonderful gal who has been able to help everyone in the group (except one) to get approval for coverage.

Originally I thought I?d be getting a Roux-en-Y bypass, but since I had breast cancer a few years ago and also have had thrombosis at times, the doctor thought I should have the vertical sleeve done. That is because if I ever had to be on blood thinners or cancer drugs again, the "sectioned off" stomach could create problems. So I it looks like the "thin banana" stomach for me.

Saying hi to everyone here...no matter what your status. Hi back to MsJacqui, who immediately made me feel welcome!

Greetings from Germany from Jill

Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass A type of gastric bypass procedure which combines restrictive and malabsorption techniques - meaning, it reduces the amount of food a patient can comfortably eat (restriction), and also reduces the amount of calories that can be digested in the small intestine (malabsorption). This combination of bariatric methods leads to greater weight loss and the roux-en-y procedure is seen as one of the best ways to treat clinically severe obesity. See WLS Videos for animated surgery technique.

[MsJacquiiC]

Welcome to the forum. Enjoy and happy posting

Jacquii.

[jazzdiva04]

I really like your forum and the friendly welcome.

Also LOVE all the smileys...did you develop some yourself?

More later...keep up the good work!

Saturdays greetings from Jill

[MsJacquiiC]

Hey Jill - I didn't personally design any of the smilies on this forum... to date anyway. I have designed a few smilies for my poetry forum and will also do a "The Journey Rocks!" type of smilie one of these days LOL

Continue enjoying the forum. We're quite new - registrations have only been open for a month and half - I do believe The Journey will be a success though - getting all new Members motivated to post has proved a bit of a task though - but I'm up for the challenge

Thanks for the nice comments!

Jacquii.

[jazzdiva04]

As a singer/composer I also write my own lyrics to many of my songs...so we have something in common!
My brand-new CD (out end of this month) is something never-been-done-before: I had the idea to take some of Heinrich Heine?s poems (famous German poet 1797-1856) and set them to jazz music. So I?ve been intensely interested in poetry lately, as well as all through my life. I?ll have to check out your website and read some of your work!

I?m sure your forum will take off and that we will also take off (pounds, that is)!

Have my self-help group meeting tomorrow night and hope to get some help in order to create the "perfect" application for my health insurance company, so that they will approve my OP. Would be great to already have it done at X-mas, since as a teacher I would prefer to be in the hospital during school vacation.

Hugs from a very rainy Germany from

Jill

[MsJacquiiC]

Impromptu Quartet Improv

Obviously I am a connoisseur of fine jazz LOL -- I too write lyrics, but mainly have concentrated on poetry for the past several years. I'd be interested to see what you think of Homage To Van Gogh's Starry Starry Night - Poetry in Color Forum --- I'd taken a bit of hiatus from writing, that was one of the last pieces I've scribed in months it seems. Another piece you might like is called Jazz Singer Girl. It's a collaborative effort by myself and a very good friend of mine scribed a little over 2 years ago...

Anyway - very nice to make your acquaintance Ms Jazz Diva! You'll have to let us know when your album is released - it sounds most intriguing a concept. And good luck at the self-help meeting

Jacquii.

[BuCwiLd]

sorry about the past peoblems.. Im happy you are on track for a newer and healthy you.. congrats