“It’s not that I need to have a perfect body, it’s to do the things I want to do and not be inhibited by that because I have worked so hard.'
“I was told because of extent of the amount of weight lost, I won’t have a belly button and it will leave it everywhere else.Georgina works out regularly at the Okotoks gym, Motion Fitness.“I am not a burden on the health care system. I have eliminated years of being a financial stress on them. All I am asking is for this one surgery.”
“Approval and coverage for skin removal surgery is not necessarily linked to approval and coverage for bariatric surgery. The surgeon will assess the need for skin removal surgery independently and determine the clinical urgency and need for surgery based on a number of factors.”Dr. Earl Campbell is a plastic surgeon and president of The Alberta Society of Plastic Surgeons. He said the criteria is restrictive, but justified.
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