Decisions, Decisions!

There is nothing like a trip to a plastic surgeon to make you feel like you should NOT be satisfied with how you look! Today was my appointment to see if it would be possible to get a breast reduction covered by OHIP. It was a disturbing visit. The Doctor asks you all sorts of questions and makes lots of recommendations to let you know how far from ideal you body looks. After asking me how tall I am and how much I weigh he asked one of my favorite questions of the session. "So what is your goal weight?" So much is implied by this question. The first thing I though was that in his opinion the weight I am now could not possibly be the weight I want to be. When I stated that I'm pretty close to how I would like to be the look of surprise and disbelief showed me that he could not possibly understand why I wouldn't want to be thinner than that. I told him at most I thought I could loose another 10 lbs or so and his reply was if I would like to loose 20 then I should do it before surgery. Point taken Doctor. According to him I really should be loosing at least 20 lbs.

So he informed me that most likely I would be covered by OHIP for a reduction but that on my frame he wouldn't recommend going down very much in size. I wonder if this is due to the fact that there are so many women getting augmentations to go up higher in size. The display cabinet sitting on the counter filled with really large implants showed me that when it comes to up sizing subtle is not the aim. Even the smallest ones I glanced at seemed able to take someone from an A to a full C easily and that was just the starting point. So for the most part, the implication is that bigger is NEVER better, unless we are talking about breasts that is.

This Doctor suggested that I didn't really need a reduction but I desperately needed a lift. Actually it wasn't a suggestion at all. He directly said that. The issue with that is that lifts aren't covered so the cost would be somewhere in the range of $7,000. Who knows what the regular cost would be of a reduction and lift if I were to have to shell out this cost myself is what I think of next. When it comes to weighing the positives and negatives I have to decide if the benefits will be greater than the risks. If the money needed to come out of my own pocket that would be a major negative and would make the decision for me right there. What I wonder is that just because I wouldn't be paying the amount myself is it right for me to just dismiss that as a negative.

I still have a fair bit of thinking to do and hopefully I don't get to caught up in the insult to my weight and size. It is frustrating however when you start to feel okay about how much you weight and start to get comfortable with the size you are and find out that other people think that you still obviously have a long way to go.

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