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  Savannah:
  … running a couple minutes late per usual to this appointment. My mom came with me. She can hear you.

  Bradly:
  Oh?

  Mom:
  Hi Bradly.

  Bradly:
  I need to watch what I say.

  Savannah:
  I’m still kind of upset about what my mom said last night. I know he’s still feeling upset, but Bradly and my mom are both a part of my life. So they’re going to have to figure out how to get along.
  I don’t know if you will be able to get to hear a lot of the appointment. I know we talked about the money aspect of it, what exactly the cost is-

  Bradly:
  Yeah.

  Savannah:
  … and the payment plans and what that looks like. But is there any other questions that you want me to make sure I ask them?

  Bradly:
  Okay. $250 is not that much a month, if you can get it down to that.

  Savannah:
  Well, obviously I’m going to try and get it as cheap as I can. But I also don’t want to be botched.
  I have a list of surgeries that I want to get done. BBL was on there, but it was not at the top because a BBL is pretty expensive. So when Bradly said he wanted to pay for it, it kind of knocked it off my list, because now I don’t have to pay for it.
  Okay. We only got two minutes left and my mom’s irritated.

  Mom:
  Come on!

  Savannah:
  Bye.

  Bradly:
  Bye babe.

  Savannah:
  Bradly has a job lined up with a roofing company and he is going to start there as soon as he is ready.

  Greeter:
  Savannah? How are you?

  Savannah:
  Good, how are you?

  Greeter:
  Doing well.
  Okay. So you can put the robe on and can leave the bra and underwear on.

  Savannah:
  Sounds good.
  He likes big butts, and I don’t have a big butt. But I want one, and it’s just a win-win.

  Neil Zemmel:
  Hello.

  Mom:
  Hi.

  Savannah:
  Hi.

  Neil Zemmel:
  Hello there.

  Savannah:
  Hi.

  Neil Zemmel:
  Neil Zemmel.

  Savannah:
  Nice to meet you.

  Neil Zemmel:
  Nice to meet you. How can we help you today?

  Savannah:
  Make me hot.
  Okay. So a little bit of backstory. I had gastric bypass five years ago. I had a panniculectomy from hip to hip in April.

  Neil Zemmel:
  Okay.

  Savannah:
  Just to get rid of extra-thick skin, tighten that up.

  Neil Zemmel:
  And what was your starting weight then?

  Savannah:
  My highest was 290.

  Neil Zemmel:
  Okay.

  Savannah:
  I’ve been overweight since, I mean, at least junior high. I think that that was how I coped when my hormones were raging and life was just horrible. “It’s just the end of the world, so let’s eat Twinkies about it.”

  Neil Zemmel:
  Well, why don’t we take a look?

  Savannah:
  Okay.

  Neil Zemmel:
  So I’m going to have you stand up and whenever you’re ready. Let me reach over here. Yeah, okay.

  Savannah:
  When I was 21, I had gastric bypass. I lost over 100 pounds. It felt weird. Walking up the stairs, I almost bounced without meaning to at first. Normally, I would have to put a lot of effort into that.

  Neil Zemmel:
  I think you’re starting off in good shape.

  Savannah:
  But losing the weight didn’t get rid of my insecurities about my body.

  Neil Zemmel:
  There’s also a procedure called a posterior body lift. Have you looked at that at all?

  Savannah:
  No. But where you’re touching and saying that at the same time sounds great. Sign me up.

  Neil Zemmel:
  Okay. What we can do is wrap all of the extra hanging skin all the way around the back, and take out all of this heavy hanging tissue here.

  Savannah:
  So it wouldn’t be like your typical BBL. But you think that with all the contouring, that it’ll give the same effect?

  Neil Zemmel:
  Exactly.

  Savannah:
  What does is cost?

  Neil Zemmel:
  So I’m going to have Kristin, my coordinator, meet with you. She’s going to prepare a quote. And if you want to move forward, we’ll meet again.

  Savannah:
  Okay. Sounds good. Thank you.

  Neil Zemmel:
  Good to see you.

  Savannah:
  I’m so excited.

  Kristin:
  Hey.

  Savannah:
  Hi.

  Kristin:
  How are you?

  Savannah:
  Good.

  Kristin:
  Good, good to meet you. So the total cost of surgery is going to be $19,253 and 20 cents.

  Savannah:
  We’ll have to crunch the numbers.

  Kristin:
  Okay.

  Savannah:
  Bradly said he is going to pay for the BBL. How much is that a month?

  Mom:
  $833. That’s like half the cost of an apartment rental.

  Savannah:
  There could be a chance that he’s lying, but what that would do to me is send me to prison, because I would stab him.

  Speaker 7:
  You’re not going to be able to come visit me.