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A blog by kaytiebugs in General

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A weight loss surgery blog by kaytiebugs on BariatricPal. 3 entries on surgery, recovery and progress.

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Consult scheduled for next Friday!!

I am so excited!! It's like my body is just buzzing or something. I'm so happy. The surgeons office just called me and scheduled my consult for next Friday!! Wow it all seems like it's going so fast. I just mailed my app like a week or two ago! I want it to go fast, but at the same time I feel more comfortable with things going slow. But as I type that I'm thinking "NO! I want my surgery YESTERDAY!!" Super excited about consult!

And so the waiting begins...

I chose Dr. Robert Richard MD at Obesity Solutions in Gainesville Ga. I am very excited. I went to a seminar on 7/12/08. At the seminar I received my application packet. I decided that Dr. Richard was 'the one' on 7/15 and started filling out my application. I was waiting on a form from my PCP until around 7/29/08 when I mailed my packet. An obesity solutions nurse called me on 8/1 to go over my app and make sure I didn't miss anything and to ask me when I quit smoking... (PS - I QUIT SMOKING!!!

My Pros and Cons list

I'm still in the process of deciding whether or not getting banded is 'for me'. I decided to make a pros and cons list. I folded a piece of paper in half. The front two sides are the pros and cons of having the band, the back two sides are the pros and cons of not being banded. The only pros I could come up with for not being banded were 1) Not having any restrictions on what I eat... but that's more of a con than a pro (that's exactly what I wrote); 2) No foreign object in my body. Number 2 sho

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