dropdeadweightdiva

I keep checking to see if I have a surgery date buddy and close but not quite. Today the 'light' went off and I realized that it's wishful thinking. My surgery date here in Canada is Thanksgiving Day in the states, lol. November 28th.. well I am very happy with it just the same :-)

My understanding is if your doctor deems that the extra tummy skin is a health issue and refers you then it is covered...i don't think it's linked to how you lost the weight.... make a call to find out for sure or ask your doctor here ot look into it for you...:-) good luck

Cheers all,

to feeling icy for a change! :-)

Not sure about the percentage thing here in Canada. I just know that one year I was able to claim Jenny Craig food because I had a doctor's note saying I would benefit from losing weight dated before I bought it.... Getting one again for the liquid diet, so we'll see....

Awesome on your progress! Can't wait to get there.... Considering Mexico for some future plastics..but with Alberta covering tummy tucks with doctor backing if for health reasons, should probably get on that wait list now...no idea what they're like here

I would like to hit 135. At first I did not have any set "goals" but a friend of mine suggested to set some. So 135-145 is my goal weight.....and by my 40th birthday which will be 7-12 weeks after surgery I would like to have 30-40 pounds gone. YIKES!!!! I did it!!! Just made it official!!! That's my goals : )

I'll be 40 on the next one too... I'm 5'4 and will be happy around 155lbs... I remember being 144 in high school so will be very surprised if I hit it again now... (I wasn't overweight then) I'm 238 now.....

You are only a week out, I imagine you are still going through mental withdrawal...Also you

may want to take a minute to read dirty little secret post...No one is perfect in this journey.. just give yourself a break and some time :-)

November 28th here. :-) My liquid diet is 3 weeks. Oh my!

November 28th here. :-) My liquid diet is 3 weeks. Oh my!

I am in Edmonton and the wait lists seem to be the longest here. I did talk to the lead bariatrics guy here and he offered to bump me up the list (because this was my second try through Weight wise) and within the first week I was brushed off and set back from a 2 week preliminary appointment to 5 weeks. I also found the nutritional post care info archaic, and have recently heard hospital horror stories here in Edmonton, so I felt more in control of my outcome going to Mexico. I was also further disgusted with our system in Alberta when someone on this forum announced that because she lived in a smaller community she didn't need to jump through any hoops and got her surgery done by the Edmonton Bariatric surgeon within 4 months of her first visit with him...seemed really unfair and totally turned me off. My GP kindly agreed to do my post care here.

Good luck to you!

Thank you.. I'm sorry you had such an awful experience here.... I definitely had to jump through hoops...I had to drive 3hrs, one way, to Medicine Hat 6 times in the first 10 weeks when I started.. as well as taking all the couses, workshops and psych evals, both here and in Lethbridge.. I will admit that being so far away, they do stack my apointment deck so I can come in less often now that I've 'proven' my commitment..but i still have phone apt's regularły with their 'team' I wish other centers gave the same positive experience, but I fear instead this one will have the waiting list of most sooner than later..

Good luck everyone on your funding and refunds, I hope they are both favourable and fast..

Thanks for your reply. I am incredibly blessed as I got on at the new center in Medicine Hat. It did take 7 months from the time of my referral to get a call, but had my 1st apt in March and will have the surgery in November. So if anyone is near Medicine Hat try to get into that one.... All of the Mexico sleevers just made me start to second guess why ppl are choosing elsewhere and make sure it's a time issue and not a quality issue.

I'm sorry they won't provide aftercare that's just wrong..They set ppl up to have to choose alternatives and then deny them because they do...very wrong... I'm glad you're doing well and hope your primary physician brushed up on vsg so you stay that way :-)

This may be a silly question, but are you going out of country because of the length of waiting lists, or is it a surgeon preference? I am only asking because on a referral to available bariatric clinics, the surgery in alberta is covered..so just trying to get a perspective on it...