sim78

I got a call today that I was thank g-d approved for surgery which will take place Oct 6th G-d willing. I am soo excited and can't wait!!!:thumbup:

I start my my two week preop diet on mon and I am nervous. I can have protein shakes 2 cups of non carb veggies like carrots, lettuce, zuccunni etc. and suger free Jello and crystal Light and water. I have enough of a selection I guess to not get too bored. I made some soups and froze them for next two weeks and for after surgery today. I am going to make some more tomorrow I think if I have time. Wow I can't believe surgery is coming up soon. I can't wait!!!

I decided to go with Dr Fielding since my workmate who did the sugery told me that I would like his personality and she was right. My husband is doing it with Dr. Ren and he is happy with his choice. I am having my surgery a whole month earlier then him basically since he has medical things that I don't have to worry about. Like he has a cut that has to heal and he has to go for the sleep study. I can't wait till my surgery!!!

I am doing the surgery IYH on Oct 6 which is btwn Rosh Hashana and Yom Kipper. I am going to be on the liquid diet for Rosh Hashana and Sukkos I am going to be post op and again on the liquid diet. I hope that I can hold myself back from eating anything I shouldn't and can't eat. I am not too worried about Yom Kipper since i will just drink as much as I can before the fast. What does everyone else think?????

I am being banded Oct 6 in NYU. The office isn't bad other then being soooo small. I am using Dr. Fielding he is really nice. I am glad I made this choice for surgery and I can't wait to start my life a new.

I am soooo excited I got a date Oct. 6. I can't wait I still have to wait for ins approval but I excited that at least I have a date to look forward to. :party:

My husband is Nov 10 with Dr. Ren and I still don;t know when my date is my cons with Dr. Fielding is next week.

My hubby had his consult today well actually according to the time yesterday and his surgery isn't scheduled until Nov 10. I am still deciding if I want to do the surgery the same day as him or not. We don;t have any kids yet so that isn't the problem but well I am having secound thoughts about it and well I guess I have until next week to think about it but I would like everyones opinion about what they would suggest.

B/c of our holidays that are coming up and the doubt of getting a date in sept I will probably be joining u in Oct. I can't wait to get it done!!!

I am having my consult with Dr. Fielding on sept 2 and I hope that I can have surgery not too much longer after that. I am anxious to get it done with so that I can start to feel heathy adn not always soo tired since I am soo overweight. The major problem is that I am a religous Jew and that the holidays are coming up. I guess we will see when we can schedule and decide from there if I just will wait till after the holidays. my hubby is having his consult this week with Dr. Ren and I hope that he will get his surgery done soon. I guess we will see. I will keep you all updated.

I wanted to use Dr. Fielding and dh is using Dr. Ren he was able to get his consult a week faster then I was but truthfully he needs the surgery before me b/c of his health.

Well we have our appt for the nutritionist on August 13. I wish I didn't have soo long to wait I made these appts for my hubby and I in June. This is the getting crazy my hubby is in the hospital again with cellulitis and they told him that this will keep on happening until the surgery!! I am going crazy since I really want to do the surgery already!!! My hubby and I want to loose weight I have tried sooo many things and nothing has worked and I am just fed up with feeling this way and being depressed about my weight since I don;t feel like I am worth looking at. I also have going crazy since I am married 7yrs and I really want to have a child I am already 30 and I always wanted a big family I guess that won't happen at least not as big as I wanted. Otherwise my hubby and are really excited about doing this together since we both are really overweight and know that as a team we will do really well!! That is it for now! I will write more after my appts. thanks for listening.

Well we have our appt for the nutritionist on August 13. I wish I didn't have soo long to wait I made these appts for my hubby and I in June. This is the getting crazy my hubby is in the hospital again with cellulitis and they told him that this will keep on happening until the surgery!! I am going crazy since I really want to do the surgery already!!! My hubby and I want to loose weight I have tried sooo many things and nothing has worked and I am just fed up with feeling this way and being depressed about my weight since I don;t feel like I am worth looking at. I also have going crazy since I am married 7yrs and I really want to have a child I am already 30 and I always wanted a big family I guess that won't happen at least not as big as I wanted. Otherwise my hubby and are really excited about doing this together since we both are really overweight and know that as a team we will do really well!! That is it for now! I will write more after my appts. thanks for listening.

I am going for the physc eval on fri and I hope that the rest will go very fast. I just celeberated my 7th anniv. and I can't wait to try to get PG. I was told that I had to wait 6mnth which is a long time but I think that I can handle that. I am not that old but in my circles ( I am a religous Jew) everyone has big family and I can;t wait to get started on my family.

Hi Welcome to my blog. I have been thinking about doing the banding for a long time and never has it been the right time. Finally my hubby and have made the decsion that we both want to do it as soon as possible. We are both morbidly obese. My husband health has been greatly effected. He has been in the hospital so many times with cellulitis that the dr said if he lost the weight would not be such an issue. My health is effected in the way that I can't get pg since my dr said it would be too risky for me and my future child. So while I am going to be celeberating my 7th aniversary soon I am hoping that I will loose the weight soon so that i can finally have that child I have been dreaming about. I know that this is no miracle and that we getting unto something that is a lot of work but I am ready for it. I have been a very overweight child and teen and I am ready to loose it and to take control of my weight. I have a goal to look forward too and I can;t wait till I get there. Anyways that is it for now if anyone has questions or comments please feel free to post them and I hope that I will answer them as soon as I can. Sim78

Hi Welcome to my blog. I have been thinking about doing the banding for a long time and never has it been the right time. Finally my hubby and have made the decsion that we both want to do it as soon as possible. We are both morbidly obese. My husband health has been greatly effected. He has been in the hospital so many times with cellulitis that the dr said if he lost the weight would not be such an issue. My health is effected in the way that I can't get pg since my dr said it would be too risky for me and my future child. So while I am going to be celeberating my 7th aniversary soon I am hoping that I will loose the weight soon so that i can finally have that child I have been dreaming about. I know that this is no miracle and that we getting unto something that is a lot of work but I am ready for it. I have been a very overweight child and teen and I am ready to loose it and to take control of my weight. I have a goal to look forward too and I can;t wait till I get there. Anyways that is it for now if anyone has questions or comments please feel free to post them and I hope that I will answer them as soon as I can. Sim78

I just found out last week that my hubby work is switching to Oxford from Health net as of Jan 1, I wanted to know from anyone how oxford is regarding approval of the surgery? I am nervous that I might have to do teh 6 mounth diet over!! I just about finished with it and my dh is finished with his just waiting for me so that we can do the surgery together. any help with this will be great. thanks:help:

my co-worker had the same thing she did very well.

well since I have just started I am not sure I know that they cover the procedure since I checked out a while back. But it also depends on what state you are in and how big a group your ins is from. MY hubby is part of a huge orginzation and therefore we have things that most people don;t have covered covered on our plan. IT definatly will help your case if you have the co-mobidities. I know that my BMI is very high and I have ohter things that I wouldn;t want to discuss here PM me for me details. My hubby is also going for the surgery and he has not as high a BMI as I do but definatly the co-mobiditites. All I can suggest is to speak to someone give them the CPT code see what they say. I know that sometimes that they will tell you about certain things that they need which could help you get the approval that you need good luck and I hope that this helped you.

I have Healthnet too. I am still in the 6 mounths dr approved diet though. I heard they are really tough. I hope that I don;t have a problem. Good luck

I am a religous jew and I can tell you that this procedure if being done b/c you are so overweight and have medical issues is not only ok its obligatory. I can't go into to the reasons why here but if u want to know you e-mail and I can explain. but basically there is a law in our Torah (bible) to not do things that could g-d forbid hurt us and being overweight could do that. so its a good thing to try to loose weight in a healthy way which could make you live a longer life.

What can anyone tell me about the NYU group? Dr. Ren, Fielding this is the Dr. the my general dr suggested but I wanted to get any feedback from others? thanks

Hi my Hubby and I are in the process of getting ready to do the banding. We are still going through the 6mnth dr. diet and I am going crazy. :wacko:I can't wait till this part is over. Is there any other husband wife teams we are did the surgery? can u give me any advise? thanks in advance.