Navigating the Wilderness

Many thanks for all of your kind words. It was a horrible feeling to get told to go to the back of the line just because I felt one surgery was better for me than the other. Especially since insurance was willing to work with them to get it done this week.

I will stay with both, but he will be the go to since quite frankly PCPs do not understand the needs of post bariatric patients as well as the surgeon does.

I was scheduled for RNY this coming Thursday, but over the weekend I kept thinking about the VSG option, and the more I thought about it, the more a VSG made sense. So this morning I called the surgeon and asked for a procedure change. Of course they were upset I waited so long and I had to hear about how it messed up their surgery schedule, and they would have to start the whole process over from scratch and the surgery would be postponed for 4 months. In short they made me feel like garbage over the change of heart. Has anyone else had this kind of change of heart and how did it go for them? I certainly feel the VSG is right for me, but I do not want a strained relationship with the surgeon as I will be staying with him post-op for pretty much for the rest of my life.