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Thanks ya'll! We will be leaving around 6:00 tonight. My daughter and grandson left an hour or so ago to get the room. I am sooooo excited. Not nervous anymore. Went to church this morning and was prayed for there by all. I feel better! I will post when I get home Wednesday or have my daughter post. I need to go to my profile and change my email address cause I have a new one now. See ya'll on the losing side!

:scared: I haven't been here in awhile...been getting ready for my big day Monday! Since I started out here and then changed my mind to having RNY just thought I would say hi to all ya'll and ask for your prayers!

Oh, my god! I would have told that doctor to have my medical records ready in one hour and I would be by to pick them up. Most surgeons will accept all tests you have already gone through! Don't let that A-hole do this to you. Be there first thing Monday morning and demand your records and threaten them with a lawsuit if they dawdle.

How are you doing MVPO? How much weight have you lost? I am counting down the days to my surgery...only 38 left counting today! Yipes...I beees skeeeeeerd! But no enough to back out!

Thanks Kathy! Looks like from your ticker you are doing great! I can't wait to start losing!

Thanks Myra ansd Susan! I be skeeeerd...but I will be ok! I am so excited!

Since I started out here as a potential lapbander I thought I would share with ya'll. I have a date for surgery! 8/7/06! I am having RNY just because I figure this is my only shot at weight loss , being a Medicare patient and figuring they wouldn't go for a revision if the band didn't work for me and knowing myself I am afraid I would have a problem with the idea of the port and having to drive 90 miles for a fill or unfill...just weighing all the pros and cons I decided on the RNY. I am nervous and excited. I will have my EGD on 7/20 and then the surgery on 8/7. Can you say YAAAAAY? :clap2: :clap2: :clap2:

Good for you Shar! I know you must feel better! I have arthritis really bad and that is the thing I am looking forward to the most....being lighter on my poor old joints. Plus looking better aint a bad outcome either!

Thanks Hope! I am excited about surgery though I don't have a date yet, I will probably have one in a couple weeks! Yikes!

Wow! Congrats ELEEBANA2! You are an inspiration! Hope your PS goes smoothly!

Wellllllll, I am pushing 62 now and just got back from my psych consult. All I have left to do is have an EGD and then I get a surgery date!

I hope your hubby or someone (if you aren't able) will let us know when you get home tomorrow and how you are doing! I will be praying for you! You are on your way to a new life! Yaaaaaay!:clap2: :clap2:

I found my surgeon in Shreveport LA. Dr. George Merriman. Although I am having RNY he also does lapband surgery and if I understood him when I saw him 5/10 he said "from now on I am only going to do the lapband on medicare patients". I took that to mean that he would no longer do RNY on Medicare patient's. He said I would still be able to get the RNY. I wish I had asked him why he has made that decision but didn't.

I forgot to tell y'all that my doctor doesn't require a preop liquid diet...I can eat up until midnight the night before surgery, and I don't have to have an enema! Yaaaay. And, he uses no NG tubes or drains at all. He did say he would like for me to try to lose 8 to 10 pounds before surgery to shrink the liver. I also found out that the hospital I will use only has private rooms...Yaay! I was worried being a Medicare patient that I would have to have a semi-private...but they have no semi-private rooms!