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October 2nd!

October 2nd is my sleeve surgery date and I'm freaking out! 39 days and counting ! I just got my approval this last week

I just found out that my insurance approved surgery!! I won't be able to have surgery until October because of my work schedule. Anyway, I really wasn't getting my hopes up in case insurance didn't approve it, but now it's real omg. I'm nervous and excited and would love someone to be buddies with through this. Any takers?
I'm 37. I have 4 kids (14, 11, 4 and 2) and I'm a teacher. I am starting with a BMI of 40 exactly with no comorbidities. Anyone out there with similar stats? Even different stats but you are having surgery in October? My date is 10/4.
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I'm scheduled for October 2nd!

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You'll be fine, don't let the anxiety take control of you. There really is no need for it. I was as you say "eerily" calm all the way through the entire procedure. I had thoughts about the concerns but I look at things as " If it happens it was meant to" and I don't dwell on them.
Anyway A HUGE Congrats to you for approval from insurance and getting your date.

It is an exciting prospect, only 10 days to my own RNY on September 5th, perfectly calm, anticipating the changes as something good, have my little bag half-packed, tying up what loose ends I can , praying that God is with me , watching, protecting. and loving me. It will be as it well be, I am calm and secure in that fact.

I was talking to my husband about the judgement passed on people who have bariatric surgery. He is on the fence about the whole "easy way out" thing. But he is being supportive of me.
So he tells me that when he thinks about the easy way out, he compares it to jumping off a plane. The easy way out would be when someone pries your fingers of the plane and pushes you out. That's the easy way out but the problem is that after that the is no getting back on the plane. So you are screaming all the way down hoping the parachute will open.
My response was, think about it this way you are on a plane that has lost its engines. They tell you they are going to try landing it but chances are it will still be a crash landing and many on the plane will die. Or you can put on one of the parachutes and jump? So what do you choose? The plane is obesity. We know it is a killer. Some live long, normal lives while being obese, but the majority will get sick in various ways and die prematurely. If you jump, which is having the surgery, the parachute might not open but the chances of that are minimal. The parachute might open late and you will get seriously hurt, but you survive and end up living a long life. You might not land well because you don't know how to parachute and break your legs. But you still land and live.
So which one do you choose? Stay on the plane and hope you survive the crash? Or jump and take the risks of jumping with the more likelihood of survival? It is a personal decision that only you can make for yourself.
I choose to jump off the DAMN plane!!!! Because I am already on the plane and the only decisions you can make are jump or crash. The option to never get on the plane to begin with is long gone.

I hope all is going well!

Located in Albany. Looking at a late-September/early-October surgery date.