pmreardon

Wishing you the very best in your recovery. My sleeve is on Wednesday, the 24th. I did't know there was a "leak test" - that sure makes a lot of sense! Take care!

My surgery date is April 24th. I am nervous and yet excited. I know the future will be different and that scared me a bit, trying to wrap my mind around it. I see a therapist, so I have that under control. Most everyone on this thread has had surgery. I hope you are each healing well and stick around to give feedback and encouragement. My surgery is in Portland, Oregon with Dr. Valerie Halpin. She is fantastic.

Best wishes for a speedy recovery and great surgery!

Amazing, isn't it? We are almost there! Just a few weeks left of this part of our journey. I wish you the very best in your surgery.

VSG scheduled for April 24th. Already approved by insurance. Excited and nervous!

Good afternoon fellow April Sleevers! I have finally been assigned a VSG surgery date: April 24, 2019. Yay. I am so excited and still so very nervous. Height: 5'6" SW: 356.2 Goal: 150 I'm having surgery in Portland, Oregon and Dr. Valerie Halpin is my surgeon.

Hi there... I'm new to the forum and am in pre-surgery stage (submitted already to insurance, just waiting to hear back and get scheduled). Your topic interested me because I had to quit smoking in order to have this surgery. I quit by switching to a vape pen and Non-nicotine vape juice. It really helped me. A couple weeks later I gave up the vape pen too. I had been a smoker for over 20 years. I knew when I bought the vape pen I would only be using it temporarily, so the cost didn't bother me, since I had been buying cigarettes for so long. I just racked it up to the cost of quitting, and for me it was more sensible than nicotine patches or gum. I wish you the very best in this endeavor. Take care of you...