JeepChick

This forum is amazing. Good Luck, Tysmommy!

Hey! You are having the surgery the day before mine! I start my pre-op diet tomorrow, on New Year's Eve!!! I am nervous about it as well.

Good Luck, Katrina. I hope you get one soon.

I am done. No more appointments until January 13th, when I check into the hospital. I was so excited to get all the tests over with today. Dr. tells me everything looked good. My liver was a little fatty, but with the pre-diet should help. I shouldn't be surprised as I am a little fatty. :thumbup: The language barrier is kind of annoying but I trust the Korean doctors.

Wow, I am jealous! I am so glad it went well. Do you plan on watching the DVD now? I don't know if I would want to see mine....

Awesome! Congrats!!!

Ok, what do I want to do? 1. I want to buy clothes in a store--not online. I live in Korea and Koreans are tiny. Size 8-10 is considered XL. I have to buy my plus clothes online. :-( 2. I want to go scuba diving again and not have to put on 20 pounds of weight to get under (remember hearing that fat floats??) 3. I want to hang out on the beach this summer without wearing a tankini and board shorts.

Hey, my date is the same! Exciting huh?

My date changed to the 14th. So it looks like we will be getting it done around the same time! How exciting. I will be on the other side of the world in Korea. Good luck!

I have told anyone who has asked about it. I have to get a substitute teacher and I don't want to be dishonest. I found someone who had had the surgery done because of some investigative googling. I told her she looked great and asked her how she did it. She told me diet and exercising. I guess she wasn't lying, but seriously....

Congrats on the milestone.

I am January 18th!

Unfortunately, since I live in a country where the average weight for a woman my size 5'2" is less than 100 pounds, weight loss surgery is not very common. I don't have the time or the resources to go back to the US to get this done and Korea has some of the best medical care in the world. I am hoping to have children in the next couple of years. On another note, I know someone who I work with who had this surgery done here at the same hospital. She wasn't very honest about why she missed work and the only reason I know it was her is because I did some navering (Korean google). I would love her advice and her opinions, but since she told everyone she had her gall bladder removed, should I ask her? Tell her I know? Do you think she would get defensive?

I will be his 13th VSG patient. From the research I have done, it looks like when people have stomach cancer the surgeon removes part of the stomach that has the cancer. I can see how that can easily translate over to the gastric sleeve. He is not an inexperienced surgeon, he has done thousands of stomach cancer surgeries.

I appreciate the info. The boyfriend is just nervous that I will go all crazy with food in Vietnam. I don't think he understands that it's not like I am going to Italy with Pastas and cheeses. This is Vietnam....

I have my surgery scheduled for 18th of January in Seoul, Korea. I am super nervous about it since I am only his 13th patient. He had been doing surgery for over 15 years dealing with stomach cancer patients. Anyway, so I am going on vacation for Christmas and a little nervous about my diet the month before surgery. I am sure I will be fine, but it is just nerve racking to know I can't eat/drink whatever I want on vacation. :tongue_smilie:

My 55 year old mother is a spinning instructor. Talk about hard-core. It's fun if you can get the right instructor.

Reading everyone's posts are so inspiring!

Wow, that's amazing!!! I can not wait to get to that point.

I have been putting money for my graduate school for a while now. I didn't even think about taking out a school loan.

I am getting it done in South Korea. I live in Seoul.

After months of "lurking" on this board I decided to go to a consultation for the VSG. Unfortunately I will have to pay out of pocket --my BMI is not high enough for my insurance to pay. I don't really feel like jumping through the hoops to go around that. I am 5'2 and 210 pounds. They won't approve anything below a 40 bmi. So I put some money together and my grad school savings and scheduled an appt for January 18th (MLK Day).