I have been lurking here on the boards for the past few months, but I actually registered yesterday.

At last, my VSG surgery date has been set for October 7, 2010!

Last December, a coworker referred me to her doctor who had approved her for lapband surgery. After six months of weightloss tracking and regular visits, my primary care physician approved a referral for lap band, but after my initial consultation with the surgeon and researching the sleeve on this site and others, I decided that the sleeve was a better option for me. Well, after jumping through a few more hoops, the medical group ended up still denying to pay for the sleeve, and since I have an HMO, I thought my journey had ended unless I went with the band. Before I even asked, my surgeon's office sent a request directly to Blue Shield, and I was approved! Luckily, Blue Shield CA started covering the sleeve this past July.

I am so excited!

Congratulations!!

You're going to love being sleeved!

Lurk no more! Jump on in, October will really be here soon. I did lots of homework on each surgery and they all have pros and cons but for ME this was the only way to go. I am at a place where I 90% of the time eat healthful whole foods, but the cool thing about this surgery is that I am capable of eating everything I ate before, but in small amounts. And the weird thing for me is that once I've eaten it I'm usually just fine. I used to obsess if there were leftovers from the restraunt in my fridge not any more. It is amazing to me.

This will be your last year of not getting to wear the cute Halloween costume! Welcome aboard!

Anna

congrats on your date,i will be sleeved sept 15th.i am not much for costumes,but with the holidays coming up i wont cringe when i see myself in holiday pictures anymore,yay!

congrats on your date,i will be sleeved sept 15th.i am not much for costumes,but with the holidays coming up i wont cringe when i see myself in holiday pictures anymore,yay!

I'm excited for the holidays too! I will get to see family members who haven't seen me since surgery and I will be atleast 100lbs down. That makes me teary to even type!!!! What a great tool