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ladyhummingbird    13

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Hi,

Looking into the sleeve seriously. Has anyone been sleeved by Dr. Steiner at St. Joseph East in Lexington?

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lexnurse    26

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i am pre sleeve, and am also going to dr. steiner. i have worked with him in the past, in the OR , and he is a great surgeon. let me know how your journey goes.... i have to do a 6 month deal with my insurance before approval

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i am pre sleeve, and am also going to dr. steiner. i have worked with him in the past, in the OR , and he is a great surgeon. let me know how your journey goes.... i have to do a 6 month deal with my insurance before approval

Thank you !! Thank you!! Thank you!! I am a CRNA so hearing from an OR nurse that he is a good surgeon....well you know how that makes me feel, because i know that we only go to the ones we think are capable!! He did a friend of mine and that is why i want to go to him. She has not had any problems and is 96 pounds down since february!! I am just going to the seminar on oct 1, but i think i have done enough research that i know i what i want...the vsg...just trying to find a little more out about him....lol. i called my insurance and they require pre op medical dieting, but no specific time frame, so i've got an appt with my pcmd monday to get that started. Also, a UKMD that i know said she would let dr. steiner operate on her, though she didn't really agree with the sleeve.....she just lost a lot of weight on her own of course...lol...let's keep in touch..i am in lexington occasionally....live in somerset....good luck and hopefully there will be less of us soon!!! oh, one more question...my family is not very supportive becuase they are freaked out about me getting a leak, infection, etc.....do you know how often steiner has had a significant complication?

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lol.. your very welcome! i did the seminar in early sept. don't remember specific numbers, but do remember their mortality percentage is like 0.3% working in health care that nothing is guaranteed and everyone has a chance of complications.... but hoepfully we will be 2 of the lucky ones.. lol i am planning on my surgery being the beginning of next april. not telling many people because i don't really want to hear their opinions. my dr.ok with it.... my parents and best friend are very supportive.

you may want to take a small notebook to take notes if your family has lots of questions. it's a lot of info you will get that day.... good luck and let me know how it goes!!!!

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Will do!!! have a great week!!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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