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Hi, I am having my surgery on August 1. I am in very excited but starting to get a little nervous at the same time.

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I am looking at August sometime also. Met with surgeon, did sleep study now I have to have psych eval and meet with nutritionist next week. Surgeon said it looks like August. I hope so because I'm off all summer.

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I am scheduled for August 27th and I can't wait! Working my way through my appointments. sleep study and psych eval down, little by little I will get it all done. Currently at 293 and I am 5'8". Ouch...hard to type that!

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I am scheduled for August 27th and I can't wait! Working my way through my appointments. sleep study and psych eval down' date=' little by little I will get it all done. Currently at 293 and I am 5'8". Ouch...hard to type that![/quote']

I'm August 26! Neat to find someone with a date close to mine, everybody so far is earlier in the month. I'm 280 and 5'5". Yeah, hard to type those ugly numbers.

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Hi I'm all booked in for surgery August 28th. I'm in Australia so I've had to do some weight conversions- I way 117kgs which is 257 pounds and I'm 5 foot 7. I have to do 4 weeks of Optifast prior to surgery!!

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Hello all my name is Fran I'm in Wa I'm booked for surgery on Aug 30th. I'm scared to bits but trying to focus on all the positives. Congrats to all for starting out on this journey, lets hope we can help each other :-)

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Hi, I am having my surgery on August 1. I am in very excited but starting to get a little nervous at the same time.

Hi angie, my surgery is with Dr Hoffman on aug 1st too...maybe will see you at the hospital!

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Hello all, I am August 19th with Dr. Kuhn in Dallas. So ready to get this done and on to bigger things. Good Luck to all of you still waiting on approvals. You will have it complete in no time at all, just stay excited!.

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