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diane1    26

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Chicago burbs here too. I'm going through UIC in Chicago.

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Miss Mac    6,262

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Alsip....Southside White sox fan.....don't go north of the river, much! Sleeved on 12/23/2013 at Loyola by Dr. Bipan Chand, who has an awesome bariatric team. I had no shoulder gas and am enjoying a textbook recovery. Lost total of 38 pounds so far between pre-op and post-op. On full liquids / purees 1 1/2 weeks, soft foods 2 weeks, allowed regular food at 3 1/2 weeks.

Incisions healing well. I am just glad that I am retired and can take time healing and hide in my cocoon until Spring. I can't imagine having to work or care for children during this process. My heart goes out to those who do. It is still major - major surgery and recovery requires dedication.

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SWTKI25    12

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Alsip....Southside White sox fan.....don't go north of the river, much! Sleeved on 12/23/2013 at Loyola by Dr. Bipan Chand, who has an awesome bariatric team. I had no shoulder gas and am enjoying a textbook recovery. Lost total of 38 pounds so far between pre-op and post-op. On full liquids / purees 1 1/2 weeks, soft foods 2 weeks, allowed regular food at 3 1/2 weeks.

Incisions healing well. I am just glad that I am retired and can take time healing and hide in my cocoon until Spring. I can't imagine having to work or care for children during this process. My heart goes out to those who do. It is still major - major surgery and recovery requires dedication.

Miss Mac I having my surgery with the group on the 30th. Glad to hear you had a nice experience. Haven't found many people who had surgery with Loyola. My surgeon is Sarker.

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vonvon    2

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Hi I'm from Chicago, I'm having surgery at University of Chicago in March I do not have a date yet, but I'm really excited

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diane1    26

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Hi vonvon, I'm hoping mine is either February or March. My last appointment with Dr. Berger and Dr. Elli is February 7th. Is Dr Elli your surgeon also? What have you finished so far?

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Rebellious Butterfly    91

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Hi Tevida! I'm from Chicago and also a Northwestern patient. I'm scheduled for June 4th. Which surgeon do you have? It's very, very cool to find someone at the same hospital! The last two months will go by REALLY fast, you'll see!

. When did you finish everything and how long did it take to get your date, I'm going thru northwestern as well but I was praying for a early May date I get married in july

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vonvon    2

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Hi dian1 I'm going through the program at university of chicago, Monday I do the PREP Group and Wednesday is my last visit with the nutritionist, then my papers will be sent to my insurance, I am so ready, I will have a March date I was told things have moved fast, I'm a little nervous because at my very first weigh in my BMI was 39.98 and the requirements for automatic approval for insurance is a BMI of 40 so I'm praying things go smooth

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readyanxiousscared    57

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Im from Chicago. IM having it done at UIC were I had my transplant. Still waiting for my surgery date.Im so extremely excited and scared

Hi! I am having Vsg@ UIC. Can you share with me the process you've gone through to get to this point?

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readyanxiousscared    57

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Hi vonvon, I'm hoping mine is either February or March. My last appointment with Dr. Berger and Dr. Elli is February 7th. Is Dr Elli your surgeon also? What have you finished so far?

Omg! Dr. Ellie is going to be my surgeon. After your appt with Berger can you let me know how it went? In a excited to know someone who is seeing the same folks I am.

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readyanxiousscared    57

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Hi vonvon, I'm hoping mine is either February or March. My last appointment with Dr. Berger and Dr. Elli is February 7th. Is Dr Elli your surgeon also? What have you finished so far?

Omg! Dr. Ellie is going to be my surgeon. After your appt with Berger can you let me know how it went? In a excited to know someone who is seeing the same folks I am

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diane1    26

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Hi vonvon, have you gotten a reply from your insurance yet? You must be so excited! Hopefully they will be sending in my paperwork soon after tomorrow. I set up an appointment with Dr elli also so hopefully he will be able to use it as my pre-op visit so I don't have to come all the back to the city! I'm about an hour away in Joliet. Did you have to do any more testing after your last visit with the nutritionist?

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diane1    26

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Hi vonvon, I'm hoping mine is either February or March. My last appointment with Dr. Berger and Dr. Elli is February 7th. Is Dr Elli your surgeon also? What have you finished so far?

Omg! Dr. Ellie is going to be my surgeon. After your appt with Berger can you let me know how it went? In a excited to know someone who is seeing the same folks I am
Hi readyanxiousscared, how far have you gotten into the program so far? Tomorrow is my last visit with Dr. Berger. She was so nice the first time i met her. I'm so excited it seems like its taking forever. I did the original bariatric class back in July. I'm done with my psych eval too. I wonder what else I will have to do. Hopefully I will get some answers tomorrow and I will let you know how it goes.

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readyanxiousscared    57

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Hi readyanxiousscared, how far have you gotten into the program so far? Tomorrow is my last visit with Dr. Berger. She was so nice the first time i met her. I'm so excited it seems like its taking forever. I did the original bariatric class back in July. I'm done with my psych eval too. I wonder what else I will have to do. Hopefully I will get some answers tomorrow and I will let you know how it goes.

Well I have been too the informational meeting in Jan. then met with Dr. Ellie and Brenda on 1/31. I am supposed to meet Berger on the 18th of this month and psychological eval mid March. I don't know what to expect during these breaks in between appts, especially since he said I should be having surgery in June.

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diane1    26

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I have a six month medically supervised diet because of my insurance. My first one was in September and last will be tomorrow. The first and last will be with dr.berger the four in between were with Amanda the dietician. My psych eval was in October and there were two of them. The dietician is really strict about not having any weight gain during those six months! So be careful around your weigh ins with her. Other than that it has all been a bunch of waiting, not much else to do until I guess the pre-op testing.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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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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