I am a 37 year old male that has always struggles with my weight. Multiple diets that did nothing more than induce degrees of yo-yo weight gain/loss. I have been a type 1 diabetic since age 7, and now deal with type 2 as well. I have finally made the decision to consider VSG. I am in the baby stages. I have gone to the first seminar and have scheduled my first appointment. I am a bit nervous of the road ahead, but with a brand new baby at home, and my co-morbidities, I fear not seeing her graduate high school even more. I am seeing Dr. Jeffrey Johnsrud at St. Josephs in OC. The whole process is intimidating to me down to and including complications. I am an ICU Nurse and see a lot of normal procedure go wrong, but I keep telling myself I only see a small fraction of bad when overwhelmingly results are great.

Hello Gettinsmall. I too am new to all of this. I had my psych, med and nutrition eval and will start a 4 class pre/post op nutrition course next week. I also have an endoscopy scheduled for the 25th. After the classes are done then they review and submit to my insurance. I should be able to have surgery in June. I am really scared of the complications too.....very nervous. I am a single mother of an awesome 12yr old boy. Its just the 2 of us. I need and want this to go well. I've missed out on a lot of things with him because of my weight.....used as an excuse to not get too much involved. I don't want to miss out on anymore. He's my motivation. Good luck...I wish us both great success!

That is probably my single biggest motivator. I want to b able to play and have fun with my daughter and be here for her. I wish you a bunch of luck with your journey.