I have had my first consoltation earlier last month, and coming up this month, I have appts. scheduled for my mental eval., nutritional specailist, & for fitness testing.

I have yet to make any appts with a cardiologist, radiologist, & pulmonary dr.'s. Those last three tend to make me more nervous then they should.

I'm looking for any body who has already went through those last stages before getting approved for surgery; & I'm curious about what drs will be testing, as far as my heart & lungs.

Any info will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

I do not know the answers to your questions, however congrats on quitting smoking! I know from experience it is an intense battle. Kudos!

I was just given a basic EKG for my heart, it took all of 5 minutes and for the lungs portion I had an ex ray of my lungs and they did tests with me blowing into some machine to test my lung function. I'm an ex cigarette smoker as well so I was kind of worried about what the pulmonologist (sp?) would find but he didn't find anything.

Ironically, the psychologist was the hardest one for me and that's only because she had me take a 2 hour long test to see if I was bat shit cray cray, which I wasn't. lol

that's what I'm worried about it. I smoked for 4-5 years, nothing too crazy, but I'm hoping that my lungs look & are healthy still. thank you for all that info, I greatly appreciate it!

that's what I'm worried about; finding something. but I smoked for 4-5 years. I'm just praying that my lungs look & are healthy, still. thank you for all that info, I greatly appreciate it!