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I have met with the surgeon, had my labs, chest xray, and ekg. Scheduled for my endoscopy on 9/30, nutritional and psych eval on 10/1. I am very excited and a little scared but looking forward to the future.

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Congratulations I meet my surgeon on 10/2 im so excited about it

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Congrats on getting started with the process. I'm about 10 weeks away from surgery. The program I'm in is the most intensive I've heard about. They have everyone do a lot of head work before they decide as a team (surgeon, program coordinator, dietician and program psychologist) that a person is ready and they submit to insurance. All the appointments and my work schedule have made the time fly by. It also helps to know I am not just waiting until surgery, I am working on the mental changes and habits so the changes after surgery won' be as hard.

While you are waiting for surgery I highly recommend you read books that will help you with the head game. There are a lot of books on Amazon that have really good reviews. I'm on my phone so I don't have access to my book list. The best one I've read so far has a title of something like The Ultimate Guide to vertical sleeve gastrectomy by Dr. V. It's a Vietnamese name. There is also a book about the habits of people who have had long term success with WLS

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Thanks

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Gabbykittyvsg-I was actually looking at both of those books on BN last night.

Nairobi78-Good luck to you and your visit.

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