I'm planning to have my surgery in late January if approved by insurance. I live in Federal Way, WA.

Hi Kadie,

My surgery is scheduled for December 15th at the Rockwood Weight Loss Center in Spokane, WA. Just found out today that mine will be the first surgery of the day which means a 5:00 a.m. arrival time for pre-op. This non-morning person has never been so excited to be up before the sun rises.

I will look forward to hearing how your journey goes!

ShylaRose

Hi Kadie,

My surgery is scheduled for December 15th at the Rockwood Weight Loss Center in Spokane, WA. Just found out today that mine will be the first surgery of the day which means a 5:00 a.m. arrival time for pre-op. This non-morning person has never been so excited to be up before the sun rises.

I will look forward to hearing how your journey goes!

ShylaRose

Me too! I'll be in Spokane for mine next week on December 1. 5am too Haha. Luckily I'm a morning person so it shouldn't be too bad for me.

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I live in Seattle WA and was sleeved on 11/19!

wwboy,

How exciting! Keep me posted on how it goes. Dr. Rawlins did the info session I attended. He will do a good job! My surgeon is Dr. Spitz. I like him and feel very comfortable with having the surgery. Are you having to do the pre-op diet? I will be starting that on your surgery date.

Hi Kadie,

My surgery is scheduled for December 15th at the Rockwood Weight Loss Center in Spokane, WA. Just found out today that mine will be the first surgery of the day which means a 5:00 a.m. arrival time for pre-op. This non-morning person has never been so excited to be up before the sun rises.

I will look forward to hearing how your journey goes!

ShylaRose

Me too! I'll be in Spokane for mine next week on December 1. 5am too Haha. Luckily I'm a morning person so it shouldn't be too bad for me.

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I am in Puyallup and have a surgery date of January 7th. Surgery will be through Franciscan in Federal Way. I have my pre-op nurses appt. on Nov 24. I had hoped to have my surgery before the holidays but when it came down to scheduling a date I opted to not be recovering at Christmas but to be able to chase after my Granddaughter who will be 9 months old Christmas Day. I know the holidays will zip by and surgery is just around the corner. Sooo excited!!

wwboy,

How exciting! Keep me posted on how it goes. Dr. Rawlins did the info session I attended. He will do a good job! My surgeon is Dr. Spitz. I like him and feel very comfortable with having the surgery. Are you having to do the pre-op diet? I will be starting that on your surgery date.

Hi Kadie,

My surgery is scheduled for December 15th at the Rockwood Weight Loss Center in Spokane, WA. Just found out today that mine will be the first surgery of the day which means a 5:00 a.m. arrival time for pre-op. This non-morning person has never been so excited to be up before the sun rises.

I will look forward to hearing how your journey goes!

ShylaRose

Me too! I'll be in Spokane for mine next week on December 1. 5am too Haha. Luckily I'm a morning person so it shouldn't be too bad for me.

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Great!

Dr. Rawlins is doing my surgery. He also was the one at the initial education seminar I attended.

Like you, I feel very very comfortable with him; excited about how this will help me feel better and get healthy.

I live in Walla Walla so I have to travel up for appointments. I'm 7 days into my pre-op right now (started a couple days early) and doing pretty well. It has been difficult in certain respects. Surprisingly easy in others.

One thing I've noticed is that the difference between head hunger and stomach hunger is really coming out for me in this... I've definitely had both; but the hardest moments are when I WANT something when I know I'm not physically hungry. I wrote about it a little a couple of posts ago in my blog...

I am in Puyallup and have a surgery date of January 7th. Surgery will be through Franciscan in Federal Way. I have my pre-op nurses appt. on Nov 24. I had hoped to have my surgery before the holidays but when it came down to scheduling a date I opted to not be recovering at Christmas but to be able to chase after my Granddaughter who will be 9 months old Christmas Day. I know the holidays will zip by and surgery is just around the corner. Sooo excited!!

We are neighbors!!! I'm in puyallup too! I'm going through swedish on 12/9!

Edited November 21, 201510 yr by blkbell

I am in Puyallup and have a surgery date of January 7th. Surgery will be through Franciscan in Federal Way. I have my pre-op nurses appt. on Nov 24. I had hoped to have my surgery before the holidays but when it came down to scheduling a date I opted to not be recovering at Christmas but to be able to chase after my Granddaughter who will be 9 months old Christmas Day. I know the holidays will zip by and surgery is just around the corner. Sooo excited!!

We are neighbors!!! I'm in puyallup too! I'm going through swedish on 12/9!

That's great blkbell! I would love to know how things are going for you after your surgery. Yours is coming up quickly. Maybe we could keep in contact. Do you have a lot of support?

I live in Seattle WA and was sleeved on 11/19!

How did your surgery go? How are you feeling? Who did you go through?

I live in Seattle WA and was sleeved on 11/19!

How did your surgery go? How are you feeling? Who did you go through?

My surgery went well! Surgeon said everything looked good. Was up and walking after an hour and they had me drinking Water right away. Day 2 post op is a little tough I'm just super sore but no nausea or anything like that which I'm thankful for! I went with Dr. Michaelson through Northwest Weight Loss Surgery--he is amazing and the staff were wonderful! Best of luck on your journey!

Edited November 22, 201510 yr by lilbarn752

I am in Puyallup and have a surgery date of January 7th. Surgery will be through Franciscan in Federal Way. I have my pre-op nurses appt. on Nov 24. I had hoped to have my surgery before the holidays but when it came down to scheduling a date I opted to not be recovering at Christmas but to be able to chase after my Granddaughter who will be 9 months old Christmas Day. I know the holidays will zip by and surgery is just around the corner. Sooo excited!!

We are neighbors!!! I'm in puyallup too! I'm going through swedish on 12/9!

That's great blkbell! I would love to know how things are going for you after your surgery. Yours is coming up quickly. Maybe we could keep in contact. Do you have a lot of support?

We should keep in contact! We can do it here or on Facebook for now- whatever you are comfortable with. We can private message if we want to share info. My name is Jaimie. I have one friend who did VSG at st Francis about 3 years ago with Dr Shrikanth (not sure how to spell) She did well and lost almost 200 lbs. I also have a coworker who just had surgery on 11/11. She's doing great too and said it was much easier than she thought! Other than them my parents, husband and best friend are my support people who haven't had surgery. I can't wait to have mine! I have lost 63lbs during my 6 month nutrition and now I finally feel like all my hard work is leading to something. I have my preop appt Tuesday and I'm excited to learn more then. Nice to meet you!

Dr Michaelson will be doing my sleeve surgery 12/16/15. I've got one more test to do beforehand though. A upper endoscopy is next week, then the pre-op diet starts just before thanksgiving.

Dr Michaelson is fantastic!

I just found out that my insurance denied the surgery. Any tips?

I'm from WA and my insurance won't cover any bariatric procedure. I self paid in Mexico and had surgery on 10/22/15. I am down 50lbs today!