Im in the early stages of the sleeve. Just did my lab work today. I dont have a set date yet for my sugery but it could be possibly in June. So excited and nervous!! [emoji3]

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Welcome consuelo to Bariatric Pal. Yes it is exciting to be starting, it is a big life changing thing you have undertaken. Won't always be easy, you may end up with bends and curves on the journey. There may even be times when you feel ready to give up but you won't. The victories in your life outweigh anything bad. I'm a little bit farther along but haven't gotten my date as yet. If things smooth out for me I'm thinking May or June? Although I'm in rather a holding pattern I'm still eating,better and more,low calorie than my former diet. And I don't eat or even desire desserts of any kind anymore. I feel like I'm still in training for the Weight Loss Derby, just taking longer than I like. Ask any questions you may might have, if I don't have an answer someone else on Bariatric Pal will. You're in the middle of a world wide group of nice helpful people, and each new person is special in all our eyes.[emoji14]

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Thank you for the kind and encouraging words. Right now I’m just doing a lot of research on the gastric sleeve. Reading books and you tube videos they are a lot of help and very interesting. I’m pretty much ready for the surgery. I’m a soda and sweets person I know it’s going to KILL me to give that up. But it will be so worth it. I’m tired of being BIG. I’m 5’3 and my weight is 220. Would like to be 130 or 140. My dream weight! [emoji51]

Oh darlin' I'm sorry but I'm even bigger than you. Would love to be your size, I stuck out in a crowd of cousins on my daddy's side like a big dumb goose in a company,of mallard ducks. I'm 5ft 8in,323 lb , strawberry blonde hair hazel,green eyes and 72 years old. I'm hoping to have RnY surgery within the next couple of months. I would really like it to be May. I'm in sorta hold status but hope the gears start turning April 25th when I have a psychological appointment with Dr Kramer at Martha Morehouse Pavilion in Columbus Ohio. This is at OSU-Wexner Medical Center where I hope to have my surgery. I have gone through the complete program at another Center of Excellence hospital. Wasn't aware,i had completed all requirements the first time, had my job terminated, had to change insurance company. Plan#2 didn't require all the things for approval, they failed to notify me of this, so I thought there was no hope of finalizing it. Returned in Autumn 2017 to try again, redid all prerequirements and completed them in January 2018, was waiting to be notified of a surgery date, instead the 3 surgeons in the practice had themselves a little meeting and then decided not to perform my surgery.
Cried my eyes out for several days then picked myself up, dusted myself off and decided,to,persue surgery at another Center of Excellence hospital which,OSU is and has been since the rankings we're first instituted. This was the first place laprascopic surgery for Bariatrics was,performed in Central Ohio and among the first in all of Ohio. Very cool place, in fact my 2nd child and 1st son was,born there. Wild coincidence, when I called to apply i,was still,it their files and my son had been born there in 1976. Linda, the phone receptionist said Welcome Home and then called me by name.I was absolutely shocked. I attended a Introductory,seminar at Martha Morehouse a building in the OSU medical complex. Liked what I heard so signed up March 9th, 17 days after program #1 had kicked me to the curb. Was on,pins and needles for maybe 8 business,days and then they called to grant,me the April,25th appointment. See all my credits(for lack,of a better term) transfer to any other C of E program I at least got the sons of Seabiscuit the Horse to grant me that. So depending on any other requirements,this particular program has, I either fulfill them or go directly meeting the surgeon and receiving my surgery date. I hope it is the latter because,i feel i am extremely prepared for the whole thing, and don't need further instruction. And that's where,i stand.

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