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Tomorrow is my initial surgeon consulation!

BabyNicole

By BabyNicole, in LAP-BAND Surgery Forums

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BabyNicole
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I can't believe it! It came so fast! :blushing: I'm actually seeing the nutritionist tomorrow too. I was supposed to see the nutritionist and psychologist on Thursday, but the psycologist cancelled due to a death in the family, so I moved that too. I hope that I can scedule a tentative surgery date tomorrow. Wish me luck! :scared2:

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Southern Missy    1

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Hey BabyNicole.. I feel your excitement! I also have my nutrition appt. tomorrow and after that they are going to submit all my stuff to BCBS. :thumbup:

The insurance coordinator told me to go ahead and start my preop diet tomorrow, too, because she felt like it would be approved. I am so scared to get my hopes up but, oops -- TOO LATE! :tt2:

Let us know how it goes! Good luck to you!

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BabyNicole    0

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hey nicole

how did your consult with Dr Bertha go? any news on a date?

Everything went well. Thanks for asking! I really like him a lot! He's not bad on the eyes either. :cursing: My date is June 24th! Exactly the time I wanted. BUT...I'm confused now! He started talking about the RNY and now I don't know which to do! :thumbs_down: I need serious help deciding!!!

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he is not my type but he is very nice on the eyes and he is very nice too. I knew going in exactly what surgery I wanted so he never even mentioned another type of surgery to me. You have to just go with what you feel is best for you. I was really nervous about "failing" with the band but so far so good. I am only 5 1/2 months out but I am proud of myself for how I have been doing. its hard but not in the way that I thought it would be. I cant tell you what surgery to pick but I can suggest that you just go with what your gut is telling you.

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he is not my type but he is very nice on the eyes and he is very nice too. I knew going in exactly what surgery I wanted so he never even mentioned another type of surgery to me. You have to just go with what you feel is best for you. I was really nervous about "failing" with the band but so far so good. I am only 5 1/2 months out but I am proud of myself for how I have been doing. its hard but not in the way that I thought it would be. I cant tell you what surgery to pick but I can suggest that you just go with what your gut is telling you.

What worried me was that he was saying with the band the "average" is 20-30% of your excess weight. So for me that'd be like 20-30lbs. :angry: That is so not enough! He obviously said that it can go both ways (meaning people can lose more, less, or none at all!). My gut is saying going with the band. I should probably go with my gut feeling. I will, though research the RNY and see more about it. Thanks again for your help! Hey, are you going to the support group on 4/30? If so, I'd love to meet you! :crying:

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I was worried about the reports that most people only lost about 30% of there weight but as of right now I am only 5 1/2 months out and i am down 50% of the weight that I want to lose and I am still losing. I have not had a fill yet so if I do stop losing I know I can go in for a fill and that should help me out a little bit.

Im not going to the support meeting because I will be out of town but it would be great to meet you maybe at the next meeting.

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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