2 more appointments to go!

Hi peoples.

So after this tuesday i have two more appointments to go til i find out about a surgery date..(hope my insurence approves..they covered every thing else by the way) can i ask a few questions? ok if you do all the exercising you're supposed to, will you have a lot of excess skin? that kind of scares me a little bit, because i dont think my insurence would cover for surgery to get it removed..anyways, im getting 2 new piercings(no comments) for my birthday, and they should be healed by the time of surgery date. will i most likely be able to put retainers in them? so i wont have to worrie about them closing up. ill ask my dr. how do you guys feel when you got banded, do you think its the best thing thats happened to you? sorry about it being long, im just still a lil nervous anyways take care peeps =]