I met with my surgeon yesterday, as well as my insurance coordinator, nutritionist, and nurse. I am so exicted, as I found out my insurance has very minimal requirements (psych eval, bloodwork, and letter from family practice doctor). They just dropped their diet requirements last January. I don't even have to wait for an approval. I just need to get all the required documents to the coordinator and they will schedule me for surgery. Depending on how quickly my psych eval doctor and family doctor send in their parts, I am looking at August or early September. I am so pumped. Thank god for my BC/BS PPO!!!

Also, let me tell you all... I have been lurking here for the past couple years and finally decided I was ready to start my journey. All your posts have been an amazing amount of help to me!

Good Luck!!! I'm so happy for you!!!:)

Welcome! I get my band next Friday!!! I am excited and sure cant wait for this darn clear liquid diet to be worth something, lol!!!

Congrats, we have about the same weight to lose, I have about 140 lbs. instead

Yeah, It was torture for me doing the liquid diet also. If It wasn't for knowing it was for the surgery there's no way I would've kept it up for the two weeks. Now after surgery I eat all of the same things and it's so nice that I'm not very hungry at all. I can't wait until this next Monday because I will be on the soft food diet and I'm dying to have some fish. It's really weird because I never eat fish but that's the first thing I'm going to have on Monday. Maybe I'll have salmon for breakfast! Hee Hee Hee! :)

I'm really excited because I will finally have some control over what I eat. I know a few people at work who have had the lap band also and they've been shrinking so it's so exciting. I just feel so lucky that I had insurance that would cover it.

I have my post op appointment tomorrow to find out when I get my first fill.

Good luck CantB2noty!:wink2:

Welcome!! You are on your way, maybe you will be banded in August like me!

I grew up near Canton, in the very southwest corner of Livonia.. can't believe how much the area has grown! I remember when it was just fields over there. I live out in CA now though for the past 20-some years and get back every now and then.

I look forward to us all being successful!!

Thanks all for your support! I am looking forward to seeing all your success as well. I feel like the community is going to help me get so much farther!

Sandiegokate, Canton is crazy now... it just keep sprawling! I am orginally from the U.P. but have lived down state four about 10 years. In the short time I have lived here the community has grown so much! What a change CA must have been from Livonia... do you miss the winters?!

I am getting my band in two weeks (07-31). I am nervous and excited at the same time!!

I know what you mean about not being able to wait until you get your band. I have been considering the surgery for about 1.5-2 years and finally decided to work towards being banded last month. It's like I've got ants in my pants, so excited! I'm hoping to be banded by December this year. I have to wait for the insurance, (I haven't been with them for 12 months yet).

On Thursday I saw my doctor again to get my surgical clearance and paperwork filled out. Unfortnately (and fortunately) she required me to see a cardiologist. I saw him yesterday and he decided that, though he wasn't at all worried about my heart, it would be a good idea to do a stress test to get a baseline for the future. Fine.. whatever... however, they can't get me in until August 10 for the stress test. Then I have to follow up with the cariologist that following Friday. I am so bummed that this will probably set me back another month. But, I am also realistic that this is a life time change and it is good for the doctor to be overly careful. Hopefully I can be banded by the end of September... but I am thinking it may be October now. I have giant massive amounts of ants in my pants! :smile: