I got my approval today wahoo!!! Tricare is seriously the best when it comes to this process. Thank you Arlene at Tricare for making this almost a clean/easy process.

They offered the surgery for this Monday! I would totally go for it but I can't because of my job. I still have so much stuff to take care of that I just can't take any chances. So I am going in on Monday, 10/26. Just one day pre-op liquide diet which is totally fine with me.

Words can't express how excited I am about my future :scared2:

A BIG congrats Stacy, I know you have got to be doing the

"I gotta bandster daaate, I gotta banster daaate" dance about now. And what an exception to the rule that you had an immediate date that you actually had to change!!! WOWee! Awesome, but I know that you will be happy that you stopped (after the initial date shock), regrouped and thought it out so it will work for you.

I am still waiting for my approval, (any day now), but I am elated at the news that I received today.

FIRST; I went to my cardiologist ( not my band cardiologist) today for my bi-annual exam. I told him about my plans for my upcoming surgery and he said that when I have my surgery I can get off all my meds. I asked him to repeat that, and he re-read my blood work up results, looked up at me and repeated that I can get off all my meds, and start from scratch when I see him next!!!

The thing that makes this all so amazing, is my intro to this cariologist was an attempt to have lap band surgery 3 years ago and had to end up having open heart surgey instead. Seeking approval for surgery with dr. saved my life! Now he is shaking my hand congratulating me for doing this surgery and telling me I can be "healthy" and med free!!!!

SECOND; at 54 I am going back to school, and my first mid term report is 2-A's and 1- B!!!! I feel pretty happy dance myself Miss Stacy!:scared2: