Ok, so I haven’t written in a while.  I am post-op 7 weeks now and I feel amazing.  I can sleep all night and that is one of the best parts.  No more acid reflux or sleep apnea.  Who knew that 45 pounds would have that much effect?  The other great part is that I feel so much better in my clothes.  I always felt naked before because everything was so tight…now I actually feel pretty which is actually awesome.  I actually want to put jewelry and makeup on now and do my hair and nails and that is a great feeling that I have missed for a long time. Well, I can’t write too much because I am always at work when I go on so I will try to write more often.  The only issues I do have is trying to get food down.  I am not doing too well with meats at all and the only thing I can really get down ok is soups, shakes, water, popsicles and a few crackers here and there.  Fage is wonderful and I love it and thank God for it or else I might actually starve.  But everything is positive and I love my RNY!

 

This is what I posted about today:

I am feeling so many feelings.  All of a sudden I look at food and want all of it.  I feel like I am starving even though I am not.  I keep thinking of all the fast food in the world...and you know what?  I never eat fast food but now that I am getting WLS I feel like I want it.  I guess this is what they call head hunger?

So, now I am on clear liquids for 2 days and I know it is gonna suck but that's ok.  So, my surgery is Jan. 2 at 7:30 a.m.  I really hope they don't puch it up to like the afternoon because I just want it done already.  I am nervous, scared, happy, not really beleieving it yet...des that make sense?  I feel like I am goign to walk in there and they are going to cancel it on me.  I have no clue why I feel like that but I do.  I am crying now and feel crazy...what the hell is wrong with me.  Well, this was meant to be a happy post but now I just feel weird.  I am crying over food? How sad is this now?  lol.  

Well, I will write some more later and after surgery.  Thank you to everyone that has been awesome especially Barbara and Jane for all of your awesome advice!! 

Wow, I feel that I have learned so much about WLS over the past 4 months and most of it is thanks to the boards here on OH.  I am obsessed and love them.  Well, I have done all of my pre-op testing which seemed like it wa staking forever but now seems like nothing.  This Wedensday, the 14th I get to go see my surgeon and hopefully get a date.  I am so nervous and scared that insurance will deny for me some reason but I guess this is a normal feeling that most people get.

Well, I am home with what seem like the flut or something so I will write more after this Wednesdays appt.  Cross your fingers for me and say a prayer!!!

So Saturday I went to my first support group.  Friday night I got into a fight with my grandmother because she thinks WLS kills people.  She is also 71, Portuguese, has never read in her life (illiterate) and only watches talk shows like Jerry Springer on the Spanish channel.  I tried to explain what the different surgeries do but it was not even worth my time because she will think whatever she wants.  So I really needed the support group the next day!!  

First I would like to say I was really surprised at how many people were there.  There were a good 50-60 people there, men and women.  When some of them walked in I thought why are they here?  But they had already gotten the surgery.  The receptionist at the surgeon I will be going to was there because she is also a part of the support group because she had RNY done 4 months ago.  Well, she looked absolutely gorgeous…she lost 93 pounds in 4 months…that’s crazy!!!!  You can’t even tell that the people there had any surgery.  I thought that most people get a lot of hanging skin and all but they said if you exercise that it helps a lot.  So, they answered a lot of questions and were so very informative, they said good things and bad things and I have to be honest the death thing is really starting to get to me.  One of my friends and his wife had the lap band done because they said it has a lower death count.  That to me is scary.  I have a 2 year old and I would really like to get surgery to spend the rest of my life watching him grow up not leaving him alone.  Please someone tell me what the real numbers are like because I cannot find them.  I read somewhere it is 1 in 200 people dies from WLS but that seems very bad to me.  Is this an old number?  Also at the support group there was a man who had WLS and said his brother in law died from it.  Then the people in the group were saying that you could die everyday like getting into a car accident and all but the way that I feel is I don’t choose a car accident but I can choose whether or not to have WLS.  I am not putting anything down….I really want WLS but I would just like to know the numbers a little bit better.  Also, do you think it is wrong to ask the surgeon when I meet with him if any of his patients have dies from the WLS?  Thanks so much to everyone. 

 

 

Hello all.  Well I have decided to go full force to try and get WLS.  I called around and got the name of a very good surgeon named Dr. Cussati and I am scheduled to attend a WLS seminar on July 19 at 3 p.m.  This Saturday though there is a support group for pre and post op people.  I am very excited.  It is at 9 a.m. at a local hospital and I am looking forward to meeting people and hearing what they have to say.  

I actually had my first insurance scare already yesterday.  I have Cigna Open Access.  I called just to make sure that they covered WLS because why waste my time if it wasn't.  I was told by a really young guy (could tell in his voice he was like 18) that no, it was definately not covered.  I got so upset that i went to human resources and asked why they had chosen this plan.  She said she didn't know anything about it and to call the broker.  He by the way, the broker, has yet to get back to me.  But he did ask me to get a procedure code and some other code.  I called the surgeons office where I will be attending the seminar and they gave me the codes.  I called the broker back and he said he would contact me by the end of the day.  he did not.  I called Cigna myself and gave a nice woman the codes and she put me on hold for like 5 minutes which seemed like an hour and finally she came back and said that yes I would be covered but only if medically necessary. HELLO?????  Who the heck would get WLS if it wasn't necessary?  I asked her that and she started laughing.  So the scare is over and now I get to start a great journey.  I have to do a 6 month supervised diet and I went to my first dr.'s appt to get weighed and vitals and all on 7/4/07.  So 6 more months to go and I will just pray and keep my fingers crossed.