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I must admit, I have been majorly procrastinating the past 2-3 months. My last 6 month visit was at the end of December. I should have had all my other appointments out the way but I was dragging my feet.  Now I am down to the wire trying to get everything in at the last minute b/c I want to get a surgery date now! I guess it was hard to believe this is really going to happen now. My stress test is this Wednesday.  Once my surgeon gets that, they will call me, hopefully by the end of next week, so we can schedule my surgery date. Now this may sound crazy, but, I don't know what surgery I want! I've been planning for VSG, reading up on VSG, and spending all my time on VSG forums. But I am second guessing it now. I'm starting to think that RNY is better for me. My surgeon said RNY for me from the beginning. But I know like 4 ppl who have had VSG in the past year and I just felt like overall, it is safer and more beneficial long term. But what if it's not enough. I feel now like maybe I need RNY. But what if RNY makes me lose tooooo much weight???? ughhhhhh, I'm so confused right now. I keep going back and forth and it's driving me crazy. I wish God could just tell me in a loud deep booming voice what I should do. I only have days to decide now...

I had my psych exam yesterday-it was quick and very light hearted. The doc told me that I was boring b/c I didn't have any issues with me and nothing deep and dark to discuss. We laughed about that. So now on to the sleep study, cardiac clearance and 5 more visits with the nutritionist and then we can submit to Aetna! I met with my PCP yesterday also and I know she is not really on board with this surgery stuff. But she did agree to do my letter of medical necessity and that's all that matters. So I said thank you m'am and kept it moving cause I don't need much more of her opinon on this! LOL

So I had my first consultation on 7/20/2011-I got from it that their program is Pro RNY over anything. The surgeon does them all but due to my diabetes, he was really not for me getting the Sleeve. At first I was doubtful and kinda panicked b/c I'd never wanted RNY. I will stick to my guns though. I want a surgeon who supports my decision wholly. So I went to a seminar at another hospital. I was totally unimpressed by their presentation and was grateful that it was not my first...however, I am interested in working with one of their sugeons there and I'm considering going with him. We shall see...

So after attending the seminar tonight, I decided to make it official and scheduled my first appointment with the surgeon, Dr. Kligman in Baltimore, MD. I'm so excited and I can not believe that the clock is actually ticking now...SO now I'm going to call Aetna tomorrow morning and find out if fed employees can get approval in 3 months instead of the normal 6 months required in MD and with all other insurance plans. I know blue cross blue shield allows fed employees to do 3 months before approval. That would be so awesome. This is like surreal for me now...But I refuse to turn back! :)

This is so nerve wrecking and exciting all at the same time. I made my decision to look into WLS a few weeks ago after discovering that SEVERAL of my coworkers were scheduled for surgery over the next couple of weeks or had already undergone surgery within the past year or more. After hearing their stories were so much like mine, I was motivated to consider WLS and look into starting the process. I would have never considered it before now, but now I feel like, "why not?" I deserve to get rid of these "Co-Morbidities" and to also be healthy, feel healthy, and look spectacular in the long run (I'm already cute! LOL LOL LOL) I went to a seminar at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, MD with Dr. Cantor. It was a great presentation but unfortunately, he only operates on Kaiser patients. So today I am going to a seminar with University of Maryland Medical Center in Bmore (Dr. Kligman and Dr. Lo Menzo. They are doing a seminar near me in Greenbelt. I think I'm leaning towards this hospital anwyay. So the journey begins...