Less-than-30-day countdown...

Dec 29, 2009

YEAH!!!  We are at about 26 days to go!!!! 

I say "we" because both myself AND my husband (HurleyAHurley) are scheduled for surgery on Jan 25th!!!   Woooo HOOOOO!!
It has been such a long wait for something that we want so bad.  I can tell you it is much like wanting a baby - you try and try and keep getting nothing - then one day when you kind of get your mind on other things, BAM! it happens!!!

In a way, it almost seems like it has all happened so quick. 
I lost my job on July 30th - applied for Medicaid and got accepted.  Then I found out what the requirements for surgery with Medicaid were, and what-do-you-know - we FREAKIN' QUALIFY!!!!  Now it is all a matter of being approved and getting in with the Dr.

Well, in Sept I find out that you can't see the Dr. until you attend the seminar.  So the next seminar was a couple of weeks away.  We went to the seminar and I started calling the office for my appt the very next morning.
I got our appt for Oct. 29th to see the Dr. and to do our labs.  Well, lucky for me, I still had several items from a previous attempt that we had made and got shut-down on. 
So, I had the PCP referral  letter, psych eval, and some other labs that I needed.  We were sent for new blood work and the barium swallow test on that day. 

The Dr. met with me and Adam seperately because he didn't want any influence either way on the Dr/patient interview. 
We both went in with the intention of having Lap Band done.  He asked me what my expectations of weight loss were.  I told him about 75 lbs. and he said that was about right with the band. 
He said Adam would lose about 100 lbs and me about 75 lbs and that "honestly" Adam would lose faster and more than me.  
He told Adam to lose 15 lbs and me to lose 10 lbs before surgery.   We have both struggled with this with the holidays and having our food "funerals" and just plain binges!  We go in next week to weigh-in and see how we are doing and they will give us "direction" if we need it and offer any help they can to get us to what he told us to lose over the next 2 weeks when surgery is scheduled.

After talking with the doctor and mulling it over with Adam, we have both decided to have RNY instead of Lap Band. 
This is pretty much where we are at in our surgery journey - I guess I will have to update more later because I am getting really tired and alot of my thougths are running together and others are just disappearing altogether!!!  LOL

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