fefelants
Surgery Over
Dec 17, 2010
Home safe and sound. First goal achieved!
Feeling sorer than I was expecting, but not intolerable. I am on the liquid diet and am finding it difficult to squeeze in all the stuff they want me to eat. So far, I am finding that I spend my entire day focusing on eating and drinking and walking. I hope that once real food is brought back into the picture this will not be the case.
Advice for someone approaching surgery and wondering what they should "get" for afterward -- ask your surgeon in advance what the post-operative diet will consist of (IMMEDIATELY after surgery). Have at least 2-3 days supply ready for your home return. We weren't prepared and upon leaving the hospital, I had to go to the food store to get what was needed.
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Feeling sorer than I was expecting, but not intolerable. I am on the liquid diet and am finding it difficult to squeeze in all the stuff they want me to eat. So far, I am finding that I spend my entire day focusing on eating and drinking and walking. I hope that once real food is brought back into the picture this will not be the case.
Advice for someone approaching surgery and wondering what they should "get" for afterward -- ask your surgeon in advance what the post-operative diet will consist of (IMMEDIATELY after surgery). Have at least 2-3 days supply ready for your home return. We weren't prepared and upon leaving the hospital, I had to go to the food store to get what was needed.
Surgical anxiety!!
Dec 11, 2010
I got the insurance approval letter and had my appointment with Dr Davdison and all was well and scheduled for December 17th. Then I get a call that there is scheduling issues and they need to move my surgery up! Would you be willing to change dates Anne? HECK YES!! So now my surgery is scheduled for Tuesday December 14th. I am going through SUCH anxiety waiting for this. I have a lot going on in my life and have to repeatedly remind myself that right now is MY time -- I need to be important to ME for this time. I want this surgery here and gone already! I'm still waiting for the other shoe to hit the floor and someone's going to tell me this isn't going to happen. I'm waiting for another brick wall to pop up as they have done for the last 5 years.
Is it Wednesday yet?!
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Is it Wednesday yet?!
Where to begin?
Nov 29, 2010
I moved to North Carolina June 2005 from NJ. I had been considering and researching bypass in NJ but decided to wait once we made the decision to move to NC. When we moved to NC, I set about finding a surgeon and found Dr Davidson through this site. I went to the info seminar and then set about finding a doctor locally to be my primary physician to recommend me for surgery. The ONLY doctor taking new patients at that time refused to give me an approval for the surgery -- saying she hadn't been my primary long enough to make the referral and that she didn't like the surgery because there wasn't enough known about the long term effects of the surgery.
After 3 years with my (then) primary care physician and all the medical tests she had put me through (stress test, holter monitor, MANY EKG's, innumeral amounts of blood tests and 3 meds that I hadn't needed by any of my doctors in NJ), I decided it was time for a new DR. THEN, once I told her I was looking for a new DR, she said fine if you really want the surgery I will let you do it. Yeah, no thanks. I found my (now) primary physician through a friend and it was a good fit from day one. She said she would work with me but I had to wait and be seen for 6 months with her so she could determine how to approach it.
When the time came and she said she felt I was ready for my WLS journey, I had asked for Dr. Davidson. She recommended another DR (whom I will call Dr X). Dr X was the "best in NC" and was the "first doctor to perform bypass surgery in NC". "He has been doing it the longest and has the best track record". So, on DR referral, I started my journey with Dr X. Through lots of "screw ups" on his office staffs part, my surgical journey was NOT an easy one. They neglected to tell me that the 6 month wait was supposed to be for medically supervised weight loss -- I thought it was a "waiting period" for "buyer's remorse" (a thinking period to ponder if it was what I really wanted to do). Heck yeah I wanted this so I waited the 6 months and when I called the DR 5.5 months later to find out when we could schedule my surgery, I was told I needed to do the medically supervised weight loss for 6 months. Yes, after waiting almost 6 months, I had to wait another 6 months!!
So, I go through 5.5 months of medically supervised weight loss management with my primary physician (losing 35 lbs along the way -- YEY!!) and call DR X's office to say I have my last of the 6 month supervised appts next week, can I schedule an appt to discuss the surgery and BLAM!! "We're sorry, DR X is not longer in the bariatric program and has moved to SC." YES! Can you believe that?! NO notice from them, no warning, no cares or concerns about the patients!! Now you know why I refer to him as DR X.
So, I head to my primary again -- tears streaming and tissues in hand and who does she give me a referral to?? Dr Davidson!! The doctor whom I wanted all along!! I am taking this as a sign that this was meant to be. After all I have been through, I am where I wanted to be 5.5 years ago, with whom I had originally chosen and he and his staff have been absolutely WONDERFUL!! Miss Dayna listening to me crying on the phone to her about all I have been through. Dr Davidson taking me on without hesitations and he is the sweetest most upfront person you'd want to talk to. He doesn't hold back a punch but delivers that punch with a smile and even though it's a punch it feels like a boost!
I absolutely LOVE Dr Davidson and his staff!! I think that this full circle turn around by fate means this match was meant to be! After all I've been through, if there was even a doubt of my commitment to this surgery and it's future success for me, there is NO question it was meant to be!!
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After 3 years with my (then) primary care physician and all the medical tests she had put me through (stress test, holter monitor, MANY EKG's, innumeral amounts of blood tests and 3 meds that I hadn't needed by any of my doctors in NJ), I decided it was time for a new DR. THEN, once I told her I was looking for a new DR, she said fine if you really want the surgery I will let you do it. Yeah, no thanks. I found my (now) primary physician through a friend and it was a good fit from day one. She said she would work with me but I had to wait and be seen for 6 months with her so she could determine how to approach it.
When the time came and she said she felt I was ready for my WLS journey, I had asked for Dr. Davidson. She recommended another DR (whom I will call Dr X). Dr X was the "best in NC" and was the "first doctor to perform bypass surgery in NC". "He has been doing it the longest and has the best track record". So, on DR referral, I started my journey with Dr X. Through lots of "screw ups" on his office staffs part, my surgical journey was NOT an easy one. They neglected to tell me that the 6 month wait was supposed to be for medically supervised weight loss -- I thought it was a "waiting period" for "buyer's remorse" (a thinking period to ponder if it was what I really wanted to do). Heck yeah I wanted this so I waited the 6 months and when I called the DR 5.5 months later to find out when we could schedule my surgery, I was told I needed to do the medically supervised weight loss for 6 months. Yes, after waiting almost 6 months, I had to wait another 6 months!!
So, I go through 5.5 months of medically supervised weight loss management with my primary physician (losing 35 lbs along the way -- YEY!!) and call DR X's office to say I have my last of the 6 month supervised appts next week, can I schedule an appt to discuss the surgery and BLAM!! "We're sorry, DR X is not longer in the bariatric program and has moved to SC." YES! Can you believe that?! NO notice from them, no warning, no cares or concerns about the patients!! Now you know why I refer to him as DR X.
So, I head to my primary again -- tears streaming and tissues in hand and who does she give me a referral to?? Dr Davidson!! The doctor whom I wanted all along!! I am taking this as a sign that this was meant to be. After all I have been through, I am where I wanted to be 5.5 years ago, with whom I had originally chosen and he and his staff have been absolutely WONDERFUL!! Miss Dayna listening to me crying on the phone to her about all I have been through. Dr Davidson taking me on without hesitations and he is the sweetest most upfront person you'd want to talk to. He doesn't hold back a punch but delivers that punch with a smile and even though it's a punch it feels like a boost!
I absolutely LOVE Dr Davidson and his staff!! I think that this full circle turn around by fate means this match was meant to be! After all I've been through, if there was even a doubt of my commitment to this surgery and it's future success for me, there is NO question it was meant to be!!
About Me
Lumberton, NC
Location
34.4
BMI
Surgery
12/14/2010
Surgery Date
Nov 28, 2010
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