Life is a Journey

Mar 10, 2012

 I have been overweight my entire adult life, and I am sick and tired of it.      They say that Life is a Journey, well mine has barely been even remotely pleasant at the best of times, and I want a new one.  I am sick and tired of dragging and packing all this excess weight around with me but I feel so stuck because nothing that I do seems to get me any results. 

 It feels as if  I have tried every fad diet or health plan out there that is known to the human race, so in Sept. of 2009, I took a giant leap and made the decision to do something about making the changes happen for me.  I had my first visit with Dr. Amson in Victoria and made the very hard decision on that very day to take all the risks involved and have the Gastric Bypass surgery as soon as possible..... At that time I was told that the wait time was approximately 3 years.  Well it has now been 2 & 1/2 years  waiting and I have seen Dr. Amson pretty much every 3 or 6 months as he requested that I do.  But every time I see him, I now  am beginning to feel like I am just getting a run around,     and as there is no surgery date anywhere in sight I am losing hope that I will ever have it.   On my most recent visit to his office at the end of February 2012, I was told that he had just started doing his 2006 patients.  So now I have no idea as to where I am on that dam list!  There has to be other options.

My wonderful sister in law is an ICU nurse at the Richmond hospital, and she told me a couple of months ago that she went to school with a Dr Ngyuen, who had just started working on a pilot program for weight loss surgery patients.  As soon as I found out about this, I called to put my name (and my daughters name as she is 20 and also very obese) on Dr. Ngyuen's wait list to be seen by him.  Within about 3 months we recieved a call to come and have our first consult visit with him. 

We went to that appointment this past week on Monday, and let's just say that I have definitly found new hope that we will both be able to have our weight loss surgeries within this next year. (Definately!!!)  Dr. Ngyuen is a very nice man, and his program is not just about the surgery.  Unlike Dr. Amson's routine visits in his office, Dr. Ngyuen has his patients be seen by a whole team of professionals to make sure that when our surgery day comes that we will undoubtedly be very ready for all the changes we will go through not only physically, but menally and emotionally as well..... Dr. Ngyuen's Weigh Loss Surgery  team consists of various professionals ranging from Menal health nurses , to Exercise     Physiologists, Sleep Apnea testing, and  a Nutritionist as well as others.  
 
Dr. Ngyuen made it very clear that if we are have him do our surgeries, that we will have to work hard to get through his program of professionals, with them giving him the go ahead to do our surgeries only when we have completed thier individual programs. That is why it takes approximately a year to complete it all, and that is why we have to wait approximately a year to get our surgery dates. We have been told by Dr. Ngyuen that if we complete the program in 6 months, we will have our surgeries in 6 months.  I believe him and we have every intention of working very hard at this as we are both very motivated......

So I am hopefull that in 6 months to 1 years time that I will be able to give an update to anyone interested, that Dr. Ngyuens program time frame is estimated very well and that I will have had my surgery and be able to recommend it to everyone who needs to have weight loss surgery.   I have a new found determination and hope that I thought I had lost and had no hope of ever getting back.   So, here's to a wonderful weight loss journey, and a new found thinner healthier me!  

LGthinunderneath.

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