Congrats SuzAnne! I have a friend that got pregant 11 months out. They hadn't been able to have children for 7 yrs, so losing weight definitely helped her. She's doing great, but has to work really hard to get that extra weight off. Stay close to your Dr., ask lots of questions and work hard. Don't forget to exercise! It gets easy to get relaxed and use the baby as an excuse to eat more and not exercise as much! Good Luck! You'll do great!

Hi Roxanne If your interested there is a weekly chat session on the RMP group website at 8:30pm on Wed. nights. Its just started a couple of weeks ago and some times the doctors will also join in to talk to you and answer any question you might have. So when you get some time you might want to check it out. Sorry to here about your husband I just had surgery 2 weeks ago to romve a tumor from back of my left leg. There's been some problmes getting it heald up but it's getting better I go to the wound clinic every day so they can check on it and change the dressing. I just got my paper work from my doctor to day so I hope to get it in the mail tomarrow to see when I can have my Open Ryn surgery alos. Good luck and take care. Karl

Hi Tasha, The lecture was really informative and both my husband and I feel good about the procedure. I picked up a packet and will try and send it in within a few weeks. Viviane got up and spoke about her procedure and was very honest about what she does as far as her diet and any problems she's had. She was pretty funny sometimes. I really liked Dr. Hansen, he was funny too. Anyway, they answered every question we could think of. Sounds like the pre-op class you went to is similar. Most of the people at the class will probably be self-pay so I don't know if they are going to do it or not. My husband and I will try and figure out how we're going to pay for this so we can get this scheduled. This sounds weird but I'm worried about being able to chew food as thoroughly as they say so it doesn't get stuck. I can't wait to hear how everything goes with you. Be sure and let us know! Valerie

Hi Tasha I am going to the lecture/seiminar class tonight at Alta View. I think that Dr. Hansen is giving the lecture. Did you go to the lecture? So what's the pre-op class about? Is it similar to the lecture class? My husband is going with me and I'm hoping that he doesn't get scared and nix my plans. I've enjoyed reading your posts. Valerie

Tasha: Congrats on getting a surgery date! Way cool! I can't wait til that happens to me. I'm still waiting to hear from Cigna. I'm opting for the open RNY at Rocky Mtn. Associate Physicians here at St. Mark's. I also live in Salt Lake. I first started looking into this type of thing with hearing about the lap band on TV. I never in a million years thought I would have surgery to lose weight but, here I am. Desperate times calls for desperate measures. Being 5'3 and weight 288 is desperate for me. My body is really hurting and hard to get around. And that's not good at only 38. For some reason I ended up feeling that open RNY was the way for me to go. Althouth it comes with more risks, I read somewhere that the RNY was a more permament tool and I have struggled with my weight my whole life. It is lifelong struggle for me so I need a lifelone tool. I couldn't find any docs up here in Salt Lake that did the lap bands that's why I started looking at RNY. Now that I've thoroughly researched both, RNY seems best for me. Of course I can't talk to the surgeon until I get insurance approval. That sucks. I don't like that. I've had other abdominal surgeries and would like to talk to him about that. That may play a part in my decision of what type of WLS. But, here I sit, waiting for insurance approval. Waiting drives me crazy. I can't think of anything else but being thinner, healthier and happier like the post-op messages I read.