Informational meeting

Dec 09, 2009

Tonight I'm going to an information meeting for Johns Hopkins' Bayview Medical Center's Bariatric Center.  I think I know which doc I want to use there.

It gives me great heartache, tho. I really REALLY want to go to Dr. Aceves in Mexicali. After many months of research, I'm convinced he's the surgeon I feel most comfortable with.

But - because my extended family (parents and siblings) utterly wigged out over the thought of me having WLS, let alone in Mexicali, I'm now faced with the difficult choice of sneaking around behind their backs to use a local surgeon with (1) less experience, (2) less post-op care, (3) at more than double the cost.

On the up side, I expect to spend only one night in hospital, and my best friend will stay with my girls.

On the down side, I expect to spend only one night in hospital, so my girls will see me uncomfortable and dragging for several days.

Also - instead of having the procedure on 28 December 2009, as I had planned, I will have to wait until Good Friday, 2 April 2010, when the girls will be out of school for a week, so we can veg out at home whilst I recover.

I'm also very concerned that, even tho I'm self-pay, the doctors at JHBC won't think I'm "fat enough" for the procedure.

My one-on-one is scheduled for 11 Jan - but I'm thinking of pushing it up to next week....

And then there's my company - announcing they're switching our 401k, with a blackout period of 24 Dec - 15 Feb.  No loans during that time.... ugh.

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