BriarRose wrote a blog post 13 years, 3 months ago
One step forward, and three steps back.... - In the good news; bad news catagory, I have waaay too much going on.  The good news is that I got my final approval for referral to a surgeon from Kaiser.  The next good news i...

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BriarRose scheduled a GastSleeve for Jan 18, 2011. 13 years, 3 months ago
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BriarRose wrote a blog post 13 years, 4 months ago
Finished pre-op testing...... - I think.  Friday the 19th I went down to Panorama City Kaiser and had an upper abdominal ultrasound and then an upper GI.  I don't know why I was so terrified by the thought of the...

BriarRose wrote a blog post 13 years, 4 months ago
19 Vials of blood, an ekg and a chest x-ray later. - Well, the instructions said to go to the lab on November 11th.  19 vials of blood later I was finished.  The tech was joking with another one that he was going to win the day's hig...

BriarRose wrote a blog post 13 years, 4 months ago
Stress and stress tests.... - Managed to make it through cardiac clearance, after finding out that there was a three year old ekg of mine that showed a "possible MI" --- holy shiiiit. Had to go get a stress tes...

BriarRose wrote a blog post 13 years, 8 months ago
Accepted into program at kaiser. - Classes start on 8/24/10. A 12 week mandatory class.  I am trying to watch what I eat, and to lose some weight before the class, and before the fall.  They consider 2 different wei...

BriarRose wrote a blog post 14 years ago
Still thinking.....reading, processing... - Spent quite alot of time here, reading archieved materials.  Read many success stories, read the failures too.  Looked at different types of surgery, although when push comes to sh...

BriarRose wrote a blog post 14 years ago
Could this be the beginning ? - I couldn't stand it any more.  I was sitting in the orthopedist office, looking at the doctor while she told me that although my knee was a candidate for surgical replacement, I wa...
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