First consult!

May 15, 2011

Well, Friday the 13th may be my new favorite day.

I had my first consult on Friday.  I met with the nurse, who put me on the scale *yikes* and measured my height. 

Ten minutes later I was in the office with the Dr. and was talking and chatting about the various types of surgery.

It was because of all the information I gathered from this site and a few others that I truly understood what he was saying.  I could ask pertinent questions and discuss of the various risks and options.

He told me that the next step is to go home and think and then another appointment is usually booked within a month to sign the papers. 

However......he said that since my knowledge was (and he raised his palm to his eyes) "up there" he felt comfortable for me to sign my consent papers right away.  Yay!!!

So now, I'm apprehensively excited.  The government is very possibly going to stop paying for weight loss surgery in June.  And there is no possible way that I'm going to have surgery before then so I may be out of luck.

At least my papers are signed.  He even said that if I wanted a DS in one step, he would recommend me to Quebec but the wait time is much longer at approximately 2 years.  Self-pay patients go first it would seem.

He also said that he will be doing the DS in about 2 years but as a two step procedure.  But the VSG will do me fine.  I'm very confident of it.

So here's to a new career in gel nails (graduating in June) and hopefully to a new lease on life!

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