Newbie

Oct 30, 2010

Hi everyone,

I'm new to this site.  I have read some of the posts in the past and i feel that this site is great.  I, like all of you, have struggled with my weight my whole life.  Fortunately, I am super healthy...there is nothing medically wrong with me other than the fact that I'm really overweight.  I contemplated having WLS in the past but never took it seriously.  Now that I'm getting older and I'm afraid of getting some of the illnesses that some of my family members have, I have decided that this is something I MUST do.  I began my whole process in July of this year and I'm happy to say that I received a call from my insurance saying that the procedure has been APPROVED!!!  There is only one catch...they want this surgery to be what they call an "Ambulatory Surgery" which means that I must leave the hospital 24 hours from the time I get out of recovery.  The problem with this is that my surgeon said there is no way in you know what that he would let me go home in that amount of time.  Insurance feels that I am too healthy and could be discharged that quickly.  So my surgeon is going to try to help me out and convince insurance that it is absolutely necessary that I stay because of the type of procedure he is doing to me.  Either way...I am ecstatic that this is finally going to happen.  I'm also a little afraid.  It's starting to hit me that this is really real.  I know that I'll be very happy loosing weight but at the same time I'm afraid of how my life is going to change.  Will I be successful?  Will I regain weight?  Will I miss my serious addiction to sweets and bread and be miserable?  The uknown scares the crap out of me and I guess that I'm wondering how some of you felt when you chose to go through with the surgery.  I have never known what it's like to be at a healthy weight.  Am I going to feel different?  Will I always have the "fat girl" mentallity.  Will I change who I am?  So many questions...

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