It's been a while

Jun 04, 2014

So let me start off by saying, it's been a crazy intense couple of years.  I ended up NOT getting the surgery on 2012, because my insurance stopped paying for it at the last moment.

I started going to school full time doing Cosmetology, and this is where the story begins...

A customer came into my chair one day and we were just talking, making conversation, when she brought up that she had had the surgery.  She showed me a picture of herself from before she had it, and I told her my story of getting so close to getting it, only to be denied at the last moment.  She showed sympathy toward me, and told me I should try again, just to see what happens.  I went home that night and told my mother about this customer.  My mother, being very headstrong, decided to look up my insurance again.  She found out that at the beginning of the year, they started paying for Bariatric surgery again.

Very pessimistic, I decided to get another referral through my doctor to go to Greenville.  It was easy, since this was the 3rd time I've been approved to go.  I went to the appointment in May and met Dr. Pender.  He's a very blunt man, and made me cry.  He told me that getting the surgery would not solve all my problems, I had to do a lifestyle change as well.  He was right, and I began to work on that immediately. Dr. Pender wants me to lose 38 pounds before the surgery, just so that I can prove to him that I have what it takes to keep up the lifestyle change and not relapse back to my obese self afterwords.  I have lost 7 pounds since that appointment, and I go to the gym 3 times a week (sometimes more).

I met with the nutritionist in late May, and she gave me this big list of blood work and other tests I had to get done.  Last week I got all my blood tests done, my chest xray, barium swallow and EKG, and just today I had my abdomen sonogram, so I'm finished with all my tests.  Next week I have my 2nd appointment with my nutritionist, and also I have an appointment for my Psychiatric Evaluation.  I'm not worried about failing it in the least, maybe that makes me crazy LOL.

I'll write again after these appointments with an update.

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