One year out!

Jun 17, 2009

Wow!  Today is one year exactly.  Had my 1 yr follow up today with Dr Boe (who is taking over Dr Marymor's patients).  He was very nice.  We talked about my hernia and told me it's an elective surgery since mine is so large.  Chances are that since it's not small, it won't get pinched which would make me need emergency surgery.  So basically, I can pick when I want to have it fixed.  He told me that the recovery is much longer than the RNY surgery, and that I would have a lifting restriction of at least 3 months.  WOW...this I will have to think about.  I do not want to ruin my summer, that's for sure.  I am thinking that in the fall I may think about getting this done.  I don't know.  He told me they would use the same incision site from the RNY to go in.  I asked him if a tummy tuck was possible.  He said I would have to contact a plastic surgeon about that.  They would work together to do both at the same time.  Chances are that insurance won't cover the tummy tuck unless it was deemed medically necessary. 

On the weight front.  He told me he was perfectly happy with where I am.  And he asked what weight I wanted to get to.  I told him 160lbs was my ideal goal.  He said for my height, anything from 140 thru 170 was a healthy range.  So if wanted to just want to get to 170, that was OK.  AWESOME! :-)

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