Dear Julie~~~~CONGRATULATIONS!!! on your appproval. I hope that you get a surgery date quickly. WLS is truly a life altering, life affirming process and I wish you the very best of all of it. I had my DS 2/01, down 200# would like to drop 100 more. Am having a herniorraphy and panniculectomy on 5/21. My health has not been this good in years. I hope you have the same great experience that I have had. Be well, be happy, be blessed.