No Worries

Aug 03, 2010

Last week I had my follow up appointment to my sleep study. Wow! I've been diagnosed with mild sleep apnea.  Since I had the sleep study, I found documentation that my weight was above a 40 BMI for year 2009. With the sleep apnea and weight documentation, we think my approval from insurance for surgery won't be a problem.

The good news is that there's no issue with my heart. The doctor explained that in the sleep study, my heart was reacting the way a heart will react with sleep apnea. Once I start losing weight, everything should resolve with the sleep apnea and how my heart reacts during it.

Today I had my upper endoscopy. Everything appeared fine, and we'll know within a week if anything comes back indicating problems such as h-Pylori. I was drugged for the upper endoscopy and have pretty much slept all day long after getting home.  I think the doctor used a stronger cocktail than what I've had before.

August 31 is the last of my prerequisite 3-month program, the surgeon's office will then apply for surgery approval with the insurance. It almost seems surreal that I'm this close. Right now my emotions are neutral, but through this process I've been angry, afraid, excited, intimidated, and empowered. I'm just wondering how I'll handle things once they're more imminent.

I'm a little worried now about how I'm going to juggle time off from work. Also I'll have a long-term visit from family during the pre-surgery time., and I'll also want time off for that. I'm worried that I'll be having to do Optifast while I'm wanting to cook for my family.

I'll just take it all one day at a time and not worry about tomorrow before it's here.

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