Lisa250
Today is October 31st, 2007 and I am about 3 weeks away from my Lap Band surgery. It has been a long road to get to this point and I am so anxious. I am so impatient at times and this waiting is absolutely killing me!! But, the fact that it is not that far away and I have a date is awesome.
How did I get here??? Well, I was given this website at my pre-op meeting and I have logged on everyday since. It is wonderful!! Anyway, I began my research back in March of 2007. I went to my PCP and asked what he thought about me exploring the Lap Band as an option since nothing else I was doing was working. I also have a "fatty liver" which has been an ongoing problem for about 6 years now. the only known cure for that is to lose weight. So, every year I try and nothing seemed to work. I was put on Xenical and really all it did was make me sick. So, my PCP said that going to the info seminar was not going to hurt and I signed up. The seminar was not till May 2007. In the meantime, my PCP signed me up for one visit a month for the next 6 months so we could get on track if indeeed I decided to have the surgery done. after the info seminar, I was definitely on board and so was my PCP. Over the course of the next 6 months (starting in April 2007) I went to the PCP once a month for him to complete my weight loss log and to eventually get to the point of submitting all logs and letters to my health insurance. Due to the liver, I had a good shot of getting this approved. I also had to go to a pulmonary doctor, a nutritionist and went to get a psych evaluation. Needless to say, I was at the doctor a lot and got really sick of going!! I got blood work and other things in the meantime and everything was on track. So, finally at the beginning of October, the surgeon's office submitted all paperwork to my insurance. I got a call on October 15th that the surgery was approved with the date of November 19, 2007. I was so excited!! Still am!
So, here I am today and wanting so badly for that day to get here....I have told some people such as family and close friends but do not intend to tell everyone. I don't think people realize how hard it was to get to this point and what a important and hard decision this was to make and I don't want to share that with everyone. That may sound horrible but it's how I feel right now. A lot of people think you can just make this decision and the next week they do it.....not the case at all.
It's all kind of strange to think back to when I really thought I was overweight and even my PCP said that, way back when I was 18 or 19 years old and I was about 75 pounds lighter than I am now!!!! I guess he tried to warn me and could of probably predicted that after getting married and eventually having kids that this would be the outcome...who knows but I guess that's why he is the MD and I am not! Either way, to be 75 pounds lighter now would be so wonderful!! I will get there, I know I will. It is just so hard to believe that after being so tiny as a child that I am at this point. Wow, things change!!
I look forward to posting more info soon!
Lisa250
