More waiting...

May 05, 2012

But at least I'm moving in the right direction!

Not a whole lot to report, but I want to get in the habit of updating every few weeks so I have something to look back on when I'm further into this. 

I went to my surgeon's seminar on Wednesday of this week, and I was really impressed with the practice and all the office staff.  The surgeon who presented the program was incredibly knowledgeable and reassuring.  I think I've pretty much cemented my decision to go with VSG (gastric sleeve) over my other two options.  It seems the most minimally invasive option without involving foreign objects...not knocking the other options, I just know that this one is the right one for me in my situation.

Now I'm just waiting for the surgeon's office to call back with the date and time of my first appointment.  In the meantime, I have an appointment scheduled with a new PCP, who will hopefully agree to supervise my "6-month" diet.  (I use the quotes because by the time this is all said and done, with PTO considerations from my job and the fact that it takes so gosh darned long to get an appointment with ANYONE around here, and combined with the fact that I actually started dieting 2 weeks ago, 6 months is actually looking more like 8-9, maybe even 10 months!)

I've had my consultation with the Nurse Case Manager from my insurance, and she said if it were up to her, she'd approve me to have surgery tomorrow.  Too bad it's not up to her!

While I'm waiting...happy news...I'm already down a few pounds, and learning a whole lot about nutrition and exercise, so I guess I can't complain much about that!  I'm now totally off of all carbonated beverages...figured a little prep work wouldn't hurt...and eating fully vegetarian all the time.

So yeah...lots of positive changes.  I guess there was more to report than I thought!

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