The road to surgery

The first step was filling out all those annoying questionnaires and mailing them back to Chris at the hospital. After filling them out and mailing it back in, I was required to attend 3 different support groups. The first was okay that was just a general meeting for all those looking into surgery lots of questions were asked and I was fed more answers (information) by every one's questions. The second meeting was a New Patient Orientation - that was extremely information one of the Dr's came in and did a huge presentation - that was good! Then I had to attend another one that was surgery type specific. That too was very interesting - more learned mostly the what not to dos. So I got them done and out of the way - thinking what the heck? Is all this going to be worth it? Of course it was, it was going to HELP give me my life back. I finally got the call (my appointement to see Bob). Finally, my first offical weigh in. Wow, I was kinda shocked that I had already lost weight - I was down to 223. This appointment was in July. Oh no! I am supposed to be going on vacation in August - I remember thinking maybe this is not the right time - but it was my life I was talking about. I wanted to live a healthier one. I had 8 weeks to lose 11 pounds - and make all these appointments. I had to have some blood work, an EKG, see the dietician, see the psychologist, meet the surgeon, and luckily I already had a sleep study done. Again, my mind was spinning - I didn't know which way to go! Well I got all the appointments done within 8 weeks. I met Bob with my follow up and finally made the weight goal - Oh yeah, vacation too! So Bob put me on the list - I was a good canidate for the procedure! YES - I was doing the happy dance. Now, I was just waiting for a call to schedule my surgery!