Hello February Club!

Well lets see. i am about 1 hour from hospital, i am pre-registered, i have to do bloodwork 5 days before surgery, my Lovenox injections will behere on Tuesday, i see the surgeron on the 19th, and i work from home, so no prob's there. And my bestest friend is comeing for my surgery,,,Good luck to you all 33 days and counting

Hello everyone my surgery date is February 3, 2009 and I'm just like everyone else excited I live only 15 minutes away from the hospital and I'm having my EKG done this week and the lab work is not until the day before the surgery.

I am currently doing my 30 day pre op diet that I have to do. I will see the surgeon on Jan 6th for my pre op visit with him and get my surgery date...I hope. I will be finished with my pre op diet on Jan 29. I am getting really excited.  I didn't take off work because I don't work outside the home. So I am pretty lucky that way.
Emily

Hi there   My surgery date is the 16th

I live two minutes from my hospital. I've already had a chest xray, bloodwork, and an ultrasound of my belly.  I go on friday for an upper GI, blood gases, and a couple other things I can't remember. I go for a nutrition consult on the 21st so I'll go out and buy vitamins after that.  I am trying to schedule my psych eval now, and I start a four week medifast diet on the 13th.  

I have no idea when I'll get insurance approval..

Edited to add:  I am a stay at home mom of four small kids so I don't need to take time off of work, but my husband is taking off from Feb 2nd (when I'm having my gallbladder out and hernai repair) till march 10th..so that gives me about three weeks after surgery.

-Jennifer

I'm scheduled for 2/3 and live about 25 minutes from the hospital.  So far I've:

- had a sleep study and started with cpap
- met with a nutrionist twice
- had an ultra-sound of my gallbladder
- had a psych eval and met with a therapist
- met with my surgeon
- had lab work done
- sampled protein drinks
- sent off for vitamin samples (still need to get Nut to approve the ones I chose)
- read a lot (recommend "The Real Skinny on Weight Loss Surgery"
- updated my will and wrote a Health Care Directive, got latter notarized
- lost 30 pounds and done "trial runs" of the liquid diet

I still have to:

- meet one more time with nut
- get EKG and chest xray
- have more lab work done
- attend pre-op class
- buy gas-x strips and protein drinks
- 2 two week liquid diet

I'm taking a week of vacation for the surgey and then planning on working from home the next two weeks (my job allows me to work from home whenever I want).  A really good friend offered to come stay at the house during this time and my husband has been recently laid off so I know I'll have plenty of post-surgery care and support.







 

My surgery is on Feb 8, and I'm getting nervous/excited. I've chosen to go with the sleeve gastrectomy. I have arranged for 2-3 weeks off work, with the intent to work from home during that time....count down is only a month away now