New here Surgery schedule

I am new here. I am in the Stevenson area. I have been approved for surgery and it is scheduled for 6-11-12. Dr Steve Isbell is going to be doing my surgery. His office was great, it only took 3 weeks to get Medicaid approval. Any advice and experiences would be greatly appreciated.
Christy

Hi Christy,
I guess we both are rideing the same boat, cause i will have my Dr's visit on Tuesday
witch one are you going to be doing. I will be doing the Lap-Band and i will be seeing
Dr. Pennington.

I am Having the RNY.  Mine is scheduled for June 11th. Now it is just a waiting game.

Good luck to both of u!
Welcome to the AL board....not very active but Kim's daily accountability posts are great and motivate me to stay on track!

Leslie

Congratulations!!!!! 

Welcome!  Our little Alabama board is quiet, but we've got some great folks here.

My advice is this:  Do what your doctor tells you to do, and be comitted to completely changing your lifestyle.  And of course, EXERCISE, EXERCISE, EXERCISE.

We are here for you if you need anything, and be prepared to go shopping!  I had to even replace all of my shoes (which didn't break my heart because I love shoes!!)

Hi Chirsty
 I will be haveing RNY as well Dr. Pennington said that would be better for me since i'm a
diabetic. this was a little shocker. will be seeing him on the 31st. keep posting need to know how
all is going.  if anyone else is from AlAbama would love to here from you guys. will be letting you know my surgery date.

I can't tell you how relieved I am to see your surgery has been changed to RNY. The lapband is in my opinion a waste of time. I know there are a few who have been successful with it, but mostly not. You might want to also post or hang out on the RNY board. Quite a bit of activity over there. I had been away from OH for a while but came back to help myself be more accountable, since I am 6 years out. It's harder to keep the weight off the further out you are.

God bless and good luck with your surgery!!

Congrats on getting such a quick approval, and with Medicaid no less. So many Medicaid recipients are looking for surgeons to do WLS. I know since you posted here some of them will now know about Dr. Isbell accepting Medicaid and that is a good thing. God bless and good luck on your surgery and journey! There is also an RNY board here that is pretty active. You can get great support there as well as here.

Had to change surgery to the 13th instead of 11th I got a notice for a disabilty hearing on 6-12 been waiting over a year for hearing. Just 2 days later and my rebirth will begin.
Christy