I have a date!!!

Saw the surgeon yesterday afternoon and a date is set for December 8th. Wow - that is just around the corner! Please see my other post for questions about the vegus nerve and short limb vs. long limb rny. Thanks, Andrea

Andrea, You know I read your post early in the morning today and I thought oh no she has my date and I thought why not me and then I found out me too.... I am having lap rny with Dr. Thaemert in Sioux Falls at Avera Hospital. He is bypassing 150 cm of my intestine I think that is distal but he did not say that he said he has heard of that term but he does not refer to it by that so who knows. Where are you having your surgery and who is your surgeon? Keep in touch we will have to compare notes. Ann

YAEEEEEEEEE Andrea!! Congrats hun! I will be thinking of you that day That day ~the 8th~ is my real birthday too Good Day that is!! I will keep you in my prayers. Take care~ Lubbs, Tammy

Thank you Ann and Tammy for your support. I am having open RNY at Genesis Medical Center in Davenport. It is a new program that was just started this summer. Very comprehensive! I have seen a psychologist, dietician, nurse manager, surgeon and will see the psych, dietician, nurse manager surgeon and physical therapist all again before the surgery. I originally was a little leery about the program being so new, but I have heard all good things about the surgeon, Dr. Christophersen. He is a general surgeon that has had a lot of experience with wls during his residency. He says that in his general practice, also, he opperates often on stomachs and intestines, so the rny was simply a matter of refining those techniques together. Dh thinks that since training and the program are so new that the doc will be meticulous. Christophersen also teams up with fellow doc Phelps. Ann, through my research, I have discovered that proximal means short limb bypass and distal means long limb. It has to do with the length of the intestine that is bypassed. Dr. Christophersen bypasses 100 centimeters. Probably is less malabsorptive than the distal. I kind of wish that they would bypass more because I don't want the chance of ever being fat again!!!! Again, thank you ladies for your support! Andrea