Hiyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Dixie!  OH GF..........you are one strong lady, just one of the things that I have always admired about you!!!  My thoughts and prayers are with you!  My 2nd oldest sister had breast cancer in her 20's and had a double mastectomy, a  yr. after her treatments she became pregnant with her 2nd child than a few yrs later went back to college and got her degree, she will be 50 next month and is doing great!  Like you a very strong woman indeed!  To have finished nursing school....btw CONGRATS!  And now to be going through all of this...I can't even imagine.  Keep the faith gf! Im doing good, I go back tomorrow for my 1 wk check up and am hoping to get these tubes out, I don't have much drainage at all anymore.  And yes I do have a binder and yes I do wear it all the time and yes it is my bestfriend right now lol!  I to am not allowed to do much so besides sitting around and doing nothing besides going crazy and driving my family crazy Im hoping to start reading some books that have been collecting dust! Dixie pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee keep in touch!  I want to know how you are doing.   Huggggggggggggggggs Janet

im realy stuck in a rut had to have hernya surgery virtical and have not work out because of it DR said i could not now i can see me go well i dont need it and its driveing me crazzy i just cant ge tthe gumption to go to gym and i know if i dont ill grow and that scares me how can i get the gumtion to get off my butt   i would love a work out partner nere me but there is none that i know pray for me to pull my head out of my butt 

The countdown starts! I don't even want to talk about the crap I have been eating for the last 4 days- still eating as I type - last hurrah I didn't really have many food funerals the last few weeks- and have been trying to do a protein shake for breakfast and lunch- but these last few days I lost my mind

Don't do it! If Dr. G gets any idea that you did cheat, he may cancel the surgery. He has done it. It should be getting better for you. Most of us found that by 4-5 days, we weren't as hungry anymore. Remember, you still have 2 weeks after your surgery of clear liquids. If you can't do it now, how will you expect to do it then? The first fat to go is what is on & around your liver. Obese people have large livers & by losing that fat, you make it easier & safer for Dr G to do it laproscopic. Ok, that was the official answer. Yes, I'm sure many have cheated, (I ate 2 T of pico de gio) but it's not a good idea. Like I said, he has been known to cancel. Dixie

Well that's interesting.  I called the Mercy clinic on Franklin - and asked for an appointent for WLS screening.   I didn't think to ask how LONG the appoint will take.     My insurance doesn't indicate how many times I need to see the psychiatrist - just that I have to be cleared by one.      I'm pretty sure my insurance will cover it --  for me the cost comes in lost billables.  I am a consultant and get paid when I work, and don't when I'm off.    I haven't been told to schedule with the dietician yet.    Aside from the sleep test tonight, and the follow up from that on the 15th, my next steps were the meeting at Mercy with the nursce on the 21st, and making a psych appointment.       I'm trying not to set expectations as to when I'll finally get to the surgery.