Congratulations!! 

What more can I say but I HAVE A DATE! Okay well I have a little more to say. OKAY OKAY make it a lot to say.  I went to the surgeons office yesterday afternoon and met with Dr Hoehn. He says I made an excellent choice of surgery and for the right reasons. Im sure he says that to most people though. But he said he would like to do my surgery if I would allow him too. I said "Works for me! Let go now!" He was like nope not today. He sent in a lady to set up the schedule. I told her the sooner the better. She put me in for May 19th at 10 AM. I told her "Good he'll have some practice before me that morning" So then I got a list of things I have to do before then. Cardiac clearance Pulmonary clearance Preop Education class Physical Therapy class Preop Labwork Preop EGD So she scheduled the EGD immediately with Dr Hoehn on May 2nd at 10:30 AM I called this morning and schedule the classes back to back on Wed April 23rd from 3-5PM I also called for Cardiac Clearance and am scheduled for Monday April 21st at 9:30 AM I was told be bring comfortable shoes and wear comfortable clothes. Next call was for Pulmonary Clearance... I got it scheduled for Monday April 21st also  but at 2 PM. She told me I would need a chest x-ray so I said Okay. She said the lab didn't accept Aetna. I told her it was fine I also have BCBS she said they wouldn't process my secondary because of my primary...I think she is stupid or full of **** So I told her I would get my own x-rays. she told me I couldn't do that. Thats when I knew she was talking out of her ass. I told her to ask someone and she did. She came back on the line and said go ahead just be sure to bring them with me. From there I called my PCP and asked for an x-ray to be done there and they said get the orders. So I had to call the stupid lady back...Well it was easier than I thought it would be to her to fax it over. By the time I called the PCP office back the fax was there. I went in and have my chest x-rays done this afternoon and have them in my van right now ready to go for Monday. All that left are my labs and I need to call on 4-24 to schedule that. I will be calling first thing in the morning on 4-24 you better believe it. A little over a month to go...I can't wait. See you soon on the looser bench!

Fellow Kansans, I am scheduled for RNY surgery  the 21st.  Nervous and excited at the same time.  I work in Wichita and live in Hutchinson and have been traveling back and forth several times.  Any words of wisdom would be appreciated. thanks Vicki

First get ahold of your local legislator and tell them you want them to support bariatric surgery, and you believe the study of House Bill 2672 will show that weight loss surgery is more cost-efficient, and most effective in treating the the commorbidities associated with obesity.  Just let them know your story and your struggle.  You can find your local legislator here: http://www.kslegislature.org/legsrv-legisportal/redistrictin g.do Then we will find out sometime in the summer when and where we can testify! Cruz

thanks for your speedy reply and i'd love to find out why you chose tallgrass over other local wichita ones, i've checked out one in geary co/junction city but did not feel at all comfortable with them, time is wasting away for me i need to move into action here so any help would be much loved.