sleep study

Hi, Kim.
Everything you said made sense.  :)   Therapy has been an integral part of my healing. My therapist is a wonderful Christian man, and he has helped me so much. I love him like a brother (I never had one and always wanted an older brother. It took me some years, as a kid, to figure out if I was already here, that would never happen.)
My counselor was the one who encouraged me to envision my surgery and how it will help me, to assist me in not being fearful of it--of the unknown. I chose envisioning the past being cut away, along with the stomach. Not to worry; I don't have unrealistic expectations. I know having surgery will help me in countless ways. It will be fun to discover all those.
I weigh in this Thursday, and if I've lost the remaining pre-op weight (3 lbs.), I'll get a surgery date that will surely be in November. I trust in God's timing. If I stress, the weight won't budge.
Thanks for all your comments. You can "play" doctor, anytime.
Blessings,
Mary

Mary,
I'm so glad you didn't take my comments as a "know it all" kind of thing! 
I think the way you are looking at your surgery will help you in many ways!  I'm also glad you are in theropy!  I think that will help your head as well as your tiny tummy!  When you think about it weight loss is a head thing more then anything.  If you consider this a way of dealing with your past that will put things in perspective for you and you can go on and live the way you WANT to.  Not the way your memories have had you live for years!  I know what you are saying.  I've been through it!  Not as tramatically as you but I agree with what you are saying. 
Lots of luck with your journey!  Remember your OH family is ALWAYS here! 
I just love this website!  I wish I had found it a long time ago!
Kim

I am one of the lucky ones who did NOT get a sleep apnea diagnosis, so it does happen. I did snore so I was shocked when I got the call. According to my husband, the snoring stopped about a month and a half after surgery.

I'm glad to hear that, Nancy, both that you were not diagnosed with sleep apnea and that you stopped snoring so soon after surgery. It gives me hope!
Blessings,
Mary

Mary, I know the pain of the past. I was molested as a child by my father and then raped twice by my idiot ex. I don't know if they could cut enough out of me to take care of that....but I always thougt that my past could make or break me and I was not about to let anyone break me! I have flashes of it from time to time.....but I play my little glad game and push on to the future....It is not easy that's for sure....but I can do it!

My sleep study was 1300 for my one night stay and then I was to go back for another to get the readings I would need, then buy the machine and mask......My insurance was canceled the same day as the first one so I am having to pay that, and I sure couldn't afford the second one much less the machine! Some how it all worked out without all that and I am on the machine.
There was no need for a second sleep study. They could have done it all the first time....I know that because alot of places do the study the first half of the night and then try different masks the second half and adjust the machines acordingly. It just so happens that my Pulm. doctor owns the sleep study place....that explains the need for the 2nd 1300 test doesn't it??
Some of this crap is a racket!!  I am a person who is in tune with my body and what is going on...I am also one to ask lots of questions about my care and my medications.  When it is coming out of my pocket, there better be a darn good reason for doing it!  I'm learning alot along the way too...I found out that without insurance and making less than 20,000 and 1 person in my household, I qualify for free insulin, plavix, nexium and crestor! It's just getting it, that is the problem and right now I needed it all a month ago!!!  It's a freakin war......thats another long story.
I just want to get this surgery and get past all these issues!!!

I, too, was molested, for 3 years, as a child. My first husband was extremely abusive, in every way possible. God has helped me to forgive all of my abusers. The excess weight is the final stronghold, for all of it. I'm sure sorry you went through all that.
I hear you, on all the medical issues. It's a struggle, but you are, obviously, a very strong woman. Everything will work out.
See you Thursday! :)
Blessings,
Mary