Surgery Date!!

Got mine - June 6!

3 weeks of optifast before hand

Pre-op in May- what do they do for 2-3 hours at the pre-op?

I just had my pre-op apt yesterday.  It was only 1 hour.  Take your vitals, weigh you, go over your medical history.  At least that is all they did for me.

I have added you to the surgery list. What hospital will you be in?

Toronto Western

At my pre-op, I had to see the pharmacist, nurse,  anesthesiologist and blood work. I also had to give them my insurance information and choose what type of.room I wanted to stay in Post-surgery. All together,  it took 2 hours. 

Jen

I remember having to wait a long time because they were behind schedule. Don't forget to bring your insurance /benefits card if you have coverage for a private or semi private room. Bring something to pass the time. 

Good luck with your surgery :-) 

Congrats on get ting your date!! Can I ask what your orientation date was?  I am just starting out and trying to roughly calculate timing.

Thanks!

I am curious to what your total timeline was - from start to finish - just starting the process - my orientation is May 11th - I was referred mid Feb

thanks

Sorry for the late reply! Been a little hectic the last few days. My orientation was in October 2015.

Today I got a call from someone telling me I had to move my appointment for the pre-op to May 16th or the week before, I guess they had to adjust it because I am supposed to start optifast on May 16th. She was pretty weird. I asked her who I was supposed to call and she started throwing out names like "Natalie" and someone else.....I told her I didn't know who those people were and she told me just to call the regular bariatric number. Am I supposed to have a contact person or something? Or was this person who called me just confusing me?

ps - my optifast just arrived as I was typing this :P