Surgery Date Set!!!

I got a call yesterday telling me I was approved for VSG and we scheduled for September 21st.  I have a few tests I have to do over the next week but we're off to the races here.  I'm a little anxious though, it all seems to be moving so fast. Probibly just nerves.  

Yay for you!  Hope the tests go smoothly and the time passes quickly.

Once they call, it gets real, fast! I hope all goes well for you. I'm in hospital now, one day post op. Before you know it, your day will be here! Good luck!

Nerves are the norm, pre-op. You wouldn't be human if you didn't feel any anxiety about the surgery. Most sleeve patients, including myself, found the actual surgery and hospital stay the easiest part of the whole process. It's the recovery phase and learning to eat sleeve-fashion that is more difficult.

Good luck!

psychoticparrot

I had to do an insurance required 6 months of supervised weight loss, which I was very impatient about.  Then I was impatient again waiting 2 weeks for approval once my paperwork was submitted.  FInally they called and scheduled me for surgery in 10 days!  All of a sudden it was very fast! Just as well though - no time to dwell on it.  Surgery and recovery ended up being much easier than I expected by the way.

That's great! Start getting ready because it will be here before you know it!!

I had to do the 6 months too... that seemed too easy.  I'm on Victosa for my diabetes so I was loosing weight with out much effort.  as we got to the last 2 months I started working with a Physical Therapist to get my back strong enough to do longer periods of walking and adapting to the post surgery real food diet.  I'd lost so well that the surgeon and nutritionist told me (I HAD to as both) that I didn't need a liquid diet before surgery. The told me that's not a licence to do a big last blast though -- be smart because bingeing will cause your liver to swell.

 Last Meal is planned for today gonna go get a burger and fries and a small gellato.  I ran this past my doc's NP and he said that wasn't too bad just don't do it closer to surgery.