Hello! I'm a newbie

Hello everyone,

My name is Lourdes and I wanted to introduce myself.  I am in the process of completing my requirements regarding surgery and having it approved by my health care insurance. My surgeon hopes to all the documentation sent to my plan by the middle of November, so I don't have a surgery date yet.  Sorry for the long explanation, I'm just feeling a bit overwhelmed, anxious, and confused. I came across this board and saw how encouraging everyone was so I wanted to leave a note. 

I just went to my first support group meeting and although I asked questions regarding the bypass surgery, I'm a little unclear as to what other questions I should ask.  I guess I don't know what to ask. Any suggestions? I want to educate myself as much as possible but I don't want to scare myself either. 

Thank you for listening!
Lourdes

Hello Lourdes! Welcome to our group! I'm so happy to have you join us!  Don't ever feel sorry for long explainations or posts! Thats what our group is about! We like to get to know each other. We are a pretty tight knit group here. So post away any time at all! This week is slow around here, but hopefully it'll pick back up very soon!

You will find that as you interact here and read about wls, you will find many answers to questions, and also come up with more questions you need to ask. I slept in today, and am just waking up, so my brain is in a fog right now...lol. I will come back after I am more awake and post again with some of the questions that are good to ask.

Thanks for joining us. I hope to see you around often! Also please consider joining us on monday evenings at 7 eastern For our chat room get together. We have open Q & A then, and just get to know each other and lend support. to one another.

Hi Lourdes,  great board here.  Thanks for the introduction and letting us get know you.  There are no rules on explaining.  More information helps us to see the whole picture. 

We all had and have the feelings of anxious, confusion, questions.  Share and we will help as we are able.  Good place to ask questions is the monday eve chat sessions.  Looking forward to chating more.

Hugs, Kathy

Thanks!

I'll keep reading and writing down questions as they come to me.  I decided to keep a notebook with questions as I think of them.

One thing you want to make sure to ask, is when you are in the hospital after your surgery, if you will need any current meds from home, or if the hospital will provide them to you. It can vary from hospital to hospital. Some prefer you bring your own.

Will post more as I think of them.