Well I finally got to meet my surgeon, Dr. Jorge Rodriguez, today. He was pretty awesome. I drove for a good 2 hours and only saw him for about 10 minutes but it was great.

He's really pushing for me to have this surgery since I have diabetes and high blood pressure (today's was 146/96) and he's says that it'll hopefully fix my problems in the future. But every time I go somewhere, I just can't do it without embarrassing myself at least once.

You walk into this room and they want to take a picture of you with this sign held high, just below your face, with your name and other info. I did well with that but when it came to her asking if I could turn sideways, well... That's the funny part. Instead of understating to turn myself sideways – I turned the sign upside down. Yea, there were about four different nurses in the room trying to get this one camera to work and just my luck, they all laugh. I was extremely embarrassed but it's just going to be one of my memories of this wonderful experience.

Anyways, when I met the surgeon he was very straight forward. He made sure this surgery was right for me and of course gave me the "lecture" as he puts it but it was fine. I've read so much about this and dreamed of it for years, hearing it again, this close to when I'm supposed to get a surgery date. He told me that I shouldn't worry about my insurance since I have more than two co-morbidities. That was definitely a relief to hear!

I go to my normal doctor on January 4^th and from there my surgeon has this list of seven different tests that he wants done and then when they get all that done at my primary physician's office, I get to go back to my surgeon and have a Colposcopy (where they shine a light to check your stomach – to make sure you can handle this surgery). Not looking forward to that but it's alright.

This has been moving so fast and I just can't believe it. I'm nervous about it but my surgeon has strength in me. He told me, "You're young and a really smart girl," I didn't really understand it but then again I guess where so many adults nowadays are having this surgery, it's good to start out young and have it before you get any more problems.