OregonInletBound

I am eight months out and two pounds shy of the one hundred pound milestone!!!! Wow, I can't believe I did it, it dosent feel real yet.

I must live right down the road from Ms Teach in Cartersville. My doctor was Shroeder too:)

I made it through, mine is tomorrow morning. I struggled with the diet until the one week mark and then it just got easy, I don't know why. It gives me great hope for what's to come:) I doubt I'll sleep tonight, nerves......

I so feel you on the neck thing. I refuse to wear a necklace because it just doesn't look right on my no neck body. I can't wait to have a neck again!!!!

I'm a go on the 11th:) it's taken years to get here. I do wish I could have saved myself ten years ago. I tried but insurance said no. It worked out, now I get the sleeve e instead of bypass, I need my meds to work, bad heart and all.

I quit four years ago with the electronic cigarettes, I was a heavy, heavy smoker. I still use them , nicotine free, now because I always want a cigarette evenore now.

Yay, someone to comisserate with! My doctor is Dr. Shroeder.

On the Goochland side I'm just across the river next county over in Cartersville. On the Powhatan side I'm just west on rt. 60 on the other side of powhatan, I'm in Cumberland County.

Further in the middle, about an hour outside of Richmond in the country. Start liquids on Tuesday and syrgery is on the 11th. It's gotten close enough to be so real now, butterflies are flying????

I met with Mandy the nutritionist at Dr Shroeder's office a couple days ago. She is a dollbaby, just as sweet as she can be, I called her today with a question and before she called me back she checked everything and said I was being submitted in the next couple of days. She didn't have to go to that trouble but she did. There are really wonderful people at that office. She said I should be about six weeks out now.

I saw Mary Wells with Sheltering Arms. I thought because of my back injury she would be a good fit for me and I was terribly wrong. She was cruel and mean and I reported her to the surgeon. No way am I supposed to leave a psychologists office feel g like a lower life form. If she blocks me I'm getting g a second opinion.

Another Richmonder I also have Dr. Shroeder and have Humana medicare ins. I'm in the ready to submit phase and am worried about the psych eval., she was awful.....

Risa, I also suffered from severe endo for most of my life, now I suffer chronic pain from crumbling bones as a direct result of the drugs I took to fight that damn disease. I guess I know as much about endo as anyone, was even sent to Johns Hopkins to meet the best in the country to save my organs long enough to have a baby. I do know that pressure on those adhesions and scar tissue is going to add to the pain, and certainly the back pain should be helped. There is no cure, all my organs are long gone and my bladder and bowel have never recovered but I'm better, now to save my bones. We also have scar tissue that the sugery will have to deal with, I'm praying it's not a problem, I had a bunch of surgeries. I am also on pain med for the broken back, that's why I'm being sleeved, unlike the ruen y, the sleeve alows us to take the meds we need because of better absorbtion. I know you will feel better, I'm counting on me feeling better as well.

Im new here and grateful for this forum. Im not at all afraid of surgery, Ive had many, its failure that haunts me at night. Ive been on a diet since I was six years old and would not be here if that had been a success. I must have gained and lost a thousand pounds in my fifty two years and now here I am, hopefully still in the middle of my life, trying something totally drastic and new. My problem is not willpower or a love of food, Im not an over eater, I have an a--hole metabolism and am now disabled from a back injury after a series of bones just breaking like crazy, which caused a really bad fall. Im at the beginning of this process; I have my doctors approval, have been to my first surgeons appointment and now in two weeks have the nut and the pshyc eval. Then I guess I wait. I have Humana/Medicare so the requirements arent terrible, I think they would rather pay for this than another heart attack. Failure at this though is terrifying to me; I cannot fail. I cannot let my daughter down who wants me with her when she gets married and has her children. My parents died very young, heart and cancer, I pray this gives me more time. Oh and God, I promise to work at it as hard as I can and use resources like this when I feel weak.....

Thank you Kris for your very sound feedback and advice. Your success can be a reminder to me that fear does not rule me, but it is a healthy reminder that unless I am totaly commited to this failure could be emminent. Im going to treat this as a grand adventure!!!!! An adventure in new food choices, but mostly in smaller jean sizes and bathing suit shopping, I cant wait!!!!!