JayinMA
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But to answer your questions Jay is short for Jason, and we have a torrid around here, some of my friends shop there for plus size clothes that aren't made for old ladies. I've actually never shopped at a regular store, I've never been thin so this is all very exciting!
When i went to the pre-op appointment I had them weigh me and I lost another 5lbs, so the chinese didn't do any harm! I'm so relieved about that.
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sorry I haven't responded in a couple days, they've had me running around like you wouldn't believe! On tuesday I had to go to another pre-op appointment, they took more blood and asked more questions. Later that day I had some heart palpitations so I called my surgeon who told me that I have to contact my primary care and he won't do the surgery unless she sends in a letter saying my heart can take the surgery. I shouldn't have said a damn thing!!
So today I had to go to the primary care and have an EKG and then she faxed that in and now it all seems to be a go. Thank goodness.
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I'm headed to get banded tomorrow morning, good luck everyone, I'll report back when I can!
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Hi Chloe, for my insurance I have a PPO (instead of an HMO) so I didn't need a referral to see a surgeon. When it came time for me to find a surgeon I had found a video online of a surgeon at Brigham doing the surgery and after I watched that I figured that this is where I wanted my surgery to be. I then called a few surgeons offices and honestly, I went with the surgeon who could see me first. I called in late october and got an appointment for mid november. So I went to the info session on October 14th and am now scheduled for a feb. 12th surgery. However there are some insurance companies that require you do a 6 month pre-op program (mine didn't require it) so that will definitely affect the timing of your surgery. My advice would be, if you're interested in Brigham and Women's or Faulkner Hospital programs to go to the information sessions, I got a lot of my questions answered there.
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According to my primary care I'm anemic with no signs of vitamin or iron deficiency. I don't exactly know what that means but she did tell me there was no need for supplementation... I really don't know at this point, i've had a barrage of medical terms thrown at me today. Hopefully all will go well at the appointment tomorrow and I'll be one day away from surgery. If they have to reschedule again, I'm fairly certain I'm giving up. But we're not thinking about that now, we're all positive and smiles.
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Well okay. I called the surgeon and my primary care dr. Dr. Robinson called me back and told me that I needed to be checked by my primary care doctor and he needs to hear from her by tomorrow that it's ok to preform the surgery. So... right now it's not 100% for the 12th, but I think it will be. the palpitations would soon stop after having an apple (one of the two I'm allowed per day) but would quickly return. Based on that a friend who is a nurse suggested having something with a little more sugar in it, which would help give me some energy and help make more blood (I'm anemic so I have low blood as it is) The appointment is tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. so I should know then, and if my primary care won't clear me you'll hear on the news about a crazed hungry man causing a riot, and I'll try to say hi to you all when i'm on court tv. If she does clear me, all systems are go for thursday.
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i think onederland is when your weight is in the 100's... I think...
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Thanks ladies! I don't feel nervous or anything, it's weird, going into surgery and I don't feel nervous at all, today when they told me I had to have more bloodwork done I wanted to cry, I know it's completely irrational but that little needle just scares the hell out of me. And it's over in five minutes but still... I think if it keeps happening (hasn't happened in an hour) i'll call Jennifer tomorrow. I'm ridiculously tired today, maybe that's contributing to it all. Hopefully a good night's sleep will get it all under control. Oh and you know it could be acid, I stepped outside the bounds of the pre-op diet, nothing major, just substituted something and that could definitely be it! That makes me feel better! I look forward to seeing you at the support group soon, that is if you can make it.
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singin who is your surgeon? I went for pre-op tests again today (apparently you have to redo them if you're going to a different hospital) and I lost another 5 lbs. So that's exciting. I have a question though. For the last three day i have been getting odd heart flutters and was wondering if that happened to anyone else? I'm almost afraid to mention it to anyone at the hospital in case it delays the surgery more than it has been.
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I keep looking at armani exchange. I like their clothes. But really I'm ready to shop anywhere that doesn't have the words "big and tall" in the title. I'll also be staying at the hospital, hopefully this thursday. I better not get pushed back again!
I'm having a hard time staying on the diet, tonight i had some Chinese food. Not as much as I would have had usually but I've been on this pre-op diet now for 23 days and I couldn't take it anymore. Now that i've eaten it I regret it, and will stay on track 100% for the rest of the time.
I have another round of pre-op testing (the new surgery date is at a different hospital, so even though they're affiliated hospitals and my sugreon works out of both, I apparently have to have more pre-op tests done.) so tomrorow when I go for the pre-ops, I will have them weigh me and as long as things are going well (still losing weight) than I won't be too worried, if I gained, I don't know what I'll do!
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I never had an endoscopy, so maybe you won't either!
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I keep looking at clothing websites picking out looks that I like, by the time I can fit into them i'm sure the styles will be out of date lol.
Have you been watching any youtube videos about the surgery? I was nervous about the hospital stuff and I found this girl who taped a lot of the hospital stuff and I found just knowing what it was like helped me get over some nerves. YouTube - italian03babygrl's Channel
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Well it got moved again, this time to the 12th. Jennifer told me Dr. Robinson wants Dr. Munn around because of the haital hernia, I don't necessarily understand the reasoning, but he's the surgeon, so a week from tomorrow. Good enough for me. Tonight for dinner instead of having 4 oz of chicken I had two cups of home made chicken Soup. I don't think it was too bad, just some broth, bullion cubes, chicken, celery, carrots and some Pasta. Not exactly on the diet, but not so bad it could undo anything, and it gave me the "different" taste I was looking for. And I would NEVER leave you all for some other group, you guys are stuck with me. I just hope that I'll be able to come to the feb. one. I'll only be 5 days out from there. I'd be taking the commuter rail then red to green line, hopefully I'll feel up to taking it, so I can go. I felt bad last time that the whole meeting seemed focused on Pre-op and the post-op people didn't seem to get much except to answer questions, which I appreciate, but it's (I assume) a support group for everyone. So hopefully the next meeting will have a mix of the two. I'm really looking forward to that private room!
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I got moved to the 12th now. my goodness! But i'm ok with it, everything will work out.
and this might sound mean but I think the people who this doesn't work for aren't committed to the change needed to be taken. You and I are both young and not so set in our ways, plus they still make hot clothes for thin people our age, so we will have that as inspiration. We're both committed to this and have a lot ahead of us, some of the older people have a lifetime of bad habits to break through. I think we will definitely be ok!
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My surgery was postponed. It was supposed to be today but the snow storm kept the surgeon out of town for longer than he anticipated, so I have a new date of feb 11th.
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I spoke to jennifer and it looks like it will be rescheduled for feb. 11th, at faulkner. So if I remember correctly, that means private room, right? And whining is officially over. I complained, I was upset over it, and you know how much it helped? not at all. So why waste that kind of energy being upset over something that's out of my hands. I'll just keep losing weight on this pre-op diet, and that's the goal to lose weight, so what difference does it make if it's with the band or on this diet? I can do it for another week if that's what it takes. Work is being really accommodating about the time off. I'm going to go in tomorrow and friday and then just tack two days onto the date I was supposed to go back. So this whole thing has been just a speed bump, not a stop sign. But thanks for letting me whine!
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I'm sticking to the diet until I get my reschedule date. I was hoping he did surgeries on wednesdays and thursdays since most of my appointments with him have been on tuesdays I thought that was his schedule. I didn't talk to jennifer today, I got a call from someone else who told me it was cancelled. I left a message for jennifer after that so hopefully she'll call me tomorrow. And if I don't hear from her by noon I'll probably call again. Waiting until tuesday wouldn't be too bad, I could do that. Anything beyond that would be really aggravating. I do want the pizza, but that's not the right decision and it won't make me feel better. It's just me wanting to eat my emotions. Not a good decision. So I'll just stick to this. I've done it for 20 days, I can do another 4.. .maybe more.
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I'm not sure. I'm definitely not going to work tomorrow. I'll wait until I hear from Jennifer to see when it's rescheduled. If it's rescheduled for thurs/fri (I'm really hoping... maybe if I offer to have it done at brigham or faulkner it'll give me a sooner date) then I'll just keep the same days off. If not... I don't know. I want to order a pizza. I won't, but I really want to.
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Well.... my surgery was canceled. Dr. Robinson is somewhere else and can't get back because of the snow. I'm beside myself, I'm waiting for Jennifer to call and let me know when the rescheduled date is, but in all honesty, I'm not sure I can take this pre-op diet any more. Not sure what to do about the time I took off of work, or really anything. Please forgive my whining.
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Yep, it's tomorrow. I go back and forth between, nervous, excited and wishing my mother wasn't coming with me. She's fine with this now, but it just puts another level of stress on me, having to worry about whether or not I look scared or nervous and then that's going to make her nervous, etc.
I'm taking off two weeks. The doctor said one week would be fine, but I can get two weeks off paid, so I'm going to!
So far on the pre-op diet (mine isn't all liquids) I've lost about 9lbs. That was as of 1/27 at my last appointment. I guess I'll get an updated number tomorrow!
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I will try my best to be there!
