Hello everyone!! I am also a military spouse and began my lap-band® journey in December 2009 with a visit to my PCM. She made the referral and within a few days I received a call stating that I had been accepted into the Bariatric program here in Ft. Campbell. Since then, I attended an introductory workshop and learned about all of the pre-surgery and post-surgery requirements for their program. I am very impressed with the attention to detail that they put into this program in order to have their patients succeed (short/and long term).
I was told 2 weeks ago I would be called in 30/60 days with a date to meet with the surgeon, but already recieved a call this morning and am scheduled to see him on Feb 5th.
Tomorrow I begin bloodwork, and also will pick up a packet with further instructions. So far, everything has been relatively simple and I am relieved about that. I assume I will have the surgery sometime before the end of March?
(I hope that is the case anyhow, because my husband deploys mid-March and I would prefer to have him around when I have the surgery)
General Question - How long have you had to wait between your initial surgeons visit and banding?
Military Wives Who Have Had This Surgery
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Hello everyone!! I am also a military spouse and began my lap-band® journey in December 2009 with a visit to my PCM. She made the referral and within a few days I received a call stating that I had been accepted into the Bariatric program here in Ft. Campbell. Since then, I attended an introductory workshop and learned about all of the pre-surgery and post-surgery requirements for their program. I am very impressed with the attention to detail that they put into this program in order to have their patients succeed (short/and long term).
I was told 2 weeks ago I would be called in 30/60 days with a date to meet with the surgeon, but already recieved a call this morning and am scheduled to see him on Feb 5th.
Tomorrow I begin bloodwork, and also will pick up a packet with further instructions. So far, everything has been relatively simple and I am relieved about that. I assume I will have the surgery sometime before the end of March?
(I hope that is the case anyhow, because my husband deploys mid-March and I would prefer to have him around when I have the surgery)
General Question - How long have you had to wait between your initial surgeons visit and banding?