princessmedic

Well, my surgical story is just beginning.  I have been overweight my whole life that I remember.  I can recall as a young teenager always having to shop in the plus size clothing and never feeling good about how I looked.  My self esteem has always been low.  My weight has steadily rocketed out of control and I am now once again back at my highest weight.  The only real success I have had losing a significant amount of weight was about 4 years ago.  I went from 279lbs to 207lbs, through a mostly liquid diet.  As soon as I went back to food the weight piled right back on.  I also have a pretty sedentary job-I work as an emergency dispatcher, so I sit for my whole 12 hour shift, and on top of that its nights, so my body is out of whack all the time!I have been comtemplating some type of bariatric surgery for awhile.  I was leaning towards a full gastric bypass.  I was working in the emergency room for a while and ran into many people with pretty significant complications from that.  Plus, here in Albuquerque no one was offering any type of surgery so I would have to travel out of town.  I called my insurance and it didn't seem like the surgery would be covered at all, so I gave up.  Recently, Dr Smith began performing lap band surgery here in Albuquerque, so I signed up for a seminar in November, 2009.  I submitted all my paperwork and waited to hear back.  I finally got a call the end of March, and had my first appointment April 20th.  It looks like my surgery might just be covered after all!  So, I am starting out hopeful, and will see where this takes me.  Tentatively my surgery date will be in August!  I have to be on a 3 month physician followed diet plan, so my appointment with the dietician is May 26th.  I am so excited!!!!