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I get to see my surgeon this thrusday for consultation. This 1st appt after the seminar. I wonder what options and what we'll discuss. I want to pick 90 program. Want to get it started. I'm not impatient, but ready.

If it is true 90 days out would put me at Dec - Jan (4th mnth) I don't know if my husband n kids r ready for it so soon. Maybe 6mths for them.

i thought the same thing in regards to my husband and kids. Originally I wanted to plan it after Christmas so I could have down time without effecting my husband's work schedule(he's off from mid Dec-Jan 2nd) and the kids would be on Christmas break and I wouldn't have to work school lessons around my ability to teach while recovering, but to my surprise, they have been really good about the whole process thus far. My husband actually came to me and told me he'd rather I go when I was finished with my 90 days and not try to wait it out til Dec. he's happy to take that time off. I also have been walking my kids through my steps and telling them what life will be like for me so they kind of understand and aren't scared.

As for the actual appt, I know they can vary greatly, but mine was pretty much what I expected. Started off with a visit with the in house NUT and we talked about my eating habits and she wrote that all down and she figured up about how many calories I was eating in a given day for the insurance. After that, I was weighed and the doctor came in. He looked at my 2pages of diet history and we talked about the various procedures and he asked me what I thought I wanted. He doesn't push a procedure on patients, but will tell his opinion on your choice type thing. I told him I was thinking rny because I know I have a lot to lose and I'm a sugar fiend and I heard that is the best option for people like me. He agreed. If you don't know what would be best, then you get a run down of all the procedures and a recommendation based on what he thinks, but I kind of already knew what I needed before I even hit the seminar. They took a brief medical history of me and my parents/siblings/grandparents/blood aunts/ uncles and cousins and used that to piece together what looks like strong evidence of a gene that is most commonly found in people of my lineage and who settled in the parts of the U.S. Where my people all came from which also supports that theory. Talked about what the surgery would and would not do. Chose a starting goal for when we will consider the surgery having been successful. We talked about recovery time. We talked about the scars I already have from gall bladder surgery being a good roadmap and he'll try to use those scars and maybe just add one or two more. He let me ask questions. I ask weird stuff when I'm nervous so I tried not to ask anything. I already made myself known at the seminar with my oddball questions and he remembered me on sight so, yeah, good impression there! LOL but overall, it was nothing new or unexpected except at the end he said I'd be doing a 90 day program instead of the 6 months I had planned in my head so that made me kind of swoon a bit. I'm glad now that it was only 90 days. I'm so ready to get this over with. Then at the end they gave me forms to get my medical records from my doctor and that was that. It's not painful, at least for me it wasn't.