OMGOSH!!! Surgery really close!

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Interesting development for me today.

Some of you know that I'm going through Kaiser and that the nearest hospital to me is finally getting lapband. They told me, not even a month ago, that they hoped to be up and running by the end of the year. I had it in my head that sometime this winter, I would be banded. The new surgeon is also doing laporiscopic (sp?) bypass and started that last month.

Okay, so this AM I get a message from the surgery department to call them back ASAP. Call them to find out that the new surgeon read through my file. Likes what he sees, thinks I'd be a great candidate for LB and wants me in to surgery on JULY 28TH OR 29TH!!!!! OH MY GOSH!!!!!

Well, guess what? I can't do it that week. DH just got home today after more than 3 weeks gone. He's on vacation and goes back to work on the 28th. He's a fireman and things in the state right now are bad and he can't take anymore time off. Days off have been canceled and if he didn't have vacation, he still wouldn't be home. We have a 2 year old and I have no family near-by to help and our friends can't take time off that fast. My mom can come down and but not in a week!

Soooo they are going to call me as soon as they get the schedule for August. I'll call them at the beginning and end of each week til they get the schedule and put me on it! So at this point, I'm all of a sudden at surgery time, sort of. Looks like I'm going to have it about 4-6 months sooner than I expected but I don't have a date yet!

I got off the phone and started crying. Partly for the missed opportunity of being able to have surgery 2 days after I turn 40 but mostly b/c all of sudden it's a reality! I knew I was approved but now it seems so real. I'm excited and scared to pieces all at the same time!

I haven't lost my 10% but the surgeon was happy with the 5+% that I've lost so far and I'll continue to work on that to get closer to the 10%. I also have some letters and lists to write in case something happens.

Anyway, this all happened this AM and I've been running around all day for other stuff so this is the first chance I've had to share. I will post when I have a surgery date. Looks like it'll be a Monday and sometime in August.

Well, that's it for now.

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Congratulations!! Please come join the August group!! Looking forward to hearing of your progress.