How long was your journey?

Hi everyone. I have been passively reading this forum for quite a while and thought it was time for me to jump in. I live in the GTA and I received a referral from my doctor in January 2016. I had my orientation in May, then the SW near the end of July. I have a nurse practitioner appointment on October 6 and nutrition class October 26. I imagine that I will need to have more appointments after that before I ever get to meet a surgeon. Does this seem like a longer than normal journey to anyone, or is it fairly typical for Toronto? It feels like I see so many of you talking about your upcoming surgeries and then I see in your signature lines that your referrals were after mine. Is this a bad sign for me that I will not be eligible for surgery?

The entire process goes quite a bit more slowly in Canada than it does with private insurance in the USA.

I attended my first seminar in August and had surgery in December, which is a pretty normal American timeline.

If you check on the Ontario forum, you'll probably see some similar timelines to yours:

http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/on/

Going thru my surgeon's takes about 8 months

I'm in usa but it took 6 months for me to be approved by insurance. plus  had to jump through surgeons hoops during this time.

Here in New Brunswick (Canada), the wait between referral and surgery is anywhere between 2 and 6 years depending on the doctor. So the wait in Ontario seems much better