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Well the hoop jumping is done. I meet with the surgeon in 3 weeks and then I will get a surgery date, looking at the last week of June. Trying to lose 36 pounds (10% of my body weight)  before surgery.  I want to be as healthy as possible to give myself the best possible surgery outcome.  So excited. Time has gone fast, when I first started this journey it seem like all the hoop jumping would take forever.  Some of it was very hard and embarrassing but its done. 

I went to see my Dr. (she is a new one) for the first time in many years. I have a wound on my foot that has been there for several months, I was convinced that I was a diabetic due to my weight, a higher blood sugar, and that wound. Had blood work done and I'm not even a pre-diabetic. Happy dance:) Apparently the wound isn't a wound but three warts. Thursday I finally see the Internist at the WLS so I will have a better picture of the hoops I will have to jump through. This WLS group is a Center of Excellence for Bariatric  Surgery, so grateful to live so close to this center, they are extremely thorough.l 

I went to the orientation for WLS on Thursday, I'm so excited to begin this journey. Or should I say to be on this journey. When I got back from orientation I got my Mammogram results back. Woot! Woot! Negative. I have my first doctors appointment on April 24 with the WLS internist, and EKG.  Also need to get a Pap smear, haven't had one of those in years either.  That's definitely a dip in this journey.  Almost a week and I haven't had any pop, that was easier than thought to give up. I have two more days to implement another new healthy lifestyle change.  Baby steps:)

Hope to be sleeved this year. Many hoops to jump through for this to happen.  Today I had my first mammogram in seven years, never wanted to go back because of being so fat. But it is a sleeve requirement, so it must be done. And I did it.....the technician brought me to the dressing room and gave me two hospital gowns to put on, one to open in the front and one to open up in the back. Will  big surprise they didn't fit, my arms are really large.  So I just wore my own top and just took it off during the procedure.  The tech was amazing.  So know I wait for the results.  I hope everything if fine.

So according to my insurance I don't have to wait to get sleeved because my BMI is 56. So as soon as my hoop jumping is complete I should be good to go. So because its not required to go through a supervised weight loss phase. I am going to implement a new healthy life style change each week, today I am giving up all pop, diet and regular.

I started this process about 10 years ago. But at the time my insurance would only pay for the RNY, I wanted to have the gastric sleeve, I didn't want to have my plumbing rerouted. So I lived life and gained more weight. Haven't been to the doctor in that long, no mammogram, no Pap smear, no physical to embarrassed by my weight.  Blessed to be healthy, other than weight. But I'm thinking I'm pre diabetic if not diabetic, always thirsty and have a wound on my foot that won't heal. I'm taking the bull by horns and and I can't wait to be sleeved. My Insurance now pays for the sleeve. I have orientation meeting with Dr. Foote's group on Thursday and a Mammogram on Tuesday.