My journey begins .....

I am new to this, so please be kind :)

After much research and hoping that this would happen, i finally have a date for my operation! July 25th to be exact :) I had a constant thought in my head, that my surgeon wasnt going to do this for some reason. Im sure everyone had that right? Surely it cant just be me?

So heres the journey i went through ....

I went to see my GP, as i have PCOS, and in the past i had tried metformin i think it was, and that worked a treat, i lost about 10 kilos on that but i had hives from it, in a way i wanted to continue taking them to make the weight fall off me, but then i thought about my health and went back to see him, he said stop taking so i did. I went back to him about 2 months ago now and asked if there is anything else i can try, he said he is NOT going to prescribe me any more tablets, and that he had been to some seminar recently about the lap-band and that this is alot more safer than tablets. I said ok, got the refferal to Dr Kirrof, and went home told my parents about it, did some research etc. I rang the surgeons office and asked about approx costs. When i found out i told my parents, there was no way we could afford that :(

After researching on the net, i found out about how you can get money released early from the super :) so now mum is doing that to pay for my op :)

I had my appt with the nurse you have to see prior to seeing surgeon, that went fine, then my 1st appt. with Dr K, that went great aswell! was soo nervous. Then came the dietician, my main thing i have to change is to stop drinking soft drink and to start back at the gym when it comes back on in 2 weeks, although after talking to surgeon today i going to go over put on hold for 1 more month and just walk with mum until my op.

My appt i had today i was sitting in the waiting room, feeling sick i was that nervous lol, he called me in, then told me that it was all going ahead, he got out a sample of the band and port to show mum what it was all about, and explain it more to her etc. As my liver isnt enlarged he said i dont really have to do optifast, but i am thinking of doing it for a week? i am still deciding on this one. So let the people i have told about this, that its all ships ahead and yeah!

Thats enough rambling on for me, till next time :P

Mel.!