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Hello All! 

I have been avoiding my Blog and spending way too much time on the Lap Band message board lately!

I finally had my surgery a week ago Thursday.  At my first appointment at my doctors office I am down a confirmed 13 pounds!!!  I'm not sure if my scale here is accurate or not but according to my scale here it shows that I'm down almost 19 pounds total.   Im amazed and happy at my weight loss so far!  Now I just need to start exercising.  I'm still really soar from my surgery.  My left shoulder is kiling me.  So i'm using that as my "excuse" as to why I'm not actively exercising at this point and time.

Hello everyone!  I need your help.  I need to find a Physhiatrist on Long Island that has experience with obesity/obesity surgery who accepts Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Illinois insurance.  I have already tried going through my insurance company and they have no idea who specialies in what area.  I have called all the doctors that are listed in my area that are under the plan and no one has called me back.  I have tried going through my surgeon's office but all the people that he has contacts with do not carry my type of insurance...or any type of insurance for that matter.  I did find a doctor that I liked very much in the area but he does not accept any insurance and is very expensive and I just can't keep up with it.  The last time I checked my last name wasn't Rockeffeller!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have already gotten my Physc Eval done for my surgery and am all cleared in that respect.  I have my surgery coming up in two months and feel the need to see someone on a regular basis to help me deal with issues as they arrive while going through my weight loss journey.  I have 200+ pounds to loose and expect the road to be a little bumpy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If anyone can help me out I will be forever greatful!!!

Ok, I know I must not be the only one out there that fights nightly with this dammed CPAP machine.  As it turns out I have severe sleep apena and have to sleep with this god dammed machine every night.  It's at the point now where I feel like I have to take something to relax so that I can actually fall asleep with the machine.  The machine is kinda cool, it's actually a BiPap machine.  Has two different air pressures.  One when I inhale and one when I exhale.  The mahine really breathes with me.  But this mask underneath my nose is just not comfortable.  I've only managed to physcially fall asleep with it on twice.  Both times I wake up drewling.  The first time the mask was on the floor next to my bed and I was in the same position that I feel asleep in.  Don't know how that happened.  Without the machine I can fall asleep within a matter of minutes.  With the machine, sometimes it takes me an hour.  Now those of you out there with sleep apena understand how precious our sleep really is.  I can't afford to be giving up and hour each night while I'm trying to sleep with the machine.  I'm going to the doctor tomorrow with my machines as a follow up tomorrow but I know hes gonna look at me like i have five heads.  

Anyone have any suggestions or the same problem?  My biggest problem sometimes is trying to stay awake long enough to actually go to bed.  I usually fall asleep while watching TV or doing somthing of that nature when I get home from work.  If I really push  my self and force myself to stay away by the time it is bedtime I literally pass out.  But it's no fun when you are 1/2 alseep trying to watch American Idol with tooth pics in your eyes!

After all my docs finally submitted their reports I was able to pick my tentative surgery date.  Come hell or high water, I am going to make sure that this is going to happen on the first surgery date.  You have no idea of what I had to go through to get this scheduled.  Things are very hectic for me right now in my life personally.  Between my day job, my job on weekend, my avon business, and that fact that I am schedule to start college again on May 15th, it has to happen.  The date now is April 26, 2007.  Anyone who is out there and reads this, please send good thoughts my way to enable me to have the surgery on this date.  I can't put stuff off any longer.  I want to be on the other side of surgery really bad.

Although now that I have a date and it is real, I am starting to get a little more nervous that I thought I would be initially.  I have not had any surgery that required a hospital stay since I will a littel kid.  I'm just a little anxious about being wheeled down into the operating room and them waking up in recovery...i didn't have a good experience the last time in recovery.  Granted it ws almost thirty years ago but I remember.

Well I gotta get running!

Ok...here it is, my first entry.  Well I must start by saying that the year 2007 is going to bring foward alot of changes in my life.  I kinda like the idea by documenting them in a journal and taking pictures of myself as i go along to see a visual record of my progress.   I went to go see my surgeon for the first time this past week on the 8th.  I decided to go with Dr. Gadaleta.  I decided to do the lap band surgery and have gone ahead and made all of my doctors appointments to get everything scheduled on the list of things that I need to have done that was given to me by Yvonne at the doctors office.  I went for my sleep study test this past weekend.  Sleep study...what a pun on words...i was definately up more than i was aleep.  But the tech said that the doc will definately be asking me to come back...have sleep apena..and that they will  do another study with me hooked up to this machine with a mask to see if that will improve my sleep...sounds sexy eh?  Hey, anything that gets me a full nights sleep uninterrupped, I'm all for.  Can't even imagine the last time I slept an entire night without having to wake up every two-three hours. 

Then I went today to my primary doc to get the letter of support and had my pulmonary test.  Of course, I failed that test as well.  So I'm sure ill have to go to a pulumary guy before hand.

Have a few other doctor appointments this week.  Will write more when I get a chance.   Must get off and go to sleep, work in the AM.