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Pre-op bloodwork, ekg, ultrasound, and chest x-rays yesterday.  Along with meeting w/ Doc and nutrition and wound class.  It's coming up quickly.  I begin fast on Saturday for 5/3 Monday surgery.  I can do this!  The skinny girl inside of me is definitely ready to kill the fat chick!!  ;)

Switched docs!!  ;)  I am now seeing Dr. Nye in Pensacola.  And, I'm SO glad I changed.  He looked through the pathology reports, etc., and I DO NOT have Barrett's esophagus.  I do have 2 hernias and am going for the RnY on May 3.  I am excited, scared, anxious, etc., all rolled together.  I'm a big ball of nerves right now.  I'm feeling very lonely  because all of my friends who have gone through this are in other states.  I was there when they went through their procedures and helped support them.  Now, I know that they are there for me...it's just not the same.   I hate calling, texting, msging, or emailing all the time to bother them; so, I'm coping right now.  I wake up some mornings just a nervous wreck.  I've been teasing myself thinking that I have until 5/3 to decide if this is the best thing for me.  I guess once I'm in there, it'll be too late, right??  LOL

I went to the WLS class, passed through the psych eval, and the nutrition class.  Went today for the B-2....bariatric 2nd appointment with the surgeon.  After looking through some prior tests, he notices that I have some notes on a pathology report that the gastro guy didn't go over.  (He just put me on nexium.)  According to the WLS doc, I have Barrett's esophagus w/ pre-cancerous cells.  And, after painstakenly making the decision to have the VSG, recommends I now have a RNY.  My first action was a phone call to the gastro guy for a consultation on the pathology report.  (And, why he didn't go over it.)   My question is:  Anyone out there have Barrett's and the VSG??  Thanks!!!

I have just started the information gathering parts of this.  I have been studying now for the past 3 or 4 months and am overwhelmed by the tons of information out there.  Sometimes I have to take a step back for a while for fear that my brain will explode.  LOL

I never even considered myself, "to this point," until my endocrinologist suggested it in September '09.  I have a metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and hypothyroidism.  I think that I would be comfortable losing about 80 lbs.   For the past 10-13 years, I have tried nearly every diet and excercise, off and on, and haven't done much to move the numbers on the scale.  Or, I will lose only to have an injury and, while healing, will gain it all back plus some.  Recently, I have lost and kept off 11 lbs. 

Now, we're talking surgery.  I met with the surgeon for the first time, in a group setting and I have an appointment scheduled with mental health for the psychology part of the process.  I haven't decided which surgery to have; however, I do know that something must be done.  I cannot deal with watching my body run over me any longer.  I feel out of control, somehow.  And, the ups and downs are getting to me.  So, I'm gonna, "go to the mattresses!"  If my body wants a fight, then, a fight it will get!!