Step 3

Okay its been a couple of days since my last posting and I left off with the second step in the process to surgery. Well the third step is you actually meet your surgeon. In this meeting if you haven't done any research you are given the opportunity to find out exactly what the surgery will entail and just how much pain or discomfort your expected. However as said in previous posts I had done so much research that I pretty much knew what the surgery was going to be. So I took the time to make sure that I felt comfortable with my surgeon, I asked him how long he had be doing them, why he decided this specialty to pursue. He then takes you through all your medical options for losing weight. However he is very candid about the different options and the pro's and con's of each. My surgeon prefers the gastric bypass as he has personally seen more removals of the lap band than insertions over the last few years. For me the lap band once I did the research and asked the questions was not for me. I couldn't get over the fact that I would be able to feel it under my skin and I had heard that it really only had mild success. Plus you could just not lose any weight or so little your left feeling why did I do this. This step is not a long one your only in the office with him for may 15 minutes unless you have a lot of questions and are very unsure about your decision then I suppose you could spend a lot more time in the office with the surgeon. Meeting the surgeon for me solidified just how much I really wanted the surgery and how much I just knew inside my heart that this was the surgery for me, this was my option, this was what was going to finally help me succeed at the weight loss battle. I was finally going to be the thinner version of myself that I had always envisioned my whole life. I know that I most likely will never be a size 6 goddess, but to not have to go to specialty stores to buy clothes will be monstrous for me. To know that I can go into the gap, old navy, ambercrombie and finch...or any other of the trendy it stores and buy off the rack when all is said and done will be something I have not done since i was a very young child. My talk with the surgeon only fed my excitement and desire to have this surgery that much sooner. 

As I said this is a small posting cause really there isn't much to say about step 3 as you meet your surgeon and you need to make the meeting what you need it to be. So go prepared have a list of questions and concerns and be ready to really get informed. Providing you truly want to be informed.