In step 5 you have to see an internist. Now this step was one that I was looking forward to the most out of everything just because I thought the internist would finally tell me everything that was wrong with me. See I hadn't had good medical care my whole life and so I thought this was my chance to find out just how unhealthy I was cause of the gross obesity.
However that didn't happen. I was expecting him to run a lot of tests and make sure that I was okay for surgery. But all that he did was listen to my heart, check my blood results from the hospital tests and he checked the EKG that the hospital did as pre screening for the surgery. He then asked me all my family history, if I had ever had a sleep apnea test done. When I said yes 10 years ago he wanted another one, so I got to go through that hell, only to be told that I have sleep apnea, now I am hoping that with the weight loss so will go this problem as I really hate the sleep machine. It is a mask that you wear when you go to bed and it forces air into your lungs as you sleep to ensure that you don't die cause you stop breathing to long. Plus they wont preform the surgery without this test done and without you having your sleep machine if you need one.
Now no word of a lie, my appointment for him was at 1:45pm I got into see him at 2:15pm and was out of his office by 2:30pm and it was even shorter when I went in for the results of my sleep test. Guess he figured I was healthy enough not to warrant all the extra tests and stuff I was expecting, I am not fully sure and honestly I don't care now as the surgery is done. All it does is leave me to say that for this step each person maybe different and for me it was not really all that big a deal and was over in a blink of an eye.
So there really isn't anything more that I can say about this section. Accept that usually what would happen now would be that you would wait a week and the internist would dictate if you were suitable for surgery or not and if you were the surgeon's office would then schedule your surgery.
However for me it was different, The surgeon's office had called me on Nov 16th and had said they had a cancellation and was wondering if i wanted the surgery date and time, which was December 9th at 8:30am. I said hell ya because I had really believed that because people were dragging their feet I wouldn't get to have my surgery till February and I really had started 2009 praying and hoping for the surgery to happen before Christmas. I know people are sitting there going why you'll miss out on all the great food. Well I looked at like this, If I could get through the holiday's without eating I could make it through anything.
In the next posting I will describe what you have to do to prepare for the surgery once it is scheduled and your given your date and time to arrive at the hospital.
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