just waiting

A Rundown of the things I need and have done to get the ball really rolling....

Appointment with The Nurse Practitioner on August 12th, apparently I am fat enough for the surgery hehe....
Appointment with The Nutritionist on August 12th apparently I will be able to change my eating habits enough for the surgery to be successful.... :)
Appointment with Sleep Medicine Doctor on September 9th.... yeah it's required...
Appointment with the Psychologist on September 10th.... and As crazy as I might be, it's not too crazy to have the RNY (Roux en y gastric bypass surgery)....
The Actual Sleep Study on September 15th- which is almost like a nice little vacation since you get to go spend the night in a hotel and wake up and have a full complementary breakfast,only your hooked up to about 1,000 wires and patches and these bands around your stomach and you are woken up by an intercom if you mess up anything, and someone comes into your room multiple times in the middle of the night to hook you back up :)
Visit with my PCP for a pap and things of that nature to determine that I'm a healthy candidate for the surgery.

So now..... I wait.

I was informed by the Nurse Practitioner that I have to wait for the follow up appointment with Sleep Medicine on November 11th to determine if I need a CPAP. I was supposed to follow up in 4 weeks from the study (around mid-october) but the darn doctor is on vacation the whole damn month and so therefore, I must wait until Nov. 11th. After this appointment if I do need a CPAP I may have to do another sleep study with the CPAP on to have it titrated to the right level, and then I must have 30 days of compliance with CPAP use before I can schedule the surgery.

I also have to lose 16 pounds, which I am fully confident I can do in about a months time, which I will be starting to do probably around the beginning of november.

So far, all of my labs have been normal and I do not need to do anything crazy in that aspect.... I am so glad that it could just be a few more months and I could be losing weight successfully like my mom has and this time being able to keep it off. I can honestly say I am ecstatic!
I am going to try to post everything from appointments to pre-op,post-op and weight loss information on this blog....

November 11th- you cannot come soon enough, I am sooooo eager to hopefully hear that I do not have severe enough sleep apnea to have to use a CPAP.... and I can schedule immediately if I have lost the 16 pounds at this point in time!