Everything should be going into insurance next week. They are pretty confident that it will be approved. With my Bmi and co-morbidities they didn't even require a written statement from me. And I didn't need a sleep study. Hopefully, I won't need one before my surgery. I've never had any troubles with anesthesia or wakeing back up. I had three anesthesia's two years ago for my kidney stones. The nutritionist gave me lots of paperwork and information. Luckily she knew what she was talking about. A lot of bandsters get miss information about the diet because the nutritionist give them gastric bypass diets. She had me cross out the bypass info on any of my handouts. The only thing i have a problem with is the calcium supplement she said I would have to take. All but one of my kidney stones have been calcium and I was told by my urologist not take calcium. I do get enough in my diet now. I've tracked it on fitday.com and my food diary.com over the years. I love milk, cheese and yogurt. I don't now if I'll be able to get the calcium required after surgery. But you can guarentee I'll be using myfooddiary to track calories and nutrition. Especially, in the beginning just to see what I can take in. If I fall short on calcium, I'll take the supplement accordingly. But I'm not blindly taking a 1200mg calcium pill.

If anyone has ever had kidney stones, you know why! When i was sixteen, I had a kidney stone as big as my doctor's thumb. The cut me on the side about 6 inches. I was out of school for 4 mos. my sophmore year. The recent ones were the most painful though. 6 weeks, a stent and 3 liptotripsies. And I work through it all though because I had too. Not because I felt like I could. I'd work 4 hours, rush home for vicodin, sleep 18 hours and start over. The stent caused the most pain. And if I overdid it there was blood in my urine. Which was everyday. There was a BITCH at work that didn't feel like I was pulling my own weight at work during this time. She gave me a really hard time. Luckily, she was gone before I became the boss or I would have fired her!

Anyway, so I will be anxiously awaiting approval and my surgery date for the next few weeks. Pray that it won't be a long wait. In the meantime I need to get my eating under control. I'm eating everything under the sun. Stuff i haven't ate in years. Geesh, I'm going to have so much more to lose if I don't slow down.