First Appointment!!!

$32 for daycare, 3.5 hrs of drive, 235km, $15 for 2.5hrs of parking a 13 vials of blood later....I did it!

I drove myself to the city for my first appointment!!!!

I'm sure some are saying...whipty doo...she drove in a city. But I hate driving, I especially hate driving where there are more then 3 lanes of traffic. So for me to drive all the way into Finch Ave by myself is HUGE!!!! 

My appointment went well, the surgeon and I talked about my options and agreed the RNY is my best bet, I'm a great canadaite. Ideally for my height I should be 154lbs (I laughted and said I would also have to lose some ribs and my right thigh bone!). He chuckled with me. He asked what my goal was. I said 190-200 is what I envisioned. He said that sounded good and once there we could re evaluate. Remember I'm 5'11"...and big boned (no joke even at my current size you can count my ribs)

I asked about my hernia. He asked to see it and was shocked at the size. He said he would NOT do it at the time of the RNY because the recover woul be harder and it would likely come back as I lose weight. 

When and if I have skin removal surgery (which with out a miricle I will be having) that's when he will fix it unless it starts causing issues. Which at this point it doesn't bug me unless I've eaten something I shouldn't have or it's swollen. Today was a good day with it i wore my size 26 jeans all day with no issues!!!  

I now have to wait for an appointment with an internal medicine doctor, then go to my 3 appintments April 1 (RN, SW, RD). At that point if everyone else agrees I'm ready I meet with the surgeon again and book for surgery. 

Assuming all goes well I'm looking end of April or May. 

Thankfully unless something goes wrong he doesn't see why I can't go back to work the following week at the office and 2 weeks for the hospital job (guess this is the added bonus for administrative work)

At this point I'm still not really telling anyone, again it still may not happen. I'm hoping to get more responsabilties at work (and more hours) and really hope that May is the latest I have to wait as my office job as it is seasonal and June is prime time. 

I'll keep everyone posted!