I AM APPROVED!

Today at 11:11 AM I missed a call from Nurse Jennifer.  Her voice mail made my day.

"Hey Jamie, it's Jennifer at the bariatric center.  I was calling to see when you want to get your surgery scheduled. I got the approval, so call me back!"

Music to my ears.

I gave her a call back and my surgery is set for Monday, 16 June at 7:30 AM.

So.

Happy.

I have to attend a pre-op appointment on 6 June for two hours.  I think this is the part where they go over everything to expect before/during/after surgery and to provide an opportunity to ask more questions?  We shall see!

The morning of my surgery I have to be there at 5:30 AM.  I'm not going to be able to sleep that night anyway, so that probably won't be an issue getting up at 4 AM to wash my hair and straight iron it (heh heh).  Besides, I will probably be sleeping most of that day anyhow!  If I'm not taking a walk up and down the hallway or to the restroom, I plan on catching up on my beauty sleep!

So I owe Amber some of my chocolate chip toffee cookies.  I will bring them for her on the 6th.  Small price to pay to expedite my paperwork.  I can't believe it only took 5 business days (Monday holiday doesn't count!).  I don't know what I was worried about -- thinking I'd be denied and have to make an appeal -- I did everything by the book though!

I start my liquid diet on June 2.  I really don't think I'm going to have any problem complying.  Honestly, I've had enough "last" meals the last few months.  I am ready to do whatever it takes to be SUCCESSFUL.

Oh, I forgot.  While I was at work today I instant messaged my brother and let him know the news.  He asked me if I had heard of some guy on MasterChef that had lost 155 lbs. since the show last year.  Apparently he was 400 lbs. and shocked viewers by his weight loss.  He had a sleeve gastrectomy.  He sent me an article about it which led me to a doctor's blog about WLS.  Thought I'd share a link to a very interesting article about how weight loss surgery resets the bodyweight set-point.