Approved!!!

I'm starting this blog in part as a precipice into my journey with the lap-band, and in part just to chronicle my life in the center of the apple...the big one that is. For now I'm going to stick with the surgery, as it's at the forefront of my mind.

It started in May. I sat in a surgeon's office on the upper east side, listening to him...well, in truth half listening to him and half wondering if I was really sitting there after years of thinking of having surgery and tossing the idea aside as ridiculous, or not quite being ready.

I knew the office would be way up on 5th, but somehow didn't make the connection of exactly where it was until I was sitting in the cab crossing from Madison on 82nd or 83rd. LITERALLY right across the street from the Met. WTF? Really?? That was my omen. All my internet research, hours combing various sites trying to figure out where to begin, and what surgeon to pick (there were literally dozens) and I was satisfied based not on the number of surgeries this guy had done, or his credentials, or even the quality of the website; no, solely on the fact that they managed to get an office lease across from the museum. Yes, dis bitch is crazy. Ok, perhaps not quite so crazy. I had done all the other research ahead of time after all.

Three months later, I'm approved! Just three days after sending in my packet to the insurance company (SHOUT out to Healthnet!) I have a surgery date!!! Amazing. I want to log all of it. Well, not ALL of it. I have serious doubts that anyone reading will want to know the joys of a monometry procedure. But I'll try to go back over the last three months to help anyone that's thinking about doing this. I'd just like to tell me story here, for whoever is interested. I hope to keep it entertaining.