Sleep Study - Part Deux

The sleep study went as well as could be expected. I checked in at MMC around 8:45 and was escorted to my room by 9:00. The attended had me wait while he finished getting another patient checked in, this took about forty-five minutes.

The attendant finallly arrived and began getting me hooked up to all the monitors. There were at least eight just on my head, totally should have shaved it beforehand, my hair was goopy in the morning from the pasty stuff they use.

Once I was all hooked up the rest of the night went something like this:

Sleep.

Wakes me up, puts on a C-Pap.

Sleep.

During sleep roll over onto my side.

Wake me up.

"Please lay on your back for this, if you have a C-Pap at home you can lay on your side but for tonight lay on your  back."

Fall asleep again.

Wake me up.

This time he puts a strap around my head because I apparently can't keep my mouth shut with the C-Pap on.

Eventually fall asleep again.

Wakes me up at 5:00 and begins to unhook everything.

"How did you sleep?"

I eventually make it home by quarter to six or so and try to stay awake. That didn't last, I fell asleep watching something on Netflix I think.

23 days and counting.

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Sleep Study Tonight

Tonight I have to go do my sleep study. Which basically means I will be hooked up to a bunch of machines and they will watch  me sleep and determine if I have sleep apnea. I'm fairly certain I already have it but this still needs to be done prior to surgery.

Problem is I have a hard time sleeping in unfamiliar places, kinda seems counter productive to a sleep study.

Sweet dreams everyone!

There is a light at the end of the tunnel.

I have a date for my surgery!

Obviously I'm very excited.

I met with my new surgeon today. He told me I could go with the sleeve but I had to be open to having it revised later to the RNY because the sleeve was going to make my reflux worse. Being as I'd ultimately have to have the RNY to repair the reflux issue I just opted to go with the RNY, no point in having two surgeries.

Now the waiting begins. August 19th is the soonest they could get me in. Granted they do have an opening next week but that isn't enough time to have it approved by my insurance.

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I know it's been ages since I've posted.

However, I'm back again and things are changing a bit.  This blog used to be just a place for me to talk about stuffs, some relevant, some not at all. Now it will be to chronicle my journey through bariatric surgery.

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I started seeing my surgeon back in January but ended up having a hiccup in everything when I lost my job with PG&E. Eventually I was able to get on Medi-Cal and I'm still able to have the surgery, just more hoops to jump through insurance wise than I had with a PPO.

Fast forward to April, I have insurance again and was able to retain my PCP and get referred back to my surgeon.

As of mid-June I've completed my endoscopy, psychological evaluation, and meetings with the nutritionist. I'm having my overnight sleep study and physical therapy assessment at the end of July.

My surgeon tells me it's time to get me on the schedule. Sweet!

Turns out my surgeon can't get me in until the end of November. Total buzz kill as I'm planning on transferring in fall of 2015 to a university and want about a year under my belt with my surgery before that happens.

Luckily, my surgeon's partner has openings in late July, the downside to this is I can't see him until July 21, on the plus side he was out of town until July 14 and only sees people on Mondays, so hopefully his schedule hasn't filled up too much.

Really, I just want it done before fall semester starts on August 18th.

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That's where I'm at effective today. Post surgery I plan on updating at least once a week with pics and weigh-in info. Other posts as well but that will be the bare minimum. 

That's enough for tonight. Until next time.

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