Originally published March 1, 2009

Get on with it already.

October/November of last year was when I reallllly started digging in to the whole bariatric surgery stuff. First part of November I had made up my mind. It was something I wanted… needed to do. Did more reading, started getting hooked up with a surgeon, started jumping through all sorts of hoops. I went to my first meeting expecting that I would be under the knife before Christmas.

Then a wall was sort of put up.

Insurance requires six months of medically supervised weight loss as a pre-qualification. I would have been fine, but since I was only visiting my doctor every other month or so, the surgeon didn’t think they’d take that and tacked another three months on to the time-table.