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Funding sorted, hospital chosen...exciting!!

SCOOBYDOOBYDOO

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Hi all,
Well, my G.P phoned me this afternoon to tell me that he has sent off my referral to Birmingham so I'm getting excited now.
Hope its not too long before I get my first appointment...
The letter I had said they will talk to me about it then put me on a liquid diet to lose 5% of my weight and test my committment...wonder if they will give me a date to do it by or if I just let them know when its done. Is there a limit of time that you can be on the liquid diet for? Then it said if I have fulfilled their wishes I get referred to surgeon then should get a date within 18 weeks if all is well. I am so excited, apprehensive, scared!! LOL!!
Leanne xx
 
Thanks girls.:D
Emmaroo, did they give you a certain weight to get to then you have to phone them? So what happens between reaching that goal until you wait for surgery? I'd be scared I would put some weight back on.
Leanne x
 
Yeah they said just ring up when I've lost 2 stone and he'll see me for the op within a few weeks. I'm also scared about putting some on between then and the surgery but I think I'll just stay on a low fat diet (with the exeption of some pizza on the day i get down haha) until the surgery.

To be honest, I wish he'd have given me a date to do it by, that way I wouldn't have the gap inbetween. I'm not sure how long my liver will stay shrunk.
 
Looks like you won't be waiting too long then:D
Are you on the dreaded milk diet? How's it going?
Which hospital are you going to? x
 
Hopefully won't be waiting too long now :D

Yeah, I'm on day 3 of the dreaded milk diet. Lost 10lbs so far, but I think thats probably mostly water. I'm surprising myself with how well I'm doing but I've got such a strange craving for a slightly burned kebab shop pizza covered in black olives with spicey meat and stuff on it haha. I don't even like olives or kebab shop pizza.

I'm in Stoke, so not too far away from Birmingham. I think everywhere is different with the waiting times though. I'm about 4 months from referal. :)
 
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