Yer I cant upload a picture just yet, my appointment was at 2:30 today although I was there wondering about from about 2. Yes I was in the diabetic centre for my appointment aswell. My seminar was on the 2nd June, so it's all gone really quickly, I was expecting for his appointment to be in July, it went pretty well. The surgeon was really nice and talked through everything. He said the waiting list is between 4 to 4 n a half months long, but it can be earlier if there are cancelations etc. I mentioned my trip away in September and was waiting for him to say I couldn't go if it clashed with my op date, and he told me he could work around it, which was a major relief . he said they had a room funded in a private hospital, I'm sorry I missed what hospital he said, it began with a p though... He said it's for low risk patients that have no other illnesses, And that I could possibly have the operation earlier, but would mean losing 8kg in the next 4 weeks to bring my bmi to the qualifying level then having the op in July!!! Which would mean I would be healed by sept then I could still go away, or he could work it so I have the operation in October when I'm back. I'm not entirely sure what I'm going to do yet, as I had guesstimated with work that it would be near the end of the year and whilst they have been very accommodating with all appointments I've had, they have asked other members of my team at work to try and work there holidays around then so they are In work whilst I'm off, my team have been understanding and have done that not all at a detriment to them as some of them would have preferred to have July/August off rather than October. They won't expect people to change there holidays again at such short notice, but would mean I would leave skeleton staff at work. Anyway, I have until the end of the week to decide, I'm going to speak to work to see if they can help me with my choice, I'm edging toward the October date. Either way I'm officially on the waiting list eeeeek Which operation did you go for in the end? What did you think of the seminar?