Melinda Goes to the Doctor

Well I went to the doctor today. We talked and I explained my situation. So he took my height and weight and figured out my BMI (48 for anyone who is curious) and did an EKG and took blood and everything so that could send a remiss to the gastric bypass surgeons in Landskrona. So I guess it is official, I am on my way to a gastric bypass. He also gave me some weight loss medicine that is supposed to help with apetite and depression, to go along with the pills I already take for depression that is.

It was very hard to go there and ask for this, I had to have Jens come with me actually, but I did go and I really like my doctor because he said that sometimes people just can't manage on thier own. He said "Du klarar inte helt enkelt på eget hand, eller hur?". And not in a condescending sarcastic way, but in a it's ok way. Plus the fact that he looks like Dr. McSteamy on Grey's Anatomy of course, all helped to make it easier to go and actually do it.

But I am seeing him in a month or so and he will check my weight and everything again. The waiting time for the surgery is quite long, about a year or so, so it isn't like it will happen now. But Ihaven't made the decision lightly, as the doctor said, it has been on my mind for at least a year now. If not longer. So he respected the fact that this is a last resort for me, that I have tried and secceeded and tried and failed and so on and so forth for so long now that maybe this is something I have to have to keep the weight off. That I can lose it isn't really in question here, it is keeping it away that is the problem. If I have the surgery I HAVE to follow the eating guidelines and so. Now I don't HAVE to.

So we will see how it all goes...