Terri
Well-Known Member
So I had the appointment today with the cardiologist regarding the EKG from pre-op testing. She right away told me that the EKG reading something was amiss was just from my large chest. She says she will clear me for surgery. I thought yay I am on my way to the OR. Of course then she wanted to know if I had tried loosing weight before I decided WLS was the way to go. I told her yes, then she wants to know what, so I start naming them. Then all of sudden she decides well maybe she should have me do a stress test. Now let me just tell you I know how Charlie Brown felt when Lucy pulled the ball out from under him! So I did get lucky enough that they had an opening right away. I did the stress test and again she says she will clear me for surgery. She fooled me once already so no way was I going to let her see my joy this time. Then she's something like she would rather see people lose weight the "natural" way, but since it sounds like I had tried she would clear me for surgery. I really think if I hadn't satisfied her idea that I had tried enough "natural" ways to lose weight she would not have given me cardiac clearance!