Eddie started looking at the different types of surgeries he could get. He was first thinking about just the regular old gastirc bypass. At the time, that was what was most popular and all we had heard of really. So we went to his primary care doctor to get a referral to a gastroenterologist.
His primary doctor wasn't really into the idea of surgery. He had said he had a few patients who had done the bypass and were miserable. This didn't discourage Eddie though, he had his mind set that he wanted to get this done and he was moving on to the next step. A consultation with a gastro doc.
At his visit with the gastro, he was told that the doc wouldn't preform the surgery unless Eddie went through 6 months of medically supervised dieting through the Sharp weightloss program. (Hmmmm...through their own program huh?) He knew he wanted this done and he was willing to do what he had to do to get it done. He went to the weightloss meetings and found out he needed to buy the Sharp weightloss food. At $300 per week. RIGHT!!!! Because so many people can afford to spend $1200 a month on food for ONE PERSON. That just wasn't going to happen.
After this discouraging turn of events, Eddie put the idea of weight loss surgery on the back burner for a while. We were in the middle of trying to short-sale our home and find a rental. But I always knew this was in the back of his mind while we were dealing with other things in our life and that the search would start up again when our life settled down a little more.
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