Hi and welcome to the site, im glad you got a lot of feed back from everyone. Aint this site brill lol. Im pre op looking at December for my bypass. I never gave wls a second thought, it was my gp that mentioned it to me, and i must say i was shocked. I went home and thought about it and within 2 days was sat back with the doc asking her to refer me. Im from Sheffield and my journey has been so straight forward since January, except having to lose some weight to prove that i can do this. I really do feel for the people on here who are having to put up a fight to get funding it must be awful for them, and i realise how lucky i am. Well love good luck with your band. You are in the best place for advise x