2/1 Surgery is on the fence b/c of Pre-Op.

Hey everyone. I'm sorry I havent been in touch. I thank you for all your support. Its been a mad house around here. I had my pre-op appointment on 1/14 and my class on 1/18. I learned a few things this week... My surgery is STILL on but barely. I have a low platelet issue called I.T.P. and if you're platelets are below 100k, they wont do surgery. I've had this condition since 2007 so I know how things go. I had my son last year and they had me come in the day before my csection to do a blood product infusion that usually last me 3-4 months (meaning I have no problems w/my platelets) and even after the csection I had to stay 2 extra days because they were low. All my history has been with one dr in Atlanta who knows me well. I've seen a hematologist here 2 times and each time I saw a different dr and got different opinions. Crazy. So, I have been trying to tell them all of this and explain that the same thing needs to be done. They're not moving though.. my platelets last weekend were 44k and now they're 102k. And while I'm only 2k over the limit, they say that they can't justify it to the insurance company for the blood product and extra hospital stay (the blood product alone is around $40,000!). I understand the politics of all of this but I'm still scared. I know they'll pull a CBC (Complete Blood Count) on the morning of surgery but if I need that bag of medicine, it takes 4-6 hours to run. Thats a long time to hold up an OR for me and my feeling is.. they wont do it. So. We have that going on.

Also, my pre-op testing went great except for one thing: Vitamin D. Your vitamin D level is suppose to be 100 or better and mine is 16. I drink (skim) milk like they're gonna take it off the market so I don't understand this but... I was told that usually THIS cancels your surgery because if you're malabsorb, then you're likely to develop bone issues from lack of vitamin D. I'm taking 10,000 units of dry Vitamin D-3 to try to get these up before surgery at the advice of the surgical nurse.

I'm worried because of all of this compiled, Dr. Inman might say "you know what, its all just a little too much, scrap the surgery" and i'll just be a mess over it. I haven't heard anything since Friday around noon so.. I'm still going to proceed like everything is ok. I check in at 5am on Tuesday (2/1) morning and surgery is at 8am-- God willing and the creek dont rise.

Oh, and on top of all this, my son that I just spoke about.. His father is acting nuts so I had to go get a protective order this week which he's already violated. Ahhhhhh!!! *Screams!!!*

It'll get better. I'm going to do a video on Monday night before surgery, then a few from the hospital. They will be on YouTube.com under hkaplan82 so be on the look out. I'll come and post a link if it allows.

Well, let me finish packing my bag for the hospital. I'll be at Clarian North in Carmel from Tuesday till they say Friday but I'd bet I'm there for hematology reasons till Sunday. I love you all, don't give up hope and see you soon!

HD Kaplan

Sorry you are going thru all of this.  I will save a spot for you on the losers bench.  By the way, I think Clarian Bariatrics Rock.

Christy

 I was very nervous that they would cancel my surgery too, but you know what everything went fine. I was scheduled for 8am also & it flew by. My surgery only lasted 1 hour which normally is supposed to last 2.5-4.5 hrs. Clarion was great, just try to relax. Also, I had pre-op class the same day, it was a nasty drive in that morning. Anyways, good luck, hope the snow doesn't stop you, & walk walk walk! And the onQ pump helps, trust me I noticed when I took it out that I should have left it in longer! See ya on the losers bench!

 Just curious if you were able to have surgery today!  I'm hoping since there is no post saying it was cancelled, that it wasn't.  Hope everything went well!!

Stephanie E

 Wow. I hope you had it today and it all turned out well! 

hey... i just got home from the hospital. i had to stay a few extra days because of pain. im still in an amazing amount of pain, really sore and cant get rid of the gas. Its getting better but getting better means im not really to murder someone for relief. :( 

 I am so glad you were able to have your surgery! Welcome to the losers bench! I was wondering how things went. The pain will get better, I got some chewable Gas-x from walmart in cherry flavor that immediately helped with my gas pain. Good luck & keep us updated!