Home from preop testing and physical

It went pretty well. Though I have to say, YUCK! to the upper GI. I didn't think I'd get through drinking the barium and keep it down. All in all it went well. My physical went fine. The nurse was afraid she didn't get my BP right and when I asked her what it was as she was preparing to check the other arm, she was shocked to hear 100/80 is my norm. I also had to reassure them 3 times that I don't take any meds. Guess I'm the healthier of the people they see.

So as long as nothing major shows up on my labs, I'm good to go for Dec 17th. Next step is the preop class on Dec 4.

Glad to see you made it!  That barium is YUMMY, eh?  I was okay drinking it, but then when I had to do all those turns and swi**** around....I thought  I might puke.  

Dec. 17th here you come!

Melissa,  One more step closer.....This surgery is not for the faint of heart....If the critics only knew all of the hoops we go thru to get here they might be amazed...Good luck I can't wait to hear how you do.. So what is your new years resolution going to be this year?????   
Paula C.

OMG!!!  Isn't the upper GI the worst???    Like I said earlier after I had mine, the only thing that kept me from puking it up was the knowledge that I'd have to drink another cup of it if I did!!

Then the tech offers me a cup of water when I'm done with the test.  Like that's gonna help ....  

So glad that's over. 

You'll enjoy the preop class.  Take a pen, highlighter, and notebook with you, and a support person if you can as they'll catch things you might not.  You'll get your binder with all your info, and your neato keen lunch bag with your baby spoon, sippy cup, restaurant card, and little medicine cup!!

That sucks,
Hate to be a downer....but at Clarian we didn't have to do the upper GI. Thank God it sounds horrible.
shanna

Oh mannnnn -  

Shanna, if I didn't like you so much, I'd slip you a cup of barium so you could enjoy the experience too!!   

It's not pleasant.  Imagine drinking liquid chalk.  Being half nekkid and wearing a hospital gown - being lowered onto your back on a cold, hard table, and being asked to roll around.  

Now, the tech said it was so the barium would coat my stomach.  Yeah, right.  I think she was filming it for YouTube and adding circus music to it.

Then, she gives me another cup of this stuff - thinner this time.  With a big 'ol straw.  And asks me to take 3 big gulps of this stuff so they can check my swallowing. 

I tell her if it is any more than that, she will get a chance to check my projectile vomiting.  She is not amused.

Then she smiles, tells me I was a good girl (I'm probably old enough to be this chick's grandma), and offers me a drink of water to get the taste out of my mouth.  I tell her to get the taste out of my mouth, I need tequila and some limes.  She had no sense of humor.

She simply hands me the sheet of paper that she gives all the circus animals that tells me for the next couple of days, my poop will look like marshmallows or be a funny "golden" color.  Oh good - ghost poop.  Too bad I missed Halloween.

OMG LOL! I almost choked on my grilled hawaiian chicken....
shanna

Melissa,

Let me know if you still want to do lunch sometime..ok?

Sherri

Congratulations Melissa!!  So glad to hear that everything went well. I hope the days don't drag on for you like they did for me.  Waiting is soooo hard for me.  Patience isn' t one of my better qualities!! 

Hey Gal!

One more thing you can check off that list.  Yeah!  I will go for this on 12/10, so I'm sure we'll have plenty of things to talk about when we meet at our nutritional class.  Talk to you soon!