1 week!!

I go in for my preop testing today.  Not entirely sure what to expect, but we'll see!  Need to weigh in with Nancy and see how her scale differs from mine - I am neurotic.  But I also didn't lose way more than I was required so I am playing it super safe the next weekl.

Dr. P said she had to cancel someone's surgery for the first time a couple weeks ago due to the weight not being lost.  Eek!

Good luck today!  Wow- your turn is almost here!!

By the time the day of surgery rolls around, you will be well below your surgery goal weight.  That day of clear liquids beforehand will make you drop a few extra pounds!

I don't remember being weighed in the day of pre-op, but I am not sure.

Hi Jenn,
   Mercy, wasn't it just yesterday when we were supporting each other through the frustrations of the program the never ends?  And now you are but one week away from your new beginning.  Wow.  Are your nerves better or worse?  I'd like to say mine are under control but since I threw a corker of a temper tantrum (my first in about 42 years) on Monday night, I'd have to say the stress is showing a bit.  LOL.  So what are you going to be doing in this next wseek?  All prepared?  Treading

I am so excited for you.  Everything will be fine.  I dropped 2 more pounds from the clear liquid diet, so you will be fine.  Just don't go bananas!!!  You have come so far I know you won't let anything stop you now!!

Thanks!  Gonna take it easy the next week I think.

Of course I just found melting mama's you tube video about how she said she wouldn't do it over again evenwith the issues she had/is having.  Most people I read about still WOULD have had the surgery regardless of issues so this kinda threw me for a loop.  Of course I have issues right now with my rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia that I have to deal with and her whining about vitamin deficiency is kind of lame, imo.  But, it's still just an opinion,  Different from what I would have thought since she is a big influence on the message boards.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgRtxRvd3pE&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u06IY3YlZxE&NR=1

Hi, I jus****ched the video, and all I can say is that it is so easy for her to blame the surgery for everything she is "going" through.  I was hypoglycemic, and fat.  I have a vitamin D deficientcy, and co-morbitities.  Is her life better in the long run?  Probably.  Does she have to go through a lifetime of discrimination? Probably not. Did she have to take multiple anti-depression medications because she was so depressed over what she looked like, and that she could not do anything about it? Probably not.  Like she said, she did it for vanity reasons, not for the reasons for which you and I and thousands of other people have had the surgery, or thinking of having the surgery.  I might sound a bit angry, but it upsets me so to hear someone complain about something that you and so many other of us worked so hard to receive, and that so many others cannot because they either don't have the money or the insurance.  My thoughts....keep your thoughts to yourself.     

Too funny, Jenn.  What a video to be watching this week!  I've followed meltingmamma's story for some time now.  Myself, I can appreciate her profound regret.  I have crazy moments when I regret ever having back surgery and my family has to coach me through and remind me of the way things really were and how much better I am even if I am in no ways "cured".  Pain and sickness does powerful things to our thinking.  At least it does to mine.  Gens and I discussed this very tiny percent of patients who suffer severe deficiency and hpyoglycemis as post-ops.  It happens.  I guess I look at it as a complication much like a clot or a bleed - very unlikely but possible and you have to accept this going in and have a plan for dealing with it.  That's my take.  Treading

Thanks, that does make sense.  As I was going to PRH this afternoon, I was a bit down and unsure of myself and my decision after I saw that video. 

But I gotta tell you - after meeting with the preop nurse, anesthesiology and everyone else, I walked out of that hospital like I owned the place.

I feel better, more confident and still nervous.  But I still know that this is the right thing for me ultimately. 

Holy crap!  1 week!

When I woke up from the surgery, the nurse who was with me in the post-op area was telling me how proud she was of me for making the decision to regain my health.  I don't know why, but her comments really meant a lot to me.  Funny how sometimes something a total stranger says affects us so much.

I look at it this way:  Yes, there are possible complications from the surgery, but the potential benefits outweight the risks, at least in my mind.  Without surgery,  all of us are more likely to die from the complications of obesity (since that's pretty much was MORBIDLY obese means!)  There are always going to be people who have negative attitudes, who can't see the good because they're so busy focusing on the bad. 

I just make the choice every day to find the good things in my life.  Being miserable is a choice.  Being happy is a choice.  It's up to each of us to decide.


Doesn't it feel good to be done with pre-op?  Like you're on your way!!

Hey-  did they tell you that you need to go back the day before surgery to have blood drawn again?  I keep meaning to ask about that, because they made me do it, and that extra drive just irked me!

Yes they did say I have to come back the day or 2 days before.  It is a bit of a PITA, and I am not entirely sure why I have to go back!  Is it for blood work just before surgery to double check or for blood banking?

I'm over an hour away and working up until the day before surgery is going to make it difficult.  I'll probably have to leave early that day.

I am excited for myself.  Oh, and I passed my Nut test.