Survived my PAT's -- on to surgery.

Well, I survived my PAT's, all in all.  I was worried about my overall weight loss -- I was supposed to lose 22 pounds pre-surgery, have lost as off today 17, which was a struggle.  Most of November, I was eating between 1000 and 1200 calories a day --  a few years ago, when mobility wasn't such an issue, I would have been able to drop 30 to possibly 40 pounds a month on that level of consumption, not now. However, they didn't seem all that concerned by it -- the Dr just asked me if I would be able to lose the additional five pounds by surgery -- shouldn't be that hard to do -- I actually hit a plateau for a while at around 10-12 pounds, then dropped another 5 really fast in the past five or six days. Anyway, I survived -- unless something untoward comes back from the labs. The other snafu -- after months of pulling teeth to arrange transporation and support around various peoples schedules, mine and those of family members, along with work and school schedules, the hospital had me scheduled for the wrong day, Tuesday, instead of the  Thursday date which I picked in advance, and which was the ONLY date I was ever aware of.  I was a little bit rattled when the nurse said, "so,  you're scheduled on Tuesday the 18th."  But, they were able to work it out -- the surgeon was willing to switch around his days off in order to accomodate me, so I guess I'll send him a nice plant or something afterwards as a thank you. So, it's on to surgery on December 20th, time to be determined later.  My request -- say a special prayer to the weather gods that there isn't a major blizzard in the Midwest at that time.

Hang in there, you are nearly to the worst part (the first few weeks after surgery!) Things are looking up for you, you WILL be a LOOSER yet!