PreOps Check In

How are things going? What are you excited about? What’s a downer/bummer? What are you looking forward to next week?

Next week is... my hubbys b-day and on that day (April 2) is my pre-op diet class! That means as of tomorrow I have 3 weeks left til surgery!!!

I already bought me pre-op meds, my shakes and vitamins.  Now I just want to buy a new pack of underwear for the hospital.  My final pack of "big girl" undies ever!

I'm post - op but I just wanted to say you might not need to buy a new pack of undies for the hospital, I didn't put any on until it was time to go home b/c it was a pain in the ass.

Oh I know!! I am wierd like that!! I bought new undies each time I had a baby too - just for the hospital stay! LOL.  I never even used them because they give you the funky mesh ones - but I had nice fresh undies just in case!

Seriously all my regular underwear are ANCIENT!! I refused to buy new things because I was going to lose the weight! So I have, like, 5 yr old underwears and bras that are begging to be thrown away!  I did cave and buy 2 new bras and you can tell when I am wearing those compared to the old ones - and all my undies have ripped waists - it is sad very sad!!  My husband thinks I am crazy!

well last week the behaviorist cleared me for surgery which left the surgeon however they wanted to get a letter from my primary stating the process of my heartburn and possible sleep apnea. i had mentioned in the first initial meeting a fear of having sleep apnea first off because my husband mentioned i snore ridiculously and second because i figured the more i write on there the bigger chance i will have of being approved. after doing some reading about sleep apnea i truly dont think i have it, but my primary wants to meet with me on april 6th to asess the situation before she will agree to write a letter to the surgeon. so i know this will prolong my waiting before i get an appt with the surgeon to set a date but im also hoping hoping hoping she doesnt want me to have a sleep study too. i dont want to wait any longer!

Had my first consult yesterday and i feel much better about the whole process. my doc said that he was pretty positive that I would be approved but you never know?! I have my first appointment with my dietitian on tuesday. I should have three appointments all together but they are checking to see for sure how many. Im hoping that I dont have to do ANY but just in case I made an appointment. I have talked to a few other people that have the same insurance and they said that they didnt have to do any. well see?  Otherwise i have to take my daughter to get shots tomorrow which I am not very excited about. I hate seeing her cry.  I feel like its my fault.  Gotta go back to work friday (yuck). not too much going on the rest of this week. Hope all is well with everyone else!
~Brittany

Things are okay i'm taking it one day at a time..I feel every emotion but now I feel as if I'm going to take in every last moment of my faticity b4 it'sover to forever remember where I came from..What'scurrently getting on my nerves is my husband hugging and saying goodbye to my old body before I switch over...but lol he's just being silly. Next week I get my items for my 2week liquid diet before surgeryand pay my program fees...Another thing that is bothering me is that Now that I know I'm going to have wls..I feel fatter than I have ever felt ..everything is bothering me..everything regarding my fatdom is getting on my nerves but at least I'm getting the chance to say goodbye and leave it behind me ...

I feel you on feeling fatter than you ever felt.  I feel that way too. I think it is because I am dreaming of my skinny coming on and am so dissapointed I still have a while to wait for it!

I'm getting anxious for my next appointment with my surgeon.(march 31th)
I'm really hoping she'll give me a date for surgery. I've had to get follow ups in Psyche because at my initial meeting with the (I like to call him the crazy doc) Psychiatrist, he thought I may have ADHD. So now I'm on medication to see if it helps. And I feel fine, but now I'm not sure if it's from the medication or the new CPAP I sleep with.
I hope this won't affect me getting a date.

Things are going good here...thanks for checking in :)

I had my psych eval and it went really well.  I was kinda dreading that one because I really didn't know what it was going to be like but it was great.  He did most of the talking and he asked some questions.  Nothing too bad.  I attended another support group meeting and that was good.  I have follow up appointments with the hospital coordinator, nutritionist and physical therapist all within the next two weeks.  I start the behavior modification classes on April 1st and they should be done by April 29th...works out really well that there are 5 Wednesdays in April because then I can finish the classes before May!  After that...who knows?? All of my requirements should be met by then so I'm thinking I'll finally meet with the surgeon then? According to my scale I've already lost 10 of the 18 pounds that I'm required to lose before I can have surgery so I'm pretty excited about that! 

~H