FINALLY!

Sep 20, 2011

I've got a date!!!!  A tentative date, but it's a date none the less!

I met Dr O'Rourke yesterday, Sept 19th.  My sister went with me. It was just a consult, where he told the in's and out's of surgery.  The good, the bad and the ugly.  All of which I planned on him doing.  The only thing he mentioned that I didnt already know, or have a good idea about, was the numbers or stats.  His stats, more specifically. Quite impressive.  He seems to be a direct and to the point type of guy.  Not much by means of humor, but that could be just the initial meeting of him and not really knowing much about him yet.

He was happy with the 30 pound weight loss (from the first weigh in at their office) and said that my BMI, still being close to 60, makes me more risky and he will try to do the surgery laproscopically, but if there are issues, he will work until he cant work anymore, then open me up, if he has to.

He checked his schedule, put me on the calendar for October 25th (WHAT!? only 5 weeks away??) and said he wants to see me in 2 weeks (October 3rd) , and during the next 2 weeks he wants me to lose some more weight... like 20-30 pounds. Um, excuse me? twenty to thirty? YUP!   Thats just impossible!

But, what I can do is try. I can try to lose all I can in the next 2 weeks. So far I've been very focused and serious about keeping up with the lean protein and lower carbs, fresh veggies and LOTS of water.
One thing that he said that was kind of confusing was that when he see's me in 2 weeks, WE will decide if we will keep the October 25th date or move it back a few weeks, into November.  He said that if in 2 weeks, I've been losing weight really well, we'll move it back.  If I havent been losing weight well enough, we'll move it back.  But if I have lost some and just cant seem to lose anymore and am just frustrated with it all, we'll just keep the 25th date and proceed forward.

I think the point of that is... if I'm losing lots of weight and doing well, we'll wait a few weeks to keep up the weight loss and bring my weight and bmi down even more before surgery.
At the same time, if I'm not losing well enough, he'd like to wait on surgery so that I can lose some more before surgery. Because afterall, the more weight we can lose before surgery, the better, right?  Thats what they tell me anyway. LOL

I'm really hoping for the 25th, though.  I dont think I'll be too upset about moving the date back, because things happen for a reason. But I will be disappointed.
I really want to have a couple months of recovery behind me before starting the new year. That really seems to be an issue I worry about, that I havent heard much people mention while I'm reading their blogs.  I've got all my deductibles paid for this year.  Come January 1, they start all over again. I want to make sure I can take advantate of paying as little as possible for medical bills while I can. The more we can do and have done before January, the better. At least it'd be better for my bank account.

Well, I better start getting to bed where I can dream of protien shakes and icy watered down water and trips to the gym!  Cause afterall, I need to lose 20-30 lbs in 2 weeks time! LOL  *SMH*

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