So comcast are idiots.. ha ha.. screwed up the work order plus originally ran into a wiring issue.. fun huh?

I am feeling really fantastic! Tomorrow is the one week anniversary officially. Dr Schwartz is a really great surgeon and I was really impressed with the surgical team care and the post surgery nursing care I got at Abbott!

Still struggling with getting enough liquids in. It seems like my whole day is consumed with sipping liquids.. I know its just a fact of life now and eventually I won't even think twice about it. I had a dizzy spell yesterday because I hadn't gotten enough fluids in.. I've already taken the gulp of liquid that is too big.. as well as drinking too many sips at one time and getting that oh I'm too full now in my pouchy! Also struggling with the damn Citracal + D tablets.. petite my ass! Plus cutting them up with my pill cutter is just a big pain in the ass. I tried dissolving them in my water or Crystal light the other day.. so we'll see what works best. I called Bariatric Advantage and they are sending me some calcium citrate + D chewy bite samples. I hope they come soon. And as you all advised me.. liquid in.. liquid out! ha ha 

Enjoying my time off but antsy too. If they clear me on Mon 29th at my post-op visit I'm going to work Tues 30th-Thurs 2nd half days at work and then enjoy the rest of my time off up north at my mom's cabin. My short term disability at work ends Tues 7th so I have to go back on the 8th... whaa whaa 

Thanks for your messages and support!  Glad to be back.. I know I'll need more!

Stacy

So Wed is the day! I'm posting today because I don't have internet access at home until Friday post-op...

I was so excited last night I couldn't sleep!

However, I'm slightly disappointed in my family's enthusiasm over my surgery. I wasn't expecting a big hoopla or anything, but now my sister has decided she doesn't want to be at the hospital and that just leaves my mom to sit by herself for 4 hours after they take me back from pre-op.. All my other family members work or live to far away. Dad has a neurological disease that affects his ability to drive very far- and my stepmom is currently undergoing radiation for breast cancer.  So I feel like my surgery is a big inconvenience of time for everyone or something.. thats how its making me feel anyway. I just don't want my mom to have to sit by herself for 4 hours. I think my coworkers are going to walk over to the waiting room and check on her for me. They are so sweet...

So today is the last day of the pre-op friggin LD.. thank god! So tired of the pudding. And i have two more 6 packs at home.. that I don't really want to eat post op.. lol
Tomorrow is drop off the doggy to be boarded for 5 days and then my bowel prep.. oh fun.. 

I'm excited but nervous. I've never had major surgery and I have anxiety already thinking about the prep and OR before they put me to sleep. I'm not afraid of needles.. I keep thinking what if I wake up during it and they don't know it! ha ha

Anyway.. Therese is going to post my update on OH for me..
I'll touch base myself on Thurs or Fri when I'm at my sisters house recouping...

So I can officially declare I'm totally fed up and sick of this pre-op liquid diet. If I have to eat one more tub of SF pudding I'm going to puke! The chocolate shakes aren't bothering me.. they are like drinking chocolate milk.. nor is the applesauce. But all this pudding.. blech.. and they only make so many in SF flavors. Banana fudge gets me out of the hum drum of the vanilla/chocolate thing.. also found the SF dark chocolate raspberry ones at Super Target... but enough already!

So on 6 on countdown to surgery... well technically 5 because I am calling the 17th as BLASTOFF.. not one.. so lets say that.. Thank god I only have 3 more full days of the pre-op LD...  I bought low sodium organic chicken broth and last nite for a change up I added a teeny sprinkle of garlic powder to it.. changed it just enough to taste somewhat new to my palatte.

5 days and counting people! I have a busy schedule ahead...

Mon 15th work (and I'm going to weigh in upstairs @WLS office and have them take new measurements)

Tues 16th -prep day!
        AM  dog to kennel
       11 am bowel prep (hello magnesium citrate!)
       next few hours.. toilet time!

Wed 17th- surgery day!!!!
      7am mom & sister come to get me
      7:30 leave for hospital
       8:30 pre-op check in
      10:30 SURGERY!!
           12:30ish post op
            2-3 up to room... 
Thurs 18th discharge... staying at my sisters overnight

Fri 19th home mid day
       4-6pm Comcast comes to FINALLY fix the wiring and install cable at new place

Sat 20th - Mom coming over to help me with whatever I need (groceries, dishes, laundry, etc)
             Mom going with me to help pick up dog from kennel

3 weeks off from work!

I can't wait to take pre-op pix next week before surgery! I can't wait to track my progress! I just can't wait!

I can't believe my surgery is in just over a week! OMG!

LD is going fine.. I cheated Saturday night and had a piece of pizza because a friend came over and we watched movies and he was starving of course. So I had one with him.. for old times sake.. and I made him take the leftovers in the box home with him so I didn't even tempt myself...  I wasn't even bothered by him eating it, I didn't feel tempted, I just enjoyed a piece because I had been so diligent in my LD and knew I wouldn't be eating any for awhile..

Back to LD straight away yesterday.. I went to walmart with my grama and she was like omg, look how baggy your jeans are around your butt.. I hadn't realized it, but it was less loss in my rear and more in my lower tummy!!  At my pre-op class on Thursday I was down nearly 5 lbs.. I got cheers from the coordinator who weighed me and she said if I kept this up till my surgery she's sure I'll have a great surgery and do great post-op.. so that was a big pat on the back I needed. I think I'll wait till Thursday and weigh again upstairs @ the WLS office on Thursday.. that will be a week since the last time to see where I am at.  Then if I need to I can buckle down hard over the weekend.. 

My biggest struggle the past week has been getting extra liquids in.. I've just not been drinking water like I usually do. I almost always get in 8 glasses w/o effort.. this past week I struggled!

I can't believe my surgery is only a week and 1/2 away. Thursday was my pre-op exam, and I almost had to argue with the doctor I saw for my exam (my PCP had her baby the day before so I had to be rescheduled) that I needed an EKG for surgery- I was sure they won't put you under without one.. well they told me no, you're under 50, don't worry about it. Got back to work and called the WLS office- yup.. won't put me under w/o one.  So the WLS office scheduled me for this coming Tuesday here @ Abbott at the heart clinic. Should take about 15 mins.  

Last night was my pre op class and I learned some more, got a shopping list they suggest for after surgery, and I'm headed off to SuperWalmart this weekend to stock up on stuff and get my Crystal Light SF popsicles! 

I purchased my Magnesium Citrate today to do my bowel prep the day before surgery!

Liquid diet is going fine. I don't really find it that hard. Today I wanted a brownie that a patient had brought in for the staff so badly! but i was strong..

Just around the corner... WOW