Pre-op labs done-Check

Jan 03, 2018

I am at the point that I am just checking things off my list of things to do before surgery on January 16th.  Getting these darn pre-op labs done has been a challenge of sorts.  My surgeon has left the WLS practice and is transistioning into going back into General Surgery, but he is finishing up the patients that he has started on the process including me.  So when I called his surgery coordinator, who left the practice with him, she told me that the WLS office had to order the pre-op labs, but she would call them and get them to order them.  That was last Thursday, when I went to my last Pre-op Class on yesterday, they said that my surgeon's surgery coordinator had to order them.  No luckily I work for the same health system so instead of leaving another message, I just emailed her and she offered to email me the signed lab slip today to get the labs done.   Unfortunately, before I could get that email at work, my daughter called to tell me that school was dismissing early because we are expecting to get 6-8 inches of snow.  Now I know that does not sound like alot, but I live in southern Coastal Virginia where a dusting of snow is a major news story!! The city basically shuts down for days with 6-8 inches of snow.  

So I had to go home, wait for my daighter to get home, and then head back out to get the labs done.  Of course, it chooses that moment to start snowing and my daughter is like...turn back mom we are going to get snowed in at the lab!! Yes my daughter is very dramatic 14 year old!!  I got to the lab after dealing with crawling traffic, it took me 40 minutes to drive to lab which is 10 minute from my house, because there was snowflakes falling from the sky and all the drivers freaked out.  I got the labs drawn and it took me an hour to get back home and of course my daughter is starving, because they reduced her lunch hour and she did not get to eat her whole lunch.  She is begging me to stop at Chik-Fila because her size 0 body is going to shut down if she does not get some chicken nuggets.  I roll my eyes as I go through the drive thru and order her food...No I did not get any myself!! Of course her earlier panic that we were going to get stuck in the snow did not extend to getting Chik-Fila, that was a reasonable request.  I then realize that my gas tank is practically empty...yes I am one of those people that wait until my sensor "low fuel level" before I decide to stop and get gas.  So I had to stop again and get gas. But I am finally home safe and sound, 

Hopefully this "Blizzard" of 6-8 inches of snow, yes they are calling it a blizzard, does not lead to my H&P visit that I have scheduled ith the Surgeon on Friday to get cancelled. Because I can not do it at all next week because I have to travel to Cedar Rapids, IA for business and while my co-workers are enjoying their $50 per diem for food, I will be in the hotel room drink my low sodium, non-fat broth!  Am I jealous?  NOPE because thsi is not a sacrifice, it is a step in my weight loss surgery and it is meant to shrink my liver and make my surgery more successful. 

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