Theresa C.

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I went to the dr yesterday and got the liver report back.. I am in stage 3-4 for Cirrhosis Fibrosis.. The dr is turning in all the paper work to get the approval for the gastric sleeve to my insurance company in hopes that they will approve cause he said if i dont get the weight off I will be in time having to have a liver transplant.. I think it would be cheaper for them to do the WLS then to do a liver transplant and all the hospitalzation that goes along with it... Im still in a lot of pain from the surgery alone it even hurts to take a breath.. but dealing with things the best I can.. I have to say I have a great wonderful boyfriend and my loving family and friends by my side.. Thank you to all... i wish the best of luck to my friends on here who have already had the surgery and who is about to have it.. your great ladies.. I wont be able to up date this all the time like I was due to no longer having the internet at home due to lack of money.. But will try to update as much as I can.. Take it easy all... Mwah...

Ive been very sore since they did that liver biospy on the 17th.. I am finally home been outta the hospital since the 18th but been staying with my boyfriend cause of the pain and him not wanting me to be doing anything.. Its been nice to be taken care of.. i go to the dr on the 23rd to find out which surgery they are going to do on me.. Either I am now going to have the Y bypass or I am going to have the sleeve done.. Either one is fine with me.. Just as long as something gets done.. Thank you to all my friends who have been conerned about me.. You are all great ladies... I will try to keep everyone updated on things.. It may take me a couple of days but I will let you know..  

Well i didn't have my bypass  the Dr opened me up and instead of doing the bypass he did a biopsy on my liver said i have cirrhosis of the liver and its not due to drinking cause i don't  but 2 to 3 times a year. he said we will try to see if we could do the sleeve but it all depends on the biopsy if it comes back  at a 2 or 3 he will try to get the approval for the sleeve.. i sure hope for the best  please pray Ty

Well my surgery is in the morning... I have to be to the hospital at 5:30am and surgery is at 7:30... I cant wait to have this done.. Get a chance to start my new life healthier.. Yay

I have been on my liquid diet now for 10 days and let me tell you.. I am so ready to start having at least some soup.. Chicken broth is starting to get really old.. I hope the weekend passes fast and the 17th hurries up and gets here and the week of liquid diet after surgery is over I would at least like to have something.. LOL Its like I am not getting full anymore with the broth.. I just wanna stick a chip in my mouth and suck on it just to taste the flavor.. LOL That is soooooooooooo wrong.. Good thing is I still haven't messed with my water pills and I am taking the 14 potassium pills like I am suppose to be doing.. So my potassium level should be up Monday I pray it is.. Well Jason is coming over this weekend so I am happy about that.. Get to spend the weekend with my baby.. Yay....  I will get through this.. Its not much longer.. Everything will be fine for me.. I am strong and I can do this.. 

Tonight has been rough on me.. I am not feeling full.. I have drank chicken broth, I have eaten a half lil bowl of Jello, I have opened Chicken noodle soup and drained the juice from it.. I have drank water and shakes.. Nothing seems to be helping.. I told Jason and he seemed to think that if I went walking it would help.. So I walked 6 blocks tonight.. And it did for the most part but I still want something.. Food lol...I will be OK and I will get through this.. It wont be much longer and I'll be able to start eating a lil.. Surgery is now only 6 days away god willing that my potassium level is up Monday...In which it should I am not going to take any water pills so that will help plus I am taking a total of 140 Meq in Potassium which is 14 pills a day.. Plus 2 magnesium pills which help keep the potassium in your body..  My PCP called me today cause I left a message with her telling her to change my potassium pills cause they are not coated and I threw up today because of trying to take them and they dissolve so fast.. Nope couldn't do it not that many at a time.. Well its 4 breakfast 5 lunch 5 dinner.. Yeah no.. So I got to choose what pill I wanted at the pharmacy today.. Dr approved it gave me 3 different options to choose from.. I got one that is coated.. yay Works a lot better.. I can now take the full 14 like I am supposed to.. I guess I'm just scared that they are going to postpone my surgery and if they do that then i will be very upset.. I'm so ready for it I have everything already packed and got my meds that they say I can take the morning of surgery already ready.. LOL I know its early but this way if I get it done now i wont forget anything cause it will already be packed and not only that I have to stay at Jason's place so he can take me in the morning with his mom.. So its good to have it done and plus it gives me time to add more if need be.. LOL...  I did do one thing today.. I told Jason that one of my goals was to be able to cross my legs without sitting on my hip.. Well I did it today.. May have not been for a long time but the thing is I did it.. Yay...  

I went to the gastric Dr today to check on my surgery.. Everything went well he was happy to see the weight loss and to know about the walking.. I let him know my potassium was low cause my PCP and already called me that morning and upped it to 100 mg a day... Well after seeing him I had to go see the dietitian and she told me I couldn't have the frozen sugar free yogurt anymore or the tomato soup.. I said so basically I'm on a  clear liquid diet she said yes besides the protein shakes.. Then you should of said that from the beginning.. OK I can deal with that I only have a week left.. Then went and done pre op.. That seem to take forever.. So I get home and not a hr after I get home does the gastric Dr office call me.. My potassium in critical and he upped it 4 more pills.. Like 10 pills isn't enough.. So now I am taking 14 potassium pills a day and I have to do blood work on Monday and we will see what he says about surgery on Monday.. OK so Ill take the 14 pills along with the 1 pills I have for my bladder the 2 magnesium the 2 vitamin d3 the 1 multivitamin and the 2 calcium pills... Ill leave the water pills alone... I weighed in at the Gastric Dr's office at 288lbs 1 pound less then what my scales say at home.. YAY very excited about that.. But the thing that really made my day is putting on a pair of Jeans that have always been tight since I bought them yrs ago.. And knowing that I didn't have to lay on the bed to button or zip them and feeling so good...So as Jason said if its gods will I will get this potassium level up by Monday and still be ready for surgery on the 17th.. Needing prayers.. Thank you... 

Today started off great and ended great also.. I weighed this morning and the scale said 291 lbs...I got outta the house and had to do some blood work for my PCP.. Well why I was up there I thought I'm just going to get my test results for the Nicotine test.. Yay I am 100% smoke free.. It was negative.. I see my Gastric Bypass Dr tomorrow so he is going to be very happy with that.. Surgery will be on as planned.. Anyways Jason came over after taking his daughter to school and so I went with him to PT.. Then we came back I finally got my power chair fixed.. The motors were bad.. So now it is fixed which means it works better.. But Jason and I went to his house and before I ended up going back home Jason and I walked to get my exercise in.. We got to talking and just enjoying the company with each other that we did not realize that we walked a mile... I am very proud of myself.. I walked a mile tonight.. YAY It is such a great feeling... 8 days til surgery.. Its almost there... 

Today has been a productive day for me.. I have been drinking better then yesterday and I did eat some jello today.. I have drank 4 protein shakes today.. I am feeling much better.. I did get out of the house today for a little bit so that done me some good.. I don't like to be cooped up.. I got my closet cleaned out today and got all my clothing hung up in the order I wanted them.. Dishes are done bedroom straighted up and already walked my 4 blocks.. I am very happy with everything today.. Since the 3rd I have lost a total of 33 lbs.. Yay I'm so excited.. I even got into a pair of jeans that I haven't been able to wear.. Yay... I now weigh 294 lbs.. I so excited about that.. I am very happy that I have been able to do this.. You know I got in to my blog today and was putting down my goals that I want to achieved and one of them is to make my daddy very proud of me.. I know he cares about me and that he loves me but I haven't ever felt like he was proud of me.. I want to be able to lose the weight that he has been telling me to do since I was a child.. I want him just to see me not fat anymore.. I have plenty of other goals that I want to achieve as well like being able to wear one of Jason's (boyfriend) shirts to bed when he isn't here with me.. I want to be able to do things with my family and friends like walk around the mall and not have to stop all the time or even walk in the park with the kids or even sit down on the grass and not have to get up like I was just crawling.. I want to be able to lose the weight and show my brothers I am not a damn whale or a basketball or the hunchback.. I want to be able if it was to ever happen again to get married and have my nephew NOT sing his song of here comes the bride all fat and wide.. I want to be able to love the person I am on the outside.. I don't want to just have a smile and I want to be able to have a smile and mean it.. So I have so many goals that I want to get done with this surgery.. Mostly I want to be healthy.. Jason came over today and took my measurements so I can start keeping track of them and see how much I am losing besides just the weight.. He also took before pictures of me.. When I looked at them from every angle I just started to cry.. I was so disgusted with myself for looking like that.. Sometimes I wonder how Jason could love me the way he does.. I am very grateful that he is in my life and is so supportive.. When he told the surgeon that he wasn't going anywhere he sure did mean it.. I'm so happy I have found the man I want to spend my life with.. 

 Today has been an off day for me.. I haven't been in the mood to do much of anything.. I only drank 3 shakes today and have only had one can of tomato soup.. Ive drank 3 glasses of water and my Gatorade mixed with half water.. My blood sugar dropped to 71 which is still good but it made me start to shake.. I still haven't went out and did my walking in which I will do as soon as I get done with this.. LOL I'm not getting hungry anymore.. I know I need to at least drink more water I will try and push that more tomorrow.. But for tonight I'm going to do my walking then I think I am going to go to bed..Maybe I may just sit in the dark with the candles burning and listen to the stereo..