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When I was taken to the hospital for (What turned out to be) an eight week stay, the staff at Rose Medical Center (The hospital I go to for all my other care) stuck IVs in every place they could think of. Arms. Legs. Heck, for awhile, they even had to stick a LONG line down my shoulder (That thing was A MONSTROUS sucker too).
Then came THE CATHETER. Ohh boy. I was surprised they didn't knock me out before sticking that thing on. THAT HURT.
Before my surgery, I told the staff at P/SL and CBSI up front that if they were gonna EVEN ATTEMPT to put a catheter on me, they would have to either knock me out in pre-op or wait till I'm under the anastesia (sp?) in the OR to do it. Suffice to say, they told me they wouldn't have to put one on and didn't.
Anyway, there I go again. Straying too far off subject. When will I ever learn?
Although the bank is just on the south side of the apartment complex I live in, I began to wonder if that short distance was enough to possibly cause me to come down with some kind of cold which could possibly threaten to cancel the surgery.
Suffice to say (And most fortunately), it never came to pass.
I also found it quite amazing that I had actually LOST a little bit of weight just before the surgery too (But I'm sure some of that depended on the scale too as the one at CBSI is off by a pound or two from the old fashioned ones my PCP uses. I know this because I once had back to back appointments with them. CBSI one day and my PCP the next).
Anyway....I hope I haven't *confoozed* anyone by all of this
Apologies in advance if I did.
Cheers
Anyway...Back to the topic at hand here....
My milestone is that I'm now two weeks post-op (I had my surgery back on March 6th over at P/SL) & am now on the soft foods diet (Though I still have some stuff left over from my pre-op & clear liquid diet which I also include, albeit not in large proportions).
Still have a few things to work on when it comes to eating (Namely HOW FAST I eat the food). This was brought out last night while eating dinner as before I could say RUMPELSTILSKIN, my digestive system was backing up and for about five minutes, I was wondering if I was gonna wind up puking some of my dinner up or if it was just simply go down without incident. Fortunately it did the latter.
Anyway, unless my calender is somehow off by a day or two, I'll be on the soft foods diet until April 5th at which point I'll then be able to resume eating normal foods until the big saline push which will come later next month.
Now the pimp job. Today, I just started a website devoted to my weight loss journey. While most of the content will be in the blog (As it'll be a combination of audio & video podcasting as well as good ol' fashioned text blogging), the main part of the site will have lots of information on various weight loss techniques (Mainly the ones I can attest to working) but of that, the main focus will be on weight loss surgery and the various phases of recovering from that as well as excercise and dieting regimens neccessary to lose the weight and make the surgery a success.
The site and blog will also serve as PROOF POSITIVE that I'm actually getting some excercise as I'll sometimes have my cam with me while I'm excercising (And we all know what cams *aren't* known for doing, do we? )
Anyway, I just wanted to introduce myself and sorta pimp my website (BTW....Yes I'm well aware of the problems with the Flash video display on the Homepage. I posted to the main Zoomshare board about it).
Zoomshare has a Health & Fitness section. I labeled my site in the "other" subcategory.
Well that's it from here as I've done enough damage for one post. Time to go back in the bushes and work on my new website and READ some posts here instead of just diving in with both feet as it were.
Cheers Try putting something in the blender or magic bullet. I ate chili and also a chicken casserole that way. No chewing but I got the flavor!
).No chewing there either (And the pasta noodles are similar in size to what you'd find in those Lipton Cup-O-Noodles boxes), but it still had the flavor.
That said, I can't wait to have my first post-op Subway six inch Veggie Delight (Now THAT would be real food).
I received my band on the 22 of January, I was so excited, so driven to do well, and I did: until. Untill the surgery restriction lessened. Until I could eat what I didn't want with no problem. I am sad now. I feel slow. I feel like i have sabotaged myself again even after spending all this money, healing, facing myself and my family. I get my first fill tomarrow and cant wait for the feeling of full to be less than two plates of dinner, less than handfulls of empty calories. I guess I could use someone who has been here to tell me how this is normal. I need to hear I am one of many in this private battle of mine.
As for eating, I could've INHALED food I ate once I got out of the hospital, but I knew what that would lead to.
Getting back to more of the point, THE most frustrating part I find is having to eat meals NO BIGGER IN SIZE than one VERY small shot bowl with a pre-packaged bowl of Jello (But that's just for breakfast).
What's even MORE frustrating is trying to cook a bowl of Cream Of Wheat WITHOUT it looking like soup OR running over the top of the shot bowl while inside the microwave. Fortunately pureeing (sp?) it up with some yogurt helps a lot to replace sugar (I'd get Splenda but that stuff is EXPEN$IVE).
Anyway...I hope this helps if in only a small way.
Cheers
Banded 12/20/07 - Greeley CO -14 cc APL - 15 fills/unfills so far - 10.7 ccs
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It is really so different depending on the insurance and doctor you have. Some need one year documented dieting before they are approved. If I had to guess most people it takes about 6 months for the whole process. Some people have had to wait years to wade through insurance problems though. I was anxious to get it done too. Just remember what the end goal is and tell yourself that no matter how long it takes that it's worth doing. And then there are us at the military bases where it can be around a month. I had my first appointment with my primary care doctor to get a referral for the general surgery clinic in December 2006...I had my surgery on March 15th 2007. It took me a month to get in to see the surgeon...one month to get all my appointments/tests/classes finished and one month to have the surgery. Good luck! ~ Christal
