Hello fellow dispatchers and ems folks!
Hi, my name is Susan Jackson, I am a 21 year old medic from Virginia. I have been in EMS since I was 16. I also am a dispatcher for a local ambulance company and medical helicopter. This is so great to find people to share with. I am having RNY and my scheduled date is 10-8-04. I am so excited. Any advice or anything you could give me would be great!
Welcome Susan! Wow - lots of new folks coming in here. Maybe these boards will get busy again. 
I've not been great about checking in lately myself.
Congrats on your upcoming surgery date. No doubt I will remember yours because that is my 11th wedding anniversary. 
As for advice, well, be prepared to be weak and tired even up to 2-3 months out. You will have times of feeling incredibly energetic and wonderful, but then one day it will hit you and you will wonder what happened. It just does.
For me, I was out 8 weeks and when I went back it was okay, but I felt like it pulled on my incision to sit too long. I didn't peek to see if you are open or lap, but if I were done lap, I would have gone back a long time prior. But the weakness doe**** so just be prepared.
The hardest thing for me in dispatch has been being prepared for lunch. It was okay while I was new to eating the Weigh****chers Smart Ones dinners, but now I'm bored and sick and tired of them so I've been delving into sandwiches and that isn't great. Even though I go for low-carb bread and such whenever I can, I still haven't been entirely good, and my weight loss has slowed. Time to get cracking again!
Protein: I love the Carb Countdown milk and chocolate milk. It's higher in protein than the EAS AdvantEdge protein shakes (and many others) and tastes so amazingly close to the real thing, it makes it easy to get the protein in. I use the chocolate plain or take it to my coffee drive-through and get a mocha with it, or plain I get a latte or make myself a chai latte at work. Unjury protein powder works great for adding even more protein to those drinks. I get the plain and it works great to get more bang for your drink. I was doing 1 whole scoop (20 grams protein) with 1 cup of Carb Countdown milk (made for 32 grams of protein) when I had my chai latte's but found it was just a little too much protein, so I started cutting it in half.
I'm eventually going to start putting down recipes for us to get our protein in on my website, but until then, I'll just post what I can on the boards.
Glad you joined in - welcome to the board!
Dina
I've not been great about checking in lately myself.
Congrats on your upcoming surgery date. No doubt I will remember yours because that is my 11th wedding anniversary.
As for advice, well, be prepared to be weak and tired even up to 2-3 months out. You will have times of feeling incredibly energetic and wonderful, but then one day it will hit you and you will wonder what happened. It just does.
For me, I was out 8 weeks and when I went back it was okay, but I felt like it pulled on my incision to sit too long. I didn't peek to see if you are open or lap, but if I were done lap, I would have gone back a long time prior. But the weakness doe**** so just be prepared.
The hardest thing for me in dispatch has been being prepared for lunch. It was okay while I was new to eating the Weigh****chers Smart Ones dinners, but now I'm bored and sick and tired of them so I've been delving into sandwiches and that isn't great. Even though I go for low-carb bread and such whenever I can, I still haven't been entirely good, and my weight loss has slowed. Time to get cracking again!
Protein: I love the Carb Countdown milk and chocolate milk. It's higher in protein than the EAS AdvantEdge protein shakes (and many others) and tastes so amazingly close to the real thing, it makes it easy to get the protein in. I use the chocolate plain or take it to my coffee drive-through and get a mocha with it, or plain I get a latte or make myself a chai latte at work. Unjury protein powder works great for adding even more protein to those drinks. I get the plain and it works great to get more bang for your drink. I was doing 1 whole scoop (20 grams protein) with 1 cup of Carb Countdown milk (made for 32 grams of protein) when I had my chai latte's but found it was just a little too much protein, so I started cutting it in half.
I'm eventually going to start putting down recipes for us to get our protein in on my website, but until then, I'll just post what I can on the boards.
Glad you joined in - welcome to the board!
Dina 
Hi Susan and all the rest of my fellow EMS and dispatcher persons 
My name is Tami, I've been around fire and ems for 16 years. I've been trained as a firefighter, medic and have been dispatching for 10 years now with a small fire department in central Ohio.
I talked to Anne today at Barix and have an appointment for next week. I hope all goes well. I'm kind of anxious looking forward to it.
My name is Tami, I've been around fire and ems for 16 years. I've been trained as a firefighter, medic and have been dispatching for 10 years now with a small fire department in central Ohio.
I talked to Anne today at Barix and have an appointment for next week. I hope all goes well. I'm kind of anxious looking forward to it. Most Active
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