Preop, the last supper, mind your own business

  Well today started off with my preop appointment at 11:40. I saw the nurse, the doctor and the nut.  When we saw the nut me and another lady were together.  I have read, and read on the surgery and this tool. I have ordered And sampled. The other lady was clueless. Like she did not what all the preop diet was for or where to buy stuff. In my mind I was like omg really?!  How can you do something this major and not prepare.   She was really grumpy too. I was probably overly bubbly because of my excitement. After that I had to go to the pass dept. (preadmin). Took forever and a day! Finally got home at 5:00 to prepare The Last supper. It was grilled steaks, twice baked potatoes, green bean, garlic bread, cookie dough ice cream. Yum!  I'm ready for the preop diet!
Oh yeah, the mind your own business story.  Lady that registered me was very sweet but very large. She just kept going on and on why was I having this surgery. She wished she were my size. She just kept saying that I was not fat. I said uh yes like I'm considered Morbidly obese.   Always knew that my fat was someone else's dream of thin and my thin was someone else's fat.  I think the preadmin people should not question why your having a certain type of surgery . Good luck to you all!

 

I had something similar happen when I went for my Sleep study.  The chick that did it was average sized and just kept telling me "I don't think you need surgery...you're not that fat."  I explained that I am morbidly obese and have been for almost 2 decades and that I've tried everything aside from chopping off a limb to lose weight and nothing has worked.  I wanted to tell her to just mind her own business but couldn't.  She ended up sending me a thank you card for chatting with her about it and wished me well with my surgery.

Always knew that my fat was someone else's dream of thin and my thin was someone else's fat.Never has a more truer statement been made. I can remember being 200lbs and my friends going on about HOW they wish they were my size, and I was disgusted at that weight, thinking I was sooo friggin fat. Shoot now I WISH i could be that 200lb me again, instead of the over 300lb me. So yes....how strong a statement that is. Too each their own though. I havea  140 lb friend who thinks she is obese...LOL Again..if only. Good luck on your journey and I am so glad to see you recovery with the hysterectomy went well. Glad you are well.

Oh yes.... In this pic I used to cry about how fat I was. I mean, I was depressed! And the people who I consider thin NOW, I would have considered fat then.  Little did I know I was grow to 2 1/2 times that size and my goal would be to HOPEFULLY be 50ish pounds OVER that!!!