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Sarahlicious came to visit and we had a blast! On Friday night Sarah, Michelle*MV, Jolene*villagejolene, and I went to a place called Seaport Village. It is on the water and it is a bunch of fun shops and restaurants. We took some crazy pictures of us in hats, Sarah rode the carousel and spanked the pony, we walked around and had fun! Then we went for dinner. The first place we tried, Anthony's, was closed. At 10pm on a Friday night in downtown San Diego!!!!! WTH??? So we ended up at Cheesecake Factory and no we didn't have cheesecake!!! We had a nice dinner. Then Shell and I spent the night with Sarah in her hotel room. Saturday morning we woke up early and went to the pool for a little exercise (kind of). Then we met HollyBerry at Starbucks for coffee and hours of chatting and more pictures. We really had a great time and it was great to see Sarah again. I can't wait till Sept. to get together with our whole gang again!! The only down side to the whole weekend was my dumping episode! *see next blog* But if I had to experience a dumping episode, at least I was with way postop friends who have been there, done that and understood that I wanted to die! lol 
Miss you already girls!!!  till next time!

Weight: 295.5 / lost 6.5 / 155.5 to go

So I had my 3 appointments (internist eval, psych eval, and surgeon consult) yesterday and I really like my surgeon, he is really nice and compasionate. All 3 appointments went well! 
My psych eval was easy, but she wants me to set up my first counseling session before she will clear me. I told her about the hubby issue and that he agreed to go to counseling with me and she is glad about that, but she wants to know counseling for me is in place before she clears me because she knows it could be a hard road ahead for me. I'm fine with that, so tomorrow I will make an appointment and call it in to her for clearance. 
As for the appointment with my surgeon and my hernia is concerned, first of all I have 2 hernias (Sarah, we were right) and their normal procedure is to fix them later seperately. The reason for this is twofold, 1. being overweight makes the chance of hernias returning greater (which I already know of course from having it happen to me twice already) and 2. with your stomach already altered putting mesh in there at the same time increases the risk of infection.  But for me it may be different so this is the plan of attack.  He is going to make one incision for the camera and see what it looks like in there. If I have a lot of scar tissue from the past 2 hernia repairs then they will probably have to do everything all at once and open me all the way up. He said it is about 50/50 for me. He also has to put the camera on my gallbladder because my scan didn't show any stones, but my gallbladder seemed shriveled so he will be checking that too. I'm hoping they take the gallbladder and fix my hernias all at once, but I will trust their decisions and God's plan for me. They know what's best. It's just with my insurance issues now, one surgery would be better for me.  
So I'm real happy with all the results of yesterday and I should have my date within 2 weeks!!!!  I can't wait, I am sooo excited and sooo ready!!! 
I also got kind of good news today... Sunday is my last day on the paper route! They decided to go with the pay period instead of my request of May 15. I'm glad as far as the physical aspect and the sleep hours, but we really could have used the 2 more weeks of pay. I figured out that I should be eligible for disability for the surgery, but I'm going to ask my PCP if she will start it for me now due to my knees.  We'll see what happens!
Now, I can't gain any weight from here before surgery. I must stay at or below 295.5 to have surgery, so I have to really watch it now. I hope that by the end of next week I will have a date!!!!!