what a week!

Feb 18, 2010

Boy, there has been some drama around here since my last blog entry. Within a couple days of getting my surgery date, my gallbladder started to go wack-o. To make an extremely long story short- 2 ER visits, 2 dr. visits, 1 cancelled surgery date,a new surgery date for April 14, a CT scan, and ultrasound, and some pleading phone calls, my original surgery date is back on! March 3, here I come!  They are going to remove my gallbladder at the same time. What a relief!

I had my pre-op nutrition and nurse practitioner appointments yesterday. They went really well. The NP was especially pleased with my 15 pound weight loss since my initial consultation. I really wanted to be under 300 per their scales and I was- just barely at 299! The nutritionist warned me to not get discouraged if I don't lose a lot of weight during the pre-op diet. She said that doing the Adkins diet the past 6 weeks has already de-fatted my liver, so I probably won't have a drastic loss. She did say though that doing the 2 weeks of liquids would make it so I wouldn't have to do the pre-op bowel prep I've read about so much on here.(thankyouverymuch)

So today is day 1 of liquids. Honestly, I don't think its going to be too tough. I went 4 days with NO food last week and it wasn't very tough at all. I was feeling so miserable though, so this might be a little tougher.

13 days to go!

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