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OK everyone, as my friends and family already know my favorite WLS blog is The World According to Eggface. She rocks! So far my family has loved all the recipes the we have tried and they are looking forward to trying more when I get to the point where I can eat them. Her 5 minute protein cake recipes and AMAZING! She is currently have a give away that I want everyone to know about. The Thankful for Good Health Giveaway!

The Prize: This totally AWESOME gift basket of Celebrate Vitamin goodies to help you maintain post weight loss surgery good health.


go to http://www.theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.com/ and check her out for yourself!

I have been in so much pain. Just the thought of getting on the computer made me sick. I lasted 30 min a couple days ago.
I am so tired, not sleeping sucks. I cant find anyway to lay down without pain. I wake up every hour either in pain from the surgery or in pain from my hip going numb. Sleeping sitting up makes my back hurt. I wish I owned a recliner. My blood pressure is up enough that I am getting headaches, its not high enough that I think I should go to the hospital now but we are watching it very closely. I see my Dr wed so I hope it doesn't get worse before then.

Diet has been mostly OK. My family had pizza a couple nights ago and I had no desire to try to eat it or anything. I had yogurt before I left the hospital, jello, pudding, cottage cheese, apple sauce, and today cream of wheat. What didn't do to well was the scrambled eggbeaters yesterday. OMG I felt like I was going to die. Its wasn't dry or to big because I mashed it into baby food. I didn't get dumping systems either. I spent an hour trying to throw up and all I got to show for it was a little foam. I felt like I had been punched all the way to my spine. I told my hubby to eat all the eggs if he wanted to because I am not trying anytime soon.

I have had several instances of saying "Why did I do this" but what I also have had every one of those times is pain. I pretty sure its the pain talking every time. If I can just get through this next week of so without my blood pressure, lack of sleep, or something else trying to kill me, I'm told everything will be much better.

In 23 hours I will be getting stripped, IV'd, interviewed (OK interrogated really), drugged, and ready for my RNY! I woke up today and laid in bed for a few minutes and realized I was really scared for about a minute and a half. Then I got up and weighed myself (last another 1.5 pounds) and ate some jello. So far today I have had 24oz fluid meal-like substitutes (jello, water, broth, etc). I would kill for some Dairy Queen Ice right now and some apple juice, but I don't have any as of yet. I might have to fix that later today.

I still have to do major grocery shopping, not just for me but its that time of the month for the entire family. (They whine if you don't feed them.) I still have to finish packing too. I am taking what they told me to bring and a few other things for the trip to the hospital.

Hospital List they Gave Me:
Robe - Yea I made me one, no cold butt for me!
Slippers - $5 clearance sale at walmart!
Lip Balm - I am a MK lady so I had LOTS of that!
Pillow - Smell like home, maybe, EWW!
Lotion or Powder - Sure there is a good reason, but don't know why yet.
Discharge clothing - VERY big and loose I have been told. Sore tummy and all.
Toothbrush & Toothpaste - No morning breath for me and the hospital cuts cast not giving them to you. I understand that.
Deodorant - Self explanatory.
Glasses Case - I wear them don't want them broken.
Shampoo - Same savings for toothpaste plus purdy hair.

My Add-on List:
Tic Tacs - I get car sick, for the ride home.
MP3 Player w/Headphones - Cant hear ghost talking to me and relaxing when I'm under stress. Works for the dentist.
Camera - Because my Mom is sadistic and wants pict of me right after I get in my room from surgery.
Laptop - WIFI is my friend, bet my hubby uses it more then me updating our family and friends.
Cell Phone -  I will get to use one after the first day of all goes well. Let the call ignore commence! (No not really, yes, no, OK.)

I also am trying to put together a list of the bill we pay this week. I am pre-scheduling as many as I can because I might forget, pain killers and all. So Wulf has a list so he can check on it, oh and the passwords, I guess that would help too. he-he. What would our men do without us. The kids would be hungry, stinky and wearing trash bags to school maybe? Lucky for me Wulf is pretty smart.

NOTE TO JENNA: That chicken broth you gave me, not so good. EWWW! Saving it for soup later.

SO now I feel a little better and it is because of something most would call a small thing. I HAVE A ROBE NOW! My awesome hubby brought in the fabric from the garage (and those that know me know what a chore that is) and we found a few pieces good for a robe. Two hours latter I had me a new kimono style robe. It is baggy and soft and now my butt wont be cold. I am happy, I guess it really doesn't take much.

Wulf also got out my cute duffel bag I won that is black with hot pink and red lips all over it. Now I can start to pack for the hospital. Now I will have to check the boards here to see what I need to take to the hospital. I already know about the lip balm but I already thought of one thing not on my list from the doctors office, my MP3 player. Yep I think it will be a good idea to take it. I am going to load it up tomorrow.

God made the world in less then 5 days, so Ive heard, but I don't know what Ill do over the next few days. Nothing that great I'm sure. Had my first nightmare, I woke up thinking I had my surgery already and something was wrong with me. That sucked! 5 DAYS! CRAP! Ive cleaned the bathroom, done a bunch of laundry, helped Rachael with a school celebration for the day of the dead, had Halloween circle, pureed a lot of fruit and froze it in ice trays, and now I'm sitting here wondering what my tunny will look like with 6 holes in it. Maybe I'm just going a little nuts.

I saw my surgeon today and did all the final consents. He says I am doing fantastic. I have lost just shy of 50 pounds, I'm not anemic right now, and my entire family is eating better. I know its normal to be scared and excited at the same time, but that doesn't mean I have to like it.  Ive even ordered my medical alert, finally! I realized last night that I was putting it off because I was scared something was going to go really wrong and today my surgery would be canceled when I went to the Dr office today. I know that isn't right, but I wasn't doing it on purpose, I think, maybe, Hell I don't know!

One of the things I haven't done is buy a robe, why you might ask? That should be so simple, one would say. Well I haven't found a robe in my size for 20 years that cost under $50 and I just cant spend that on something that will be wearable for such a short time (I hope). Ive even been sewing up my bras to avoid buying more when Ive been, and will continue to be shrinking. I know its silly but I'm cheap and have a hard time spending ANY money on myself when we are paying co-pays, gas, meds & vitamins, college for one so far, and the holidays are coming. Ill be easy to find at the hospital, Ill be the one with my butt hanging in the breeze, OK prob not, but it seams like just one more thing I am stressing about. Anyone who knows me would think "Well Teddi you have 5000 yards of fabric in the garage for viking clothes, use that"! Well it turns out I don't have as much as I had a few years ago when I sewed for a living. Wulf think we can find something out there tomorrow, I guess I'm just bummed.

Well all I can say is 5 FRACKIN DAYS!

Two days ago (Monday) my hubby and I went to the pre-op class and to the hospital to get all the pre-admittance testing done. Anyone who is not a little scared when they are getting ready for any surgery just doesn't have a clue or pay attention. Ive done all I can to get ready fir this and to make it as safe as possible. Ive changed the entire families diet, talked to people that are pre-op, lost all the weight I needed to for surgery and then some, been taking my meds and vitamins, walking, making sure I stay hydrated, got off all caffeine and listening to my medical team. There is nothing left I can do to make sure everything will be ok, I have to just trust my team. Lucky for me my team is AWESOME!

My family has joined me in trying many post-op recipes and so far they love all of them, I know my diet will be separate of there's for a while but that is ok. Was only mildly bummed that there will be no Thanksgiving dinner for me because I will only be 2 weeks out and maybe on soft foods, but I am prepared for only liquids. My son still gets to come home from college and we will still have a turkey dinner with family, but mine will be soup and yogurt. Ill have a pumpkin protein shake instead of pumpkin pie and cream of turkey soup instead of turkey and stuffing. I LOVE theworldaccordingtoeggface.blogspot.com because I have already tried shake recipes from her site that will be perfect for thanksgiving. Everyone should check her out.

Well now all I have to prep for is weight loss puberty, acne, hair-loss (maybe), massive PMS, dumping, constipation, cravings and pain. But I'm also prepared for energy, baggy clothes, less meds, walking, shopping, camping, swimming, going to pennsic again (maybe), visiting my son at college and a bunch of other crap Ive not been able to do for so long.

I cant wait for the next stage of my life to start.

I had my first appointment with my surgeon on Tuesday (Aug 3rd). Gastric sleeve is what I working towards but I need to lose about 35 lbs in the next month. Talked to my nutritionist for the first time on Wednesday (Aug 4th) and worked out a Slim-Fast with one evening meal plan. 1000 calories maximum a day is the goal. I have to say that 2 days later it has not been a problem so far. I had no idea that the bars and shakes diets tasted so much better then they did 20 years ago.  Ive been at about 800 calories and 23 grams of fat for the past two days. When weighing is have lost about 3 lbs so far. I know from past experience that this diet will not work long term but it will get me to my surgery weight by next month.

I have also been having a problem with my period being continues since May 23rd. (Too much information yet, no one ever wants to listen to that problem but it is affecting everything else.) I cant go anywhere because it is severe ( I mean like people think I need and ambulance at the grocery store severe.) This problem has to be stopped first because I cant take some of the medication required for the gastric sleeve until it stops. Blood thinners bad and all right now. So that means my first surgery day to get through is a biopsy and D&C (if you don't know what that is look it up, I'm not describing it.) They have done about everything other test they can and at least are pretty sure I don't have cancer (which would be a whole other type of diet I guess). Losing a pound a day would make that surgery better too, because of my size they cant do it and the office or clinic so I have to go to the hospital. I guess I'm going to get to know the Winchester Medical Center staff really well. I cant wait to not feel the 3 months of PMS any more, my family have been very patient and helpful, but worried also. Fat stores estrogen so I have too much of it, I guess I'm just too my woman for even myself.

Teddi