Lilo27Stitch
Surgery Date Moved!!!!
Nov 04, 2011
I call Sophie at the doctor's office to find out they do not want to do surgery with an open wound in my mouth (makes sense), so she has pushed UP my date to Wednesday November 9th! THIS WEDNESDAY!! Then I will have my root canal after. I had to choose which to postpone and my tooth isn't HORRIBLE soooo I decided the rest of my life should start ASAP. I'm so happy to have a team and doctor's at this practice that truly have my best interest in mind.
But now the realization..............5 more days! I'm going crazy...luckily I accidentally started my liquid diet a few days too early...I don't think this will click until the morning of surgery...
Bright side is now I have my last preop appointment with Dr. Buchin Tuesday evening and I will be able to make it to the support meeting afterwards. It will help being there the night before my surgery....
It's sinking in....
The beginning to an end...
Nov 03, 2011
I'm so happy that I stumbled upon this website through my surgeon's facebook page! I had no idea there was a whole site dedicated as a support group to this and I love it.
My name is Rachel and I'm 25 years old and going for the Vertical Sleeve procedure November 14th, 2011. I'm so scared but at the same time so excited to "start over". I've struggled with my weight for most of my life and as I've been reading on everyone else's blogs and pages, I'm so excited for this start to a new lease on life. Some people say to me "well, you're 25 years old why don't you try exercise and diet first?" UM HELLO don't you think I've tried that? Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, Nutritionist and regular diet, Weight Watchers, Gym 5x/week, I usually lose weight then gain it back and then some. Coming to this conclusion to do this surgery at this age was not easy for me. I know a lot of people tend to do it once they are older, but I think to myself.."I have hopefully another 60 more years to live on this earth, why not do it in a healthy body?" I'd rather have this done now, BEFORE I get type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and/or high blood pressure. I'm at risk for all at this point. Currently my biggest problem is my sleep apnea and the cpap machine was causing me to have nose bleeds. I did try to increase the humidity etc but it was not working for me. I ended up taking benadryl to sleep at night which was contraindicated because I was going hypoxic and not waking up when I needed to breathe.
Even if nobody reads this but me, it will be nice to look back from where I have come from and where I hopefully will be in a few months from now. There are so many things that are going through my head at this point I don't even know where to begin to blog.
I have started my shake diet (because I'm less than 2 weeks away from my surgery date). It's not so bad, I do miss chewing though! It is making me realize that EVERYTHING you put in your mouth needs to have nutritional value. This whole experience is definitely changing my relationship with food, and that is OKAY! I need to figure out hobbies to turn to instead of food when I'm bored or upset.
I'm a licensed veterinary technician and I LOVE my job and animals :) My pets are what keep me going...even when I feel like total crap, or I'm miserable...my French Bulldog, Lilo, will always need to be walked and taken care of. Her and my two cats keep me going when I feel all is lost. Luckily I have not felt that way in a very long time. I feel like I finally have taken my life back into my own hands. I don't want to be ashamed to go into public...embarassed how my clothes fit me...or hear ONE MORE PERSON say to me "you are so cute, but you would be gorgeous if you lost 80 pounds."
Let me tell you what thaaaat does to ones self esteem! I always was a very self confident person until about 4 years ago when my weight seemed to take over. I always had a "larger than life" personality to compensate for how I truly felt on the inside. Recently, I have found myself again and I'm excited that my outside will soon reflect how I feel on the inside.
Sorry for the rambling...that's kinda the state my brain is in at this point but my next post will hopefully have more structure to it lol. I'm sort of just letting the words come out onto my computer screen and not thinking. It really helps to have all of you out there to help me through this :) Until next time...!
