Only a few days

Apr 02, 2014

So my surgery is on Friday... less than 48 hours away. Seems unreal. I'm sure I'll be a lot more anxious this time tomorrow. Everybody asks me if I'm nervous about it, but mostly I'm excited! I did my pre-op yesterday. The NP was really great, when I told her I was going into nursing school in June she perked right up. She really gave me a boost, saying that I was more mature than most 23 year olds and that I will be a great nurse. The biggiest anxiety I've had through the process so far is the timing of the sugery compared to when I am starting school. They messed up the various aspects of scheduling several times and bumped me out a little bit. Luckily out of the 3 bariactric surgeons here at Denver Kaiser I was scheduled with the new one whos schedule is more open. Hopefully by the time I start school my eating will be fairly normal and I will have some habits already formed. The finances of the surgery have been stressfull as well. I have a 50% coinsurance so I have to pay for half of it out of pocket. The only numbers that anyone has given me so far have been rough estimations, which I understand they can only guess. I knew I had to pay a deposit (which I did today... bye money) so I saved my tax returns and bonus from work. But I wasn't told how much it was going to be until yesterday, the day they wanted it. 2,800. Nope, didn't have that much, but they did accept what I had saved. They told me to call the finance department after surgery to get the payments set up. That might be hard, I know it will take more than 2 years. And what I can pay is limited because of starting school. I had no idea that I would be in nursing school so soon when I started down this road. But I sure am glad. I feel as if my life is coming together in only 2 months.

I'm nervous about the anesthesia. My mind tends to fight losing clarity, and I've never been under. Only local nitrous oxide for dental procedures. I know the pain will catch me off guard. I've been lucky in that I've had very little pain in my life. I just hope that everything goes well and the hospital stay is short. I'm looking forward to the 2 weeks I have off of work for this. It's kind of like a vacation... the most time I've had off in over a year. The most I've had are 3 day weekends up until now. I have almost enough PTO time to cover the time I have to take off though, so it kinda paid off.

Sooooo close!!!!

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