mizzymizan
My journey second time around
Feb 15, 2009
Today is 9/20/2014
Time to back track, well I failed with the vsg and I regained 60 pounds. I had a car accident the month I had my surgery and messed up my back and neck. 9 months later I was in another accident and messed up my left knee and r shoulder and I had surgery on both. This hindered my ability to exercise and can I add I was wrongly diagnosed and walked around with a limp for over a yr and the dr's said the inability to use my r shoulder was due to tendonitis. I was told after surgery I had a torn ligament and rotator cuff huge bone spur tissue damage etc.
In 2014 went to a diet dr the beginning of the year and went on the hcg diet and lost weight but I regained it. The Dr reminded me I have PCOS and I am insulin resistant and this is why I was regaining the weight my body was storing any sugar I consumed.
Its funny I bought a house and moved 2 hours away and I was getting a pedicure one day and this lady beside me was telling her tech how much weight she lost and I asked her was diet was she on. She tells me she just had the RNY with the same surgeon I had and suggested me having a revision. Something I never thought about. Well I went home and a couple days after doing some research I called my insurance company and found out this was covered. I called my surgeons office and got an apt 9/5/2014. This was 3 weeks away. I called every day to see if there was a cancellation and finally there was on. My appt was now 8/19/2014 and he said I was a candidate for the revision. He said I didn't need another endo and I didn't need another psych eval. Can I tell you which I think is crazy now looking back I had all my pre op test done on 8/27 before Aetna approved me. My only issue was the insurance coordinator I had at my Dr's office she has a very bad attitude and failed to listen to anything I told her and was requesting medical information from the wrong dr's. When I would explain to her which Dr had what information she would talk over me not listening as usual. She then told me she was not going to request meds from my dr's any more when this was all her fault and basically told me she didn't care if I cancelled this whole process. I was so upset I requested her supervisor and told her the entire store and was told her behavior was unacceptable. The supervisor stepped in to help. But to tell you the truth I did all the work by calling the dr's offices and made sure what was needed was sent in. The nurse at Aetna told me she didn't have all she needed and would hold my file for a couple weeks after I told her I knew there is an option for a peer to peer if there was an initial denial. The meds she was looking for was sent to her that afternoon and on 9/5/2014 she told me I was approved.
Appt with surgeon 8/19/2014
Pre op test 8/27/2014
Surgery date was 9/15/2014.
I went through all of this alone I told no one. I drove myself to the hospital and I spent 2 days In the hospital with no visitors and then drove myself home. So my only support has been reading blogs and questions on this site. I was not nervous prior to or after surgery I had no pain other than the gas and only used my morphine pump 7 times. I was shocked when the nurse said people average 100 times over night. All my nurses were the BEST omg I was so impressed and it wasn't about just doing their job they really cared about you. Well I was told I was the perfect patient. I was sent home with a drain which I am grossed out about. Everything has been perfect and fast so how dare I complain. My only issue now is getting in the protein I am so sick of the protein shake taste and I need to find a protein bullet with high protein with less oz.
My weight at appt was 269 at the hospital and the scale at home said 265
My scale at home day of surgery said 256 however the scale at the hospital said 262
My scale when I got home said 260.4
So I will go with 260.4 after surgery weight
Well surgery date was 03/25 and all is well. I was excited about the surgery the whole time and never felt nervous. I thought that was not normal but i believe that was the peace of God that confirmed that this was his will and everything would be ok. I got to the hospital and everything went as clock work. I remember moving over on the opertating table and that was all she wrote. I woke up in recovery. My family was there however they were not promitted to stay because the hospital was full. It was so full that there weren't any rooms for me upstairs i had to stay in recovery for 2 days. I only complaint was that the bed was so uncomfortable and my back was killing me. The same day as surgery i got out of the bed and sat in the chair for a couple of hours and they got back in the bed. I was moved thursday night about 11.00pm to the icu unit. All the nurses kept placing the pain pump in my hand but i had no need for it. The nurse name robert told me u have only used the pump 3 times and why havent i not used it more than that. I told him that i was using it for my back. Even when i went upstairs the nurses said the same thing about the pain pump. Well it was disconnected on friday morning but it still didn't stop the nurses from asking me if i needed anything for pain or did i feel that i needed to vomit. I thank god that i had no nausea at all. Oh and no gas pain either. My one issue was no one really talked about the shots of blood thinner in ur stomach everyday. That was getting on my nerves. I remained in the hospital for 4 days one extra day bc there was not a dr available to release me. They said that my heart rate was too high and i was ordered to take a cat scan of my lungs and groin to see if i had any blood clots. Test came back negative. Oh i could stand the catheter but when it was removed it didn't hurt. The jp drain was finally removed today and it felt funny the dr told me it was going to tickle and it did. I walked without them even asking me. Half the time they came looking for me and i was gone down the hallway. Well i am at my mothers and i wanna go to church tonight and she is upset. But i feel good enough to go. I told her all i am going to do is sit in a chair how hard is that. But that is my story i hope this helps others and encourages others to be happy and excited and go in with a positive attitude. Live and death is in the power of your tongue. Speak positive over your life and be blessed
03/18/2009
I received a call from the nurse telling me that due to a emergency my surgery was cancelled until 03/25 i was not happy. The nurse called me back and told me that i could eat until sunday but then to go back on the liquid diet.
03/10/2009
pre op with pcp. All test were done already at the hospital all i had to do was my blood work which i did at the hospital and the results were sent to my dr. He is so happy for me and i thank god for him and all that he has done to assist me with my fight. He asked me if i was going to be wearing a thong or a g string on the beach i just laughed and said hell no.
03/05/2009
Pre op day. I spoke with the nurse and my Dr's asst. I asked all the questions i had left and i am good to go. At this point i don't feel nervous i am exp'ing a calm that i can't explain.
03/04/2009
I just got a call today while at work with my surgery dare 03/19/2009. I have waited 3 years to be able to say that. It is 15 days away so there is no room really for me to eat my big steak and biscuits from red lobster before i start the liquid diet.
02/17/2009
It is offical i received my approval letter i picked it up today after work.
02/16/2009
Well it has been about a week now that i got the good news about being approved for the surgery and i have still not told my mother about it until today. She was very supportive of the surgery when i first told her a year ago. In the last couple of months i have been losing weight and she is so happy with that. She made a comment the other day and said that i can do this on my own and i don't need the surgery. This has been the main reason i have not said anything further to her about it. Well today i went over to my mom's and i couldn't find the words to tell her so i just said it. I told her i was approved. She is worried because i have not been at this job 6 months. I assured her that i have vacation time and that is job sercurity rather than using std. I can use it but i would perfer not too so that is the least i have to tell people on my job what i am doing. Well once she understood this is not the RNY and the surgery is only a 1 hr and she realised how much research i have been doing she was fine with it. She said congrats and that we need to start praying from now that there will not be any complications. I feels like such a weight has been lifted off me. I feel better. Now to tell my sister and brother. I come on this website alot because as i noted before all my friends are small and yes i can share this with them but they really don't understand nor relate to what i am going thur or experiencing. I am glad there is a forum where i can share my thoughts and concerns about this whole process. If my story helps someone prefect even better. Oh my main reason for going to my mom's was to get my approval letter and it has not arrived yet. I think I am going to frame it. I might not go on a wall but this letter starts the beginning of the rest of my life. So until i have my egd and 24 halter on the 24th i will update to how this went.
02/13/2009
I was thinking today that when i was looking up star jones on google there was a page that popped up that said WLS is a cheaters diet. If people really went behind the scene of a person who is preparing for this surgery and what all it takes and what mind set you have to have to endure all these test and hoops that the dr's and insurance company have you jumping through. Lets not even talk about after the surgery. I am trying now to mentally prepare myself. I have started recognising the foods that i will no longer eat. I want to completely stop eating steak, pork and chicken. Just seafood. I want to completely change my life with this second chance i am blessed with. When i was younger i really was into exercising it was my passion and that is what i want to get back too. I will update on 02/24/2009. Or when i receive my approval letter that i might just frame. Pray for me LOL
02/12/2009
I called and ordered my cpap and made my finally appointments to my surgery date. I have to do my labs again egd and a 24 monitor to get my cardio clearance. All of them are set for 02/24/2009
