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Hey YALL, 
I haven't blogged since before my surgery and let me tell you I am home and doing quite well.  Surgery was kinda uneventful with the exception of me acting up after coming from under the anesthesia(sp).  The last few days went as follows:

April 1

Checked in at the hospital around 11:45 my surgery was scheduled to begin at 1pm.  Well, I went back and forth from admissions to the surgery ward twice because my paperwork hadn't been changed from my original March 31 date.  After all that got settled I waited for almost a half an hour for them to call my name to get me prepped for surgery.  I got undressed and they begin trying to get me an IV line.  Let me tell you they stuck me 6 times before they could find a vein that wouldn't roll or collapse.  I was ready to tell him to just stop it then he found a vein.  The nurse went and got my mom and i got to talk to her for about 10 minutes before the anethesiologist came in and told me it was time to go nitey nite.  I swear I felt the effects of the drugs almost immediately.  I remember the lights of the operating room and that's it.  The next thing I know I was awaken by the nurse calling my name.  
Now I wish I got the nurses name because I was not the best of patient with her, I kept taking off the CPAP machine, complaining that my stomach hurt and she better give me something.  Well I the mail nurse came over tried to be nice but I was mean to him too until he shot something in my IV and i went nitey nite again. 

I will have to say that the worse part of my ordeal was the gas the first day, having to stay in recovery all night because there was no room in ICU AND them yanking that damn tube out of my nose it was the WORSE.

APRIL 2

They move me to my room and a give me broth, apple juice, cranberry juice, jello and water.  But I had no appetite, so I ate a couple of spoonfuls of broth and drank the cranberry juice and water.  I was feeling pretty good, no pay and all.  They keep giving me shots to thin my blood and too deal with the pain.  But Dr. A gives you a pump that delivers pain meds right to the incision so doing well.  Around noon the Dr came to get me to walking.  I told her about Freedom 2007 and our promist to each other and she went to go get her but alas it was another woman but we walked together anyway.  

April 3, 

I wake up at 6am go walking and comeback to the my room and drink the broth and cranberrywater. LOL.  Shortly thereafter the Doc tells me to call my ride and be ready to go home by 11am.  I like YES!  While the hospital was nice and the nurses were nice, there's no place like home.  I get showered and dressed with all my instructions and I'm out.  The one thing that must say was a godsend was thongs.  It was one of the items the told us to bring when we came to the hosptial.  I didn't understand until I had to go to the bathroom and take a shower.  It was a GREAT help. Still in no pain

Fast forward to today

I've been doing well was on the liquid diet until this morning.  No PAIN, Dr. A gave me a prescription for tylenol with codeine but I haven't had to use it yet.  I did however become a lil dehydrated because I wasn't sippin like I should.  I was gulping which was causing me GAS so I stopped drinking all together.  Which was a mistake on my part.  I had my mom buy me a baby sip cup so I'm doing much better.  Had some grits for the first time today, nothing to right home about.  But I'm alright.  Time to get the protein down.  lol

Oh yeah, I swear I've never seen so many food commercials in my life not sure if it's because I don't watch much tv or because I'm paying more attention to them now that I can't have what's in the commercials.  LOL. My tastebuds have changed slightly, I drank some peppermint tea with splenda and sugar free rasberry jello and they were both NASTY. I used to love them before surgery.  I made some berry crystal lite with equal, one pack and that was entirely too sweet.  Hand to water it down.

I've noticed the underlying theme here that having weight loss surgery is akin to being born again.  As such, I've been thinking that in order to be re-born, something must die or fall by the wasteside.  And when anythings die's or leaves etc we tend to go through a period of mourning.  Thus I compiled a list of things I am now mourning in order to experience my upcoming rebirth.  Please feel free to add to the list :

1)  Desert - I was a sugar FIEND
2) Cereal - Capn Crunch, Pops, Corn Flakes
3) All you can eat restuarants - specifically crabs
4) Steak
5) The oh so sexy CPAP machine
6) The pity stairs from skinny women
7) The saying you have such a pretty face
8) The flowered big girl clothes
9) Lane Bryant and Ashley Stewart
10) Real Woman Dollars
11) My DDD's - My mourning period will prolly be quite long for this one.  I didn't have them before becoming plus sized and I really enjoyed having them.  LOL.
12. The come on's from creepy old men who love a woman with meat on her bones

And last but no least.....
The look on peoples faces as I dropped it like it's hot to "Watch out for the Big Girls"  cause they didn't think a big girl could get down.  LOL.

I will be officially joining the loser's bench as of March 31, 2008!!!  Yes!!!!  I'm so excited!!!! I'm feeling like the joker with a permanent smile on my face!!!!!  Now I've got to get all my pre-op testing finished up.  Let's hope I can get through all of this with out any DRAMA

OK so I talked to the insurance coordinator at my Dr.'s Office today.  We've been playing telephone tag for the past two days.  Well we finally talk at 4pm today only to have her tell me that the next available date is April 23rd.  I should be estatic right?  I'm not. Here's why, 

1) My mom has that week blacked out at work thus I would have no one to help me get my daughter back and forth to school
2) My team leader is scheduled to have surgery the week before.
3) The other team member will be on detail for 60 days during that time.

Thus, I will have no help and home and the office would be left with out a government lead (we would have contractor support).  I swear it's like I take 2 steps forward and 3 steps back.  I know I'm whining but ......

I relayed my delima to the young lady at my Dr.'s office and she says she's gonna try to see if she can get me scheduled for the 3rd or the 10th of April.  I will know definitely tomorrow. 

I am over here grinning from ear to ear!!!  I can't wait to take my seat on the losers bench!!!!!!  I want to scream and shout and jump for joy but I can't cause I'm at work and I've gotta stay cool !!  But thank you JESUS!!!!  Now I'm just waiting on the date!!!

OK so I was told by the surgery coordinator at my Dr. Office that she sent my paperwork forward once I'd given her the correct insurance card.  That was Wednesday, so I call the insurance company today only to find out they haven't received anything yet.  

I call Dr. A's office and speak to someone else who informs me that they are waiting for the pschy person to do her part.  I'm a little ticked off because I went to see the psychiatrist back on Jan 31 and got my clearance. I don't appreciate being lied to either.  All she had to do was tell me that last week.  This is two weeks waisted.  

SO I'm very, very frustrated because I thought I'd have a date by now.

I sincerely hope this isn't the beginning of a big uphill battle. 

OK so I finally got to the bottom of my insurance problem!!  It was none other than me, myself and I.  My health insurance merged with a larger company at the beginning of the year and we have new cards and new policy numbers.  I forgot to give my doctor's office my new card.  

Thus they were submitting my paperwork under the wrong policy number.   I am such a dope.  LOL.

Let me just say that I absolutely HATE WAITING!  I am going half crazy.   I called my insurance company today to see if they'd received the letter from my doctor.  NOPE.  Called my doctor's office to see if they'd sent the letter.  The insurance specialist says she sent it but she will send it again!  This is the worst.  I am stuck in insurance limbo.  lol.  

On a brighter note, I will be fitted with my CPAP machine this friday.  . 

OK So it's been a week since I've had my last visit at the obesity center.  I am patiently (not so) waiting to hear from the insurance company.  The insurance specialist at the center has stated that it would take 3 to 5 work days for approval.  Thus I have my fingers crossed and am fighting the urge to call and see what's happening!!  

The one call I am not looking forward to is from the sleep center coming to fit me with the dreaded CPAP machine.  I have had two sleep studies in the past month and they were the worst. Especially the one with the CPAP machine.  I have to wear this doggone thing until I lose the weight! It's so very sexy.  LOL.

I am also battling a cold and a sprained foot.  I fell down the steps voting last week.  SO you can say that I am quite miserable at the moment.  But I'm trying to take it all in stride and keep wishing and hoping and praying that I hear something back this week.

Happy Monday!