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I had my preop appt today.   It is November 5th at 8:15.   I am so excited.   I have no pre op liquid diet and no bowel prep.   I am so excited.    The dr said I had lost so much weight before the surgery that there would be no need for the diet.    Only thing he wanted me to do was to come home and get rid of my jar of Maxwell House Instand caffeinated coffee.   I did that as soon as I got home.    I hope this time flies by.

Here we go again.   I have my preop appt with Dr Mikimi on Monday.   Lets hope he doesn't find anything else to hold it up this time.   I had another EGD done on the 11th and the ulcer is healing.   He said rny is a go.   I am so glad.   I wasn't wanting lapband.   I am so excited.   Got to get back walking.   I took a couple weeks off.   I had a abcess tooth and it was so painful.   Now it is not as painful, but my gums and left side of my chin is numb from it.   I am calling the Dentist tomorrow and tell him I think I need another round of antibiotics.   My consult with the Oral surgeon is october 7th.    I do feel like walking again.  

Just a little set back.  Nothing major.   I was hoping to get my date for my surgery today.    Dr Mikami came in and was prepared to give me my date, but he was looking at my chart and noticed where he had done my egd in March.   He looked at my pictures of the ulcer.   It was a bad ulcer he said and he wants me to have another egd done before he proceeds with the surgery.  

If the ulcer is not healed he doesn't want to go ahead with the gastric bypass.   He wants to do the lap band instead.    I was upset when he first said that, then I just said, "Lord if you want me to have the gastric bypass then I will if it, if it is meant for me to have the lap band then so be it.    It is in Gods  hands.  

The procedure will be done Sept 11th, then we proceed from there.  

I called mom to tell her then news and she starts yelling at me saying I never told her I was having the rny procedure, that she thought  I was having the lap band.   I just told her I wasn't going to argue and fight with her.   I was going and would talk to her later.   I hung up my cell.   The call lasted all of 45 seconds.    I refuse to argue with her and I refuse to let her rain on my parade.    

Everyone pray for me that Gods will be done with this surgery.   I am ok with which ever way it goes.

Also I am down 7 more lbs.   Thats the bright side of today.

Columbus called.   I go and meet my surgeon monday for my preop appt.   I am so excited.   My life is about to change in a big way.   A new person is going to emerge.   The inner me that I have longed to be for years.  

Friday I got the clearance from the pulmonary dr for the surgery.   I tried to call my contact at OSU.    She is on vacation til thursday.   It is hard waiting that long.  

Today I got me a denim pencil skirt.    I wanted one last year, but it wouldn't fit.   I tried it on at walmart today and it fit.   That makes me feel so much better.    I am seeing progress of all the work I have done on myself this last year.

I am under 300.   I weigh 298 today.    When the nurse told me I yelled a big yippee today.    I know I have walked a lot in Muskingham park the last 10 days.   I have to keep that up.   I know I am feeling even better.   Yesterday I managed to walk the whole park.  

I am going to start my nutritional classes on May 28th.    Yippee!!!!!  

I had the choice of going for 4 group classes or 3 individual.  I chose the individual.   I think I will benefit more from the individual classes.  

I went to Dr Lees office this morning to try to get a copy of my sleep study in 2006.    They wouldn't give it to me.   Said they would mail it to me within 2 weeks.   Geezzz.

I came home and called the bariatric center and asked them if they received the copy of my sleep study in March.   Thank the Lord they had it.   They are faxing it to Dr Daas office.  

Things are starting to move now.

I went to see Dr.  Daas at OSU Lung Center today.   I am going to have to go back on the sleep apnea machine.   I should get it next week.   Monday I have to go up to Dr Lees and get a copy of my sleep study and what settings dr lee wanted me to use.   I have to fax that to Dr Daas's office personally.   I don't especially like going to see Dr Lee.  Anyone that knows me personally knows why I don't particullarly care for him.  

I have lost 2 more lbs in the last month.    I am pleased with loosing the weight, but it isn't disappearing from my stomach.   I am loosing it in my boobs.    I was hoping to keep them and loose my stomach.   But it appears that my boobs are the first thing I am loosing.   I don't have that much of them to loose.  

I also had a egd done about a month  ago.   I found out that I have a ulcer and hiatal hernia.    That is probably why I have problems eating at certain restaurants and certain food.    

I am going to call the bariatric center next week and see if I can get my nutritional counceling out of the way, so hopefully I can have my surgery toward the end of summer.   I want it to be over with by december.

I had my appointment with the dietician and nurse practioner at OSU yesterday.    It went very well.    I was counting on my surgery being hopefully by fall.    I was told yesterday that it most likely be by summer.   Said with my insurances it is one of the very easiest to work with.   I am super pumped.    I probably won't have to do the nutrition classes.    I will most likely have to have 4 face to face weekly meetings before the surgery with a dietician.    YeeeHaw!!!!!!!!!

I passed the psych exam on Monday.   It was just common sense questions for me.   I was myself and treated it as a job interview.   I answered everything truthfully.   I am looking at this like I am on a carosuel and reaching for the brass ring.   I will have the brass ring when I have the surgery and loose the weight.   I will be like a butterfly coming out of a cacoon.   I am looking forward to my rebirth.

I am waiting now for March 4th to go for the apt with the nutritionist and physicians assistant.   I will know about how far in the future the surgery will be.