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It seems almost as though I have been stuck at a stall for a while now, I am currently weighing in at 295 which is awesome although I thought that I would of lost more weight by my four week mark which will be tomorrow, I will be updating my blog on Thursday when I do one Month out pictures so that'll be nice :)

Okay now that its been over a week from my surgery and I'm feeling so great that I can sit in the computer room and type a blog I am going to! I had my surgery on June 26th at 7:30 am. After arriving at the hospital they start my IV and then about an hour prior to surgery they rolled me downstairs into the pre op room where they did a lil more prepping and yes they even checked to see if I had "shaved" down there good enough LOL but thank goodness this time it was a lady looking and not a male nurse like last time. So as the nurse was looking to make sure I shaved good enough she says oh wow you have a rash on your legs, mind you I had already known this but it wasnt to be and she proceeds to tell me "Well we may have to cancel your surgery" I almost went crazy but instead i said okay well let me speak with my surgeon, I had already wanted to speak with him because a nurse that came in to speak with me that is in the OR told me that they were going to put in a catheter this time around and my response to him was no your not, he said we'll see! ANYWAYS, my surgeon came in and I told him they said they were going to cancel my surgery because of the rash and he was like oh no we will just put some anti itch cream and you'll be just fine and then i asked about the catheter and he was like umm no we didnt do one this time and we arent this time! THANK GOODNESS!!! So next comes in my anestisologist, and man o man can I just say he was CUTE! I explained to him that in my last surgery (march 13) when i woke up in the recovery room I had a hard time breathing and was extremely naseaous so he said he would adjust the medicine and we'll hope that it works out better and let me tell you it totally did when I woke up from surgery I was feeling just fine, I got up to my room and laid in my bed for a while and id say not even an hour later I was up doing laps around the floor I was on. I was sooo blessed that I had many many visitors that night so I just kept making them do laps with me :) till finally I wore myself out and my nurse had to tell me to go get back in bed that I had done plenty of working for the night and at that time I needed pain meds! Throughout the night I only needed pain meds one more time and that was just because I was in pain in my back and I think that was from being in the best and on the operating table tooo long. I went home the next day around 8pm and boy was I so happy to go home. A few days following surgery I would wake up feeling sick to my stomach and I think that was just simply because of all the medicine that they give you to knock you out, I am proud to say taht I am getting in ALL my fluids and ALL my protein everyday and am feeling almost back to my normal self!!! To date I have lost 14lns and thats just in a weeks time. I am so happy that I have taken this step in my life and I cannot wait to what the future holds :) I also must add that I have the BEST parents, husband, and family also inlaws they ALL have been extremely supportive, I feel blessed!!!

Ok! So on Friday June 22nd, 2012 I went in to get all of my pre op blood work done, when I get into the lab the lady calls me back to the room and I immediately tell her that my veins roll and asked if she was used to veins rolling and if not if she could please pass me off to someone that was used to it, she reassured me that she could do it well once she stuck me with the needle ofcourse my vein rolled and she was like okay honey im going to poke a little more and so she did ofcourse hurt like hell but I was thinking in the back of my head I pray that she just gets it will she did but my blood would go and then stop, most likely because it hurt like hell!!! She then proceeds to go to my other arm to see if she can get blood from it and ofcourse my veins are rolling so she says "I'm sorry I'll have to pass you to someone else and thank goodness she did because the minute I got with the other lady she got it instantly thank goodness for good nurses!!!

 

On another note I have been very emotional since I had my blood drawn probably because it is all hitting home that I am truely going to have my surgery on June 26th and there shouldnt be anymore roadblocks this time. I think I'm emotional because I am so excited to begin this new journey as I have all my family and friends who are supporting me in this yet at the same time I'm nervous and scared because I dont know what to expect I have been reading and writing in tons of websites such as OH, my facebook groups and just doing research on my own so I feel ready but I just dont know if you are ever ready enough to dump all the old habits and make sure that you succeed at the new ones! I got this and I will make sure that I work my tool!

SO I know that it has taken me forever to actually update my blogs here but when I went in for surgery on 3/13/12 my gallbladder ended up rupturing on the table so my surgeon had to make sure that all the fluids from that were cleaned out of my stomach in which it actually took him nearly 2 1/2 hours to make sure that was all cleaned up and good, I have to say that my surgeon is an awesome one and did what was best for me, he said that he didnt want to keep me under any longer and that is why I will be having my RNY surgery on 6/26/12. At first when I was in the recovery room and he told me that he wasnt able to do my RNY surgery I was devestated and didnt truely know what to think even when I went home for a few days I would say I was a bit upset and even a little depressed because I had waited so long to get the surgery and BAM something prevented me from getting it. I even was having thought such as "maybe this is someones way of telling me that I shouldnt get the surgery" other crazy thoughts also crossed my mind! After about a week or so I started coming to the conclusion that it was just a roadblock and it is now out of the way, noone is telling me that I shouldnt get it because it is up to ME to change my life and I was going to proceed and have the RNY surgery so my surgery is now scheduled for 6/26/12 @ 7:30 am :)

Well the time has finally come! I have to be at the hospital by 5am and my surgery is going to happen at 730am. I am so excited and have to admit that I'm not too nervous yet although I know that it will kick in come tomorrow morning!! This surgery is totally going to change my life and change it for the better I am ready to take the next step and get a tool that is going to help me lose this weight not to mention my darn gallbladder is also coming out thank goodness because WOW when I have gallbladder attacks they are no joke! I have been on a liquid diet all day and have been successful so I think that ill be just a okay with this surgery gotta get ready for tomorrow night all :)

So today was the day. I met with my surgeon. At first I was a bit disappointed because I seriously waited over an hour to see him but once I met him all was great! He seems like an awesome surgeon. He has chosen for me to have the RNY, which I am totally fine with because like he said its "more bang for your buck". I asked him if at all possible would I be able to have my surgery on March 20th, my birthday and he said that there should be no problem with that...I'm overly thrilled right now with excitement!!

Just thought Id update this since I got a call from the case manager. She said that she was able to accept four of my weigh ins and I need a total of six! I will have my 5th weight check next Wednesday at my nutrition appointment and then ill have my 6th weigh in sometime in February. I am so impressed at how quickly this process is going for me and most of all I am so blessed that everyone I have been dealing with in the bariatric program has been WONDERFUL. Life is great!

Just thought id take a minute to post that I finally had my Upper GI Xray yesterday. The nurse kept telling me that it doesnt taste that bad and it would all be okay and then when the doctor came in he said "I'm not going to lie to you its probably going to be the worst thing you have ever had to do before but you wont die" Here I am standing on the table waiting for the drink thinking "OMG I cant believe im about to drink this stuff, you know if a dr says its bad then , ITS BAD" The doctor gave me the drink and instantly I wanted to throw it up but told myself if I do that ill just have to drink more so the dr kept telling me drink "normal" finally I looked over at him and said "can I please just gulp it down!" He said yes and thank goodness because if I wasnt able to there would of been no way i would of been able to drink as much as I was being asked to. During the Xray the doctor allowed me to watch what was going on which I thought was extremely well because this way I knew exactly what was happening and what was being sent over to my surgeon. The Xray doctor said that everything looked normal, I was extremely happy to hear that! So thankful that is over with!

Today I had an appointment with my new primary doctor under my new insurance. After meeting with my new doctor I asked if he can send a referral over to the weight loss surgery center so that I can start the process on having surgery, he told me "you know that there are a lot of steps you have to jump thru" I simply replied "Yes and some of the steps I have already completed and transferred over from my old insurance." He was happy to hear that I have already completed my 6 weigh ins. I asked that he send a referral over to imaging so that I can have my Upper GI X-Ray done, and he did so and he also sent a referral over to a psych so that I can schedule my psych eval and get that out of the way. I am hoping now that my insurance doesnt take a long time to approve my surgery :) I will update again when some of these things are completed :)

Okay Everyone! So I have been trying to have weight loss surgery for quit some time now and have not been successful so I have already made a few steps in the correct directions. I have switched my medical plan to Blue Shield, have gone to John Muir and have almost all of the pre-op steps completed but will still have to do some when my insurance officially changes over in January! I am so excited about all of this that I can barely see straight. I feel that the ladies over at John Muir in Concord have given me all of the support that I need to be successful this time around, they have answered my endless number of questions and have just been there to listen when I wanted to talk about my journey! After going to a support group and hearing from one of my awesome Co-Workers she told me about a plastic surgeon that gives incentives if you allow him to follow you thru your process of weight loss surgery therefore tomorrow I have a meeting with the plastic surgeon. I am so nervous yet excited all at the same time. I am nervous because I have NEVER in my life met with a plastic surgeon and have no clue what to expect and what kind of before pictures will be taken! I also am excited because even though plastic surgery is in the way future (atleast a few years from now) I know that this is also a step in the healthy direction that I'm heading!!!! Anyways I better get to bed so that I can be ready for tomorrow afternoon and my meeting with the plastic surgeon...wish me luck!