Tomorrow’s the big day

Well tomorrow is the big day. I can't believe it. How fast it got here. REALLY!! OMG! I have to be at the hospital at 5:00 in the morning and surgery starts around 7:00 a.m. I am starting to get a little nervous, anxious, scared, and most of all excited! I think this is only going to get more and more so as the day goes on and into the night. Hopefully, I will be able to get a good nights sleep. There will be alot going on through my head like last night. I slept about 5 hours last night. And since I am not supposed to have caffeine on this liquid diet, I am pretty tired right now so I am probably going to fall asleep pretty easily tonight. I still need to go have my prescriptions filled, get my overnight bag ready, and put my nausea patches on tonight. My husband will be at the hospital with me and then family and friends will come and visit me after I get out of anesthesia recovery. I am looking forward to this. It's going to be hard...very hard but I'm willing to make this change for the rest of my life. I'M READY FOR THIS! Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers as I go through this surgery tomorrow. Thank you everyone for all your support!!

Saw V

Ok so I've seen ALL the Saw movies before this one and they were all good. This one didn't disappoint! I'm not going to tell the movie but you gotta see it and if you haven't seen the previous ones...go rent them!!

Liquid Diet

I was supposed to start my liquid diet Friday and I did really good until I saw my leftovers in the refrigerator from Taste of Italy. MMMM That is the best italian restaurant ever!! So halfway through the day I gave in and ate my leftovers. I decided I was going to eat whatever I wanted for the rest of the day and start my liquid diet Saturday. I had steak, scalloped potatoes, fried squash, and baked beans. It was divine!! How's that for a last meal? HAHAHA So anyways, Saturday I went and bought alot more slimfasts, broths, sugar free jello, and I have enough sugar free popsicles and crystal light stuff already. I stuck to the liquid diet the whole day yesterday despite all the good food I cooked for my family. Then today I made sausage, bacon, eggs, and pancakes for my family for breakfast and of course, I got a high protein slim fast shake and jello. YAY ME!!! I have my eye on the prize. It's all worth it. I CAN DO THIS!!!!

update!

Ok I went to my surgeon's office today to get a sonogram on my gallbladder to check for stones and my legs to check for clots in my veins. She looked at my gallbladder and told my I do have stones and that she would give me a prescription to dissolve them. Then she looked at my liver and told me I have a moderately fatty liver. She said the liquid diet will shrink my liver down to mildly fatty and reduce the size of it to make surgery go a lot easier. Then she did a sonogram on my legs. I have no clots in my legs but the cool thing was that she said I have very muscular legs in which most people who know me know I do. I guess it is first from years of playing softball and then being fat and carrying this weight. After seeing the sonographer, I went to see the dietitian. She gave me my two week liquid diet list. Breakfast: high protein slim fast, snack: high protein slim fast, lunch: high protein slim fast, snack: high protein slim fast, dinner: high protein slim fast, snack: 1 cup of broth (chicken, beef, or vegetable). Then in between I can have all the crystal light, water, broth, sugar free jello, sugar free popsicles, and other non-carbonated, decaffeinated, sugar free clear liquids. I start tomorrow. yay me!

I GOT A DATE!!!!!!!!!

OK so I found out my original surgeon was going to be on maternity leave when they called me to schedule my surgery so I asked them if I could have another surgeon do the surgery. They said yes that's no problem and that they could do it in as little as one or two weeks. Anyways, I went today to go meet with the other surgeon who happens to be the Director of the program. He has done over 2,500 surgeries and hasn't lost as patient to the surgery. I feel incredibly confident and safe with him doing my surgery. He isn't a man of many words but he says I am going to come through just fine. I don't have any real health issues except the sleep apnea. I going to do great!! I can't WAIT! OMG So after I met with him, I went to schedule the date. OCTOBER 30TH!!!! I am his first surgery of the day. I have to be there at 5 a.m. and my surgery is at 7 a.m. I go back to the doctor's office on Nov. 16th to see the dietician so she can tell me all that I can have on my pre-op liquid diet...yay. LOL! And then she is going to do a sonogram on my gallbladder to check for stones and doppler on my legs to check for clots. Then I go over to the hospital to pre-admit, get an EKG done, chest x-ray, and lab work (blood tests) done. So, wow, this is really happening. It's awesome!!