Katrinakit

Thanks!

I'm on May 16! I started preop diet yesterday! I hope I make it through the month!!

Today is day 2 for me and I have to be on this a month. I hope I can do it! I'm so tired. I'm not supposed to have caffeine so I am trying to drink extra Water in hopes that it will give me energy and I am putting my Protein powder into Decaf coffee in the mornings so I have a mocha

Luckily, my diet is not as extreme as some. I get 5 Optifast drinks a day and then 1 meal with 3 oz of meat and 1 cup of veges, 1 tsp olive oil, and 1 small fruit. So I am really consuming like 1100-1200 calories per day but it is still really hard for me, especially when I think about the fact that this will last a month. I worked yesterday and today and then will work tomorrow and Tuesday. I'm not sure if that is a good thing or a bad thing to be working the first few days. On the one hand, I have less time to think about it, on the other hand I am tired and wish I could nap!

Good luck everyone!

Kat

Wow! That is a really long road!

Oh we start diet on same day!

How long is everyone's preop diet?

May 16!!! I can't believe it!

I'm being annoying. I could hear it in the office manager's voice. She seems pretty confident that the surgery will go as scheduled though and says she will send my my appointment schedule today. My meeting with the dietitian to prep for Optifast is Friday!

I will. I won't be on pain meds because I am allergic but AM worried about the discomfort of bending over. I think I meet with surgeon on Friday and will ask his opinion

Yeah it is just a one hour demo with 2 hours of practice after I think

I would try and find a way to bring it up in a conversation but then I have a habit of being TOO transparent so I don't know. I'm glad you guys are having fun though!

So I had thought I wasn't having surgery for months and so I signed up for a pottery class that starts the week of my surgery. Now I can't really get out of it. So obviously that first week I can't do it but do you think four days after surgery I would be up to going to the pottery studio and just listening to the demo? And then the next week do you think I would be able to sit down and lean over a potter's wheel? I won't throw anything too big that required strength or anything.

Now I am playing the waiting game again because we had to resubmit now that the surgeon has changed lol

Ooooooo can't stand the waiting! I have been talking myself out of calling all day long. If I don't hear back by tomorrow morning I will call though because I need to know whether to go to the Optifast class on Thursday

That's cute that your son said "don't die today"

Wow! How scary!!

That is so sad, especially because she leaves 3 kids behind.

I have a weird outlook because I am not afraid of pain or death. I am afraid of a lot of things but not that. So I am more worried about my heart being broken than about being murdered. But I AM cautious when I first start dating someone. I guess the scariest part about this case to me is that it happened after a few dates, right around the time when I start feeling comfortable/relaxing around someone. So I probably would have allowed us to be alone too!

The last guy I dated, I was with for over a year when I learned he had lied about his name and age and failed to mention that he was a registered sex offender due to multiple felonies involving under aged girls so I really know how to pick them (or maybe they know how to pick me because those are the guys that ask me out!)

He wasn't married, I have been to his house and met his coworkers and friends etc. the one weird thing is that he did not want to go to church with me?! (Because he said he needed to go to confession but then he would never go!) so yeah I definitely think it is potential bs in the sense that he wanted to break up and didn't have a good reason so he came up with one. Basically, he is a commitment phobe.

I'm still friends with him on Facebook but we are not really talking at the moment

I plan to find myself a good tailor

Hi everyone! Well I guess I was in love but he wasn't. He says he feels called to join a monastery and not called to marriage?! Don't know why he was on a dating site lol So I have been pretty heartbroken about it because I have never felt that way before in all of my 38 years. But what are you going to do but move on and focus on other things so I am trying. Glad to hear all of the stories of how it DID work out though!

So the insurance wants us to resubmit with the new surgeon. Kind of silly since they are the same group but oh well. Nothing official yet but still hopeful!

Never mind! I think I am getting it may 16! Still waiting to see it in writing

Well I have had a crazy 8 months trying to qualify for this surgery, I left the office crying on April 5th thinking it wasn't going to happen until August due to a series of unfortunate circumstances and then I got a call this morning saying my surgery is approved and although my surgeon is not available in May the head surgeon at my office has agreed to do it on May 16!!! I cannot handle all of these ups and downs! Can't believe it!

Just had to share

I'm on month 8 now. Probably will get surgery in late July or early August. So frustrated.