Final Pre Op.

Jul 25, 2013

My final pre op appointment was on 7/19/13, but the blog has not allowed me to type a post until today.

First of all there was a close call... I have only told 3 people at work, one being my manager to get the time off, because I did not want to talk about it 24/7, get a lot of attention, or have 15 people trying to visit me in the hospital. I work in the hospital that I'm having my DS at so it would have been too easy for everyone including those I'm not really fond of to stop by. Maybe some people would like the attention but being laid up in a hospital bed feeling fat and miserable is not a time when I feel like seeing a lot of people. I will tell them when I come back to work. So anyway I check in for my appointment and they tell me to head to the shop and put in my post op order for my protein product so I can pick it up after my appointment. I walk into the shop and scan the people in it and of course there's one of my  co-workers who had a RNY earlier this year. Thank God her back was to me. I quickly left and asked if I could wait in the back area until she left. We managed to get out of there without being seen... I think.

So the actual appointment fine. I had lost 4.5 pounds in the week since my previous appointment. I thought this was awesome, but they didn't seem too thrilled. Maybe it was because I was the last appointment of the day but I felt like I failed them some how by not losing more. That made it 19 pounds since June 5th. June 5th I started my own diet of 1500 cal a day just to start dropping as much as I could before surgery to make sure they could do it all at once. After my appointment I did my final pre-op lab draw and headed home.

July 14th I started the pre-op diet consisting of only the protein infused foods my surgeons office sells equaling 800-900 cal a day. I stuck as close to 800 a day as I could to make sure I lost as much as I could and dropped 4.5 pounds the first 4 days. I lost two more pounds since the pre-op appointment the 19th bringing me up to a 22 pound loss, but after that I screeched to a halt. It couldn't be more frustrating to eat 800 crappy calories and stop losing weight. I've made a point to keep active. Yard work (trimming tree's, weeding the garden, and push mowing the law), house work, 15min walk, etc. but no loss. Yesterday I gave in after a third day of No loss and called the dietician at Dr. Kemmeters office. She said maybe I was burning too many of the calories and to add one more product a day to get me closer to 900 calories. This is my 2nd day making that happen and it does not seem to be making a difference. I just don't want to get to my surgery date and have them thinking I was not sticking to the diet. I haven't even tasted anything other than what they said I could. I'm following the diet and taking my vitamins religiously. I'm going to be devastated if I can't get the entire DS done in one surgery because my liver did not shrink enough or any of the other reasons they are not able to. I want my life to change now.

Wish me luck only 3 1/4 days to go!

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