sandytoes
Week of Surgery..
Apr 20, 2009
Well this is it...April 20th, the final countdown till myApril 24th surgery....I am on liquids and I am starting to slosh when I walk. I had my pre-op test at the hospital, blood, urine,didn't need chest xray because I had that from Pulmanary doc. Didn't need EKG cause I had that from the Cardiologist. sooo I met with Antistiesia doc. He was concerened about my neck surgery and whether I had good motion of my neck which I do. I had discs removed and my neck fused with cadaver bone...Thank you doner's...I am one as well, although when they asked me at the hospital if I was an organ doner I said I was , but I really prefer to be quite dead first!!! lol Then After the pre test at hospital I went up to see Nutritionist and surgeon and nurse..Nurse said I lost 3 lbs {Oh so it does move, I really was beginning to wonder} and Nut went over post op and pre-op liquids. Ginger is very sweet. Then on to see the surgeon....Dr. Reich is young and cute and very easy to talk to, he could be my son.....yikes when did that happen,that docs and cops are all sooo young???? I shouwed him the five books I had read on the subject and he said to the nurse I better be spot on in explaining things to her cause she'll know if I mes up!! I told you he was funny, he also said If he needed any help during the surgery he would wake me.......Thanks.......lol So any way thats where I am today, so far since I started this journey in Oct. I am down a whopping 10 lbs...IT is a wet and rainy chilly April Monday as=nd I'm thinking this week may just be very long....Let's go Friday....I do have to say I feel a little guility having surgery and not telling my children, not that I want them to worry, just that if anything should happen I wouldn't want them to blame their father for not saying anything...It was my choice not to tell...He agreed with me but the decision was mine. I just didn't think they would understand....And I really needed this time to focus on me and the changes I would need to make and not try to educate them on this surgery...Because I know not one of them would get on their computer and look it up and learn about it on their own...I have Fibromyalgia and Rheumitoid Arthritus and not one on them has ever bothered to learn a thing about either one.Although they are all four always on the computor. THey are not babies either. they are 35,32,30,28!!!!!!!! When they were children if anything was wrong I spent hours looking things up in all kinds of books, we didn't have the convience of a computer..But I t seems to be too much of an effort to do that for mom. OH well I have gotten off topic. My shrink says I owe them nothing...no explanation of having the surgery or ever having the surgery...It just isn't the way I always imagined my "WALTON" family to be.... I guess I expected too much...So now I wait till Friday to start my new life........I shall continue..........
