37 Days to Go......

Jan 08, 2012

I'm 37 days away from my surgery, working hard to try and catch up and leave everything ready for when I take my 2 weeks off. I'm an Accountant for a roofing contractor so the beginning of the year is busy time for me. Went to my post op appointment on Thursday, I was very happy to finally meet the dr and staff, I was overall happy with everything. They took the liberty and made all my pre-op appts for me.

HOWEVER, the first test I needed to have done was an Upper GI, the appointment was set for yesterday, Sat, 1/7 and I was disappointment with the center I was sent to, it was in a very grimy, sad looking building, with an inadequate staff and tons of people. I was not that bothered by that until after I was called inside the xray tech advised me that they would not be able to do the test because their equipment was not made to use on persons over 300lbs. You can imagine my shock, how could my surgeons office make such a stupid mistake and send me to a center that could not tailor to larger persons when this is what they do! I was embarrassed and upset at the waste of time.

My surgeons office was closed because it was a Saturday, so I sent an email to the advocate assigned to me and copied the doctor. I really hope this was just a fluke and they could take care of this. I want to get the best pre op care possible, I'm so paranoid it's the only thing that will make me feel a bit more secure on surgery day to know that at least everything that could be tested for before had was done. 

Tomorrow I'm starting on a low carb diet to help me lose as much weight as possible before my surgery, I will be on this diet for 3 weeks before I have to start the 2 week pre-op diet assigned by my dr. We will see how it goes.

I think for me the dieting and all the preparation I have to go through will not bother me as much as the fear of the surgery and any complications after surgery, but that is the one thing out of my hands and I must leave that to fate.

 

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