Showing posts with label Pre WL Surgery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pre WL Surgery. Show all posts
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Here I am!
Finally, here is a picture of me. More on this later. But just as a super quick update, I'm now down 14 pounds, and I've finished all my test. Well almost...just when I thought I was done, they wanted me to do one more, regarding blood clots in my leg. He also wants me to get clearance from an Oncologist, even though it has been more than 14 years since I had cancer! What's even more stupid, is I contacted my PCP for a referral, and I was denied! Anyway, I've appealed that, and I'm not anticipating any further issues. It's just funny that they're ok with the surgery, but not ok with me seeing an oncologist. Now that I'm right in the range of the requested weight loss, my sweet doc asked me to lose another 8lbs! OMG! Kill me already. But its all good, I'm just beaming with excitement. I know that it's just so close. I'm so happy all the time. It is really a great feeling. More later...toodles!
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
The Mission Continues
Wow oh wow! Just when I thought I was done, I found out I had a lot more to do...but it is almost done now.
Great news! I went to weigh in yesterday and I lost 8 more pounds for a total of 12! That was so super awesome! I knew I'd been doing ok, but didn't realize I'd done that good. Also, yesterday, I had my pulmonary test, consulted with the gastroendo-something or other. Basically, the dude who will do my upper GI, which is scheduled for this Friday, the 23rd. I had a chest X-ray and an ultrasound of all my vital organs.
Friday I'll have the upper GI and an EKG/EEG...then I'll really be all done. By the time I meet the doc on the 28th, I should have completed all the required test and be down 15lbs, per his request. I'm still concerned about having my gallbladder removed, and about having to see an Oncologist before the surgery...I just think that's so stupid, but whatever!
BTW, this is truly going to be a great year! Obama was sworn into office today, I finally started my locs last week, I'm on this life changing rollercoaster, and there's no way I'm getting off. I'm preparing to start selling my jewelry, actually making it a business...I'm going to make things happen. How exciting this is. Yes, I'm still going back to school, but I'm not sure when yet. I'm going to get a new car in the next couple of months...so life is really beautiful.
J is back in my life...actually he never left. I see where I wrote I broke up with my boyfriend, but I didn't write when he came back. I do love him, we'll see what happens. Maybe I'll talk more on that one day.
I'm over talking about my pictures. I did take them, I've just been too lazy to add them. I also have pics of my starter locs, and I'll need to keep a photo journal of that process, so I'll put them up to.
Tata for now!
Great news! I went to weigh in yesterday and I lost 8 more pounds for a total of 12! That was so super awesome! I knew I'd been doing ok, but didn't realize I'd done that good. Also, yesterday, I had my pulmonary test, consulted with the gastroendo-something or other. Basically, the dude who will do my upper GI, which is scheduled for this Friday, the 23rd. I had a chest X-ray and an ultrasound of all my vital organs.
Friday I'll have the upper GI and an EKG/EEG...then I'll really be all done. By the time I meet the doc on the 28th, I should have completed all the required test and be down 15lbs, per his request. I'm still concerned about having my gallbladder removed, and about having to see an Oncologist before the surgery...I just think that's so stupid, but whatever!
BTW, this is truly going to be a great year! Obama was sworn into office today, I finally started my locs last week, I'm on this life changing rollercoaster, and there's no way I'm getting off. I'm preparing to start selling my jewelry, actually making it a business...I'm going to make things happen. How exciting this is. Yes, I'm still going back to school, but I'm not sure when yet. I'm going to get a new car in the next couple of months...so life is really beautiful.
J is back in my life...actually he never left. I see where I wrote I broke up with my boyfriend, but I didn't write when he came back. I do love him, we'll see what happens. Maybe I'll talk more on that one day.
I'm over talking about my pictures. I did take them, I've just been too lazy to add them. I also have pics of my starter locs, and I'll need to keep a photo journal of that process, so I'll put them up to.
Tata for now!
Friday, January 9, 2009
Happy New Year to me!
Ok, I'll be the first to admit...I totally suck at blogging. It really doesn't make much sense that it has been so dame long . Then again, maybe if someone else was reading this beside me, I might feel ore of an obligation. Well, I finally have a new picture...I promise, I will put it up over the weekend.
As far as updates are concerned...I didn't really lose too much weight over the holiday...actually I didn't lose any at all. I was really excited about just keeping that 5 lbs. off, and I did ok, until the last weigh in, which was Tuesday. I gained a pound!
But it's all good. I'm on a serious mission now! I've done everything that I've been scheduled to do. I've attended the required amount of support groups, and I had my psch evalution Tuesday, and now I need to just concentrate on losing another 11 lbs by 1/28 which is when I go to see Dr. Solomon again. If my weight is down where its supposed to be, I think he'll prepare to schedule my surgery.
Just when I thought I was done, I found out I had to have pulmonary testing...I scheduled that for 1/19.
I cut my hair, took out my braids and now I'm really ready for 2009. Hoping to get my hair loc'd up soon, oh what a beautiful feeling. I'm feeling fab about 2009! Stay tuned!
As far as updates are concerned...I didn't really lose too much weight over the holiday...actually I didn't lose any at all. I was really excited about just keeping that 5 lbs. off, and I did ok, until the last weigh in, which was Tuesday. I gained a pound!
But it's all good. I'm on a serious mission now! I've done everything that I've been scheduled to do. I've attended the required amount of support groups, and I had my psch evalution Tuesday, and now I need to just concentrate on losing another 11 lbs by 1/28 which is when I go to see Dr. Solomon again. If my weight is down where its supposed to be, I think he'll prepare to schedule my surgery.
Just when I thought I was done, I found out I had to have pulmonary testing...I scheduled that for 1/19.
I cut my hair, took out my braids and now I'm really ready for 2009. Hoping to get my hair loc'd up soon, oh what a beautiful feeling. I'm feeling fab about 2009! Stay tuned!
Monday, November 24, 2008
Looka here looka here!
Well, as my first entry...I guess I should just say...Whhhaaaaazzzz up. There probably aren't too many people out there...so that is more for me than anyone else.
I started this mainly to chronicle this very large, life changing event that I have begun. I promise...I will try my best to post pictures and keep things as updated as possible. Who knows...someone may be interested one day. Maybe I'll find that blogging is my destiny.
At any rate...I am a fat girl working to be thin. I've been working at it for over 20 years, but the mission has yet to be accomplished. I was thin once for about 2-3 years, but I had Cancer...so it came with the disease, but I was the happiest cancer patient on the planet...cuz I was thin.
I ended up losing my leg/half my hip (hemipelvectomy) because of the cancer, and I eventually gained all the weight back. I'm perfectly fine with losing the leg, but I've been a mess ever since I gained the weight back.
It was back in the day when Phen Phen was on the market, and I was trying desparately to get my hands on some, but I couldn't find a doctor who would approve it. I would explain to them that I would have a much higher BMI if I had 2 legs, but they just didn't get it. I would also explain that I'd been big all my life, and I was afraid that I was gaining all my weight back...still, they didn't care.
Finally, I had a client who'd told me about a doctor who would prescribe it for anyone who asked, and I scheduled an appointment right away. The day before my scheduled appointment, they took the drug off the market, I was so bummed.
To answer your question...Yes, I was more than willing to die in the name of weight loss...I was so young back then.
On November 5, 2008 my stats were as follows:
Surgery of choice: Lap Band Surgery
Surgeon: Dr. Solomon of Associated South Bay Surgeons
age: 40 year old female
Weight: 235 lbs
BMI: 40
comorbidities: HBP, Sleep Apnea
I was given a laundry list of things that would need to be done, but I don't know how long before I will be able to actually have the surgery. I am going to join the Y, and swim/water aroebics 3x/week. He also told me I can never smoke again, and even though it has been a while since I've lasted smoked, the first thing I did when I left his office, was go out and buy a pack of cigarettes! It was like...I had to do it one more time.
Amongst many other things, I will need to:
Psyc testing
meet with nutrionist
have blood panel done (of course now I'm waiting for as long possible before I have this done with hope that any traces of my defiant smoke fest is gone)
attend at least 2 support group meetings
Mamm (which I just so happen to have done the day before I met the surgeon)
BTW, what is the purpose of having a mamm prior to surgery?
weigh in every 2 weeks at the Drs. office
lose 15-20 lbs prior to surgery
liver/gallbladder ultrasound
sleep study (which was done back in June)
Meet with an oncologist to give them the ok since I had cancer 13 years ago (another stupid something)
EKG
There's lots more, but that's all I can think of at this moment. Another thing I found odd was that my surgeon said I will most likely have to have my gallbladder removed 6 weeks prior to surgery. I've read where most doctors will just remove it at the same time as placing the band, but whats even weirder to me is that I had gallstone issues, once 20 years ago when I was pregnant with my daughter. I never had any other issues. Dr. Solomon says that once you've had gallbladder issues in your life, you will most likely have them after weight loss surgery.
I really do love the fact that he's so through (sp?)...but damn!
This is getting way out of control...the length of my initial blog, you may not ever want to come back. Hell...I may never come back.
Last bit of information...I went back for my first weigh in on Nov 19, 2008. I lost 5 lbs, and have gone down to a BMI of 39 (I must have been teeter tootering in the first place). Do you wanna know the first thing I thought about? "OMG if I lose weight, they won't do the surgery". Yes, I'm thinking like that thin cancer patient...reality is...I can afford to lose even more than that.
I started this mainly to chronicle this very large, life changing event that I have begun. I promise...I will try my best to post pictures and keep things as updated as possible. Who knows...someone may be interested one day. Maybe I'll find that blogging is my destiny.
At any rate...I am a fat girl working to be thin. I've been working at it for over 20 years, but the mission has yet to be accomplished. I was thin once for about 2-3 years, but I had Cancer...so it came with the disease, but I was the happiest cancer patient on the planet...cuz I was thin.
I ended up losing my leg/half my hip (hemipelvectomy) because of the cancer, and I eventually gained all the weight back. I'm perfectly fine with losing the leg, but I've been a mess ever since I gained the weight back.
It was back in the day when Phen Phen was on the market, and I was trying desparately to get my hands on some, but I couldn't find a doctor who would approve it. I would explain to them that I would have a much higher BMI if I had 2 legs, but they just didn't get it. I would also explain that I'd been big all my life, and I was afraid that I was gaining all my weight back...still, they didn't care.
Finally, I had a client who'd told me about a doctor who would prescribe it for anyone who asked, and I scheduled an appointment right away. The day before my scheduled appointment, they took the drug off the market, I was so bummed.
To answer your question...Yes, I was more than willing to die in the name of weight loss...I was so young back then.
On November 5, 2008 my stats were as follows:
Surgery of choice: Lap Band Surgery
Surgeon: Dr. Solomon of Associated South Bay Surgeons
age: 40 year old female
Weight: 235 lbs
BMI: 40
comorbidities: HBP, Sleep Apnea
I was given a laundry list of things that would need to be done, but I don't know how long before I will be able to actually have the surgery. I am going to join the Y, and swim/water aroebics 3x/week. He also told me I can never smoke again, and even though it has been a while since I've lasted smoked, the first thing I did when I left his office, was go out and buy a pack of cigarettes! It was like...I had to do it one more time.
Amongst many other things, I will need to:
Psyc testing
meet with nutrionist
have blood panel done (of course now I'm waiting for as long possible before I have this done with hope that any traces of my defiant smoke fest is gone)
attend at least 2 support group meetings
Mamm (which I just so happen to have done the day before I met the surgeon)
BTW, what is the purpose of having a mamm prior to surgery?
weigh in every 2 weeks at the Drs. office
lose 15-20 lbs prior to surgery
liver/gallbladder ultrasound
sleep study (which was done back in June)
Meet with an oncologist to give them the ok since I had cancer 13 years ago (another stupid something)
EKG
There's lots more, but that's all I can think of at this moment. Another thing I found odd was that my surgeon said I will most likely have to have my gallbladder removed 6 weeks prior to surgery. I've read where most doctors will just remove it at the same time as placing the band, but whats even weirder to me is that I had gallstone issues, once 20 years ago when I was pregnant with my daughter. I never had any other issues. Dr. Solomon says that once you've had gallbladder issues in your life, you will most likely have them after weight loss surgery.
I really do love the fact that he's so through (sp?)...but damn!
This is getting way out of control...the length of my initial blog, you may not ever want to come back. Hell...I may never come back.
Last bit of information...I went back for my first weigh in on Nov 19, 2008. I lost 5 lbs, and have gone down to a BMI of 39 (I must have been teeter tootering in the first place). Do you wanna know the first thing I thought about? "OMG if I lose weight, they won't do the surgery". Yes, I'm thinking like that thin cancer patient...reality is...I can afford to lose even more than that.
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