A New Surgery Date!

Big news first! The surgeon's office called today and asked if they could move my surgery up, so now I will have it on February 15. I would have said yes if they had asked to do it tomorrow. I have less than two weeks to prepare, but I am very happy!

This morning I had an EGD, which is where they put a camera down your throat to check for hernias and also take a couple of biopsies to check for h-pylori. Fortunately it's done under light anesthesia because that doesn't sound like much fun. I was in and out of there in about two hours and I should get the results in a few days. There was a little bump in the road earlier this week. The results of my lab work finally came in and the parathyroid level was low, so I had to go in and give more blood to test my levels of vitamin D and K and Magnesium. At least I think that's what they did.

I had an NSV, non-scale victory, this week. I was afraid to do this, but I tried on the jeans I wore to my first surgeon's appointment--and they were loose! I'm officially down 17 pounds, of course that's after completely emptying my body of all clothing and fluids. TMI? I also looked at clothes online, and they weren't plus sized. It gave me a cheap thrill. But really I can't even imagine wearing normal clothing. I'm getting low on some of my medications and I'm not sure what I'm going to do about it. I will talk to Dr. Basa about it at my pre-op appointment on February 9th. Some, or all, of them are too large to take after my surgery. Plus, hopefully I won't need to take some of them. I will need to take my antidepressant, so we need to work something out for that one. I've ordered some vitamins and protein powders. There's just a few more things I will need and then I'm set to go. The countdown continues!

Thank you for all the very sweet messages I have received. I appreciate the kind thoughts and prayers.