Weight Loss Surgery

So far I've only done a few video blogs but I'm gonna start doing more since I've been planning for weight loss surgery. I've been stalking several of the weight loss vloggers and it looks like it would be an awesome tool for me to use to keep up my accountability. They have ALL been successful. I've got several ideas to keep my accountability in check and to replace my bad eating habits. I've written it all out on paper but will post it here before I go in for surgery cause I know I'll lose the paper eventually. The insurance company requires certain things for me to do before I have surgery and Dr. Sloan also requires certain things for me to do. The doctor wants me to go to a seminar, get my annual pap and mammogram, do his optifast diet for 5-7 weeks. That's to shrink the liver so it doesn't get nicked during laproscopic surgery. I went to the seminar last month and also got pap and mammogram last week. I can't do his optifast until I get insurance approval. The insurance really just wants a letter of necessity from my family doc and to show that I've done 3 months of a doctor approved diet plan. I went to my first doctor visit on Nov 14th and my next is in a few weeks. I should have that completed by the end of February 2014. Then I will wait to see about my insurance approval then I'll be able to start the optifast diet that Dr. Sloan requires. Dr. Beitzel knows exactly what we have to do for the insurance company so I'm optimistic that I will be able to have my surgery by my next birthday. I know it seems far away but it's gonna give me time to work on my bad eating habits and save money for the optifast diet which is $400 and any co-pays I will have to pay. I'm just truely blessed that I'm going to have the opportunity to have this surgery. It was a difficult decision for me because I was the one who looked at people as failures for having weight loss surgery. I've had to face my previous poor judgements of others before in my life and this is another one of those times. It shows me once again that I shouldn't judge people. I'm not doing that anymore or I stop myself when I think I'm going to. When I tested in for fatty liver on top of all the other health issues that I have I knew I had to do something. The liver can heal itself but if it gets beat up too much it will turn into cirrhosis. That isn't the road that I'm looking to go down. Nothing can be done about that except a transplant and that's after dialysis and if I'm even a candidate with all of my other health issues. I wouldn't want to take a liver from someone else who needed it that had actually taken care of themselves. To make matters worse every time I diet I gain more weight back than I lost. My doctor had some term for this but basically said I was at a place where it was kind of a vicious circle since I'm unable to exercise because of the pain in my back and joints because of the weight. Anyway it's the best excuse that I can come up with. But really I want my quality of life back and would like to repair the damage that has been done....sleep apnea, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, depression, back pain, shortness of breath, metabolic syndrome and I'm getting an ultra sound in a few weeks to see if I test positive for poly cystic ovary syndrome. I might be forgetting something but I know that I'll be able to stop taking a lot of medicine and I'm looking forward to that.

~~Show Faith, Always Dream, Share With Everyone, Hope hope HOPE and Love Ridiculously & Unselfishly and Be the Person you Dream and Hope to be remembered for~~

CHER

Up late

Seems like since I had the babies for two weeks now all I wanna do is stay up late because I can.
But I'm on my way to bed because I'm off to see Dr Curfman tomorrow about Botox injections for my neck.
I also want to get this medication figured out. I'm getting real tired of the nurses being stingy. It's uncalled for and petty.

What am I allergic to?

I had a trip to the emergency room last Sunday (a week ago) because I couldn't catch my breath and my mid left back was killing me whenever I tried to breathe. What a terrible feeling.  They ran lots of tests specifically testing my heart, and EKG (boy those are allot faster than they used to be), x-ray(no broken bones and lungs look good), lots of blood test. Everything turned out fine.  I was real glad about that but now I'm just in pain and confused.
So I go to follow up with Dr. Beitzel on Wednesday and he says that I have a wheezing in my chest and bronchial tubes and that I'm not asthmatic or have allergies but I'm allergic to something.  Not real sure what that means but he sent me home with an inhaler and scheduled an ECO for this Wednesday just to follow up.
  The inhaler was working like a charm until last night. Man it's back and it's bad.  The inhaler isn't doing much of anything so I've taken a benedryl.  I called Dr. Beitzel's office and he is on vacation this week so they directed me to the other Dr. and there is nothing available for today but that I can go to the after hours clinic which starts at 5:45. "But be there early..first come, first serve" I just don't feel like I can drive an hour there, wait for help then drive an hour home just for someone to tell me to take an extra hit of my inhaler.  So I've taken an extra hit of my inhaler.  No relief yet.  I have to watch the BB's tomorrow for Jayme so maybe when I'm at the hospital on Wednesday getting my ECO I will see if I can get some help....Ugh
~~Show Faith, Always Dream, Share With Everyone, Hope hope HOPE and Love Ridiculously & Unselfishly and Be the Person you Dream and Hope to be remembered for~~
CHER

I saw Dr. Biezel today

We ran into Columbia City this morning to see Dr Biezel.  He is so nice, well worth the hour drive.  I don't want to have to change doctors. I got some blood drawn and should have the results by Wednesday.  It's just a normal blood check for my medications.

Dr. Biezel told me that even a 10 minute walk a day would help with my weight loss since I've hit a standstill.  Me and Bill and James boy one walked down to the mailbox and two streets down.  My goals are...

• Walk 10 min a day first thing in the am if possible
• Do ab circle for 3 mins a day
• lose 30 lbs by Halloween and
• lose 50 lbs by Christmas

I guess my short term goals are the exercising.  I'm also cutting cool whip out of my low carb diet until further notice.  Tonight I made up all my breakfast's for the week, bacon and eggs and put them in individual baggies.

These are my personal goals. Me and Bill have already talked about getting our life goals in order.  I would like to make long and short term goals for...

• savings/money
• winter trips
• house repairs~mainly putting up microwave, attaching ice maker, attic, declutter and getting upstairs wall down
• car purchase
• boat purchase
• finding constructive hobbies
• getting into some sort of routine
• house expansion

So ya, we have our hands pretty full for this winter.

Jayme told me today that Melissa and Mike talked to each other nicely on the phone and Mike is gonna let her and the girls stay in the house. Melissa is looking for a job cleaning.  I hope she finds one. This is good news compared to the conversation that they had yesterday when Mike told her how nasty she was and she told him how lousy he was in bed and had that David guy get on the phone and explain in detail to Mike what he and Melissa were doing!

~~Show Faith, Always Dream, Share With Everyone, Hope hope HOPE and Love Ridiculously & Unselfishly and Be the Person you Dream and Hope to be remembered for~~

CHER