Pre-Op today

One step closer. I have just a few more days left to go. Today was my pre-op appointment. I met with the surgeon again, he made sure that I understand that this is life changing and cannot be undone.

I had labs and an EKG done.

Surgery is scheduled for the 6th of October at 7:30AM....HELLO the chickens aren't even up by then. I think they maybe have some plumber come in and do the repipe job because doctors don't get up that early. I have to be there at 5:30AM....yeah I know, thats before McDonalds opens too. I going to have to get up at like 4AM.

I will tell you all about it after surgery. This is the best part, I might get pics. If I do I will post them here, so you all can see the inside of my guts too!!!!

And if you haven't heard, I attempted to kill Sarah this last weekend, but was unsuccessful, she ducked at the last second. I built her a hanging bed with 2 sides attached to the walls and the opposing corner supported by vinyl coated cable. She was sitting under it and I was showing Stefanie how "strong" it was by hanging on the side. The vinyl around the cable just slipped right off and down the bed came on top of Sarah and a little on me. Sarah is screaming, Stefanie is screaming and the engineer in me only wants to know "what failed and why". My second thought however was "I am sure Sarah is ok cause she is screaming". It will be really funny someday to someone.

Insurance approval

My insurance has approved my surgery. Woohoo. Pre-op appointment next Monday, then on to surgery.

Reasons why

So why you ask, well if its not obvious then maybe you had a little too much crack on your Cheerios this morning. Aside from the obvious reasons I will give you a few more that are not quite so obvious.


1. It will be nice to be able to reach my butt with both hands
2. Sweat rash…need I say more?
3. Fear of lawsuit for visually scaring small children at the pool.
4. Restaurant booths
5. Chairs with arms
6. Theater seats
7. Airplane seats
8. Cut the monthly grocery bill in half.
9. Buy clothes because I like them not because they come in gigantic
10. Be able to cross the living room without getting out of breath
11. Go DOWN a flight of stairs without getting out of breath
12. Avoid vehicle seatbelts because they are so tight I can’t breathe with them on
13. Tie my shoes without holding my breath and feeling like I am about to pass out
14. Man boobs
15. I will add more as I think of them.

Pre op goal weight

Today I met my Pre op goal of 20 lbs of weight loss. I started at 391lbs, today I was at 367. The stress was lifted. I didn't eat or drink hardly anything today because I wanted to make sure I made weight.

Bariatric Surgery

Hi all,

Most of you who know me know that I have a serious problem with my weight, I am undertall for all of it!! It seems however that I have stopped growing in hight and have continued to expand width wise for many years. The obesity in my life has caused several problems for me health wise, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc, etc, the list it seems goes on and on.

I have tried many different diet plans from cabbage soup to Adkins to Weight Watchers, while I have lost some weight on all of these programs I just gain it all back again and a few extra pounds with it.

Early this year I began researching a different approach to weight loss, surgery. After a few months of research and talking to Stefanie about this I decided to move forward with getting the surgery done. Surgery is the only approach to weight loss for people that have 100 pounds or more to lose that has been proven to be effective on a long term basis, greater than a 75% success rate. All other methods combined have less than a 1% success rate. Pretty easy math, even for me.

I started in the Samaritan Bariatric Program in April or May. I have completed almost all of the prerequisites to have the surgery done.

1. General informational meeting

2. Surgical informational meeting

3. Psychological Evaluation (almost failed I think)

4. Nutritional Consult

5. Sleep Study

6. Support group meeting

7. Lose 5% of original weight, 391, 19.55 lbs, today I am at 373.

8. Insurance approval

9. Program Fee $750.00

Currently I still have about 2 lbs to lose and am still waiting on insurance approval.

My surgery is scheduled for October 6th, I am hoping to get it moved up to the 4th though.

This blog is just a way for me to keep track of the day to day stuff really after surgery