Holy crap, by this time next week, I’ll be banded. I’m so excited, and nervous. I’ve never had any sort of surgery like this before. I was put under for a little while while they zapped my cervix, and I watched them remove a small growth from my wrist, but that ain’t much.
I’ll find out the exact procedure tomorrow, when I go in for clearance and testing (more doctors, ugh!). But from what I understand, they’re going to make several small incisions on my torso (and hopefully avoid my ink – I don’t want it to get marred if it doesn’t have to be) and they’ll be using cameras and such to do it all. I like this better than what they used to do. Having my abdomen pulled open sounds unpleasant.
However, the 2 week liquid diet I’ve been on is killing me. Since I’ve been on liquids, I have dropped another four pounds (since Thursday. THURSDAY!) but goddamn do I want to put my teeth in something. It doesn’t help that I’m on the rag right now – at least that will be done by the time surgery day rolls around.
Right now, I get four Optifast shakes, and 1 Opti bar a day (or five shakes, no bars…and sometimes 2 bars, 3 shakes. Whatever.) I can have broth, and jello.
I went 4 days on just shakes and broth. But I hate broth. So I laced up my boots and took a nice walk down to the supermarket….and bought enough jello to feed an army. 21.07 got me 2 big packets of cherry, 2 big packets of strawberry, 2 small limes, 2 small strawberry banana, 1 raspberry, 1 kiwi-strawberry and possibly 1 cranberry, I forget if I got it. I think I may have for Thanksgiving.
I also bought a six pack of pre-made peach jello cups, so that I could have them while I was cooking the others.
Who’d have thought I’d love jello this much? I looked like a total freak at the store, getting all this jello, lol. Even my family was laughing at me.
Anywho, tomorrow are the last two appointments I need before surgery…on Monday! Holy shit! Whoo!
