Ashton weighed me in since Nurse Jennifer is on vacation this week. They sent away their main scale to be recalibrated (duh), so I weighed on their back up -- a Tanita scale. It read 250.0. Up 2 pounds since last month.
Two hundred and fifty pounds. An eighth of a ton. Halfway to three hundred. My highest adult weight. What's funny, if anything can be "funny" about that is that I am not really that upset about it. Because I know my life is going to change very soon.
In approximately 64 days, my journey continues with a permanent, life-long tool. A tool that if used correctly, will help me shed 50-75% of my excess weight (in my case 50-75 lbs).
Ashton and I talked about how I did on my goals last month and created new ones for this month. We talked more in depth about vitamins. One of my goals for this month is to work on my organizational and planning skills for meals and snacks. Another one is to walk a mile five times a week.
My next appointment is on Thursday, May 15th after work. The day after will be my final writeup with Ashton, an hour long appointment in the morning where she will go over more in depth about my eating plan during each phase after surgery, as well as a review of all of the good habits I have been practicing that I will need to stick to after surgery.
Ashton told me that once the paperwork is sent to the insurance company, they will take 1-10 business days to respond and hopefully APPROVE me for surgery. Then and only then will my surgery be scheduled, and that will likely be 2-3 weeks out from the date of approval.
Somewhere between approval and surgery date I will be attending a pre-op class and meet one last time with Dr. G. I also will have to do a 1-2 week liquid diet (gawd please be only one week).
Another piece of info Ashton confirmed is that Dr. G only does surgeries on Mondays and Tuesdays. I don't know why but I have the expected surgery date of 6/17 in my head. I can't explain it, but I just have a feeling. I'm counting on it, I guess.
When I went to check out, Hope asked if I had a chest x-ray done yet. I thought I had checked off all the boxes, but I must've missed the chest x-ray, so I got that taken care of today, too.
That is all for now. Still can't believe how fast time flies. I'll be on the surgery table before I know it.
That makes me very happy.
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