Final Pre-Op Appointments

Today I had my last two pre-op appointments -- the first one was with Nurse Lynell.  She asked me about all my medications, instructed me about the two antibacterial showers I would need to take (one the night before surgery and the 2nd the morning of).  She gave me a bottle of Hibiclens and I have to shower regularly then put half the bottle all over my body except my girly parts and my face, then let it sit for 2 minutes and pat dry.  Cuts down on infections apparently.  Yay for that.

I also had some labs done by a lady that a few minutes before she stuck me with a needle, said, "I hate my job" to another coworker passing in the hall.  Nice!

My second appointment was at the bariatric clinic -- I weighed in with Jennifer.  My "official" pre-surgery weight is 240.9 lbs; however, my high weight during the last 6 months was 250.  It's bugging me that I don't know the exact number (250.?).

I'm thinking about the general stats for gastric sleeves -- I'm expected to lose 50-70% of my excess weight.  If I am supposed to be around 155, that means that I can expect to lose 43-60 lbs or get down to 197-181 lbs.  That's fine and dandy, but I don't want to be 197 lbs.  Or 181 lbs.  I want to be between 155-165 tops.  I think that's a healthy weight and I plan on doing my damnedest to get down to where I want to be in the next 18 months.

After I saw Nurse Jennifer, I met with Dr. Gatmaitan.  He gave me a 6 page consent form I had to read over and sign.  Three of those pages were a list of all of the side effects and complications I could have from surgery.  Yeah.  There were a TON.  Makes me think a bit.  I usually have the mindset about things that "Oh, that'll never happen to me!" -- it's how I feel about major complications, getting cancer, dying young...but you never know, I guess.

So that's that.