to be banded... or to be postponed?

i know it's been a bit since i last made a blog entry and i do apologize for that. i won't make excuses though. i'll just leave it at that and do my best to make sure to post more often.

honestly, i logged in only to search for another blog i read a while back that had a list of great pre op things to get before getting banded. boy was i surprised when i logged in and saw that my blog had six followers! i was like "what???". i had no idea! so hello to you all and i hope you continue to read. =)

i got a band date and it's this friday. yep. march 12. two days away. well, not counting today and not counting the actual date itself. i got wednesday and thursday to go. that is.... if it doesn't get postponed. yeah....

sunday morning i woke up with a horrible sore throat and congestion issues which only continued to get worse all day yesterday while i did all my pre op testing. my gi doc gave me a script for a z pack and said that if i'm not feeling much much better by thursday afternoon, then i will have to be postponed. but i get better, it's on and i'll be a banded lady come friday afternoon! i'm hoping for the best and "feeding" my cold/infection lots of chicken broth and liquids. kinda convenient that i'm on a liquid diet now. lol

speaking of the liquid diet.... well, it's been a real bitch. i'm not gonna lie. and i've cheated more than i'd like to admit. i felt horrible everytime. but i did have a realization one of those times of just how bad i am about emotional eating. i guess i never realized but now i do. it was a rude but good awakening.

i'm already so fed up with protein shakes. the ones the doc's office ordered are horrible. and i mean horrible. and i realize that i'm overly picky, but my husband tried them, too, and he gagged getting one down. they are horrible!!! so i've been doing the kind from the grocery store. i know they don't have as much protein but they work and that's all that matters to me. a friend of mine who had the band over a year ago used the same ones i'm using now and she did fine. so i will, too. or i better!!!!

i'm starting to get really nervous about friday. so much to do and so little time. they told me at pre op yesterday that i'm scheduled to spend the night. i was like "what???" because my doc had said that i was just a day surgery patient. but apparently my insurance wants me to stay over. the nurse did say the doc might go ahead and let me go depending on how i'm doing but i guess we will see come friday. hopefully i'll get to go and get banded. i really don't wanna be postponed!!!!

well, i better go blow my nose again. that'll just be like the two hundred and thirty fourth time today. sigh! sniff sniff.