I mentioned this on my facebook, sorry about the delay in posting this. Been having a mix of feeling under the weather and devoting a lot of my time to working out. We've been trying to up my activity levels of what I am doing and while the feeling ill has kicked some of that, we have been doing as much as we can. But I am here, just got back from an appointment and I am raring to go.
First and foremost, I just got back from meeting with my surgeon. I have finally rejoined the 600 club. I'm down another 34.8 pounds and am at 674.6. I'm within 25 pounds of my surgery weight. I am right on track with the goals we had set and the surgeon is very happy about the progress.
I didn't get the pre-surgical class today. That was mainly because they wanted to do it as close to the surgery as possible. I still don't know exactly when that will be yet. They are having to work with another surgeon as they want two surgeons there for the procedure. Currently they are looking at as soon as a month from now for the surgery, though up to two months depending on how the scheduling goes. Two weeks before the surgery I'll have my class.
Though we didn't have the class, I did learn more about the surgery. I know where it is going to be at now. Also the surgeon is confident I won't need to have a trache-tube put in, which is a wonderful relief. They expect the surgery to take an hour and a half for me. It usually takes around an hour, but they are giving extra time, because of the difficulty of my size.
I'm right on track and doing everything right and it really is a great big load off my mind. I find it funny that I lost the -exact- same amount of weight as I did last time, even though I am eating almost a thousand calories more than before. I guess I'm burning more efficiently and healthily right now, so that is good. I'll enjoy it while it lasts. Very soon I'll be on all liquids once it comes time for the surgery. It's been forever since I've had tomato soup, but I'll have to give it a try. I can also have the sugar free Gatorade, so I'll have to give that a try sometime.
As for the new exorcise plan I mentioned, we've been adjusting it so that I am doing more and more of my exercises while I am standing up as opposed to sitting and laying down. this will help with my balance and core as well as just my normal stamina. I'm also transitioning my walks to be a bit further, going into the kitchen and wearing my shoes for every walking period, so I'm getting some transitions in the floor I'm walking on, getting used to wearing shoes more. It's putting more strain on my body, but it's really helping too.
It ended up coming in handy today. The elevator that we usually use to get to my appointment was out of service, so I had to get off of the gurney and go get into another elevator because the gurney wouldn't fit and ended up walking down the hallway from the office on the way back out. So got a bit more walking in and it it wasn't for the extra effort we have been doing, I wouldn't have been able to do it.
Things are progressing really well and though I have been very anxious all week, tonight I am feeling really good and really happy. We are very close to this surgery. My surgeon said she didn't think we would get here (likely because of my past up and down) but she acknowledged I've really committed and I've been working hard. There is something very self satisfying about having someone admit you proved them wrong. It's a new day.
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