Hi everyone -
For those of you following my long drawn out saga, I have an update!
I went to the Dr. this morning and met with my NP to start the Optifast diet. Doc wants me to loose 30 pounds before surgery due to the fact that I have a fatty liver, it will make surgery safer,and I will be more successful in the long run. She went through the whole set up - I get 5 juice box sized containers to drink every day. They total 800 calories, and taste like Slim Fast, but have way more nutrients in them. That will be my food along with 2 quarts of water a day (can also have diet soda, black coffe, and s/f drinks like Crystal Lite, etc) until my day of surgery....
MARCH 17, 2006!!! Thats (hmmm...lemme calculate) 59 days away!! The light at the end of the tunnel is this: If they see my losing trend indicating that I can make to 30 pound goal much earlier, I have time also booked 3/7/06 - a mere 49 days from now. Jeez - now that I calculated the days - I am kinda depressed!!
In all seriousness, please pray for 3/7...I have a high stress job in HR/benefits, and our open enrollment is the entire month of April for 5/1/06 effective date, so we are in final pricing and decision making meetings the last week in March. If I have surgery 3/17, I will only get 2 weeks off before I am back at work. I would work exclusively on the benefits and nothing else, but still...3/7 would be best. I will most likely know if I can be bumped up by the end of January they said.
Thanks for all of your good thoughts and prayers - I just love you all so much that only my hubby, my mom, and you guys know right now!!!!
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