Surgery Update...

Yesterday I finally had my hospital pre admissions appointment for the surgery I have been on the waiting list for since early December 2015.  I would of been seen sooner if my paperwork wasn't lost but they say everything happens for a reason and no amount of me bitching about it will change it, so let's continue shall we!

At the appointment they checked my weight and my height to see if I qualify for having the op at BM hospital - I do, just! phew!  You know what shits me... when I had my original appointment with the specialist I qualified automatically as I hadn't put on all this extra weight and yet he still flagged it as an issue because I needed an operation on my band first (I had that done in March this year)...again, if I had of been done sooner it wouldn't of even been a fricking issue at all.

 

I also had my PB checked and an ECG which were both normal.

My blood results showed that my iron levels are low, which I already knew and have supplements for.  Apparently this could be an issue given you bleed a lot during surgery and are at risk of more bleeding after, but I won't know until I go back for another appointment on the 17th of November to see the anesthetist.  If he says all is good it is possible I will be booked in to have these suckers ripped out by the end of this year.  Oh I so want it to all be OK!

I am trying so hard not to get my hopes up but at the same time hoping with everything I have that it does happen, because I am so over having a sore fucking throat ALL THE TIME and not knowing from one day to the next if I'm going to fall in a heap because I 'over did' something (that could be as simple as deciding to fold the washing or play with the boys...honestly its nuts!).  Some days its like swallowing marbles wrapped in sand paper but others are more like razor blade covered golf balls.  I am so sick of popping pills and having injections in my arse; but it could be worse so i really shouldn't complain.  

So...lets say that it does happen!

That gives me 6 weeks to get my shit together for the possibility of it actually happening.

6 weeks to drop a few kgs so that my BMI isn't 'just' OK.  Aren't I spewing I was so honest yesterday now I'm going to be watched like a bloody hawk.  I can do 6 in 6 weeks HEALTHILY if I was training, so maybe lets split it and aim for 3?  Anything else will be a bonus ;)

6 weeks to quit smoking.  I'm back on champix and gum so my 'quit date' is 2 weeks  AND I won't be able to spoke after wards either so that's a good incentive to not take it up again.   On top of saving $10,000 a year (that's both of us quitting WOW!), not feeling like a hypocrite and generally being healthier).

6 weeks to get all my Christmas and Aces birthday shopping done...although online is an option later too.

6 weeks to get all of Aces high school stuff ready for next year.

6 weeks to get everything TASHperfect so that I can just rest and not have to think of anything else other than recovering.

I know you may be thinking I have heaps of time to do that after the 'possible' op, but I know from past experience I don't recover very quickly and so if it says 6 weeks I will need at least 8.  The last thing I want to do is rush it and end up worse than I have already been feeling.  

And besides that...the quicker the tonsil recovery is, the quicker I can have op #2 done, which is fixing my deviated septum (I can only breathe out of one nostril). 

And if the op doesn't happen...at least I will be very organised in the lead up to Christmas/new year LOL.

I will say though that as much as I want this operation to happen, I am also as nervous as anything...I'm choosing not to think of that though and focus only on the positives...no sore throat, boosted immune, will be able to see nephew and niece, will be able to train again, we feel and be able to live a better quality of life - all that is worth a little bit of pain.

Stay tuned for the November update...fingers crossed it will be me so excited that I pee myself a little as I write ;)