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137 pounds down 90 to go. Very happy with what I have accomplished and very grateful for this surgery. 

 Ok so it all started at 5 am. I barely slept because -of  the nerves and anticipation. 
I got a to the hospital at 6 Am. Got into a gown hat and slip on shoes and waited to
Be called by 2 different  nurses. The first one verified my contact in case of emergency
And the second one gave me a nice cocktail of meds while going through all the PATT
nurse paperwork again. 

To be continued. 

Ok so I made my way to the OR waiting room and spoke to my anesthesiologist who in fact did my first anesthetic when I had my tonsils removed. So anyways he told me what was being done to me. So I head into the operating room the nurse helps me get my back gown off and I lay down on the table with my arms stretched out. She lays a warm blanket over me as well as places my feet in jelly like slippers and then I see my surgeon. He makes sure I'm placed on the table properly and away I go.   Next think I know I'm in the recovery room and feeling pretty good. 

Well that's all I could say right now. If anyone has questions I'm here. Thank you for tuning in. 

Jess

 Ok so new update. I woke up this morning and weighed myself at 419
And I'm really happy. I have lost a total of 8 poundssince optifast. My goal
was to be under 400 by surgery date. We will see day of surgery. I will post
a new update. 

Thank you everyone from tuning in

Jess

 Ok so I had my PATT appointment and was scared out of my tree so I'm going to describe the process that I went through:
  
  ECG, Chest X-ray, Blood Pressure, and blood work. 
  That we're all the tests I got done. 

  Next was the nurse who went over my post surgery exercise and levels of pain and such. 
  Then I saw an anesthesiologist and she went over any medication she recommends for me
  After surgery.

  So there everyone goes. No one could really give me a straight answer. So I figured I would
  remember as much as I can.  

January 16th 2012: Patient information session

February 3rd 2012: Surgeon Consultation with Dr. Sohi

February 14th 2012: Gastric Bypass Class

March 5th 2012: Registered Dietitian
                              Social Worker
                              Nurse Clinician

March 29th 2012: Psych Consult with Dr. Posner

April 11th 2012: Social Worker Followup
                             Internist with Dr. Glazer

April 27th 2012: Followup with Surgeon Dr.. Sohi

June 28th 2012: Patt appointment

June 15th 2012: Start Optifast

July 13th 2012: Surgery at 8:00am *finally* :)