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It's been awhile since I have updated my blog. So here it goes. Just recently I was finally approved to have surgery. I was on the high risk list for a time due to the type of cancer that I am now in remission from. I just was called on June 9th and was told I need to make an appointment, I said ok, and she said for my surgery how soon would I like it!! I jumped and yelled and my daughter did too. My new life is about to begin. My surgery will be on July 9th at Good Sam. Yippy!!!!

I have finally made my goal!! Yahoo!!!!!! I will be going to my regular MD. tomorrow for the chest crud that I caught, and I will have my weight verified and then I will fax that info up to Dr. Patterson's office. I have been told that I will need to go to a pre-op class at their offices in May and then have surgery in June when school let's out. I am so thrilled to finally get the wls surgery. Cancer was a big bump in the road and now I am ready for a new life.

It feels good to be back on track for my lap band surgery. I have pretty much dropped out of sight since June of 07. After I had my breast biopsy for cancer my next step would be radiation therapy. Well, guess what! I was too fat to have radiation. Can you believe that! So I went online and did a little research and found out that with my diagnosis at the time Stage Zero ductal carcinoma in situ, that if I had a total mastectomy on my right side I wouldn't need radiation. So I opted for the mastectomy. After my right breasts removal, my husband and I went back to my surgeon looking forward to me getting a clean bill of health. WRONG! They found a Stage 3 Invasive cancer that I could have checked myself every day and had mammograms it would have never been detected except for my decision to have my right breast removed. SHIT!!! There went WLS. So off to chemo I went. It wasn't a pleasant trip. I used humor, at times sick humor, to get me through it. My oncology nurse gave me hell because I called it "legal poisoning". Well it was I felt great for one week and then felt terrible after having chemo. So I drove bus for one week, then was sick the next week. I did that all the way through my first four sessions. Taxol was a different story. I became severely anemic, gained weight, every part of my body hurt, and I slept all week after having that chemo. I was too sick to drive my bus. December 17, 07 was my last chemo, and I haven't looked back since. On January 21, 08 I faxed my new beginning weight up to Dr. Patterson's office and I am in the running to get my WLS finally. As of today I am now down 11 lbs of my 25 lbs. to lose. I am on my way. Having breast cancer has been a life changing experience. Even though I am on anti-cancer meds for the next five years, my cancer was estrogen positive, I have come to appreciate every day the Lord above has given to me. There is now nothing to big for me to conquer.

Well, as you know from my previous post I received my machine yesterday. The machine itself is great! It's the thing I put over my nose that was from HELL!!! I sleep on my side, and last night I couldn't find a way to sleep without air escaping all over the place, besides that it turns out that I am algeric to the silicone piece that goes over the gell piece. So today I went to work looking like a racoon. How fun! My kids on my bus had a good laugh. So I call the place I received the CPAP from and went over and got another type that will hopefully allow me to sleep on my side and not have the adjustments hell I had last night.

Yahoo!!!!!!  I got called today my Emma Patterson's office and her next available opening is May 31st.  I have really wanted her as my surgeon even though I could have gotten in sooner.  It's ok with me because that gives me more time to get the rest of the 5% loss off of me.

I also got my EPAP machine today.  I am looking forward to a night of rest for once.  I still can't believe that I quit breathing so much.

I also met with my surgeon for my breast biopsy.  It will be done May 2nd.  I will be knocked out for it because it is so deep.  Then I have to wait a week to see what the results are.  How fun!! More waiting.

One last thing, I have lost 10 pounds of my 25 lbs. since March 27th when I started cutting back on portion size.  I am thrilled I will take it.

I was just contacted by the folks that will provide me with my CPAP machine. I will be being fitted for it this coming Wednesday. I was really shocked to find out that the official report said that I quit breathing 75 times or more during the night. No wonder I am so pooped. All my paperwork for Legacy Obseity Center is done and has been faxed up to them. Now the real waiting game, along with me continuing to lose weight begins. I sure hope that I am contacted soon. I have no way of weighing myself except for going over to the Salem Hosptial Sleep Center. So I will weigh this coming Wednesday and see if I have lost anything. I can tell you I feel that I am floating away with all of the water I am drinking.

Good morning! I arrived home from my sleep test at Salem Hospital. Aaaah! it feels so good to be home in my own bed. I found out that I do have sleep apnea, so I get to have one of those machines as soon as my insurance says ok. I wasn't aware that I stopped breathing about twenty times an hour, after my tech woke me up to tell me they put the machine on me and sleep like a baby the rest of the night with no snoring. I am a little groggy from the sleep aid that they gave me last night but I feel fine. Also, this past week I hit a bump on the road. When I had my mammogram they found some calcifications really close to my chest wall with none in either breast. So now off to a surgeon to have a deep biopsy. Oh fun oh joy. I will not worry though, I have the Lord to help me through this hurdle.

On Monday March 25, 2007 I finished all of the preliminary tests before surgery except my sleep test that I will be having at Salem Hospital on March 30th. I was told that I now have to lose 25lbs before surgery. Ok, I can deal with that, and I was also told I need to start eating and drinking my water like I already had the surgery, I am ok with that too. I just completed my first full day of eating like I had the surgery, and I have to admit it is tough when you have been a food addict most of your life. I get up at five am and drink my water and take my meds first and then wait until five thirty to eat breakfast. You can't have fluids with your food so that you can keep the solids in your stomach longer, because with the Lap band food can be flushed out and the band will be useless. I hope to weigh in at the sleep center at Salem Hospital since I don't have a scale that would weigh me. Wish me luck