Name My New Pouch

Happy Memorial Day! I have ate my share of BBQ food this weekend which made me think about how in less than a week I will not be eating any hamburgers for awhile but I will be able to eat them again just in small amounts. OK so lately I have been on message boards for people that have had are going to have or are thinking about having or have had a gastric bypass. I have heard many people refer to there new stomach as a pouch or by a name. So I am asking for suggestions for a name for my pouch. Please submit your suggestion in the comments space. I will put up a post and tell you my new pouch name.

Donald E. Rudolph Feb 21, 1921 - May 25, 2006

Donald E. Rudolph

Feb 21, 1921 - May 25, 2006

Ok I know I know it has been awhile between now and my last post. I was in the middle of writing a post on Friday saying that I have not posted in a while because it has been an uneventful few weeks. Well I had started to speak to soon. My Grandmother called me on Friday and told me that my Grandfather Donald E. Rudolph passed away on Thursday. So my uneventful week changed in one phone call. I do find it ironic that he had passed on the eve of Memorial Day weekend. Please keep my family in your prayers this week.

2 for the price of 1

As many of you know I am an adult that has tubes in her ears. Well I have up grated to permanent tubes about a year and a half ago. Well when they say permanent you would think that they would say in for EVER right?!?! Well I went to the doctor yesterday and my right tube has come out (I could have told him that and saved 2 hours in the office). Well need be I have to have it put it back in. That is not as easy as it sound. See because I can not have Novocain and because it is a “permanent” tube I have to be put under to have it out in. I will take more time to knock me out and bring me back that it dose to stitch it in to place. Well at that time I informed the doctor that I would already be having surgery on June 5th for my gastric bypass. He said that is great he will just come up and scrub in and do it then. I guess it is all for the best because I rather only have to be put under once this month. But back the permanent thing what is that about?? Oh well I have just happy it can be done all at once.

Before

I have been trying to get together with people that have had surgery and other that are about to have it like me. So this weekend I went to coffee with a large group (amount of people in numbers not size) of people from the weight loss world. Here is a picture of a few of us about to have surgery in the next few weeks. It is a before picture. We are going to try to take a few pictures over time to see how far we have come. I will also be taking solo pictures of my progresses to share

Look what I got!

Here is the letter I got from Blue Cross Blue Shield. I am not sure why I am so excited about it. I already know that I am approved. I just though I would share.

I HATE WAITING part II

OK so I am now back on the waiting merry go round. I have a surgery date and I am very excited about that but I want it come sooner! I just want to wake up tomorrow and be on my way to the hospital. I keep debating if I should give up pop when I run out or drink until I can no longer do so. If you all have any suggestion on how to pass the time or a way to make it go faster send them my way.