More Doctor Visits to Clear

I spent this past Thursday in McAllen seeing doctors all day. The first doctor was a cardiologist. He did an EKG and has ordered an Echo-cardiogram (which I'm having done tomorrow)and a chest x-ray(which I did that day). He told me that I had to weigh the risk with the benefits of the surgery and said if it was him, he would have the surgery. He is just waiting on the results of the Echo before he clears me. The next doctor was the pulmonologist. He had me breath into a machine to check my lung functions. He said all was good, but he wanted me to do a sleep apnea study (which I'm doing tomorrow night)before he clears me. The final doctor was the psycologist, he said it sounded like I knew what I was doing and for the right reasons and he had already faxed my doctor and cleared me. When we went back to Dr. Camacho's office (surgeon) they said they had heard from everyone and what they were all waiting on. They gave me an order for a gallbladder scan(which I can have done here in Harlingen) and then the only other test is a biopsy of my stomach which I will get done right after the 1st of the year. It has to be done at Rio Grande Regional Hospital as an out patient and my sister will have to take me to that one since they put you to sleep for it. As I said in the last entry I see the dietitian on the 10th for her final visit. And the heart doctor I won't get the results from the Echo until the 11th since he will be out of town. I go on Dec. 28th for the results of the sleep study. Well that is all for now. Thanks for all your support.

I've Done IT!!!!

Hi everyone, I went back to the dietitian yesterday. I was surprised that I lost another 11 pounds. That is a total of 35 pounds so far. I went to visit my friend Laynie last weekend and was afraid that maybe I might have done something wrong. I didn't really eat off the diet, I just didn't get everything in and didn't know if that would show up when I weighed. The dietitian gave me the after surgery diet so I have a month to go over it, I will see her again on the 10th of January. The big surprise was that she told me to go over and talk with Linda at the Doctors office to see if they could start scheduling me to see all the other doctors that I have to get clearance with before the surgery. Linda was able to schedule me with three doctors on Dec. 13th. I will see the cardiologist, pulmonologist and the psycologist. I start at 10 am and see the last one at 2:30pm. Linda said to come back to the office after the last doctor and she would see about scheduling for the next round. I will post again after seeing the doctors on Thursday. I need to go over all the papers that Claudia(dietitian) gave me. I know that I have to learn to eat some foods that I don't like, cream of wheat, cream of rice or malt o meal. I think that was the only thing that really caught my eye right away. If I don't want to get sick I will following everything and I don't want to get sick, so I will learn to eat what I don't like. The portions will be much smaller than I'm used too, even smaller than what I am allowed now. Wish me luck. As I've said before I have a fantastic support group behind me cheering me on.