Month: February 2017

The countdown has begun!  My surgery date is March 8th and 2 weeks presurgery is this coming Wednesday.  I’ve had so many issues getting to this point it’s been a bit of a bumpy ride.  Let’s start with the change of insurance.  The insurance I had was not the greatest to start with so the company changed to something they thought would be better for the employees well they’d never heard of my surgeon before ?.  Needless to say mu surgeons office assured me that they will work with the new insurance and that I shouldn’t worry.  I’m still worrying but not changing the surgeon I’ve started with.

In addition to the insurance company not knowing my surgeon existed there were also more nutrition appointments I needed to go to in order to fulfill the insurance requirements.  Now that I’ve fulfilled all the requirements my preadmission testing is Monday and my presurgical appointment is a week from Monday.

Don’t think it’s the last stretch and all sunshine and roses.  I will be on a very limited presurgical diet until the day before surgery when it will be all liquid.  I’m pretty sure I’m going to be a grouchy you b**ch for the next couple of weeks.

Despite the fact that the sugery is right around the corner I’m still dealing with personal issues, my relationship, my family.  I’m still hearing that this is a quick fix and by no means is it one.  There is so much preparation mentally and physically that goes into this decision you really need to be a strong person to make it.  Well happy reading and I’ll be writing again soon.

 

I realize I don’t post here as often as I should, I suppose I figure that I will have pleanty of time off to post and you all may get tired of my blogs.  I wanted to tell you all a little bit about my PFT, which stands for pulmonary function test.  It’s part of presurgical clearance, at least part of mine every surgeons office/insurance company may ask for something different.

So the PFT is done in the pulmonogists office and it is basically this large computerized machine with a mouth piece.  The technician will tell when and how to blow into it and you may recieve a puff of albuterol as part of the procedure.  It’s pretty harmless although I was tired of listening to the tech cheer me on as I was trying to blow into this machine.

I had some mix ups along this journey and was scheduled for the PFT/pulmonologist backward through no fault of my own.  Typically the way the pulmonologist I saw works it is you have the PFT first and then you see him in a seperate appointment to discuss the results.  I did the PFT second due to a “misunderstanding” with the office staff.

I’ve also just had my cardiology clerance which is like nothing.  I happen to have a cardiologist that I see on a regular basis and all she did was talk to me about what kind of surgery I was going to have, warn me that I shouldn’t get pregnant and should it happen I need to change my blood pressure meds and do and EKG.  For those of you out there with white coat syndrome where anything done at the doc terrifies you and EKG is an electrocardiagram, a picture of your heart rhythm.  It’s completely noninvasive although you may feel a bit like a lab rat hooked up to 12 leads, but it’s really very quick. I hope all goes well for those readers thinking about surgery and trust these two appointments really are very simple and you should have no problems.