Mr. Yoda

that's a shame, but I guess they can't put us all at once...

I was done at TLBC... I had to stay over night at the clinic, cost me an extra 600 bucks for the nurse to stay with me... but I still think it was worth it...

I'm showering tonight dude!!!!! I figure there is no difference between tonight and tomorrow and plus Maral said I could! LOL As for the gross tasting crushed demerol: here is the solution that I devised and it works wonderfully (for me). I do this not only for the demerol but my other meds that I must take every morning. Recipe: 1. Crush all pills to powder 2. Place "powder" in small receptacle (ie. itty bitty bowl or a spoon) 3. Add 1/4 tsp of crystal light powder crystals (or similar subsitute) 4. Mix all powders (be sure to exhibit mad scientist laugh at this juncture) 5. Dump mixture in its entirety into your mouth 6. While mixture is in mouth (before swallowing) add swig (sip) of yummy tasting liquid (ie. apple juice) (note: I wanted to use tequila but Mrs Yoda put the kibash on that one) 7. Swish around in mouth (ie. like mouthwash) 8. Swallow 9. Rinse mouth again with apple juice until taste is gone.

Nope, I was done at the TLBC clinic but had to spend the night due to sleep apnea (I knew this in advance). I actually liked doing so, as I was completely hydrated all through the night (what with the IV etc) and I got a few shots of demerol (I think the nite nurse just used that as an excuse to feel my bum!).:heh: They sent me home with Demerol :clap2: , so not feeling too badly right now. :nervous Mrs Yoda makes sure I take it on schedule whether I feel pain or not! (I think she is just trying to keep me drugged up for some reason...hmmmmmm) I am having a shower before bed tonight so can't wait for that! Incisions are ITCHY but I'm coping. Meds make me sleeeepy :bored but I'm coping. My bruising isn't too bad at all. I did develop a rash across the upper part of my stomach on my first night home (Sat) but it was gone by Sun. Overall, I'm as well as can be expected. I'm not dizzy, I'm not too weak (I'm keeping realllly hydrated), I'm relatively slow but okay. One of the post-operative support coords (Maral) called me yesterday (on Sunday no less!) to see how I was doing; I thought that was a nice touch and went above and beyond! Good on TLBC. I'm realllllly looking forward to Thurs when I can have full fluids...Yogurt HERE I COME ... aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh not more yogurt!!!!!! :embarassed: :mad: On second thought, creme soup HERE I COME!!!!!

Midband for me too.

There are two seminars that day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon. I am attending the afternoon one as we can't get there that early in the morning due to departing company earlier that day. Yes, Mrs Yoda will definitely be going with me, she has informed me that we will be going to WINNERS on Bloor to check it out! It seems she went there while I was in recovery and was amazed at it (3 stories??!!) and she had no time to look around and therefore wants to go back. lunch sounds nice but we won't be there in time and after the fill we can only have water! I got the mid-band. Hope to see you there if you are going to the afternoon one.

I think I was the only one "pushed" up for surgery. But it was no big deal, I didn't have to wait at all, they took me as soon as I stepped into the waiting room. With in about 1/2 hour I was on the table and out cold. Also I think Robgob's mom got to talk with Mrs. Yoda for a while because of the bump up. so no harm done...

Well the gause came off this morning, so I look more like an accident victom than a mummy now. Only a little bruising and a couple abraisions from the tape. But it fells ssssooooooo good to have the tape off, it was iching like crazy.

I'm OK... see Yoda's Yammerings for a semi-full account :sick

Here is the skinny (no pun) on what happened… We arrived at 12:15 and where whisked off to the pre-op room and signed, signatured and led into a room to get changed. With in minutes of that, we talked to Dr. Yau, the Nurse and the Gasman. It seemed that the feller before me, Robgoblin, had a complication and had to be done last so they rushed me into his spot. By 1300hr I was in the Op-room, prepped and drifting to sleep. The next thing I know, I’m in recovery, with a tube in my throat and a gallon of spit that had nowhere to go. They took it out and I woke up more and more by the minute. Then (Totally freaked me out) I couldn’t breath, it was like my throat had a spasm and wouldn’t let any air in. For a few Panic filled moments I was sat up and slowly the breath came back to me. About 1430hr (2:30pm) I was staggering my way to my room for the night, where I sucked up 3 bags of IV and drifted between the waking world and the dream world. Puke/pain killers where the preferred cocktail (though drinking through my bum was not my favourite part) but the needles made the pain subside and made me sleep more. I was up at 0500hr and on the road by 0630hr and home by 0800hr. Ouch! Need to stop now…

I was May 4th... Stayed over night at TLBC, the night nurse was great, the Op went well, in and out in 45 minutes to an hour. Very much sore now, bloaty and stiff. But over all I am Ok!

See ya there dude... and on the other side...

Thanks all... Here we go... My journey to the banded side is almost complete... See you in a few days... :sick Check out the new ticker... MmmMMmmmm Huuuuuuulllllaaaaaaaa!

The new format is nice, even with the creepy girl... But why is it when they change the format they close the journal? I'd like to post a new entry (Dated for today) but I can't because they are closed due to formatting.... :angry :angry :angry :angry

Well... Two sleeps left... One more day of MPH and then the knife! Dum dum dah!!!(Dramatic music) Today at work was a steak special... MMMMmmmmm Stake!!! But I held fast and had my tasty Y&CC Lucky me

Hmmmm.... May goals.... 1- Survive Surgey :whoo: 2- Get accustomed to the band :faint2: 3- Make it through the first 3 stages of post op diets:faint: 4- Start my journey on the banded side smoothly :pray: 5- I'd put a "lose weight" one here but I think the other 4 are enough to start with. 6- Oh, and become the ruler of the :hail:galaxy (Just kidding :heh: ... or am I?) That's it... now for a round with Mrs. Yoda ... :sleep

I too am on the Pre-op diet of Bacteria laced milk and it's by-products. it is a little slice of hell :evil: but I am getting by. Today I had to make 1020 pieces of southern fried chicken, :hungry:it was so yummy :heh: .... As I watched everyone else enjoy it over my bowl of Cottage cheese. :tired But thems the breaks.. I just keep my eye on the goal and my mouth shut to the temptations.:tape: I have 3 days left before I go under the knife on the 4th. I am looking forward to it as I will finally be rid of the Y&CC. It will not beat me!!!:yield: VIVA LA RÉSISTANCE

I might as well chime in on this too... Robgoblin... There is something else to contend with if you don't eat.... it is called 'starvation mode' or something like that. When you don't eat,:tape: you body slows it motabolism to the point of hardly using anything incase you don't eat again. It is a survival thing hard wired into you, you feel fine for a little while, then you start feeling weak, and tired and over all icky:crutch: (icky is not the medical term but gets the idea across), and you body can't protect itself from the polluted enviroment around it and you get very sick. If you at least pretent to eat, :hungry: have one yoghurt at proper meal times, you will keep your body in 'loosing mode' and the pounds will fall off faster. I have been eating the hell out of Y&CC and I am down 10lbs in 4 days! EEK! so try and stay on a schedual and it won't seem as bad. (Believe me, I work in a kitchen! It is a little slice of HELL every shift, :evil: but I keep my eye on the prise and my mouth shut. If I can do it there, you can do it at home!) Viva le résistance!!!

I'm on the pre-op diet of bacteria laced milk and their bi-products! So I basically miss People foods, all people foods... :beer: :lunch: :popcorn: :pizza: :cup: But I'm hanging in there...:clap2:

SS... Buck up there little camper!!! most of us know how you feel, and the rest have gone through it already, you can do it too!!! DD...:hungry: I'm going to try your jello/Yoghurt concoction today, reminds me of when my mom would make Jello with milk in it... Hmmm :madgrin: can I make Jello with yoghurt in it?.. I should try that... After all I can throw it out if it's yucky, (Pennies a serving and all that!) and no one will know...:becky: Good luck DD... :clap:I'll be rootin for ya... RG... I know what you mean... I am going a tad batty having Y&CC all the time... but as I am diabetic, I have to keep sugars up, so even if I don't want to eat, I need to! My poor DW had to do it for 3 weeks... I can't recall if she has had yoghurt:smellie:since... can't blaim her tho. I will push on and take each meal :lunch: as the joy (or curse) it was intended for...

Thanks Yasmine... I thought my Spidy sences were tingling a little... I get to go to TO tonight (10pm) to pick up my Mrs.! she lands around midnight so it will be a late one for us!!! 8 days till surgey :clap2: , 7 days of Post-diet to go :pout: ... Hanging in tho...

I no longer fear death as I have seen hell and survived it. :nervous I started a 10-day pre-op diet on Tuesday and it was hard! You see I am a chef and the accessibility to food and the pretty much unconscious habit of grazing was almost too much to bear. :faint: Also at work there was, on both days now (yesterday and today) the cruellest of menu items that are some of my favourite munchie food in the world. So not only were they available to me, I was also in charge of one of them! So 8 hours of the smell and sight of them resulted in the same amount of time for me to say “no, you can’t! 3.5 times per minute! I think it may be the forbidden fruit aspect of the food as well. :hungry: I look at the items and think, ‘OH I like that, I should have it for lunch’, then in the back of my head I recall the memory of how it tasted and felt in my mouth and the shear joy of getting it into my bell. (This is a lot more sexual than I realized when I started this) anyway, I then remind myself that “No no, you can’t have that, only the Yoghurt and Cottage cheese, you silly silly man!” making me very disappointed :pout: in the fact that I can’t have it and a touch angry :mad2: for the same reason. Then I go to the next item on the menu and do it all over again, from memory to disappointment, continuing the cycle until I reach the bottom of the food list, only to start at the top again and act like I’m reading shampoo instruction, do it and repeat, again and again for my whole shift. Today was a little easier as I drank copious amounts of water while working on my dishes, thus making me (and my bladder) full to the point were I didn’t really want to eat anything. I kind of see why the PTB want me to drink lots; it fills the belly and is good for me too. I find that boredom :bored plays a big factor too. If I am not challenged I find I am grazing, more to give me something to do than anything else. This is not a new thing for me, if it was I wouldn’t need the Band’s help to take and keep the weight off. All this to say that I have glimpsed my own personal Hell, it is hot, humid, full of temptation and pressure. I have had many devils :evil: for bosses, and will probably have many more, even some devils :devious in the form of coworkers. That is why I no longer fear death, I have seen the other side, it is not nice, but it will be mine to lament in forever-ish. So when I return, the devil will be happy to see me, not to torment me for eternity though… (He’ll probably offer me a job!:heh: )

I no longer fear death as I have seen hell and survived it. :nervous I started a 10-day pre-op diet on Tuesday and it was hard! You see I am a chef and the accessibility to food and the pretty much unconscious habit of grazing was almost too much to bear. :faint: Also at work there was, on both days now (yesterday and today) the cruellest of menu items that are some of my favourite munchie food in the world. So not only were they available to me, I was also in charge of one of them! So 8 hours of the smell and sight of them resulted in the same amount of time for me to say “no, you can’t! 3.5 times per minute! I think it may be the forbidden fruit aspect of the food as well. :hungry: I look at the items and think, ‘OH I like that, I should have it for lunch’, then in the back of my head I recall the memory of how it tasted and felt in my mouth and the shear joy of getting it into my bell. (This is a lot more sexual than I realized when I started this) anyway, I then remind myself that “No no, you can’t have that, only the Yoghurt and Cottage cheese, you silly silly man!” making me very disappointed :pout: in the fact that I can’t have it and a touch angry for the same reason. Then I go to the next item on the menu and do it all over again, from memory to disappointment, continuing the cycle until I reach the bottom of the food list, only to start at the top again and act like I’m reading shampoo instruction, do it and repeat, again and again for my whole shift. Today was a little easier as I drank copious amounts of water while working on my dishes, thus making me (and my bladder) full to the point were I didn’t really want to eat anything. I kind of see why the PTB want me to drink lots; it fills the belly and is good for me too. I find that boredom :bored plays a big factor too. If I am not challenged I find I am grazing, more to give me something to do than anything else. This is not a new thing for me, if it was I wouldn’t need the Band’s help to take and keep the weight off. All this to say that I have glimpsed my own personal Hell, it is hot, humid, full of temptation and pressure. I have had many devils :evil: for bosses, and will probably have many more, even some devils :devious in the form of coworkers. That is why I no longer fear death, I have seen the other side, it is not nice, but it will be mine to lament in forever-ish. So when I return, the devil will be happy to see me, not to torment me for eternity though… (He’ll probably offer me a job!:heh: )

:whoo: :whoo: Mrs. Yoda is Home tomorrow!!! :whoo: :whoo: :thumbs_up:

Oh my good Gravy!!! I had my first day of ten, pre-op diet and it is going to be SO hard! I litterally had to tell myself every minute or so that I cannot have everything! And of course everything was much more appealing with the whole forbidden fruit aspect... But I will persevere with all the will power I can muster... After all I am not a JEDI master by chance.