RichelleGetsFit0309

Tomorrow is surgery day. My emotions are all over the place but I’m doing my best to stay calm. Good luck to everyone tomorrow who is having surgery as well. We got this!!

Same here!

Appreciate you saying this and I will do my best to update afterwards.

I hope you will be able to get it off as well. Fingers and toes crossed. We just have to take it one shake at a time. 😂😂

Good luck and check in when you can!!!

Hey Everyone. My surgery is on the 19th. The nerves are setting in but I’m doing my best to remind myself why I’m having this surgery. Even though it’s risky all my other health issues are putting me at risk and that’s been helping me somewhat. Also I can’t wait until I’m done with these protein shakes. 😂😂

So my surgeon’s office has a new person working there and they are terrible. When I called pre admission testing to make an appointment they told me they are doing covid testing for all surgical patients but I need a script from my surgeon. Okay. No problem I see them next week I will get one. I go to the office and she is telling me I don’t need one and we are literally going back and forth. She goes in the back and comes back a few mins later w/o the script and says your surgery isn’t scheduled. Excuse me?? It's been set for 8/19 and the insurance company called me over the weekend to say it was approved. Oh was her response and she then finally gives me my script. Then the following week she calls me and tells me I didn’t do the online seminar which I completed before she even worked here. Once I told her I did the seminar because I had to submit my email she was like yes, that’s right. 🙄 TODAY! She calls me a week before my surgery and a week into my liquid diet to say that I don’t have my pulmonary clearance and without that I can’t have the surgery next week. So I am all frazzled since this is taking place at 3:34pm. I go through all my paperwork and guess what?? I have the clearance. I call them back and the office is closed. To add insult to injury my new cookies and cream protein shake came in and it’s nasty and I have a whole case. I was so close to throwing in the towel and ordering a cheeseburger but I didn’t. If you made it this far thanks for listening.

Update: The office manager called me back and my surgery is all set for next week. Apparently the staff didn’t check the old EMR system which had the clearance. So she apologized and we went over all my paperwork together just to ease my mind. Now I can take it easy. Thank again for listening.

Yay! Surgery twins. I really like their bananas and cream but the cookies and cream is just gross. My only saving grace about coffee is that I detox before I started the liquid diet or else I wouldn’t have made it this far. 😂😂

Yes. That’s the brand I got and yuck. 🤢

You have UHC Community Plan? If so I have that one and I got my approval in a week. They called me from a random number to say it’s approved so be on the look out.

I do think its time to talk to the office manager. Enough is enough.

Thank you!!

My surgery is 8/19. I’m currently on day 7 of my 14 day liquid diet. It has had its moments and yesterday I was super hungry and these shakes just weren’t cutting it so I listened to music and that helped.

Same here. I took a probiotic and that helped moved things along but it’s been tough with the stomach and gas pains. 😩

I like chicken broth since it reminds me of food but the sodium was making my head hurt. So I added some water and it’s not the same but no headaches. I’ve been drinking protein shakes and eating different flavors of sugar free jello.

How are you feeling?

Thank you! Today was a better day and keeping busy as you suggested helped big time.

Good luck with your surgery and wishing you a speedy recovery!!

Hi Everyone, I'm having my surgery on 8/19. I am on a two week liquid diet and today is the first day. It's been tough.