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  Hi there obviously i am a newbie. My weight loss battle has been going on like too far. up and down good then awful like 2 times  first was  320 lbs now this one at 285 lbs. I've had it.  i'm so tired of being visible and invisible.. loved for my thinny, and deplored by my fatty.  So over a year ago i began classes for the nutrition phase of my journey to bariatric sleeve surgery.  that took 6 months, then  Covid 19 hit and postponed all of my pre surgery goals.  my good friend, and i started together she was like 2 week set go before i got refferal; not to far off each other but after we finished classes i still had 1 month to go before i had to go thru all the medical clearences she was right on track and had most of them done then Covid 19 hit, and she pulled right thru and i got stopped. She now had to wait for the surgery part to re-open in may and she and another gal i know got there gastric sleeve with in a month of each other. but here i was left in the dark ages for a over due period of time. then i got a  first visit with my surgeon, and lo and behold; a child in my classroom and his family caught Covid 19!!! so the 2 weeks i was on quarantine it was when i had my initial visit. "postponed again"!!! so finally about 18 months after the first  start of my bariatric journey on November 4th 2020 I got my date.  The hoops up until my surgery was another wild ride. Talking about the offices RE:gastric offices and my primary "get it together"........ I was doing catch up up until the day before surgery.  Kinda was trippin me out.  My bariatric surgeons office didn't tell me to begin my 2 week shake fast before my pre-op; so they were looking at each other, and said you should be fine just start now. i did it but i did have to have a salad 1 time a day. i cheated on Halloween and had a lot of candy and 2 double cheese burgers but went back to the salad shake diet. the week before i went to pre op i was 285, but just a week later i was 273 12 lbs in 1 week just on 3-4 shakes and a salad.   November 4th arrives I am super terrified. like " oh my god what have i done Mo" here come the needles and naked and nervous comedy hour, and getting ready to be put down in a very vulnerable  position being strapped down and a needle coming at me..... time for one last joke and bam!!!!!!! im waking up, and **** just got real.  I'm afraid to move (i got a pee) no i don't gotta pee. can i stand up???? ahhhhhh no my fat belly just had surgery.  All i can think is what did I do to my self. Why did I do this? my first nurse was ok but I didn't have to deal with her much cuz i was in and out. the second nurse was kinda like a super doushe.. i might look cool and all but I don't use drugs, and please stop telling me about being a drug seeker. I just had surgery on my guts bro. it's not like i'm coming off the street with a false reason to grab a quick fix. yes i told him in several different ways. This fool had me swallow full pills they wont go down he said have more water. Ok i'm in fear of my tummy not absorbing these well i've barely eaten at this point. not only that he keeps on telling me if i don't poop i wont be able too go home . ( that was false) So I asked him for some pain killers again and he began again with the drug seeking yar yar... He came back with a needle from "Planet Gigantar" wielding it like a sword and told me it will have to go in intra muscular, and he assured me that he was a great shot. I'm like"way way way way wait" isnt there some thing else?????  Yes he said i have Toradol. it is a non narcotic...  ok put that away and give me Toradol.. Will it work?  He said we shall see.  the Toradol worked better then the Norco.  the Norco made me feel awful.  even though i begged and pleaded for Torodol to follow me home ; they don't have it in liquid or pill form only for use in IV.  I just really wanted to be out of the hospital. My kids are with my friend so my surgeon calls and said i will be going home soon i also asked him about the poop thing and if i can get a go home of Toradol not the norco. He told me the same thing ****** bag did . Ive been at  the hospital all dang day, and all the nurses tired of me whining hearing me nagging about going home.. all of a sudden a very Sheikish/Mangoish doctor comes in all man Sassy, and very appalled at the incompetent staff he has to work with hee hee, and informs me that they had dropped the ball.. he had an order in for me for the morning to get my upper gi and that he needed that so he could release me this afternoon, but Nooooo, and he apologized for the inconveniences due to the staff at the nurses desk.  He also told me that if radiology dosen't get to me soon i will have to stay. POOF...... He was gone like a genie in a bottle.  So they wheel me down to radiology.. the to radiologists were low key bickering as to who needs to do who's job. " stay in your own like man". lol ok back to me .. I was tripping because i was just there a few days before doing the pre-op fluoroscopy  i had to drink a lot of contrast.  I told the East Indian guy that i just had surgery he said oooh.. it will be ok..  I aid no its not the nurse back there said no NPO that means nothing by mouth right? he leaves comes back with this contrast takes 2 containers, and he is mixing and the lil fat dude with meat/ onion breath very heavy and lingering is telling me if i don't take the contrast I probably wont be going home tonight. The faster you do this the faster we can get you home... Ok i did it  now i know how much my tummy can possibly tolerate. Also when we got back to the room about 20 min later i did my first lil poopy, and signed my discharge papers. everything is done. I am cordially wheeled to the lobby, and my bestie lovingly waiting for me in her lovely Toyota Siennia...  Also if you think that you will be on a vacation and getting your rest on at the hospital?  No you will not .. hey if the phlebotomist comes by more then 1 time a day say  Oooh nah nah.. I had my blood 4 hours after surgery then at 4 am the next morning. Then a crazy lady came thru about 5 hours later with her lil box a vials  i go wait i just got my blood drawn.. She says are you sure? im like Ooooh here we go again..  Yes i am sure. she looks at her paper work.. Are you sure whats your name? Birth date? do you have a room mate?  Bing, Bing ,and No.  Shes like let me check your file ill be back. She comes back, and says; your right i should'a checked.  So it may seem like i'm very demanding... I have to question everything because some of the things they do there are real unnecessary. while you try to rest and relax they will wake you or disturb you every hour every 45 min every hour  every hour and a half. its either them or the IV beeper or you got to use the bathroom or your surgery site is hurting, and you cant sleep because of the pain an some ****** nurse wants to play games.. 

Temperature still normal. No symptoms. I guess having this kind of "diary" will be the new normal for medical staff working with ER patients because the corona tests are not fast enough for a quick screening at bedside.

It kind of gives me the creeps when thinking about how many colleagues and other patients could've possibly been infected by one patient only with unknown corona infection. Yes, we all wore N95 or FFP2 masks and the patient wore a simple mask but anyway...

Infection rates are soaring. I was a contact person again (and a fellow colleague who assisted me) and now we've gotten some sheet where we have to take note of any symptoms and we have to take our temp every day for 14 days. Luckily so far we're both alright.

I guess this will be the new norm until we have a test fast enough so patients without symptoms can be isolated sooner.