Friday, January 8, 2010

I have a tentative surgery date!!! YAY!!!! I am so super excited!
My date is set for March 1! It's only 51 days away! I have a lot to do in 51 days, and a lot to get ready for. I am so ready and looking forward to this!

Only 5 more appointments!

So I completed my first of three lifeskills classes last night. I have to take these classes in order for my insurance to pay for the lap band surgery. They are supposed to show you what life will be like after surgery. I learned that my stomach will be about the size of an egg, and it will take me 30 minutes to eat 2 oz of food. These are things I am actually looking forward to, I know this isn't a permanent part of my life, so I can deal with it for as long as I need to, in order to get healthy.
I have another lifeskills next Thursday, then the following week will be my last classes. I have a nutrition class in the morning and a lifeskills in the afternoon.
Then we cruise! Yay! I am so looking forward to a vacation! I have 2 more appointments, one with the pulmonologist and one for the final medical clearance for surgery. I hope to get my surgery date before we go on the cruise.
DH and I are also looking to move sometime in the near future. An opportunity to lower our rent by $300 a month, and really lower our electric bill. The house we live in now costs us $1250 a month for rent and $275 a month for electric. That is a crazy amount of money. We are looking to move into these new energy efficient beautiful townhomes downstate from where we are now. We would really like to purchase one, but that's not in the cards for us right now. So we will rent for another year (or 2!) depending on how much we can save and how we can work on paying some bills down.
Well, I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday and a great new year!
Here's to getting healthy and having babies!