IT'S GETTING REAL!
I have a surgery date!
I personally think photos of babies in baskets and due day announcements are kind of hilarious, so this is mine. On October 7, 2015, I will get roux en y gastric bypass surgery!
I'm extremely excited. But, also extremely nervous. It's real now! I don't even know how to put my emotions into words. I've told my parents, they seem apprehensive to come up to Chicago and help me, but I know they will. It's not that they don't want to help, I think they are concerned about the complications of surgery. I guess Will Smith was right all along.
I'm not worried about complications. My surgeon has been really comforting and we had a conversation about the importance of Jason Prestley in pop culture. If that's not the sign of a great surgeon, I don't know what is.
I'm more worried about the liquid and "mashed potato consistency" diet that I will be on for a month after surgery. That's going to be interesting. But, I know I'll make it. I've got my eye on getting the lbs off, getting healthy and fit, and fitting into all the cute clothes I've never been able to fit into...and forgetting that I will be recouperating on my birthday.
That aside, I'm looking forward to the surgery and my future, and nobody in all of Oz, no Wizard that there is or was is ever gonna bring me down... OOOOOOOAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!
