Shirley

[Guest guest]

Hi Shirley:

Welcome to the June surgery group. My surgery is scheduled for June

28th, so I am not far behind you. Nah, you are not old at

all..Cammie can give you the spill on that one...(haha) I better be

nice because I still want that crab soup...(haha)

Anyway, keep us posted on how you are doing!

Best of Luck

> Hi Steve,

>

> Good luck on your surgery. I'm another June surgery (June 17th)

for

> sleep apnea, too. Same surgery Lefort 1, BSSO, genio and some

> partial

> turbinectomy. I asked the OS how far they'd be moving lower jaw -

he

> said about 13 mm. The good news is I probably will not have a

splint

> in

> after surgery and will just have bands.

>

> I'm probably one of the " older " persons, if not the oldest. 62

next

> week. I've been in braces for two years. I was suppose to have

> surgery

> in Dec, and again in April, but I've had problems with back/leg

pain.

>

> Ended up with nerve block in Dec. After much phyiscal therapy,

it's

> rescheduled. (Getting old isn't for sissies!!) Third time has to

> the " charm " . However, now I need a stress test to make sure

the " old

> ticker " can handle the long surgery.

>

> Hopefully traveling to 3 grandchildren's granduations in the next 4

> weeks will not flare up the pain again and nothing else will stop

the

> surgery this time.

>

> Shirley

[Guest guest]

Good Morning Shirley,

Thanks so much for explaining all that to me. The wristband creates

a bunch of stares, but oh well, I just smile and say I am an escapee

from the hospital. That shuts them up rather quickly..(haha)

Wow, you are only 2 days away from your surgery!! I am so excited

for you. Let me know how your pre-op screening & hooks go. It is

actually better that you are going so close to surgery. The

hospital called me yesterday afternoon and informed me that I was a

day to early to do the test to determine what blood type I had. Not

sure why, but they will have to do this the morning of the surgery,

and the lab doesn't open until 6:30 with my surgery being at 7:30.

So it is going to be cutting it close.

Yes, the caboose is getting ready to depart soon!! All aboard!!

> , Glad to hear all the preops went ok. As an ex-blood

banker,

> you've have to wear the fancy bracelet for a while. The reason

for

> that is they match your blood from specimen donated with your own

> unit of blood. It is to prevent you getting the wrong type of

blood

> which can be fatal. I have to have a Type & Screen for a blood

> transfusion, too. In my case they won't have my own blood as I

> couldn't donate as were going out of town. Plus with my lousy

veins

> and mastectomy (can't draw from that side), they probably wouldn't

> have got a unit anyways.

>

> My surgeon doesn't believe I'll need it, but if I need it I'll

have

> to use others donated blood. Husband couldn't donate as he's a

> different blood type.

>

> Here it's 3 days to surgery and I'm watching a TV program on

> hospital acquired infections. Having worked 20 years in a

hospital,

> I know all to well about them. Just make sure everyone washes

their

> hands!

>

> Tomorrow afternoon we'll head down to San for our stay

until

> I'm released - which hopefully will be by the weekend.

>

> I tried adding blenderized canned peaches with heavy syrup with

some

> vanilla glucerna (more peaches than Glucerna), didn't taste too

> bad. Peaches byself is real good. I tried blenderizing sausage,

> scrambled eggs and salsa the other day. Wasn't the same as eating

> normally. I wonder if our taste buds will be the same or numbness

> will affect it. Hmmm.. Oh, the Esure High Calcium Chocolate is

> pretty good, I need the calcium due to osteopenia and not sure I

can

> take the " horse pills " after surgery.

>

> I'll update you on Wednesday after my preops/physical and getting

> hooks on. Not too much longer before this train leaves the

station.

>

> Shirley