Clear Liquid Day

Well...I had my last meal of solid food last night that I will have for three weeks. My mom made my favorite- spaghetti and meatballs with whole wheat pasta, multi-grain bread, and a salad with homemade Italian dressing, cucumbers, tomatoes, and red onion. It was so delicious, and I'm glad she was here to make my favorite as my "last meal".

I woke up around 8:50, took a shower and put some things out that I want to pack tonight, and then came downstairs to start my Citrate Magnesium. This liquid will help clean out my system to prepare for surgery. I drank it at 10:00 mixed with white grape peach juice. It wasn't a terrible taste, but it was a little salty tasting, and with mixing it to taste better, it actually took a while to drink it. I finally finished the last drop around 10:20. I made some tropical fusion jello, and now I'm drinking hot tea with lemon juice and sweet n low. Today, I am only supposed to have clear liquids: tea, crystal light, consomme soup, jello, popsicles, clear hard candy, juice...things like that.

It's funny how certain things can trigger memories. The last time I remembering having hot tea was in college. My voice teacher would have me drink lots of hot tea whenever I felt like a cold was coming on. Getting a cold was so stressful in college, because since I performed with the women's choir, concert choir, chamber singers, Ladies in Red (our female a cappella group), and recitals with my voice minor, I pretty much had to be healthy all of the time. If I was getting a cold, I would start the hot tea and my voice teacher also told me to drink honey and sugar mixed together. This was actually a little hard to get down, but amazingly would clear my throat! Even now when I feel a cold coming on, I panic, but then quickly remember that the only people I sing for now is my class, and they can wait until I get better before I sing again. :):):)

So, to prepare for staying close to home today, I am sitting at the coffee table downstairs, with my WLS binder of information, my new Nora Roberts novel, the two WLS books I've been reading and highlighting to re-read, a list of thank you notes I want to write with some new notecards I designed, the Sunday paper, my checkbook to pay some bills, and a pad of paper so I can write down any lists I need to do. I am watching The Doctors on TV, and I'm thinking about which DVDs I want to watch today.

I've charted my weight today, since that will be the "starting weight" I measure the weight loss towards. I am also going to take my measurements, so down the road if I'm not seeing as many pounds coming off the scale, I can look at the measurements decreasing.

I had trouble falling asleep last night because my mind was so busy, and I couldn't calm it down. I tried working on my relaxing breathing that the psychologist taught us how to do, and that must have worked, because the next thing I knew Chris was turning off the alarm clock. I hope I don't have trouble falling asleep tonight.

I may write more later on today, but I'm going to go for now. There are some people who have asked to be called or texted after surgery to have Chris let them know how things went. I will also have him send an email to my WLS group on Gmail, once he has access to a computer. I should find out tonight if I am the first case or second case tomorrow, so I'll send an email once I know. The surgery should take anywhere from 2-4 hours, with the average case being 90 minutes.

Thanks again for all of your prayers and well wishes. I'm very excited for tomorrow! :)