Pre-Op Diet Day 14 and the Choccy Waterfalls have returned!

SW⟫ 207.7 | CW⟫ 164.5 |

Pre-op Diet⟫ Day 14

Surgery Countdown⟫ 14 days

Well it looks like the couple of days without diarrhoea have come to an end. Add that to coming down with a cold, and I feel like death. It’s meant to be a writing day but when I woke up around 8 am, I knew I was in no state to try to get anything done, so went back to bed. Finally woke up around 3pm and still feel like shit. The only consolation is that it’s better to suffer and recover from this cold a couple of weeks before the surgery because any closer to the actual date and they might postpone the surgery to give me a chance to recuperate.

Asda is demonic – Stripes ordered some chicken breasts in the bi-weekly shopping so that I could have a change from the white fish fillet I’ve been eating and of course, Asda sent chicken drumsticks and no breasts at all. So fish again tonight. I tried to pull a swifty by having a watered down slimfast shake with some Jordan’s sf syrup but it was shortly after I finished drinking it that the bout in the bathroom occurred so I don’t think I’m going to be able to slide up to two shakes and a meal a day. Since I still haven’t heard back from the bariatic dietician, I’m going to call tomorrow to see if they have any advice for me.

Not sure how I feel about their lack of contact. Initially, it was definitely my fault because I didn’t include all of the pertinent details they needed like hospital number, but I replied on Monday early evening so they had all of yesterday and today to get back in touch with me. A little disappointed maybe? Or maybe it’s just that nearly ever-present feeling of being alone in all of this? It all feels a little too hands off which is worrying.

"Stop saying 'I hope I can' and start saying 'I'm going to make this happen'.

Just read this in an inspirational email I received and it definitely resonated with me. I keep thinking I hope I can do this; reminding myself that the only way to fail is to stop trying; getting down because I think I’ve failed – a positive mindset does make a difference though. Perhaps I should keep this in the forefront of my mind for at least the next few days?

To be honest, I am so exhausted I can well imagine that I’m just going to spend the next few days sleeping!