Hectic Time Of Year

I apologise to you who read my blog, it is a hectic time of year normally around our house with end of the year school trips and family outings because the warmer weather has finally reached us! I will try to start writing a little more frequently, although I make no promises. On May 10th, my hubby and I went to Toronto for appointments at Toronto Western Hospital. I had to meet with the psychiatrist one last time before surgery on that day. He wanted to see me before I met with my surgeon, who I was actually meeting on May 11th. The strange part is, it feels like it was yesterday! I looked at the calendar today and thought, "Wow! Where has the month gone?!" I called the surgeon's office on May 14th, explained to the receptionist that I was anxious and excited to get a date (I didn't set one when I met with the surgeon because I needed to wait until the end of June) and did she have any idea what the dates looked like for the end of June, or early July. She said he would likely have 2 dates for July, the 9th and the 30th. Well it was a no brainer which day I was going to choose. So she put me down tentatively for July 9. The only reason why that will change is if he is assigned a different date. If we go ahead for July 9, I start my Optifast diet on June 17th. I couldn't be more excited at this point. I already have my post-op vitamins, a whole slew of food stored away in a cupboard in my kitchen that the family is now leaving alone, and my Optifast will be ariving sometime during the first week of June. I was told a long time ago, before I even got to the stage where I had my surgeon appoint set, that once I saw my surgeon things would go lightning fast and I wouldn't know where the time went. I thought to myself, yeah right, I'm almost 40, days are moving slower for me these days. Well, not so in this case. Already almost a full month has gone by, and I am not sure where the time went. :) Lots of changes for us as a family over the last month as well. A month ago today I was on my way home from Sarnia where I had been for two and a half weeks visiting with family and catching up on school work. My trip home was like one of those Last Chance Workouts you see on The Biggest Loser. I had a big duffle bag, (thankfully it was on wheels!) a bag of snacks for my 14 hour trip home, my laptop bag and my purse. My purse and the bag of snacks were the least of my concerns! By the time I made it from where I got off the train, to the other side of Union Station (downtown Toronto, and it's massive by the way) where I was to catch my bus for the second leg of my trip, I was dripping buckets from my face and every other seen and unseen part of my body! It was awful! I figure I lost about 3 pounds that day alone, hehe. While I was in Sarnia, the decision was made, mostly by me, that we were going to move there. There are more work opportunities for my husband and son (who will be 15 in July, yikes!) The school system is amazing and it will be close to the school that I will want to go to after I graduate from high school, finally! I didn't get into college for September 2012, but that doesn't mean that I am going to sit idly by and do nothing. Quite the opposite, I intend to take 2 more high school level courses, because in the middle of this amazingly busy month, I chose to change my career goal, from one of science and medicine to computer programming. I've always been a pretty quick where computers are concerned, and even took some free online courses several years ago for web design. It seemed to come really easy to me and I enjoyed it. Science on the other hand, well don't get me started on that nightmare! So I am now 3 weeks from exams, two of the subjects I wouldn't be at all surprised if I don't manage to pass with my personal fail number of 70%. I will be lucky if I actually pass the subjects with the ministry passing grade. You can count on me to do my best, I always do, but I don't have a lot of hope for these subjects. In any rate, I am writing this fairly late at night, but this seems to be the only time of day that I get enough quiet time to be able to think about what I am going to write, *smiles*. If you don't hear from me between now and June 17th, I will definitely come in at that point and give you a run down on how my first day of Opti actually went. It's a liquid diet, only 900 calories a day, and I have to be on it for 3 weeks. I bought some flavorings yesterday when I went shopping, which are bound to make things a little easier to handle while on this diet before surgery. The reason for this specialized diet is to be able to have my liver shrink enough so the surgeon can get in to my abdomin, via laproscopic tools and do the surgery that way. The healing is my easier to handle from what I've been told than it would be if they had to actually open me up and do the procedure that way. I am 'opti'mistic about my Optifast ... Good night everyone!