Thursday October 5th 2006

Worked last night and each time I am driving down the westlink to the hospital I think to myself, 'how many shifts do I have left to work before I go to Belgium !' Not many now I have to say. 4 as a matter of fact. I would normally do 2 nights next week but it's Aidan's party on the saturday so I will not be able to work on the Friday night as well as the Saturday night..... then I have told them I can work the following Thursday and Friday, which leaves me with saturday and sunday with Al and the kids before we go.
Anyway.... today I got an email from EOC saying that I need to start my pre op diet. It's very punitive because at a stressful time when you just want to comfort eat, they stop you !! I would have liked a little warning too, but hey, what can you do! So off I went to Superdrug and bought 2 tins of Slimfast. A vanilla one and a chocolate one. I ordered my last chinese, for me and the kids,and gobbled it down so now I am sitting here stuffed, looking at these slimfast tins staring back at me !
The email said that they expect me to aim for 1 stone weight loss per week !! If I was capable of that then I would not need surgery !! I emailed them back asking if this was a typo !! Unfortunately it was not a typo, but they did agree it was a little extreme so they have removed that expectation from me. Phew.. the pressure of that !!!! I will do the diet because I want to reduce the risks in theatre as much as possible. I don't want them to have to do an open op on me either ! I cannot promise to stick to it like glue, but surely a) any effort is better than none b) I cannot be the biggest woman Dr D has operated on and therefore I cannot have the largest liver either !! lol
So... I will weigh myself tomorrow morning ( bearing in mind that I am due my period and have water retention) and then drink my slim fast like a good girl !!