I haven’t been around much this last week… We have some more articles coming here. Just need to get the time to finalize some editing and what not. What have I been doing? I’ve been running around like a … well, chicken’s with no heads are probably calmer than I’ve been feeling this week.

Part of it’s work.
Just dealing with some stress related to nearing the end of a $2.5million dollar project and dealing with someone we think may be doing some things that are a bit… well… at the least, unethical. At the worst… potential fraud. (wheee fun).

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I suppose I could just as easily titled this post “Time Flies”. Last week I posted that I had six more weeks based on insurance authorization on my upcoming surgery taking up to four weeks. Well, it took four days. So after that I made my appointment for April 2nd for my final surgeon consult which is where we review everything one more time and schedule the surgery. That cut two weeks off the wait.

Then yesterday I get a call, they had a cancelation for today and did I want to come in. I said yes. Now my surgery is scheduled for April 8th. The six weeks became three, and I’m two weeks and one day from going inder the knife.

We went over a lot of the same stuff, how this is not a cure – it’s a tool. And if I don’t use the tool right, I either won’t lose the weight or I’ll lose it, but gain it back. This is a life-altering change. I’ve made some progress towards many of the changes needed… but at this point I’m going to have some rather major physical … limitations? Well, during the first few weeks I guess I could call them that. Incentives? Mmmm… assistance. Back to it being a tool. This doesn’t make things “easy” by any stretch of the word, but I suppose in many ways it will make it easier…?

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