And So We Begin

I am just hours away from beginning my liquid diet for my pre-op requirements.  I am not sure how I am typing this without shoving a goodbye Snickers in my face at the same time, but I am showing some amazing restraint already.  Maybe this won't be so bad.  

I hesitate to call this a "journey" because that word implies that I have embarked on some sort of mystical quest that will lead  me to a place of transformation and renewal.  However, I am just not sure where this will lead me.  But everyone else refers to it as such, so here we go.  My JOURNEY began many months ago when I decided to look into bariatric surgery options.  In very rapid succession, two dear people in my life revealed to me they had the Sleeve procedure or were about to have it.  It was like a sign, a blinding light, me knocked off my ass.  

A few classes, a million appointments, and countless hours of doubt and anxiety later, I am 10 days away from having 85% of my stomach removed.  In case you didn't know, they can't attach it again later should I change my mind and want to go to that Chinese buffet by my sister's house again.  That's a HUGE commitment.  I love Chinese buffet...

I thought I would start this blog for me to record the steps of my JOURNEY with no interest more that simply keeping record of things I will probably one day find hard to remember.  Maybe someone will stumble upon it and I can be a source of comfort or the world's most effective cautionary tale.  I suppose time will tell on that one.  Either way, here it is.  This is me - just another pretty face hoping to make the rest of me, inside and out, show as much potential.