Date

Got my surgery date, having gastric bypass I decided: Jan 16, 2012. I start my two week liquid diet on the 2nd. Excited but also bothered that it's so far away (had hoped for a December date).

Gonna be a big Christmas here: got Chael a craviola and a bunch of accessories, a bunch of foods for his stocking (way more than it'll hold), and a bathrobe that should be huge on him.

I got my Cure concert, am getting jerky, some Lush, and a bunch of jewelry from Bodyartforms.

Once everything is here we'll probably have our Xmas early like always. We have a Tofurky in the freezer and just need to buy instant mashed potatoes.

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Nightmares

Doc upped my Risperdal dosage by 1mg and the pills arrived 3 days ago. For the past two nights I've had horrible nightmares and my "strange/paranoid" thinking is increasing.

Added am nervous about sleeping tonight and Chael has duty so he won't be home. Lights on, maybe won't sleep.

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Surgery date!

Just went on a two-week road trip to Hollywood and back to see The Cure perform their first three albums in a row, then random hits. We did two days of H-wood site seeing and on the way back saw the AZ meteor crater (very big and very cool), and the UFO museum in Roswell, NM.

Concert was great. Sites were cool. On last day driving we drove through a sand storm which was fuzzy and in some parts opaque. Scary.

Got approved for my surgery and got a date: January 16th, 2012. I have two days of pre-op testing: Dec 30th for a tests and labs, Jan 3rd to talk to the surgeon.

Excited but bummed it's so far away.


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Yongsan, Seoul, Korea

We had a chance to go to Yongsan but the military said, '"no, the requisition is filled". That and when we contacted Branch we were told my EFMP packet needed updating before we could be sent anywhere...

...so I'm getting to talk to the doctor to update the paperwork next week (or the week after that, if they say my other doctor needs to do it). Hopefully this will make it so that we can be sent there, as the major Army hospital for Korea is located on the Yongsan post, in addition to the fact that I've been doing overall well.

It will be the last time we have any say in where we go, as Chael gets out in a few years... as in, we may stay there for the rest of his time in, not just 2 years, if we like it.

I love going to and living in new places, countries even more so. Been reading up on Seoul via the internet, sounds really good. I love cities. It's somewhere I've never been so I want to go there, basically.

So wish us luck.

sleep study, apnea, bi-pap

Got put on a Bi-PAP machine after a sleep study last night for Obstructive Sleep Apnea. Basically, due to fatness I stop breathing once a minute. They also have to crank the thing up to an obnoxious level -24/19 if anyone is medically inclined. Basically, for those not, it means I have a tremendous air pressure being blown at me while I breathe with a mask on.

And I mean intense airflow. I was fine sleeping with it last night as they adjusted it up as I slept, but when getting my own machine today the lady put it on me at my level while I was awake and I almost scratched the thing off my face; I couldn't breathe and felt like someone was trying to drown me, it was so intense.

Thankfully the machine has a slow-increase function that she set for 45 minutes for me. Now it starts at a reasonable pressure and works its way up to the full level while I'm falling asleep.

I tested this out today during a nap and it worked awesome. I didn't notice the increasing and passed the heck out hard well before it got to the top intensity for me.

So yeah, BI-PAP, sleep apnea, mask wearing. Not pleased I need it, but love having it due to its lovely effects!