OMG Only 23 day & Counting 'Til My Great B-Day!

Hi, I am really getting excited & nervous at the same time now with only 23 days left! When I started my journey last January I had no idea that I would still be waiting for my surgery. Now that it is close it seems like the days are flying by. YEAH. I am so ready for the pain in my body to ease up. The last couple of weeks my back and knee's have really been troubling me. The next three weeks I will be having synvisc injections on my right knee which normally helps with the pain. We'll see if the left one is going to ease on it's own or if I will need to inject it too. I am going to try to get the through the surgery before I have my injections in my back with Dr. Griffith. I hope to lose some weight before I go see him since it was his encouragement that prompted me to consider bariatric surgery to take some of the load off my back. I know he will be pleased to see less of me. I know it won't reverse the damage done but it hopefully with less weight to carry maybe the pain won't be so intense all the time. Without the weight he said it would help to slow down the future damage. Oh, as if I could stand more pain, NOT. Anyway, enough on the pain ____t.
All I have left before surgery is my pre-op lab work and one more appointment with Dr. Hoehn. This list is all but gone, my B-Day is just days away. I have been trying new recipe's that Shelly created and loving them. I am so pleased to know that there are wonderful recipe's out there for post ops and that I don't have to rely on my own creations. Although I would lose weight much faster if I did because my creations are not always edible. Humm! I have also been doing my daily dose of 30 minutes of exercise. I love to walk when the pain is not to bad so even if I have to split it up I am getting it in. I will say that the only thing keeping me going on the exercise it knowing that I won't be fighting all of this weight for that much longer. Hey, what can I say, with every step there is pain. I have had to up my pain medication just to find peace at night. I know that it is all worth it in the end. My weight is slowly but surely going in the right direction too. I figure every pound counts and I also know it improves your surgery risks.
It's Saturday, I will have to find something creative to do today. Not sure what that looks like but I am off to find out.