Jenn's Transformation Journey

Well that phone call with the words I have been waiting to hear finally came.  "You have officially been approved to schedule your pre-operative appointment with your surgeon"  My pre-opp appointment is Thursday, February 15th 2018. I started looking up pre-op procedures and I know that I need to stop my birth control at least 1 month prior to surgery, as I was told in my first appointment (the physical.) Lucky for me, and this might be TMI for you but luckily for me my period starts soon and so I am on my placebo week. So I will stop taking them, or not start my next months pills in preparation.  Something else I have started in preparation, which actually I stated today was incorporating protien shakes into my diet. So my diet today looks as follows; 7am: 2 eggs on gluten free schar bread  10am: 1 banana  11:30am: One scoop of Pure Protein Chocolate in 20oz of water (this is more water than suggested but to get used to it I wanted i...

Alright so I was diagnosed with sleep apnea and about a week after my sleep study follow up appointment I got a call from the home health place to be able to schedule my appointment to pick up my CPAP and learn how to use it.  I actually took this picture right at the appointment. The person that was teaching me to use it had to leave the room to get my head "gear" and mask to fit my face. I'm a size medium face apparently.  Now I was excited going into this appointment. I was excited to get a full good nights sleep.  Now after using my CPAP machine for the last week or so, I'm so thankful for having been diagnosed and receiving my CPAP machine.   This Picture was me the first morning waking up with my CPAP on. The first morning I felt good, but still tired. I woke myself up a few times because I had dreams about being a firefighter (as I am one and started doing that when I was 14.) So the mask on my face apparently triggered something in my b...