Christmas Preparation (Before 5 Dec Surgery)

[Jay]

Yep, it's still too early to prepare Christmas decoration and gifts but I decided to do it now as I'm going to have a surgery on 5th Dec. I'll be stuck in a hospital and on my bed in my house for a few weeks. Yippee.

I'm agnostic so I celebrate everything.

On last Friday, my colleagues assisted me to decorate the Christmas tree. It was a blast.





I went to office today (Saturday) to prepare personal surprise Christmas goodies for my colleagues, friends who work in the same office building, next door companies and also for our office janitors.







The Santa's paper bags are for my friends who work in the same office building. The transparent ones are for my colleagues and janitors. The Santa's sack bags are for the next door companies.

I haven't prepared my Christmas presents for my friends/colleagues and Christmas goodies for our courier guys. I cancelled my trip to an orphan house. I was planning to go with a colleague of mine, Vincent but he wanted to go on my surgery week. So he will go with his girlfriend and brother. I'll pass my stuff to him.

To be honest, I want this year's Christmas to be more festive than the previous because ... I hate to say this, considering that I'm going to have a huge surgery ... um, anything can happen. I just want people to remember me as a nice guy. That is all.

Surgery

Anyways I doubt that I will be online that much for a month or two as I need to focus 500% on recovering from this 7-hour surgery. Yep, 7 hours. It's a huge surgery. This will be the first surgery out of three. My surgeon and I haven't set the date for the second and third surgery yet. But I hope I can settle all of them before mid 2012.

The sucky part is that I am not allowed to run and do weight lifting for a whole month or two. I can do brisk walk and light weight lifting by the third/fourth week.

If you're wondering what kind of surgery that I'll be having, well ... the first surgery is called Belt Lipectomy. This surgery will help to fix my abdomen and my waist due to my once upon a time morbid obese condition. Weight lifting etc. helped me a lot but surgery is still needed.

I was 363 lbs (165 kg) before 2005. Currently I steadily hold myself at 160.6 lbs (73 kg). Thankfully I have zero problem to maintain my weight as I am a health freak now. I started out my weight loss on 2005 and nearly completed on 2009. I reached my ideal weight on 2010. So it took me almost 5 years to lose weight

The first surgery will be a massive surgery. Second surgery is big but not as huge as the first surgery. The third will be a small scale surgery.



Before 2005 and on 2011



Before 2005 and on Dec 2010



Before 2005 and on 2009

Anyways this is the ultimate reason why I went back and forth when it comes to finding a boyfriend. I wanted to have one but I know that I am not fully ready.

Moral of the story: Think twice before planning to become morbid obese. Obese is common. Morbid obese (size of 2 men and 1/2), not so much.

Last but not least, I'm very proud of my achievement.