SO about the surgery date. . .

On Monday I had my pre-surgery appointment.
It was magical, they drew blood. poked at my stomach, took medical history.  They also drew a lovely black spot on my tum. They then covered it with a weird medical tape and told me if the tape falls off and it starts to fade, that I need to draw over top of it.

They also informed me that my surgery has moved.  Instead of it being next Friday, it's now on Tuesday.  Which means I am really running out of time.  I had planned for a leisurely weekend full of gluttony, alcoholism and general debauchery. Followed by a couple days of recovery, and then the last meal, and then surgery.

Now it is all fucked up, because they needed my slot for someone else*. It's not like I'm calling a restaurant for a last minute reservation, I booked this shit back in February.  My wonderful room mate has agreed to run around buying stuff for me, provided that I make a list**.

I need to figure out what the last solid food to go through my colon is. If I'm lucky I'll have an epiphany in a drunken haze and figured out what it will be#*.


*With that said it is for a cancer patient, but I need to assume that there are other patients who aren't as prepared as me.
** I cant make lists, I blank out every morning when I buy my standard breakfast of poptarts milk and cigarettes and the variety store#.
#Because I care about nutrition
#*As opposed to the last time I was in a drunken haze a long time ago^ and had a conversation with my mother, she called the following week and I had no recollection of the conversation ever taking place.
^By "a long time ago" I mean last week.

My Colon's Going Away Party

At this point I'm starting to get tense.
I received a call last week from my surgeon's office saying they needed to reschedule.  Apparently they they had to book a cancer patient for that day, which is fine.
The only issue is I don't actually know when my surgery is.  I think it's now on the 22nd as opposed to the 24th, the problem is they never called me back to confirm.

But there are more pressing matters.

My colon's going away party.

I'm now starting to pull things together for it.  It's a hard thing to plan.  The biggest issue is the food. First of all this will be the most people I've had over, so there is the quantity of required, and then there are the food restrictions  Not mine, but the guests.  I'm used to cooking for myself, I'm used to tapering dishes around what I can and cannot eat. But cooking for other people's restrictions is a different issue.  I'm okay if I screw up something for myself an feel terrible, but doing that to someone else is terrifying.

My next update will be soon, right after I decide the menu.