Surgery Delayed, But Not My Journey to a Better Life
Extra time to prepare myself for a whole new way of eating.
Until the Omicron ‘variant of concern’ arrived on Australia’s shores in November it would be reasonable to say that most Aussies still didn’t know anyone who had been infected with Covid-19. That all changed ten or so weeks ago when the Omicron variant hit the shores of ‘fortress Australia’.
Conservative estimates suggest that at least one in ten of those who live in the eastern states have been infected with Covid-19, fortunately most of those have experienced a mild illness.
Notwithstanding this in early January most states temporarily suspended elective surgery, including for private patients in private hospitals, to enable those beds to be made available to support our excellent public heath system, should the need arise.
Elective surgery includes weight-loss surgery, which meant my scheduled admission on 1 February was postponed. Fortunately it wasn’t for long, things are looking good on the Covid front (for now at least), and my surgery is re-scheduled for 9 March.
For most bariatric patients, the lifestyle change starts before surgery. The vast majority of surgeons require their patients to undertake a very low calorie diet for at least two weeks…
