Nothing Really New, Exciting Huh?

So I'm writing to report I have nothing to report. Thing's are getting back to normal just as I have to start getting ready again for them not to be... again. My next appointment is in South San Francisco on Tuesday the 7th. The worst part of these appointments is they are day killers, but since it's covered under my medical, no real loss.

So Friday is a county holiday, Monday is a county furlough (no pay) day and Tuesday is a medical day, leaving me with only five work days left before I'm out again, for a month. As I write this I realize, I have a lot to do!

Not much else, hopefully Tuesday's pre-op workup goes well and I pray, PRAY, I am the first surgery of the day on the 13th. Nothing worse than the waiting, and we know I've done plenty of that.

Judging Miss Placer County, A Call from Kaiser and More

Last night was the Miss Placer County contest, for which I was one of five judges. It was a unique and great, if somewhat odd, experience. We did the interviews Monday night, which consisted of some odd, sometimes light and sometimes very serious questions.

Thursday night was the main competition, which consisted of judging a swimwear walk, evening gown walk, stage presence and ability to intelligently answer a random question onstage. In the end, a very intelligent, bubbly and beautiful young lady by the name of Meghan was crowned Miss Placer County. I feel we as judges made a great choice. I truly think Meghan will do a good job representing the County.

Now on to a surgery update, a friend of mine who happens to work for Kaiser heard about my less than excellent experience three weeks ago. He was kind enough to call and apologize and ensure me that Kaiser agrees that is not how they do patient care (which had always been my experience before this as well). I truly appreciated his call and feel that Kaiser as an organization truly cared that someone had this type of experience and will strive to prevent it from happening again to me or anyone else. Time will tell (July 13th is my next surgery date), but after today, I do feel better and once again feel Kaiser cares.

This weekend I will be performing my last show at the Sacramento Comedy Spot until my big July 25th show. If you would lke to come see tomorrow's show, go to www.SacComedySpot.com for more information on when and where. For tickets to my BIG July 25th show go to www.KeeslingGroup.com

Placer County Fair

So, I was originally asked to be a judge for the Miss Teen Placer County contest, but just this last Monday was moved to be a judge for the main competition, Miss Placer County. There are five very intelligent and beautiful contestants. Monday night I had the opportunity to interview them all. This Thursday (as in tomorrow) is the main show. I will be judging them based upon physical appearance in both an evening gown and swimsuit, their poise and their ability to own the stage and answer a question (no I won't ask about gay marriage).

Anyhow, I am very excited about this opportunity. I have never done anything like this before.

Please come out and see the pageant (if you are local) at the Placer County Fair Thursday night at 7:30pm.

Performing Tonight

I'm feeling well enough, so, I'm going to go ahead and do a comedy performance tonight at the Sacramento Comedy Spot www.saccomedyspot.com at 9pm. If you would like to see clips of my stand-up, you can go to YouTube.com/brianscottjagger

-- Post From My iPhone

Back at Work: Day 1

So today, Wednesday the 17th, I went back to work. Many seemed very surprised to see me back so soon, but seemed pleased I was. It was a great welcome back, even though my absence was not really long at all... this time. Conveniently, the amount of emails I had received over the last week and a half was minimal, which made it easier than I would have thought to catch up. Though I'm sure much of this was due to the fact that so many people knew I was out, but still, it made for a smoother day one.

Tomorrow will be a little more difficult, as I will have the longer drive down to Roseville (seat belt kinda hurts) and have an evening event that will put me at a 12 hour day. But, since Roseville is my main office and I have more of my files and paperwork located there, it will be nice to start diving in to some of that stuff.

I have been fortunate enough to have so many great friends and co-workers (often one in the same) who have continued to read this blog and share their warm wishes for me. I will continue to update this blog, though less often, between now and July 13th, and will then ramp it back up as I go out for the "big" surgery on July 13th. Thank you for your support.

New Surgery Date

I have been re-scheduled for my gastric bypass surgery. July 13th. This time with a different surgeon. I hope this one doesn't find anything else wrong! I don't know if I could handle two "just kidding" surgeries!

Morbid vs. "Regular" Obesity

So, gastric bypass is defined as a medical procedure for the long-term treatment of morbid obesity. For someone who is 6', as I am, the weight considered morbidly obese is 278 pounds or more. I weighed m self today, and between the removal of a small organ, and not eating solid foods for four days, I am now down to 279 lbs. A reminder, I started the gastric bypass program at 316.

The question this raises, do I still need the surgery if I am able to loose weight? The answer I, and my Doctor's have come to, absolutely yes. The surgery is NOT to loose weight, it is to a) loose weight and more importantly b) keep the weight off for long term health. Both my primary care doctor and my gastric bypass doctor agree, I should still get the surgery. In fact, they said "there is no weight you could drop to where we would not still do the surgery for you." They said this is because of how I have not always been heavy, but have for so long, they feel that the primary purpose of keeping weight off long term is still a very beneficial reason to go forward even if I lost another 50 pounds. By the way, someone 6' is still considered obese if they are anything over 221lbs. I still have a LONG way to go before I am below that mark.

I will put this in a separate post, but I have been given my new surgery date, July 13th.