Preparing for surgery

Tomorrow is the big day. I'm so tired of the protein diet I'm actually very excited to have the surgery, because I know it means that some day i'll be able to have something more substancial than a protein drink. I had purchased Essence Vanilla protein mix and it was very tasty for a few days. Now everything smells like the proten shake and i feel like gagging when I drink it. Anyways I'll be able to move back to more normal food before long.

My doctors instructions told me to take the magnesium citrate two days before surgery. Well this was a bit of a challenge because I have grad school untill 9pm. When I got home I decided to take the laxative, thinking that it would run its course in a few hours later. Yeah right!! Here I sit 12 hours later and I'm still making emergency trips to the bathroom. Note to anyone who reads this, block off a big chunk of time to deal with it.

I basically spent my entire night on the pot feeling beat up. I can't wait to go home so I can take a nap!

Tomorrow is the big day. I have to be there at 5am. A friend of mine is going to pick me up so that my 1year old daughter doesn't have to get up so early. I am told that my surgery should be about 830am. It kinda sucks that I have to wait 3.5 hours, I'm hoping that they will give me a bed so I can take a nap while I wait.

I hope your surgery is going well, just stumbled across your blog, and I said a little prayer for you.

As for the laxative, believe me, I know, I hated the cleaning agent they make you use before sugery, it dried my skin out so badly.

Let us know how youre doing!

Angelica,

Thank you very much! I'll post my surgery experiance shortly. I appreciate your support.