AtlantaRed

Welcome to the group! I will add you to our list tomorrow!

I hear you on the being ready to give stuff up! I am sooo ready too. I haven't had food funerals, just eating the normal stuff but I've been trying to make sure I enjoy it more! I don't even care about Thanksgiving but I'm the only one in my family who can/will host it and we didn't do it last year. Since I recover poorly, I wanted to at least be able to cook the food! So hopefully mine will be the week after! I feel like I will easily be able to give stuff up as I am sooo ready to get this done and get the weight off!

I know right now I am super excited and want it done but once November comes, I'll have 2 more tests/appts to do and then I'll host Thanksgiving, so I'll be busy with that. I'll also want to decorate for Christmas because decorations make me happy!

I'm going to buy a few different drinks but with so many people saying that the ones they liked before surgery, they didn't like them after surgery, I'm not going to try a bunch. This is my plan: Unjury Chicken broth, an unflavored, some individual Isopure ready to drinks, Premier Protein choclate ready to drink and then some Gatorade. Hopefully, something in that variety will help. I'm hoping that if nothing else, I can do the unflavored powder in the Gatorade.

Lord no! Lol I will give up sodas in plenty of time (and slowly to avoid the headaches) and I will do a self-imposed 3 day liquid diet prior to surgery, but that's it! lol I feel afterwards, sticking to the liquid diet should be way different than trying to do it beforehand with the regular sized stomach. Fortunately I will not have a preop diet. I don't know that I could handle that. I have no fears of following everything strictly afterwards, though. I'm definitely a rule-follower! Are you planning on starting early or trying to gather opinions before you decide?

But everyone is different. I had my gallbladder removed and couldn't stand up straight for 2 weeks. Lortab is like an M&M to me. Dilaudid helped me a little in the hospital WITH Toradol but did not make me loopy, fuzzy or take away my pain.

So exciting! I think it will be here pretty quickly! Will you get to enjoy Thanksgiving or will you be drinking your way through the day?

I had my gallbladder out last year and it was awful! Unfortunately the usual pain meds don't work for me. I'm assuming this will be similar since they are both laparoscopic and little holes and a bigger hole...etc. Hopefully they will understand and maybe I can spread my work out throughout the day instead of trying to sit for 4 straight hours. Who knows, hope for the best and expect the worst, right?!!

Come join us in this thread ---> http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/topic/96637-december-2013-sleevers-come-in/page__st__140#entry1040383

Indeed and we are still a month+ away so I woner how many we'll be up to by then??

I am jealous of ANYONE having any time off from work! I have 2 part time jobs. One job, I only do twice a week and I know I will be able to take a week off from that (2 days). The other job, I work from home at the computer 4 hours a night 5 nights a week. I'm hoping ot have surgery on a Thursday and I'm going to have to try really hard to start back to work by Monday night, if not Sunday. Eek!

Here is the list so far. The original is post #102. That is the one I can go in and update. The one up there is one that was quoted before it was updated.

I got you Only1!! Look at the original post on page 6 or so. Post #102. THat's the only one I can edit. I've got you on there, no worries!

Welcome to the group Ashley! I'm glad there's so many of us. Between all of us, we should have some good info to share!

Congrats on getting so close! I only have a couple of things to mark off the list as well! Hopefully we can both get our dates soon!

I'm sure you'll do great! So nice that you'll have some recovery time! The skin issue has so many factors such as how long you've been overweight, genetics and age in general. I know for a fact that my skin will be a mess; however, I do terrible with surgeries so I will live with it. Plus, I'm 40, have an amazing husband (pretty cute too) and he loves me now like this, I'm sure he'll love me wrinkley too! If I were younger and dating, I KNOW i'd be a lot more concerned! Welcome to the group! Looking forward to following along!

I just added 6 more!

Ok, I think I got the newcomers added to the calendar list on page 6 (page 6 on my desktop). If I've missed anyone, let me know! Thanks to Blondiee for directing the newcomers to this thread so we can all follow along! If anyone sees any new December threads or new December people, direct them over here!! Will be great to have so many different views and experiences to learn from!

I've only been on meds for reflux since June 2012 after I had my gallbladder removed. I had "spitting up" issues randomly before that. Surgeon said it could be a hiatal hernia which he would fix at the time of surgery if I did. I've just seen where some say they had ulcers that they were unaware of and needed bypass instead. I am soooo not okay with having a bypass! I'm not dwelling, though. Wishful thinking going into it!

Serenah and Shelly, please join us in the December 2013 Come In thread. I believe I linked to it above. There are over 30 December people in there now.

That stinks! Can you get a second eval? I think all of us need clearance from different docs. Imbself pay and had requirements too. I'm concerned about my EGD. Hopefully I will be cleared. Good luck on Tuesday!

I will add our newest group members to the calendar when I get home later.

That's awesome! I got one of the original Ninjas for a wedding gift 3 years ago (definitely less than $50) and it has always worked great, best blender I've ever had. I can only imagine how good the newest ones are!

I am self pay in the states.