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New Cindy

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  1. I read alot. I like to research every angle before I make a decision. The thing that has surprised me the most with surgery is the emotional and mental aspects that I have felt over any of the physical aspects. I feel more moody, not just cranky but easily annoyed or easily ticked off. On some days I feel fine, others I want to cry and then others I want to rip someone's head off. It's a serious roller coaster and probably not all attributed to after effects of the surgery. I have always been a pretty upbeat and optimistic person with very little modd swing issues but now I feel like I'm on a constant PMS ride, sometimes. Anyone else have these?

  2. 1 week post-op

    · New Cindy · 02/25/2011 12:18

    I am sure that all of us on this site are fully aware of the massive array of emotions and decisions that one goes through when deciding to do this. I won't say mine was the most difficult decision but I truly believe I was tested many times along the way. I stuck to my belief that this would enrich my life and did it. Today I am one week post-op. It really hasn't been that tough. I do not have nausea or much pain. I don't feel like I am starving, but I am still getting to know my new tummy. What is more weird to me is the changes I feel like I see in others, first, and second how life just keeps sending me sucker punches to remind me that I've still got speedbumps to get over.
     
    Ultimately, getting in the proper amount of protein and water post-op is not an easy feat. I know I have not met it at all yet. I have strived though. I felt like I was amptly prepared because I read all of the forums and had done my research. I still feel confident that this decision is one of the best I have ever made but boy does it hurt when everything else around me is crumbling!! I guess God is just allowing me to see things for how they truly are when he knows that I don't have the strength to fight back for something. That isn't to say that if it were something I really wanted, I wouldn't fight but if it was never really mine to begin with- why bother?
     
    I just want to say thank you to all of you for sharing your experiences because I believe it has helped lead me down the path I am taking and all of us are to commended on having the courage to share!

  3. One Week from surgery

    · New Cindy · 02/11/2011 20:08

    I have told everyone what I am doing up front. I am not keeping this decision a secret. Of course everyone is concerned that it is in Mexico. I have purchased everything I need for after teh surgery and started on my pre-op diet today. So things are going well. But I am scared and excited all at once!! Sure hope this turns out like I have it envisioned in my head!!

  4. 2 weeks to sleeve...

    · New Cindy · 02/06/2011 13:15

    So I am 37 yrs old, I have had some monumental life decisions in my time. I have two kids, which means at one point I had to determine if I was ready to be a mom. I went back to college to finish my Bachelor's degree, then I had to choose to take that time away from my family and make school a priority. However, I can honestly say that making this decision to have the VSG has been one of the rockiest emotion wise of most of them (maybe not my first child).
     
    Deciding that it was time to be healthy again wasn't the hard part. Choosing what to have done or even which Doctor, shockingly wasn't hard. Figuring out how to pay for it was fairly easy as well. What has been hard is that everyday since I booked the surgery and bought the plane tickets, there has been some test of me. At first I realized it was just my perceptions of what matters, but the closer I get to it the more the little problems have started to take their toll on me.
     
    Now I am just determined that not only will I get this surgery but the little problems do not own me and they will be there regardless either way. I will deal with them as I need and forge ahead to the new me!!

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