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Hah, yea...I have a tendency to do that. I guess I just wanted to make sure people's feedback would coincide with my own thinking.

The first day is always a crap shoot regarding what we're going to be doing. Depends largely on the clinical instructor, and I've never been with this one before. Most of the time though, and at this point in the game it's likely that we'll be taking 2 or 3 patients and doing total care for them, passing meds, doing IVs and foley catheters and stuff if needed. Unfortunately, it's not possible for me to keep a bottle of water with me because of hospital policy. I work there as well, and we're NOT allowed to have food or drinks outside of the break room at the nurses' station, etc.

Unfortunately there's no moving the clinicals around. I have a 12 hour clinical day every Saturday for 8 weeks. And I do value it...I worked way too hard to get into nursing school and I don't want to mess this up now, when I have 281 days till pinning. I was thinking that it was too ambitious, but my crazy self said "yes! I can do the 9th!" when she called to tell me. And really what it comes down to is that I'm afraid I'll be much too tired and won't get my fluids in. I guess December will be my new sleeve month!

Ok, so my original surgery date was scheduled for the 30th, and had to be rescheduled because I ended up with a nasty cold and a fever. I was hoping to be rescheduled for today, but the earliest they could get me in (with some serious rearranging of surgery schedules) is this Thursday. The mental stumbling block I'm running into is this: I'm a nursing student and have my first 12 hour clinical day for the semester on the 18th. A whopping 9 days later. I'm wondering if it's realistic to expect that I will be feeling up to doing a 12 hour clinical day in that amount of time, or if I should seriously consider rescheduling? I know that people heal at different rates, etc, and think that overall I'm a fairly fast healer, however I'm also concerned about getting my fluids in. I do NOT want to get behind on my fluids that early in the game. I would appreciate some input, even if it's to tell me that I was crazy to let them schedule me that close

I'm interested to hear people's replies to this. I was kinda wondering the same thing, even if I'm still pre-op. :-P Won't be too long though till I'm 3 weeks out.

Congrats on the loss so far and breaking your stall! Another thing to keep in mind: have you kept track of any kind of measurements? I'll see a lot of people on hear saying their weight isn't dropping, but their inches are. Just a thought

Just 4 more for me as well! I'm super, super nervous!

Congratulations! That's an awesome feeling, I'm sure. I'm soooo looking forward to going to an amusement park again post op. I LOVE roller coasters but haven't been in a long time, cause I know it would be a tight fit right now, if I did fit. :/

It depends on your individual plan. My UHC plan did require a 6 month physician supervised diet, whether that was with my PCP, a NUT, or some other doctor was up to me. Call the insurance company to find out specific requirements for your employers plan.

Thank you!

I was told that they go by the initial consultation weight, however my coordinator did tell me when I was sending in my last month's paperwork for my diet to make sure NOT to send her any paperwork with a weight lower than that I had recorded for the last month, since I was right on the 40 line and without any co-morbidities. Luckily that wasn't an issue since I didn't have any more paperwork to send them!

As far as I understand it, you will have coverage with your dad's insurance until your 26th birthday. I'm in the same spot...I'll be 26 in March.

I was just out there last week for about the millionth time. It's soooooo nice out there! I hope you have a great time! I've never been on the west coast...I really want to get out there sometime.

As I'm pre-op, I unfortunately don't have any suggestions for you. However, I was just wondering where in NC you're going to be? I live east of Greensboro. Plus, this will help get it bumped up so maybe you can get some helpful responses

Oh thank you thank you thank you! You give me hope for what life will be like after surgery with regards to food. I so needed to read something like this right about now.