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Laurabr1

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Everything posted by Laurabr1

  1. thank u ismith, fattym, and all this support forum is truly the best. i am glad everyone is recovering well.
  2. thanks wowgirl it was just all a bit much today.
  3. thanks everyone. i am feeling a little better. knowning others have gone through similar things and survived and will say they will do it all again. i will have to take the bitter with the sweet.
  4. ok, thank all of u so much cindyh you really made me calm down. pkehrer plz keep me n ur prayers , and shangefen i will ask my dr. monday. again thanks Great support team..
  5. andd automatically medicate for 5days.
  6. to count fluids that drain she said. but i thought u check for leaks n blood thinner shots were just a precaution
  7. ok went to dr getting pre opt diet i can handle that. got post diet i can handle that NOW i talk to nurse she begins to tell me i have to give myself blood thinner shots in my stomach for 10days. have a bag on my left side for 5days pain medicine that i have to take ouy myself when empty. n a fluid bag on my rt side for 5days. i am now in tears i have waited 6Mnths n now they telll me all this i Wanted to run out anyone make it past all this., all II know is i pray it's worth it.
  8. ok went to dr getting pre opt diet i can handle that. got post diet i can handle that NOW i talk to nurse she begins to tell me i have to give myself blood thinner shots in my stomach for 10days. have a bag on my left side for 5days pain medicine that i have to take ouy myself when empty. n a fluid bag on my rt side for 5days. i am now in tears i have waited 6Mnths n now they telll me all this i Wanted to run out anyone make it past all this., all II know is i pray it's worth it.
  9. msvickie, first congratulations on sleeve. i get surgery on 24th of July. very nervous, from what i have been reading everyday gets easier.. do everything your dr tell you i pray you full re overy and great success on this journey.
  10. shangefan thanks. n lissa thank you. i believe i am driving my poor husband crazy.
  11. thanks. milca good luck keep me posted.
  12. dr julio Rivera at Baylor bariatric in grapevine tx. scared n excited
  13. i got the news monday that i will have surgery july 24. i do want the change in my life but i keep asking myself why can't i just loose the weight on my own. why has it come to this. i can usually just drop pounds. so for the last wk i have been having migraines. i guess i just don't want to fail. is this normal to feel this way.
  14. i got the news monday that i will have surgery july 24. i do want the change in my life but i keep asking myself why can't i just loose the weight on my on. why has it come to this. i can usually just drop pounds. so for the last wk i have been having migraines. i guess i just don't want to fail. is this normal to feel this way.

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