angelaet

Well his surgery was Feb 27 and according to ppl who grew close to him he passed on the 11th....I'm not 100% sure and would hate to post inaccurate information out of respect for him and his loved ones. I'm only mentioning it because he was and is a brother to GST. We need to keep his memory alive.

My surgeon puts his patients on blood thinner injections for 3 weeks post op. I'm nervous about the needles but ill be defiantly doing them

I'm getting ready but second guessing myself about surgery now. I go tomorrow for my all day class and blood work. worrying about the passing of one of our vst members. i'm trying to get my thoughts straight.

Lifesaveremt: I'm sorry to hear you were taken from us. Please be an angel watching over from above. Looking after your family and your fellow sleevers.

Wow, I just logged in for my last preop post before my surgery tomorrow and saw the news about lifesaveremt, so sad and scary! My thoughts and prayers go to his loved ones...

I am april 4 in Tijuana Mexico, going alone. Started preop diet yesterday

My surgery is today in two hours....I'm so nervous!!! Thoughts and prayers please fellow sleeves :)

Hi everyone. I'm just out the hospital today. I'm @ Walmart picking up last minute things I need. I'm doing ok. I'm encouraged. I'm just ready to be @ home. The gas pains have been minimal.

I POOPED!
Sorry for the TMI, but I was excited. I was sleeved on Monday, had my last BM on the previous Saturday and nothing since. I took milk of magnesia on Wed and Thursday and nothing. I took Miralax yesterday and today and finally got some results tonight.
I'm also down 4 pounds in surgery, and 19 pounds since starting my pre-op diet. Yay for the new me starting to rear his sexy head!

Careful with those sips! They didn't allow me anything by mouth until after they checked for leaks with the barium swallow test and it came back leak free.

Woohoo Psych consult over and done, now just for my worker to submit to insurance which she says mine gives a response around 2 days so hopefully this week I will have a date

I'm mostly definitely in

Yes deejak im ready for the surgery to be overwith and for my newlife to begin how bout u

April 1st is my date too!!

Prayers and positive thoughts to those who are having surgery today and to those recuperating.

Are these people truly your friends? Sometimes you have to go through something to truly find out who is in your corner. While I have experienced nothing but support, I would certainly confront these people and tell them how you feel and that you don't appreciate this type of behavior. People will continue to do this until you put them on notice. Now your family on the otherhand, just embrace them and love them I'm sure they will come around some day when they see you healthier.

You would really do yourself a service to stop counting these people among your friends. It's hard and it sucks because I think in most cultures cutting people off is considered sort of.... unstable or cold... but sometimes its really important. If you examine relationships like that there us usually a lot more issues than the back-handed comments anyway. Those are usually a system of other issues.
I'm not telling you to divorce all your buddies, but you might consider it. I did, and it stung for a while and it was hard to take sometimes and I DID experience some loneliness but working through that hsa allowed me to take my life to a completely different level, meanwhile those girls are still living with mom and dad at the age of 27 and mooching off other people and society in general.

Thanks Angelaet, you are right they will not understand until they see the end result. Hang in there girl I know its gonna be worth it for the both of us.

I'm sorry to hear that. I understand completely. My mom and dad are really not happy about this. I got the comment, "so you don't have will-power". I told her it had nothing to do with willpower! I haven't told anyone else, but one friend found out on a fb WLS from my hospital. I told her to tell no one else. She's supportive because she will be having the surgery herself. Keep the faith. You are doing what is best for you. When they see how happy you become after WLS, then they will understand. My surgery is April 1st. Best wishes!!

Thank God I didnt have to I got to make it in today and give my sample. Ketones were off the chart and I lost 17lbs.

O I just got a email from my patient advocate that my secondary insurance finally approved my surgery. My surgery is Monday the 18th. Talk about waiting until the last minute!! But I am so glad they finally pulled through because that means its going to save me a ton of money. Now I can concentrate on more important things!! Feeling very excited, and nervous !

Prayers Lain01!!

Prayers for all of those having surgery today! I'll be thinking of you all.

Pepper Paul- I'm glad to hear things are going well. Congrats on the surgery and keep being positive!