Ellemental

You need to clear out your stomach and shrink it before surgery so yes, it does matter, and theres that whole fatty liver thing, which we all have, or we wouldnt be having the sleeve. Surgery is very very stressful to your body, you want to be as healthy as you can be before going in. I wonder if you should think about your commitment, because if you can't follow pre-op, how successful can you be post-op? I'm not sure why doctors require clear liquids the week before, mine didn't, I just did 2 weeks of protein shakes and vegetables, then 2 weeks of protein shakes and clear liquids. This is one month of your life, and the practice you need to control impulses. You can have a little fast food after you heal, no need to keep giving it a farewell party

I just hit 34 days from my surgery and I still get tired faster than I did. At 52, I have to remember I probably won't regain full strength and vigor as fast as a 25 year old! You need to remember, just because you see healing in the outside, doesn't mean your full system has recovered. It will probably take me another couple of weeks before I stop wanting to go to bed at 8 and that's ok! Right now, it's the only thing I'm conscious of. The reduced appetite and inability to pig out keeps surprising me, I hardly think about it now. What amazing progress that feels like!

I'm 20 days out from surgery and keep forgetting I'm still healing. I went back to work two weeks after my surgery and have not made it a full week in the next week and a half. Any really long, really busy day exhausts me. Take it easy, everybody heals at their own pace. I'm 52 and I bet I'm more tired because of my age so I'm cutting myself a lot of slack!

I brought books and magazines, didn't look at any of them except to flip through one while I was trying to sip some liquids. I didn't trust my phone there while I was on pain meds, although I woke up the second anybody walked in the room so I could have. I really wanted my lavender water spray, hospital smell is not great! They gave me a package of aloe wipes, which was nice, but some lotion would have been nice, a little aromatherapy would have helped!

I had a terrific night nurse, very kind and very reassuring and comforting. The level of noise from other patients was my only issue, but closing the door and putting earplugs in solved most of that problem. They will bring you anything you need, my nurse tucked me all around with pillows to make a nice 'nest' for me when i told her thats how I sleep at home. I just kept dozing off, not a deep sleep because they do check on you hourly and I don't sleep well in strange places. Just push the pain button and you will doze off. There's nothing you can do if you share a room, but you can schedule your surgery on a less busy day and have a better chance of being eye only one in the room, I had my surgery on a Monday.