SoCalMomOfFour

Oh my gosh! I'm so thrilled for you! I'm doing fabulously! I adore Martinez. He's amazing! Glad you were treated like royalty!

Sure! Will do! I can't text because my cell is in roam but I can PM through the Wi-Fi connection!

Sitting here at San Diego International Airport waiting for my driver. Surgery today! Will let you all know how it goes!

I just started shark week (TOM) and I'm having surgery tomorrow morning. I seriously scheduled my entire surgery to avoid this... but here I am! Should I be freaking out?

I'm leaving Friday for surgery and I'm trying to figure out how much/often we tip the driver. What did you tip?

Sedation and pain meds are two different things. She was heavily medicated with pain meds, not sedated. The pain meds were because they didn't want her in any pain whatsoever and (having had a c-section at this same hospital) it's my experience that they see a big woman and they overestimate the amount of pain meds necessary. American nurses don't want to deal with grumpy patients, so they give them lots of pain meds. I don't feel that does anyone any favors.

My friend just had her VSG done here in the states, at a hospital SHE works at! The nurses treated her like she was an annoyance! They had her so doped up on pain meds it was insane. She asked them to pull back her meds and they rolled their eyes. Eventually she turned off the pain pumps herself! They didn't bother to have her move for close to 36 HOURS! I'm pretty sure had she not walked around herself, they wouldn't have done anything about it. I'm having my surgery at OCC with Dr O on Friday and I can't wait to see the difference! It's almost laughable how arrogant we Americans can be in regards to what we think is the superiority of our hospitals. I really believe the haters are just speaking from fear and ignorance! I went through all of the paperwork my friend was given for her surgery and just don't see anything that makes it superior. It's all pretty much the same information! I'm actually happy my insurance won't cover VSG... otherwise I'd never have found Dr O and all of the team at OCC!

I'm kicking ass... down ten pounds in a week. My HW was 325 on feb 2nd. This morning I'm 299! Really ready to do this!

Unjury makes me happy

Thank you so very much.

Anybody know what they will do with my money, phone, passport while I'm in surgery? I'm arriving the day off surgery, so I'll go straight to OCC and I'll be doing it alone... it's really my only concern.

Thank you so much! I'll be flying to Indy to stay with her during part of her chemo.

Seriously... thank you. I've read your post three times already, will prob read it a few more. Much love!

Will do! Thanks!

I'm OCC and I'll be at the Marriott! Hope to meet some fun people!