Davimt

Thanks for the advice; I too am a self pay so the motivation is certainly there.

Thanks for the reponse; Frankly I hpe I can do as well as you!

I have been "lurking" around this site for a couple of weeks prior to my surgery, and I found that there is an answer to just about any question one may have. Thanks to all that have posted information so that the rest of us may benefit. Anyway, My doctor, Javier Herrera MD in Jacksonville, Fl. has been great so far. He does use the two week pre-op liquid diet (yikes), and I did lose 15 lbs while on it. I went into surgery at 9:30 am after a 90 minute pre-op regimine. The surgery itself is a very short duration of approximately an hour, and I was placed in post-op recovery (I'm told, I don't remember) at approximately 10:30 am. I woke back up in the room I had begun in at approximately 12:15 pm (this is the first time I can remember) to very little pain or discomfort. I was put immediately into a chair and have remained upright since. The pharmacy guy and dietician poked there heads in to answer questions, and was home by 2:30 pm. I feel great as I type, and look forward to a sub-20 BMI (I started at 35 with severe sleep apnea)and hope to gleen much information from the folks here on the site as this get a little mor challanging down the road.:clap2::whoo::bored