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“I got great sleep in my semi-private hospital room,” said no one

So tomorrow is the day for me! I'm on liquids today for pre-op. These can include Protein Drinks and creamed soups! I can drink coffee even. Tomorrow morning after bathing in the special soap for the 2nd time I can have coffee or juice or Bone Broth on the way to the hospital if I want and then I'll be joining you recent surgery peeps in the post-op diet. I'm nervous, feel like I should clean and get things in order today, but mostly confident in my decision. I haven't told two of my three kids yet so that's weighing on me but I think it's best for now. I am so excited to feel good again, get some of this weight off to help with back, hip and overall joint pain, and to have the energy and desire to hang with the grand kids more....these are the things that give me confidence in this decision. I appreciate the most recent posts from those of you that just had surgery this week and your encouragement. Keep it coming....I still have 20.5 hours to go until I leave for the hospital :).....

I’m lucky to have private room. Had a great sleep hardly any pain. Just the normal bitaland blood draw wake up. So much better than expected

Girl!! I laughed and said, I guess it was wishful thinking

Forgive me for giggleing at that but I guess it’s one of those things no one tells you so is good to know I’m glad your doing good .. !! Can’t wait to be on the other side with you all

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Oh and that apron part was stuck together from the antibacterial stuff... I’ve since pulled it apart lol my nurse explained it and helped me 🤦🏻‍♀️[emoji23]

I have that air/gas pains - they were horrible at first but have lessened a lot ... I am experiencing gerd from my Water but my nurse explained that the pouch is so so swollen that it’s temporary and should get better with each passing 12 hours

I had my surgery, technically yesterday, about 12 hours ago. It went very text book. My surgeon said it was boring for him lol. I was expecting the 4 incisions, but there’s one on my under belly... the “apron” is less and completely glued down. Anyone else experience this? And do you know why? My nurse should be back within 30 minutes and I’ll ask then but just curious if others got them as well

I have 5 enry points and I have a removable Velcro band covering my tummy and I can remove it if I want but seems like it’s holfing stuff together so I’m leaving it be. I’m on surgery day as well 11 hrs ago and feel good no gas and just minor pain

I’m on surgery day and actually doing great. Had my surgery 11 hours ago and I had two weeks of liquid diet and it took 3 days to get over hunger pain and sugar withdraw headick. I lost 28 lbs on my liquid diet and I could eat all the weggies I wanted raw or steamed and sugar free popsicle and Jello with crystal light drinks. Good luck and you get there it is so worth it. Look at long term result and you do fine.

Surgery a complete success. Recovering now hope the same for all other. Minor pain but all good. Walking at the hospital home tomorrow

Everything went great with my procedure ... hospital has excelent pain management... i am in sooo little pain... I hope the other two or three persons that had they surgery today are doing great !!

and for those that will have them in the following days , do not worry , everything will be just fine...

Yay! I'm so excited to finally have a date, but it feels so far away at the moment... trying to be happy it's before the holidays.... just thinking how great next spring/summer and on-going will be!

Up and going to wash with the special soap for the 2nd time! Leaving the house in less than an hour! Now it’s all feeling crazy but I know it’s cold feet and so I continue on! Here we go!

Up and going to wash with the special soap for the 2nd time! Leaving the house in less than an hour! Now it’s all feeling crazy but I know it’s cold feet and so I continue on! Here we go!

Up and going to wash with the special soap for the 2nd time! Leaving the house in less than an hour! Now it’s all feeling crazy but I know it’s cold feet and so I continue on! Here we go!

Off to the hospital... my surgery is at 8.00 am too.... had a good 5-6 hours of sleep... nervous and hungry....

Yay! Surgery twin! I’m so ready... check is in 9:00AM CST

I can barely sleep!

I have surgery in the morning and I’m able to drink Water or black coffee up until 30 minutes prior to check-in.

I also ate a “typical dinner” and didn’t have any liquid diet or anything...

Surgeons are so different! I trust my surgeon and the program I went with... so I’m following his instructions

Tomorrow is surgery day. Starting weight 431 pre surgery after 2 weeks of liquid diet 408
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Officially on the losers' bench! Surgery was at 8 this morning
All went well. Now just dealing with the "too many crunches" abdominal pain. No gas pain as of yet.
Tolerating Water fine. So getting ready to try chicken broth and Jello.

Surgery was oct 3 feeling pretty good some soreness. Down 28 pounds from surgery. As of Monday doc told me soft foods.

I have pre-op today. Not sure what to expect... other than I saw my husband go thru it with a surgery he had at the same hospital... but his was the Day before... I went to my primary doctor 2 weeks ago for my annual and I had lost weight so that’s good. (I don’t have a scale in the house so I don’t weigh myself).

I’m a little nervous. During this whole process I’ve been really sticking to what needs to be done today rather than thinking too much about the surgery so now my mind is all on the surgery! I nearly forgot about this very important day, or it sure feels important.... I’m meeting the surgeon today.

I’m taking 2 weeks because I work at a desk and I do drive to home visits but no real heavy lifting... and to be honest I plan to still put hours in while I’m at home... so my work laptop will be coming home. I just really don’t want to be overwhelmed when I return to work...

If I had a job with lifting I would take more time for sure! My husband’s good friend had a different surgery and he died due to internal bleeding.. his kids said he was still going about living like he hadn’t had an operation. It was very sad.

I do have a 2 yr old son and I’ve been getting him ready for this for a few months now. He now walks everywhere and holds my hand, he will climb into our van and he’ll climb into his seat. He enjoys getting out of the seat too and then jumps out of the van. That was my biggest worry. This last month I’ve been trying to just comfort him by sitting down and I’ll hold him when he needs it. He’s fully transitioned into his own room and bed and hasn’t crawled in with us in a number of weeks. I’m sad about that, but after I recover it won’t matter. I just didn’t want him to experience shock of mama being so different it would frustrate him or something.