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At the airport! Surgery day! I will update post procedure.
SW: 240
CW: 229
GW: 150
BMI: 38
Surgery date: 7/7/17

Gastric sleeve. This seems surreal! I'm one day away from a new life!!

Oh my goodness! I can't sleep! I feel this heightened sense of panic and I am sure it also has to do with the liquid diet today.
I'm sending out good vibes to everyone being sleeved today. Check in when you can!!

I have my consult on the 14th and afaik now, I'm to be sleeved on the 24th.
This forum and site have kept me pretty calm.
I work for my father so luckily I can take all the time I need. I don't plan for anything more than a week though.
Also, my wife is a RN and will be helping me immensely. I am lucky.

Honestly, work has been so busy... I'm trying to tie up as much as possible to prepare for my absence. At home, I've been trying to clean and prep as much as possible. So I've been pretty busy. I start Clear Liquids only Sunday and have my surgery Tuesday, so I'm guessing this weekend is going to be pretty frustrating and anxiety-filled.

... And hungry. Lol.

Hi all! I just created my account. Glad to have a bit of an internet support group.

My sleeve is scheduled for July 11th!

To answer another question, I took off 2.5 weeks. I was going to stick with two as recommended by my surgeon, but decided to take a extra two days so that I'm not coming back to work on a Monday (which is a busy day for us) and getting tossed into a full work week. This way, only working a few days, I can adjust a little better before working a full week.

I was sleeved yesterday with Dr. Ariel Ortiz in Tijuana. I'm amazed at how good I feel. The only thing is that I am extremely tired. Came back to the hotel today and slept most of the day. I will have to force myself to get some broth from the restaurant. I go back to the center tomorrow for the leak test, and then head home on Saturday. I am only planning on taking 3 days off work when I get back. So from surgery start to heading back to work will be one week . Just no heavy lifting, which should not be a problem.

I only took 8 (business) days off too. I figured that with two weekend should be enough. I only was off 3 days after my hysterectomy and I'm figuring this may be similar? But I did fill out my short-term disability in case there was any complications. But my doctor told me most people feel pretty good after a week. But everybody's different and have different pain tolerances.

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I'm a teacher so I go back to work on the 28th. I have heard of people being back in less than a week.

Wow! You're sooo close! And yes! I feel the same way! I have scrubbed and re scrubbed the bathroom, in driving my roommates crazy with my incessant cleaning lol

I am feeling the same as both of you. The 12th can't come fast enough.

I'm with you I too have been keeping real busy. I do a lot of hands on stuff like Painting, crochet, Canning. Helps time really go by. I Canned 20 lbs of potatoes, Veggie Soup and Zucchini Relish all day Wednesday. We didn't do no cookout or go anywhere. Didn't want to smell all that grilled stuff. We just watched movies and ate sugar free Popsicle. LOL The 12th will be here before we know it.

Good luck! I am so excited for you! I hope you are as calm as you can be tonight and that the surgery goes without a hitch!

My surgery is Friday. I'm anxious and nervous and in a state of disbelief. Part of me thinks what am I doing and the other part of me is so excited to see the results. I've NEVER had surgery before so that part is a little nerve wracking!! I've been doing a lot of reading-more positive than anything negative. I've cleaned my house from top to bottom, paid all my bills, etc. I want to make sure everything is in order so that I can focus on healing and getting healthier. Good luck!!

I don't drink soda but I do love kombucha. Because it's a fizzy drink, best to stay away with the sleeve??? Anyone further out in the journey who drink them with no problems? Or shall I say bye already?

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU

i can't begin to explain my gratitude for these posts. That's why I love coming to this site.

I am going to tell people around me, but I don't want all of the Facebook acquaintances in my business! So I'm not joining a FB group either. I hope people still will share how it's going here too.

A few July sleevers must have had surgery by now?. How are you doing?

I just had my endoscopy today. Propofol is not bad. Just feeling a bit tired is all. Good day to start my preop diet, anyway, having to fast for the first part of the day. And 4th of July was my last "old normal" eating day. In forever?
Here's a funny for all my hungry friends out there. I had to laugh. I am on an iPad and I was typing fast and apple autocorrected "preop" to "Oreo" diet. Ha!!

My surgery date is July 10th.

I got my authorization today! This just got really real, you know? I've been working toward this since January, and it's so soon! In three weeks and two days I will be on the other side. Yikes!

July 31st!!!

Have any July 1-4 people come back to the site to check in? I'd love to hear how everyone is doing! I really need the motivation for my July 10th date. So nervous!

I'm a secret sleever too, so I have not joined the FB group. The group is set to private, but not secret. In a secret group you cannot see the members.

Is that the main group for this? Or a July specific one?
I ended up leaving that group as there were too many negative people!
I'd be down for a secret group too

I messaged the admin to see if it can be changed to secret. I'm a secret sleever too. I doubt anyone I know will be searching out sleeve groups, but it would be nice to have that extra assurance.

Hi, there's a private fb group already, but anyone can actually look for it and see the actual members! I just clicked on it and was able to see the names and pics and the ppl that have joined. I'm a "secret sleeved" so I dnt necessarily feel comfortable with joining if, since other ppl can't see the post, but they can see my name and pic of the look under the member section