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Thanks everyone!!!! Very helpful! Especially the heating pad-wouldn't have thought of that one!

Too funny!!!!!!

Wow!! Rockstar!

Deodorant, no-rinse facewash (micellar Water in my case), biotene dry mouth spray, phone and charger, ipad, movies/tv shows you don't have to pay attention to downloaded, non-slip slippers... one thing I didn't bring but realized I should have was a heating pad. Nurses brought me warmed blankets for my belly, but in that situation you're at the mercy of how busy they are. having heat and weight on my belly helped soooo much! honestly, that's it.

The hospital I'm at is super restrictive so what I'm gonna do is bring two bags: first, a duffle bag full of condoms, sex toys, and whiskey shot packets so when they look in the second bag, stuff I actually want to bring, they'll be like.. well this isn't half as bad. I think it would satisfy the intake nurses of their desire to have power over someone to be able to tell me no to the duffle bag, but not fight with me afterwards about the phone, tablet, pillow, anti-fart strips, etc.

Hi, these are all from past posts
Your own pillow, slippers, pj bottoms, phone and charger, chapstick, gas-x, moisturizer, baby wipes for before your shower, something to read, CPAC machine, comfortable clothes for ride home,
I'm bringing my own organic chicken broth because the hospitals broth is a bouillon cube which made me gag after my gallbladder operation:)

I highly recommend a small pillow to hold against you when you gag or cough or anything. I didn't use much of anything else because I was in pain so I slept and walked and went back to sleep. I brought:
charger phone small pillow deoderant pj pants and large shirt 2 dresses (moomoos) toothbrush and tooth paste baby powder that was all i brought and i didnt do anything but brush my teeth

I'm bringing a crochet project just in case I get bored.
Fitbit fully charged, iphone and charger, Pre-op book, the lung tool, change of clothes, shoes, I can't think of anything else.

Hahahahaha. This is hilarious! Set the expectations right from the start!

Thank you! You're so close! Good luck!

Monday, April 3rd!!!!!! Yikes!

I am having a sleeve on Monday! Preop diet is rough for the first couple of days, after that, it gets much easier! Good luck!!!!

I literally have told everyone. I'm not ashamed of taking control of my life and maybe it'll help someone because they may want it and can ask me questions. I didn't wanna have to keep up with lies, either and it's pretty obvious in most cases anyway, especially since I'm in the medical field. Each their own, though!