melmet42

Thank you for the suggestions! I just ordered the ab binder and sippy cups on Amazon. My surgery is Tuesday next week and I'm starting to get really nervous.

I’m 3 days post op and I will not lie and say it is easy. I’m home after a two night stay and working slowly to get my Fluid intake Back up where it needs to be. I have rather bad nausea and the zofran makes me sleepy. I thought I’d have more energy, but instead have been dozing and then walking a bit after getting up for the restroom. Hoping I’ll feel a bit stronger each day. Cheers to recovery mode!

Very excited to say I passed my nicotine test now I just have 3 months to kill (lol)
before my surgery. But I do have a date.
April 7th 2020
Let these next few months fly bye

For those of you having surgery on Monday, I've been reading that your anxieties are into overdrive. Practice slow deep cleansing breaths and sleep in your most comfortable positions that you know you aren't going to be able to sleep in for awhile. Take a long relaxing bath (because we you are going to be relegated to showers for along while), go get a nice pedicure tomorrow (those include a foot massage), change your sheets and before you leave for the hospital make your bed up nice and pull the covers back (leave a gas-x instead of a mint on the pillow, lol), buy flowers for your room for yourself and a nice card with kind words reminding yourself why you are proud of you!!!! Make a basket of things you need and put it by your bed within your reach, lay comfy loose pajamas on your bed & put your slippers by your bed, put a fresh towel in your bathroom, change your toothbrush just because, get new batteries for your remote controls ( I assume we all will be watching lots of TV in between naps & walks in the house), get a new journal and pens to write, borrow some books and etc...
There's plenty of ideas above to keep you occupied until Monday and you can always pray or meditate, download the calm app or go on YouTube and find the Honest guys, I love the meditations offered :
This is my favorite one, they offer many. Stay busy pre-pampering yourself, because you deserve it.

I am so excited/nervous that I finally have a date! January 21st! It will be at Beaumont Grosse Pointe, MI with Dr. Hawasli and I will be having the VSG performed. Good luck to all my other January surgery buddies

I started seeing my Therapist again in either October or November so that I would be able to have a safe place to share my range of varying emotions. These emotions and feelings can have extreme highs and lows, I want to truly address whatever issues are going to surface and not mask anything during this rodeo.

Well, I had wildly fluctuating emotions before surgery that were all about being nervous about the surgery, ranging from excited to terrified. I was so nervous on the day of the surgery that I almost called it off just before I was being wheeled into the operating room.
I'm guessing that your emotions do have a lot to do with your upcoming surgery, even if you say you are not nervous. You should also be aware that there will be lots of ups and downs after surgery as well. That's where this forum can be really useful, because you'll learn that what you are going through is not unique.

I am so excited/nervous that I finally have a date! January 21st! It will be at Beaumont Grosse Pointe, MI with Dr. Hawasli and I will be having the VSG performed. Good luck to all my other January surgery buddies

I am so excited/nervous that I finally have a date! January 21st! It will be at Beaumont Grosse Pointe, MI with Dr. Hawasli and I will be having the VSG performed. Good luck to all my other January surgery buddies

I had to attend a seminar, prior to being seen by the weight loss doctors, that detailed out what the different surgeries would involve, including pros and cons for each and expectations. A couple items stood out to me for the bypass surgery that I didn't like, which were dumping syndrome and no ibuprofen. I believe dumping can happen with either the bypass or the sleeve, but from what they described it was more common with the bypass.

I had to attend a seminar, prior to being seen by the weight loss doctors, that detailed out what the different surgeries would involve, including pros and cons for each and expectations. A couple items stood out to me for the bypass surgery that I didn't like, which were dumping syndrome and no ibuprofen. I believe dumping can happen with either the bypass or the sleeve, but from what they described it was more common with the bypass.

Oh, great. Now I have one more thing to worry about when I sneeze than peeing all over myself...😁