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I start my liquid diet tomorrow and my surgery is May 11th!!! I'm so excited. The nurse at the hospital said a guy wan't allowed to stay over night with me at the hospital. Does that mean my husband wouldn't be allowed? I'm having a friend stay with me anyway so my husband can go to work the next day. Hopefully they'll allow her to stay.

I'm surprised your staying over night...I was told I was out the same day. I'm on day 5 of my pre-op diet and already losst 10 lbs, doh!

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some insurance carriers require different stays. my insurance requires that i am in the hospital for 23 hours, so it looks like i might be overnight as well. we'll see.

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I will be banded tomarrow also and I'm scared too. Good luck and we'll talk after we are feeling better.

I bought the magic bullet and I love it!

May 4 here we come. I'm scared out of my mind

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I bought the magic bullet last weekend.......lets hope it does well with a Protein Shake, havent tried that yet.

First thing I tried to make in it was chocolate mousse...lol(sugar free of course)

My surgery is May 24th!!

Magic bullet is awesome!!! I have made shakes in it and it blends it fine.

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I'm surprised your staying over night...I was told I was out the same day. I'm on day 5 of my pre-op diet and already losst 10 lbs, doh!

I've been talking with a friend who had her surgery done by my Dr. and the same place. She told me I won't even be able to have ice chips or anything until the next day. I guess they make you stay over cuz they do the xray the next day to check your port and see if its leaking. My surgery is at 8:45am so it's going to be a long day. She said they'll probably discharge me the next day by 10am the latest. My mom had hers done at a different hospital and she had ice chips the day of and she went home a few hours after her surgery. I'm really not looking forward to staying. I know they'll give me a morphine pump that I'll be able to control myself. :)

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I kinda hope they make me stay. that way, if there is any problem, they can hopefully find it right away and I won't have to make a special trip back to the hospital whilst in pain.

I have to be at the hospital in just over 12 hours from now....KRIKEY!!!!:blink::P

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Surgery is a week from today for me! Just had my final weigh in and lost a total of 24 lbs! Yay! Starting to get nervous now though. It's finally starting to feel real. Good luck to everyone getting there's this week!

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I kinda hope they make me stay. that way, if there is any problem, they can hopefully find it right away and I won't have to make a special trip back to the hospital whilst in pain.

I have to be at the hospital in just over 12 hours from now....KRIKEY!!!!:blink::P

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Hi everyone I got banded this morning..the incisions look great...but my left shoulder is throbbing..I walked 10 laps on the hospital floor..my shoulder hurts w0rse than anything..I am drinking crystal light

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Just seeing if anyone else is being banded in May. Our time is coming quickly and before we know it, it will be here.

I am having mine done on May 12th....Day 2 of my 10 day liquid diet with a horrific headache :( I was reading some of these and wonder why the pre op diets vary so much. I would love to have just a 3 day diet!

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Hey, the shoulder should feel better in a day or 2, that's actually from the gas that they use to "inflate" your stomache cavity to allow more space. They had to do that with one of my surgeries and it is painful but it does usually go away pretty soon.

Congrats and good luck!

Hi everyone I got banded this morning..the incisions look great...but my left shoulder is throbbing..I walked 10 laps on the hospital floor..my shoulder hurts w0rse than anything..I am drinking crystal light

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      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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