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armywife1129    0

armywife1129
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So I wake up at 1 am with a stuffy nose and a somewhat sore throat. I feel the cold coming on and my surgery is tomorrow. Today I am on my no Protein or bars just Clear Liquids because tomorrow morning is my surgery. Im very upset that im getting sick now. I have been on a 2 week liquid diet that was extremly hard on me and I dont want to postpone this surgery because im going to have to extend the liquid diet and whats worse is my mom and sister both took time off that they put in for a long time ago for my surgery. They wont be able to change the days they took off since it starts tomorrow and I wont have anyone to take my 3 year old son to school or help me with him during recovery. Any suggestions? i cant take any meds today, my diet today consists of clear liquids and lime Jello ONLY and nothing after midnight tonight. Idk what to do, im going to call my doctor when they open in 3 hours but I wish they would have done the surgery today so that tomorrow im not more sick , cause my colds barely coming on i want to fight it off before it gets worse, or do the surgery before it gets bad. Any suggestions?

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JAM2YOU    2

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Be honest with your doctor today because if you get in there tomorrow and you have a fever or your pressure is elevated from being sick or you're showing signs of being sick they won't do the surgery. I was banded a few weeks ago and picked up bronchitis somehow during the surgery/recovery time and believe me it was no picnic with the condition of my throat and coughing with stitches and not being able to drink for the first 24hours. I know the liquid diet stage is no party but you are leaving your system very suseptable to getting a worse infection when you're going in with one. I was not allowed any fluids the first 24 hours and had an overnight stay and had to beg the dr. to get me a bottle of chloroseptic because my throat was completely shut off. My first 24 hours were terrible, not because of the actual surgery but because of the infection. Good luck!!

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JourneyGirl    10

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I understand the worry. My husband had the flu a few days before my surgery. I left the house with the kids and stayed at a friends! lol Not that your oncoming cold is funny, it isn't.

I would just call your doctor like you said and tell him what is going on. It may not be a big deal at all, and you may be able to take something for it now. Good luck! Let us know how it goes. Praying for this cold to leave and you to become a bandster tomorrow!!!

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54Shirley    105

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You have to let them know, maybe he will phone in a liquid antibiotic for you, or even regular antibiotics.

I know I was on Medicine went I went in for surgery, and it was know big deal for him.

Let them know.

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ElizabethNYC    1

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I would definitely call your doctor and let him know, maybe he wont postpone! Good luck and let us know what happens.

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dragonflies    7

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I ended up getting brochitis a few days before my surgery and I had to reschedule. Guess I'd rather wait for the cough to go away completely than to be coughing after the surgery. Surely that would not feel very good! Hope everything works out for you!

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armywife1129    0

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Well the days been going and I'm starting to believe it's allergies and sinus rather than a cold my throat went away with a halls that my doc said I can take and they did advice if I had an upper respitory or infection they will postpone it two weeks. Which means starting my two week liquid diet OVER no babysitter for my son and no one to help me thru recovery. So I am going to go in tomorrow morning hoping it's only allergies cause they did say allergies are no problem. I have no phlegm or cough just some sneezing and some mucus in my nose.

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54Shirley    105

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That sounds better.

Good Health to you, and we will see you when your banded!:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

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armywife1129    0

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Thanks :) I'm hoping they don't call it a cold because just sneezing an a somewhat running nose don't feel like a cold to me anymore. Once the sore throat went away I started feeling better. Hope all goes well tomorrow I'm going to be a nervous wreck until then

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ErinMarie    186

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Here's hoping its just allergies! Good luck tomorrow!

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54Shirley    105

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Thanks :) I'm hoping they don't call it a cold because just sneezing an a somewhat running nose don't feel like a cold to me anymore. Once the sore throat went away I started feeling better. Hope all goes well tomorrow I'm going to be a nervous wreck until then

Just feel better, and you'll do fine.

If you have to, go out and by one of those allergy sprays for the nose. My husband has one and it works.

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ElizabethNYC    1

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Hope everything went forward today!!! Let us know.

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isit5yet    37

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Congrats!!

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phatgirl 2011    1

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Congratulations on getting Banded!!! how do ya feel??!?!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      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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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      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.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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