My name is Dominique. I am female and almost 52 years old. My vertical sleeve gastrectomy is scheduled for 12/19/2011. Tomorrow are my pre-op blood tests. Wednesday is my pre-op appointment with my surgeon and my pre-op class. Currently I weigh 228 pounds. My highest was 236 pounds. My BMI is 38.6. I have diabetes, high-blood pressure, sleep apnea and GERD. My surgeon is Scott Cunneen. My surgery will be at Cedars-Sinai. Now that the date is nearing, I am going through depression, euphoria, excitement and nausea. Sometimes I feel so calm about it, then I have a panic attack. But I am still determined to go through with it!

One thing that I have not seen mentioned is alcohol. When I revealed how much I drank, the social worker made me go to AA. I even had to get a form filled out (like when people get DUIs and have to present a form to the courts). I knew I would have to quit for the surgery and at least a year after. I was very pissed that the social worker was forcing me into AA. But now that I have gone for a little over 3 months, I'm glad she did it. I don't think I could have quit by myself after all. This of course delayed my surgery a few weeks, but I'm grateful to be sober too and can't wait for my surgery!

Good Luck! I hope you decide to stay sober once even when you have the year behind you. Alcohol has alot of empty calories and I have heard of several people who sabotaged their weight loss with alcohol...

Welcome to the forums, Dominique! We are so glad to have you join us. What wonderful accomplishments you have already achieved. You are taking amazing steps towards a new and healthier you, and you will be so proud of what you achieve and how you feel. We look forwarding to following you through this journey.

:welcome: hi dominique. my goodness congrats on taking on 2 very important steps. a little bit of a drinking problem, sounds like you're off to a great start on that. :welldoneclap: now comes the WLS, we all have that dreadful weight problem in common, so we can all relate to our situation. This forum is great, ask us all anything you want.

All the emotional feelings you are going through, are very common. Personally,i'm scared, anxious, but mainly very excited looking forward to my new, and healthy new life :thumbup: .

BTW our weights are similar. i weigh 235 and need to get down to 145. I'm 58 and you're 52 right?!

"Do or do not, there is no try"

you'll do great - kathy :aureola:

Thanks all! Yes, I plan to stay sober (one day at a time!).