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So in one week is my 3rd appointment with the dietician. I'm assuming that withing like 2 months after that I can start getting surgery. Anyways. I'm wondering what y'alls input is on this. My mom is going to Romania to visit family and such. She invited me to go and I'm kind of wondering if after surgery if I can manage a 12 hour flight and such. Just wondering what y'all think about traveling. If all things work out, then it could possibly be like a month to a month and a half out of surgery. Any advice?

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Depends on how soon after surgery it is. Your chances of blood clots after surgery will already be high and flying will increase that. Talk with your doctor now about it and see if your surgery can be done in enough time to travel.

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flyingsaucer

if it was me (which it isn't) i would postposne the "tentative" date to surgey to make sure WLS is after you come home from great trip.. I do know one person on this board who did absolutely great on her trip through Europe after her sleeve. I just could not do that, seeing all those exotic foods and stuff and smelling them , my mouth is watering.

My choice would be take your last fling on a wonderful once in a world lifetime trip to Europe, then come back to the real world and start your great WLS journey

best wishes

kathy

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I had my surgery this week and planned a trip to Florida at the end of the month and my doctor advise me not to because of the risks of blod clots ( driving about 12 hours)

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I'm three weeks out, and on a weekend trip to San Antonio. I'm telling you now, it is HARD to keep up on necessary fluids and Protein. To be fair, I am still on liquids, but it's been a real challenge. I was at the Alamo yesterday and thought I was going to faint dead away in the middle of it. I could just see myself blacking out and waking up in the hospital. It wasn't pretty. This trip was full of dietary challenges. It's very hard also because you can't take more than 3 oz. of liquid on the plane. :s

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I'm three weeks out, and on a weekend trip to San Antonio. I'm telling you now, it is HARD to keep up on necessary fluids and Protein. To be fair, I am still on liquids, but it's been a real challenge. I was at the Alamo yesterday and thought I was going to faint dead away in the middle of it. I could just see myself blacking out and waking up in the hospital. It wasn't pretty. This trip was full of dietary challenges. It's very hard also because you can't take more than 3 oz. of liquid on the plane. :s

Hope you are enjoying your stay in our beautiful city!!

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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.

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

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