I went to the hospital where I will have my surgery yesterday to pay the rest of my hospital and anesthesiologist fees and get my blood draw done. I am 12 days out from surgery and it is really REAL now! I have to do one week of liquid diet but I started a modified version of it today. So far, so good but I know it will get hard at some point! I think I have pretty much everything I need for the hospital and for when I come home. (ANY SUGGESTIONS ARE MORE THAN WELCOME! I would love to hear about anything that was super helpful to you immediately post op especially).

I just want to say how grateful I am to have all of you here for support and answers and I know I will feel that way even more when I am on the other side of surgery. I hope to have a positive, smooth recovery and rock my sleeve! It means so much to know there are always people here who know exactly what you are going through.

I have decided to do a video blog on YouTube so I will post the link to my channel when I put up my first video - would love to have you all subscribe and give me feedback along my journey. Also have to do my measurements and take some more "before" photos that i know I will want to have later.......what else should I do?

There is a helpful post pinned in the pre op section that is all about what to take and everyone throwing in suggestions of what helped and what was a waste of space. Check it out! I didn't use a LOT of stuff I took. I only took one backpack full of stuff, but was too sleepy the whole first day to care about anything. Everyone's different though.

Yeah! Go you! I look forward to seeing your video blog (vlog).

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