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Whew!

I did not check my mobile phone messages yesterday afternoon until this morning - and lo and behold the surgery coordinator had left four messages telling me they have to reschedule my monday morning surgery. I went in for my hospital run dow appointment this morning, had another blood draw, an ekg, and they gave me my pre-sugery soap and stopped by after - thank goodness it will be the same day, just in the afternoon rather than the early, early morning.

It is so funny how fixated I have become on the date of May 21st - we even clump together in our support group meetings, those of us who get our surgeries on the same date. I am glad I am still May 21 haha.

And an update on my husband - who had his VSG and hiatal hernia repaired last tuesday morning - he is doing great! He was even out mowing the lawn on Friday. I feel so much more relaxed after helping him with his surgery. I know that not everyone has the same experience, but I am keeping my fingers crossed that my procedure and recovery will be as silky smooth as his has been.

He feels no physical hunger - only a bit of head hunger - he is very bored with only liquids with two more weeks of liquids to go. I will soon feel the same pain - our surgeon wants us low fat, atkins induction style (less than 20g carbs - 100+ g of protein) the three weeks prior to surgery - with the day before surgery all Clear Liquids.

4 days to go - what a journey :)

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  • Thanks Pookeyism - I was pretty surprised that my husband did it as well. His sister had a Roux 2 years ago and it changed everything for the better, she's now lost about 150 lbs., feels great and has

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Good to see all is progressing well - I can't imagine my Hubby agreeing to the surgery - literally would never happen.

I didn't call it adkins but that is similar to what I am trying to follow now.

4 days! wow! you are going to look back at all of this and just be amazed - and I am talking about 4 months, I wonder how it will be in a year or more!

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Thanks Pookeyism - I was pretty surprised that my husband did it as well. His sister had a Roux 2 years ago and it changed everything for the better, she's now lost about 150 lbs., feels great and has no complications - that fact sent our family to a seminar and we were blown away by the statistics - especially when my surgeon said that if our BMI were over 40 we had a higher mortality rate if we sat in the chair and did nothing as opposed to having WL surgery.

That started the ball rolling :)

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