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stafhill    12

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Hello my fellow nurses and future nurses. I'm 24 and I've been an RN for about a year and a half..and I love it! I'm in the process of getting sleeved soon..possibly late april.I have my psych evaluation for insurance approval on Tuesday this week. I'm getting very nervous..because ofcourse I find myself reading all about the complications forum. Anyone from the south texas area? I hope I won't regret this life changing decision..

Hey I was sleeved on march 20; doing great; just hang in there it will come very quick; I live in Corpus Christi

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donewithdieting    44

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Do any of my fellow nurses just want to have all our overweight patients know about the sleeve and how it can help them? Boy is it tough not to share. Linda

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ldietrich    13

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Hi my name is Larry and I'm a Registered Nurse in dialysis for the las 15 years. I'm actually having my surgery tomorrow at 7:30am. I was actually convinced to do the procedure after several of my patients had bypass to get on the transplant list. This will be my first hospitalization and surgery ever, no I'm a little nervous hut ready at the same time. My surgeon bases on my BMI on requires me to be NPO after midnight and hopefully just an overnight stay in the hospital. My pre-op consisted of upper GI, abdominal US, echocardiogram, EKG, CXR and about 11 tubes of blood. He said everything looked great so that's good. I will keep you posted.

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Bowgirl    19

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Do any of my fellow nurses just want to have all our overweight patients know about the sleeve and how it can help them? Boy is it tough not to share. Linda

I want to tell complete strangers that I see out in public about it. I am only 19 days post op so I will probably wait a little longer before I start talking about it.

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Bowgirl    19

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Hi my name is Larry and I'm a Registered Nurse in dialysis for the las 15 years. I'm actually having my surgery tomorrow at 7:30am. I was actually convinced to do the procedure after several of my patients had bypass to get on the transplant list. This will be my first hospitalization and surgery ever' date=' no I'm a little nervous hut ready at the same time. My surgeon bases on my BMI on requires me to be NPO after midnight and hopefully just an overnight stay in the hospital. My pre-op consisted of upper GI, abdominal US, echocardiogram, EKG, CXR and about 11 tubes of blood. He said everything looked great so that's good. I will keep you posted.[/quote']

Good luck. I had my surgery march 6. I am finally starting to feel normal again. Let us know how it turns out!

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MichiganChic    3,262

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Hi my name is Larry and I'm a Registered Nurse in dialysis for the las 15 years. I'm actually having my surgery tomorrow at 7:30am. I was actually convinced to do the procedure after several of my patients had bypass to get on the transplant list. This will be my first hospitalization and surgery ever, no I'm a little nervous hut ready at the same time. My surgeon bases on my BMI on requires me to be NPO after midnight and hopefully just an overnight stay in the hospital. My pre-op consisted of upper GI, abdominal US, echocardiogram, EKG, CXR and about 11 tubes of blood. He said everything looked great so that's good. I will keep you posted.

Hi Larry, good luck tomorrow! Let us know how you do.

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Bowgirl    19

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How long was your hospital stay?

I had mine done in Mexico because my bmi wasn't high enough for insurance to pay. I had the surgery on a Wednesday night and left the hospital Friday at 1 pm in the afternoon. I then stayed in a hotel Friday night and flew home on Saturday. I was worried about post surgical complications since my Dr was located in Mexico. So far my only complication is a hematoma where the largest incision was.

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ldietrich    13

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Oh we'll that's good, glad all is well post op. they told me if all goes well I will just be in overnight.

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LMFAO575    112

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Surgery is at 7:30 am so as soon as I'm alert and oriented I will post.

Best wishes!!!

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