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Im still out quite a bit, October. Anyhows to the people who have gone did he send you one, or one of the coordinators? How far in advance did you get it?

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The coordinator sent it as soon as I booked. It is a two week prior diet.

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Hmmm. I havent got one...Thank you!

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I am also scheduled for Oct. ( 25th) With Dr Lopez. My coordinator is Janese with Alighterme. Who is your coordinator? She told me as soon as she has Sept patients taken care of she would be sending my info.

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I have have Janese too, I feel like im always bothering her. She said I will get it when she send me paperwork? Im using Garcia on the 25th.

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If I'm not mistaken I believe the doctors are at the same hospital.

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I have Dr Garcia on the 10th of sept with ready 4a change. My coordinator Alma sent the entire package even before I scheduled my surgery.

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Via regular mail you mean?

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I have Dr Garcia on the 10th of sept with ready 4a change. My coordinator alma sent the entire package even before I scheduled my surgery.

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Same here I'm using Dr Garcia 10/10 and my coordinator(Alma) sent me everything before I even booked as well.

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i am booked for dr garcia on 9/20/12 i recieve my packet from alma befor i booked. it say 7-14 day preop diet. i chose to do the 14 days of 1 protien shake for Breakfast and 1 for lunch and then a salad and a protien (chicken, egg··· ) for dinner. im on day 3 and so far so good. i changed it up a little though for dinner i've had campbels Soup.< /p>

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Well its seems Alma rocks!

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Yes I was told this exactly by Janese. Thank you. Im just being a nervous nelly and dont want to mess anything up!

I am also scheduled for Oct. ( 25th) With Dr Lopez. My coordinator is Janese with Alighterme. Who is your coordinator? She told me as soon as she has Sept patients taken care of she would be sending my info.

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I am scheduled with Dr Garcia Nov 5th and my coordinators said I only needed a 5 day prep. I was thinking I would do the whole 14 day prep anyway though. It can't hurt to be a little lighter before surgery. Have you guys started exercising? I was wondering if cardio or weights was more important pre surgery. People keep saying it will help with recovery. Just wondering if it was referring to strength (weights) or stamina (cardio). Likely I should do both, but I currently have nerve troubles and my right arm/leg go numb when I work out, so not sure I could get both done at the same time.

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Its weird how the different coordinators for the same doctors give different pre op instruction.

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yeah that is weird! 5 day preop would be awesome! im on my 5th day today, and if that was the case then i would have flew through the 5 day preop diet with out the complaints! really though, the preop diet hasnt been to bad, i think im handling the protien shakes better then i thought i would! Im really wonder what Garcia has in store for my post op diet! In my packet it just says 2 weeks of liquids/soft foods e.i. sugar free pudding/jello, thin soups... but i dont know whats after the 2 weeks...

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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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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      1. summerseeker

        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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