I'm scheduled for surgery Monday with Dr. Kyack. Has anyone else had their procedure done at South SF Kaiser? If so, how was your experience?

Saw Dr Li and I was able to meet the goal weight!!! He gave me a date - so January 16th! I am excited and nervous. I hope he is really good.

How are you so far? Hope you are doing well...

I'm doing great and I still say Dr. Li is awesome! I cried a lot... And he remained positive throughout. I haven't had any problems, I think he did a great job. I'm well on my way, I was down about 30 pounds at 4 weeks.

I did send him a freaked out email because I thought I had a leak, but then sent another one because I realized I pulled a muscle in my shoulder and he didn't mind.

He's been awesome to work with, Guisellle his nurse is awesome as well. He'll come in the next post op and let you know if you can go home or not, I spent 3 days and 2 nights in the hospital. I was nauseous.

Keep me posted on your progress, and I hope all goes well for you!

Milk of magnesia sucks! But it will for sure clean you out. And don't forget to use the wipes!

I'm doing great and I still say Dr. Li is awesome! I cried a lot... And he remained positive throughout. I haven't had any problems' date=' I think he did a great job. I'm well on my way, I was down about 30 pounds at 4 weeks.

I did send him a freaked out email because I thought I had a leak, but then sent another one because I realized I pulled a muscle in my shoulder and he didn't mind.

He's been awesome to work with, Guisellle his nurse is awesome as well. He'll come in the next post op and let you know if you can go home or not, I spent 3 days and 2 nights in the hospital. I was nauseous.

Keep me posted on your progress, and I hope all goes well for you!

Milk of magnesia sucks! But it will for sure clean you out. And don't forget to use the wipes![/quote']

Thank you for replying! It's nice to have support I am very excited and scared, but that's normal. Just praying that everything will be well with surgery & recovery. Your weight loss is awesome!!! Cant wait to be on the same loser bench, Giselle is awesome! I had to ask her for a medical slip without "bariatric surgery" on the heading/printout and she nicely gave me a generic one. I only told one close friend at work... I'll play it by ear and see how it goes. They saw me losing weight and changing my eating habits for the last 3 mos.hopefully I can keep my privacy, I'll cross the bridge when I get there..keep in touch.

I am having the sleeve done on February 20, 2013. The doctor who will be doing it is Dr Khayat who is very nice. I am 2 weeks away from my surgery and can not wait for the day to come. I want so much to lose weight once and for all. Been heavy most of my life, lots of diets and losses but this last gain brought me to 294 and I said thats it. I will not see 300 if I have to cut my stomach off myself, lol. I am down to 275 with 5 lbs away from the 270 Dr. Khayat wanted me to be. But he said with all my progress he will do the surgery anyway. I love South San Francisco Kaiser they have the best people working for them.

Dr K did my surgery as well. Love him.

Hey sleeve recipients, what is the best things to drink for the first two days after surgery?