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I will be getting surgery April 5, 2013 can't wait. I started losing weight now and can't wait to get the surgery done...

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I am having mine on April 9th!!! Good luck to you and keep me updated, as I will you!!

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I'm April 5th also! Going to Cancun. How about you?

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Where are you having it?

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I will have the surgery in Burlington, Vermont. Tomorrow is my last check in at the Dr. before the scheduled date.

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I will have the surgery in Burlington' date=' Vermont. Tomorrow is my last check in at the Dr. before the scheduled date.[/quote']

Tomorrow is the day! Good luck to all the April 5 th-ers out there!

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Hey guys

2moro is the big day I am so nervous, have to be at the hospital at 8am. For those of you who date is 2moro I wish you a safe surgery and recovery.

We should keep In touch since we are starting this journey together. My email is joan25@live.com.

Good luck guys..

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I am scheduled for April 5th as well.--Rick

I am doing it in New York City st Luke's hospital..

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I am doing it in New York City st Luke's hospital..

How are u feeling

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Joan, I'm interested to know how things are going for you. I'm 5 days behind you. This is definitely not easy for me.

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I had my surgery on April 9th.

I stayed one night, was a bit nautious my first day, throwing up after a piece of ice. That was painful! That subsided and I did well. Up and walking and out the next day.

Home now, starting to get twinges of gas pain in my left shoulder. I have been up walking around.

I get pain in my lower chest/upper stomach when I take me meds. Maybe it is aggrevating my stomach?. I do get ulcer type pain, a pain in my stomach that gets intense and then goes away for no reason. I also have had a pretty good headache since I have been on my liquid diet. I'm attributing it to lack of caffiene.

Other than that, I feel good. Cant wait to see my surgeon on the 17th and get the drain tube out!

How is everyone else doing?

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I had my surgery on April 9th.

I stayed one night' date=' was a bit nautious my first day, throwing up after a piece of ice. That was painful! That subsided and I did well. Up and walking and out the next day.

Home now, starting to get twinges of gas pain in my left shoulder. I have been up walking around.

I get pain in my lower chest/upper stomach when I take me meds. Maybe it is aggrevating my stomach?. I do get ulcer type pain, a pain in my stomach that gets intense and then goes away for no reason. I also have had a pretty good headache since I have been on my liquid diet. I'm attributing it to lack of caffiene.

Other than that, I feel good. Cant wait to see my surgeon on the 17th and get the drain tube out!

How is everyone else doing?[/quote']

I had horrible cramping like pains in my stomach after taking meds. Even through the IV they went straight to my stomach weird huh? You might get those for awhile. I just took a deep breath and let it out slow. They have gone now I'm about 2 1/2 weeks out now :-)

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Hey Angie. I'm one day behind you. Stayed overnight at the hospital and was discharged the next day. As long as I'm taking the pain meds, I'm pretty good. But, if the med wears off, then I get this overwhelming nauseousness. Sore getting up and down around the incision areas. Also, haven't tried any Protein yet. I'll try that tomorrow. Getting all my Clear Liquids in has been a challenge but I'm keeping at it. I'm still bloated and haven't gone back to my morning of surgery weight yet. Every hour gets better. I don't have a tube but I can imagine that you are very excited to get that out!

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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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      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.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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