The countdown is on...two and a half hours to be at the hospital.

I'm starving and super excited!!

^{So excited for you!!! :)}

Good luck with your surgery!

Good Luck!

Best of luck! Keep us posted, love!

My surgery was 2 pm.. This is what I wish someone would have told me.

Nothing after midnight last night, right? After surgery, it will continue to be nothing until tomorrow morning. Not even ice chips. You will be on IV so you won't dehydrate, but the inside of your mouth will feel awful. I begged for ice chips. I even told a nurse, "I'll give you $1,000 for ONE ice chip." I couldn't even bribe my husband. But, I did get a little relief. The pre-op nurse who prepped me for surgery was a sleeve patient herself (with my surgeon even). She showed me her before pics. 80 lbs lost in 14 months and she looked like about a size 8. She said her husband got a wash cloth wet and wrung it out good. She put it in her mouth. Wiped out the inside good and just let the cool moisture of the rag make her mouth feel better. So, my hubby did that for me, too. It made it a LOT easier to wait until the next day for a drink.

Good luck! And Happy Birthday! Today is your NEW Birthday!

They have little swabs for that. With my leak I was strict NPO for a month. (absolutely no food, water, ice, etc) and they gave me these little sponges on Popsicle sticks to swab the inside of my mouth. Didn't help me after the first day, but would help in the first day.

As soon as I woke up from my initial sleeve surgery they had me sip water.

They wouldn't let me even have an ice chip until after the upper GI done the next morning to confirm no leaks. Then, they had ice, water, jello, broth all available.

They have little swabs for that. With my leak I was strict NPO for a month. (absolutely no food' date=' water, ice, etc) and they gave me these little sponges on Popsicle sticks to swab the inside of my mouth. Didn't help me after the first day, but would help in the first day.

As soon as I woke up from my initial sleeve surgery they had me sip water.[/quote']

Me too. I had the sponges on a stick, thank god! Later in the day I was allowed ice chips. My surgery was at 930am.