20 mins late to the hospital...

Laying in my pre op "room". sitting here alone balling my eyes out!

Didn't get to say good bye to my baby boy like I wanted to and I'm a wreck!!!

Everything is going to be ok, your baby boy knows you love him. I don't know what kind of phone you have but maybe you can make him a short video saying you love him before you go into the OR. Praying everything goes smoothly for you.

The last time I had surgery (for something else of course). I had to drive myself to the hospital 2 hours away because my husband was sick. It sucked, I was alone until my mom was able to get there.

I could imagine how you feel, I am getting my sleeve in 8/6 and am a ball of nerves. My mind is racing, I wish you luck and just know we are all here to support you in anyway possible.

I'll be headed to the hospital in a few hours!! I'm a bucket of nerves!!!

Think positive, that is what I am doing. It is the "not knowing" that is killing you, That is what I am worried about. Everyone has a different experince, but my feeling is that in the end it is a new life and a new challenge. Great days are ahead Good luck check in when you can

Aaw shame, that is terrible but you are doing it for yourself and your baby so you can have many years ahead. Lots of love and good wishes.

Let us know how you are after.

Good luck to you both, Kailie and Sara. You will be fine! Kailie, just remember you're doing this in part so you can be a happier, more energetic mommy for your little guy. (Making an assumption here, cause its one of my reasons.)

was just discharged from the hospital. had surgery monday and stayed an extra night because I felt poorly. the best advice i can give is that the turn around for me was rapid. Monday and tues day morining were horrible and had push very hard to walk. then tuesday afternoon it eased up but not enough to go home ( if I had lived within an hour i would have left) but voila, just as the surgeon said, for some of us right around the 48 hour mark something changes. For me it was around 40 hours, the gas pain dissipated, i rested better, i took in broth and Jello like they were the best food I have ever eaten then this morning i was ready to go.

I am so thankful to all of you that mentioned how the first day or tow there can be buyer's remorse because I could not beleive what I had done to myself. but now I am fully motivated, happy with the process and as I am waiting at the airport for my flight the number of smells from the eateries are flowing through my nose. a week ago i had not noticed them, now they are intense. yet although my eyes and memory feels a slight pull, i am having no problem ignoring them.

For those of you needed a self pay option and live near chalotte NC give dr. heider a consideration, not as cheap as going to Mexico but the most reasonable I found in the east coast, much cheaper than BARIX and only slightly more than the numbers i see in Houston/DAllas. But more important, excellent care and concern.

Interesting sidelight, I am a true purple RAvens fan and i had my going home tshirt. my doctor is apparently a die hard steelers fan.

Welcome to the loser side!!

was just discharged from the hospital. had surgery monday and stayed an extra night because I felt poorly. the best advice i can give is that the turn around for me was rapid. Monday and tues day morining were horrible and had push very hard to walk. then tuesday afternoon it eased up but not enough to go home ( if I had lived within an hour i would have left) but voila, just as the surgeon said, for some of us right around the 48 hour mark something changes. For me it was around 40 hours, the gas pain dissipated, i rested better, i took in broth and Jello like they were the best food I have ever eaten then this morning i was ready to go.

I am so thankful to all of you that mentioned how the first day or tow there can be buyer's remorse because I could not beleive what I had done to myself. but now I am fully motivated, happy with the process and as I am waiting at the airport for my flight the number of smells from the eateries are flowing through my nose. a week ago i had not noticed them, now they are intense. yet although my eyes and memory feels a slight pull, i am having no problem ignoring them.

For those of you needed a self pay option and live near chalotte NC give dr. heider a consideration, not as cheap as going to Mexico but the most reasonable I found in the east coast, much cheaper than BARIX and only slightly more than the numbers i see in Houston/DAllas. But more important, excellent care and concern.

Interesting sidelight, I am a true purple RAvens fan and i had my going home tshirt. my doctor is apparently a die hard steelers fan.

Thanks for hijacking my thread...

Thanks for hijacking my thread...

Total hijacking

I was thinking about you, hope you are healing well.

I dont think she was hijacking. she was giving you her experience to make you feel better. I thought it was sweet.

if the hijacking is refering to my post; most sorry. i am old and simply participating in these settings is a tour de force for me. i had not even known a thread could be highjacked or why it would matter since these things are so ephemeral anyway, in a week they are outdated.

Eeeewwww. She was giving support and you make nasty comment? I thought that we are all here for the same goal.... Support

I appreciated your post aliecat