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I am so excited and freaked out at the same time :)) I will be in San Diego on the sixth and surgery on the seventh.

Are you traveling alone or is someone coming with you?

I fly in on 7th and surgery on the 8th. Like you i am excited and freaked all in one!

When do you start your pre-op diet?

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Just left my last preop counseling appointment and I'm waiting to get my preop blood work done!!! Aaaaaahhhhhh im excited!!! Finally less than a month away (jan 13). Only lost 5 lbs - but losing is losing nonetheless (losing in a good way :-))

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So excited for all of us :)

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Gonna start a blog on youtube and will post a link

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Hi all! I have been approved but won't get a date till next Friday. Surgery coordinator said I'm looking at second week of January!

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Newly posting, reading & enjoying for awhile. Cigna insurance approval received. Surgery date January 20th & the waiting is hard but exciting. Love this community so much. Surgery at NMH in Chicago with Dr. E. Hungness. Happy to know I'm not alone.

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I'm so excited! I'm getting sleeved January 20 by Dr. alejandro lopez in Tijuana, Mexico! He operates out of Hospital MI Doctor if anyone else is going to be there! Let's meet up!

Hello, I get sleeved by him on the 21st of Jan. So, we can certainly meet up. I live in Cinti but will fly to San Diego on the 20th

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Not to discourage you, while in the phone with a consultant or whoever arranges everything they told me that Dr. Lopez leaves a tube in your stomach and you go back to the motel and the next day his assistant cones to the motel to remove it, also my cousin has done a lot of research she also did hers in Mexico but paid twice as much with the top Doctor. Dr. Lopez fits in as many surgeries in one day as he can and when you're done he's done and that's scary he also don't have the qualities of the two doctors in the same practice as him. If you can change your doctor please do and go with Cabrrera however it's spelled.

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Its alright for someone to give info but I don't think its fair to say to go to another specific Dr. There are lots of those in tj

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Not to discourage you, while in the phone with a consultant or whoever arranges everything they told me that Dr. Lopez leaves a tube in your stomach and you go back to the motel and the next day his assistant cones to the motel to remove it, also my cousin has done a lot of research she also did hers in Mexico but paid twice as much with the top Doctor. Dr. Lopez fits in as many surgeries in one day as he can and when you're done he's done and that's scary he also don't have the qualities of the two doctors in the same practice as him. If you can change your doctor please do and go with Cabrrera however it's spelled.

It's normal to leave a drain in. I've been told Dr. Lopez does a max of 4 surgeries a day. You spend 2 nights in the hospital and 2 at the hotel. I also have done tons of research and nothing of what you have written has changed my mind.

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    • Alisa_S

      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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    • Alisa_S

      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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