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Alumace    53

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Listening to music in my hospital room since I only see food shows. One looked interesting n turned out to be Iron chief. But I'm dealing with gas pains ATM any tips besides walking n heatpac. Perth has crap choice in gas-x type products.

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Schwinngirl1987    21

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My surgery is November 17th . I hope i can deal with this liquid diet until then .

Mine is the 18th, on my third day of the liquid diet and feel tired and weak. Hope it gets easier.

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Alumace    53

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Don't seem to have gas pains anymore. Have a pain in my left side when I'm walking tho. But so far found that I don't need my high blood pressure meds anymore and my insulin dosage is down by 20u.

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Ldimples    73

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My surgery is November 17th . I hope i can deal with this liquid diet until then .

How did you do? Hope you are feeling ok. Give us an update when you can.

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Ldimples    73

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Nov 19th, I started packing today. Ready for this day to be over with. I have a busy day today, so it should fly by. My husband wanted to know if I was staying home from work today, I said no the day would just go by so slow if I had to sit at home and wait. By going to work it'll go by so fast. I have to call the hospital today after 4pm to see what time I have to go in. I hope it is early. I get up early every day anyway. More anxious than nervous right now.

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lovebugg2013    34

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Ldimples I ended up catching a respiratory virus. So surgery was delayed until tomorrow Nov 20th :) How are you doing?

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Ldimples    73

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Surgery went well yesterday. The night was hard. They have you up every two hours to walk, for real. Was nauseous and dizzy from the pain medication. So I stopped taking it. Being nauseous and dizzy was worse than the pain. Going for a upper G.I test in a few and be able to go home by 1pm today. Glad that part is over

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Ldimples    73

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Ldimples I ended up catching a respiratory virus. So surgery was delayed until tomorrow Nov 20th :) How are you doing?

Oh no. That almost happen to me. My son was sick and then I was not feeling well.

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lovebugg2013    34

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It's Thanksgiving guys! I'm 7days post op. I plan on eating peas and unsweetened applesauce for my "dinner". What are you guys going to have today?

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Ldimples    73

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Going back to work tomorrow. Finally starting to feel like myself. It took longer than the 5 days that I thought. I am glad I had took the additional days off. I am down 25lbs. Now the real challenge begins. I feel good about the 25lbs but now I have to make sure I follow the program. Water, Protein and Walking. Everything seems possible when you feel well. Thanks to all your advice and support I made it through this part of the process.

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