Hey I'm currently pre op only 5 days away. I'm having mine at Mercy with Dr. Lufti. I'm very nervous and excited about it. Mostly scared about the pain and recovery as I have to start student-teaching in late January. Yikes. My surgery was originally scheduled for October 14th, but got rescheduled due to issues with my WBC. But finally I'm here.

Anybody else getting sleeved soon in Chicago? Or recently sleeved?

Hola from the NW side. I'm not a recent sleeve, it's been 7 months. Good luck with yours. I had a really easy recovery, didn't need to use the pain meds they sent me home with, and was back at work within a week. I'm sure you'll be fine!

Hola from the NW side. I'm not a recent sleeve, it's been 7 months. Good luck with yours. I had a really easy recovery, didn't need to use the pain meds they sent me home with, and was back at work within a week. I'm sure you'll be fine!

Hola! Luckily I'm off for the next three weeks, so I should be okay. Where did you have your procedure? How long were you in the hospital?

Northwestern with Dr. Hungness. Northwestern keeps everyone in the hospital for two days. You get a private room though. Mostly I took laps around the hospital wing and watched reruns of Bones and Castle.

I had my sleeve at Loyola University Medical Center almost a year ago 12/23/2013......went home on Christmas Day. My recovery has been textbook, my weight loss slow. So far I have gone from 235 to 170, which is more than I have ever or could have done on my own. My goal is 135, which was my healthiest adult weight, but I would feel good at 150.

Since I am retired, I did not have to worry about getting back to work. From your picture, it looks like you have the advantage of youth. The hardest part about my journey was the pre-op waiting and waiting and waiting for the process to move along. If you have no complications, you may still feel kinda cruddy for the first couple of weeks. As the pounds fall off, you will feel better and better. You have many non-scale victories (NSVs) to look forward to. I wish you good luck and good health.

PS, I am a little familiar with Mercy Hospital, such as it was in 1992. I supervised housekeepers for about a year until a foot injury caused me to find a sit down job. I remember there being a convent on the 14th floor, and I had been on the roof once at night to view the skyline. My territory was the basement levels with the offices and morgue, the lobby, the ER and clinics.

Oh, I just remembered this about Mercy Hospital: There is a sub-basement with an old boiler room and bathroom. You have to go down some submarine steps to get to it, and the boilers down there sound the Humphry Bogart's old steam powered boat in The African Queen movie with Catherine Hepburn. Man, that was really creepy to go down there.

I love your quote Miss Mac. I'm finally Post Op and things have gone well. I was in ALOT of pain the first several hours but it got more bearable as the day went on. I have to the worst part is the trapped gas in my chest/back, so uncomfortable. But I only stayed one night and I am more than happy to be in my own bed.