My surgery is scheduled for tomorrow at 8:00 am (24 hours from now!) I don't know what anyone else's day before surgery looks like, but this is mine:

Protein sake at 7:30 and 10:30

I can't have anything but Clear liquids from lunchtime today until midnight... but NO solid food is allowed today so I will have my last shake at 12:00-12:30 this afternoon.

After I shower normally tonight, I then have to shower with a special soap, which involves turning off the Water and rubbing the soap all over me for 5 minutes before I rinse, after which, no lotions, powders, deodorants, perfumes, etc.

I have to get up at 4 am and do the shower thing a second time.

I have to leave for the hospital at 5 am and check in at 6 am.

Does anyone else have special "day before" instructions?

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Edited January 24, 20179 yr by AGreenEyedWolf

My surgery was 1/17/17, and i could only do clear liquids the entire day before, not Protein drinks. It was a tough day! I had to do the special shower also. When I got to the hospital, they made me wash my stomach with the same stuff again!

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We'll probably be in surgery about the same time. I was supposed to be at the hospital at 5:30 tomorrow but they pushed it back a bit for some reason, so surgery time will likely be around 8:30 a.m. now.

Today is nothing but liquids. Never thought I'd miss a Protein shake so damned bad...lol. Stopped and got myself some Powerade Zero this morning to have something different to drink for the day. I've had to do a clear liquid diet before so I'm not completely unused to it. Doesn't mean I enjoy it, though!

They gave me a soap to wash up with but only instructed me to use it the morning of. Same thing, though - lather up really good and scrub the area well. I'll probably do the same as you and take a shower tonight and another one in the morning.

I was only allowed clear liquids the day before and NOTHING after midnight the night before. That was actually really tough because I couldn't sleep at all, since I was so anxious and I wasn't even allowed water for the entire 6-ish hours I was tossing and turning before heading to the clinic.

24 hours! Woohoo! Good luck Orion and wolf, you are gonna do great! Looking forward to hearing from you both on the others side!

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So glad there are two others on this topic going in tomorrow. I need to report to the hospital at 10 am. I'm jealous of the others who report earlier. I was allowed to have a light Breakfast and a light lunch today (just had Protein shakes) and then only clear liquids until midnight. After that - I'm cut off. Definitely do-able to not drink or eat when I wake up tomorrow but when you are denied, that's when you want it more. Interesting how different surgery instructions can be, both pre-and post-op.

Good luck to Orion and Green-eyed wolf (glad you were able to work things out). Speedy recovery!!

Good luck lacy!

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I had to have three shakes a day for 2 weeks (I actually did 18 days, starting early).

At the time I thought it was very difficultbut it did prepare me for post op !!

Good luck for tomorrow

Kate

Wish everyone the best for tomorrow. I know sleeping is going to be tough tonight. Hoping it won't be too bad.

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