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CRose_RNY    2

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It's been 11 long months and... I got my letter from insurance today! I'm so excited and nervous but I have been waiting for so long. Now that it's real and going to happen a little over two weeks OMG YAY! I have watched hundreds of videos, read even more blogs/posts and now I feel like I need to get everything this week... So with that being said, I could use some guidance...

Let me know what you took to the hospital or how you prepared yourself after finding out you got approved (or just anything you think would be helpful) :D

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frust8    963

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There are multiple postings about this subject on this web site. I could Tell you what I plan to take. Chapstick, you will be as dry as Death Valley and your lips might crack. Mine probably will anyway I have a habit of chewing them or licking excessively when I feel stressed. Biotene, it's a mouth moisturizer. Phone, charger and maybe tablet. The same charger works on both of them. Jammie bottoms or fleece pants, you tend to wear their gowns on your upper half because of tubes, wires or IV. Also I don't want them breaking out into a chorus of Moon over Miami every time I go sauntering by. My Bari Bear, I need a little friend to "splint" my sore little tummy when I sneeze or cough. I'm sure I will because I have asthma, I remember when I had my gallbladder out in the bad old days when everything was open incisions, I took Chickie, one of my kid's stuffed pillow friends, I even walked around clutching him to my sore abdomen. Most people had subcostal incisions, right under their right ribcage, well not me. I have a right paramedisn, 5 inch scar starting 2 inches above my belly button and going 3 inches below. My father the year before had abdominal surgery, he had what is called an arterioveinos malformation, There weren't capillaries between the arteries and veins in a portion of his colon, kept breaking open and he was bleeding from there. Lost about 6 inches of bowel. So my surgeon wanted to make sure I hadn't inherited it so he opened me up that way and also took,out my appendix. Some comfortable slippers, although one person on here bought cheap ones and threw them away before she went home. books, a few paperbacks I haven't read. Soap because I have sensitive skin. That's pretty much it.

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frust8    963

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Chance you were pretty both ways but I bet you're proud of the picture on the right. How high was your weight prior to surgery? I'm currently 323 down from 355, my dream is to be a 15-16 from the 26W I am now.

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2 hours ago, CRose_RNY said:

It's been 11 long months and... I got my letter from insurance today! I'm so excited and nervous but I have been waiting for so long. Now that it's real and going to happen a little over two weeks OMG YAY! I have watched hundreds of videos, read even more blogs/posts and now I feel like I need to get everything this week... So with that being said, I could use some guidance...

Let me know what you took to the hospital or how you prepared yourself after finding out you got approved (or just anything you think would be helpful) :D

Dang that's right around the old corner. Mine's on March 12th. They tell you bring comfortable, lose fitting clothing. I hate those hospital gowns to I am going to pack two pair of sweats and some tees.

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chancyprowell    12

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Frust8 my height weight was 360 I was a size 28W now I’m 220 and a size 14 I am 5’8’’ My goal was a size 16 but I now have a new goal. I want to hit onederland. I have worked my butt off and don’t you guys ever let anyone tell you that you took the easy way out this is way harder Both mentally and physically! I’m so happy for you guys! Your about to get your lives back! I didn’t realize till after surgery that I had but the pause button and was just watching my life instead of living it.

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      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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      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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        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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