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I’m off to the hospital in about an hour for my surgery. I can’t believe it is finally here. Looking forwarded to the next step in my wls journey.

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I’m off to the hospital in about an hour for my surgery. I can’t believe it is finally here. Looking forwarded to the next step in my wls journey.


Best of luck to you for a quick recovery!! I’ll be in the same place in 12 days. [emoji4]


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Congrats! So excited for you!

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LLG1981 how did your surgery go? Now that you're on the other side of surgery how are you feeling? Please update us as soon as you feel good enough, Okay?[emoji14][emoji171][emoji14]

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Thanks everyone for the well wishes. Yesterday I was very sick from the anesthesia and the gas pain was excruciating. I couldn’t keep anything down but forced myself to walk which started helping with the gas pains. I was pacing the hallways at 1am and was finally able to get some sleep around 2. This morning I had an upper GI test done to make sure I didnt have any leaks and happy to report all is well. It’s still a struggle to drink as my throat is very sore from the breathing tube but I feel 200x better. I took a shower which also helped breathe some life back into me. The worst seems to have passed but still have some gas which now is just slightly uncomfortable. I am lucky that that is the only
pain I have as everything else seems to be healing nicely.


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Congratulations! Glad you are feeling better

HELLO to the new you!

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Wonderful, I just had a feeling things were going to go pretty good for you, glad to hear my but instincts were correct. My guts haven't always been right, maybe that's why I want them renovated? But keeping doing the right things at the right times and for the right reasons and you'll do great [emoji14]

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Wonderful, I just had a feeling things were going to go pretty good for you, glad to hear my but instincts were correct. My guts haven't always been right, maybe that's why I want them renovated? But keeping doing the right things at the right times and for the right reasons and you'll do great [emoji14]

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Thank you Frust8. I appreciate the vote of confidence!


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Thanks everyone for the well wishes. Yesterday I was very sick from the anesthesia and the gas pain was excruciating. I couldn’t keep anything down but forced myself to walk which started helping with the gas pains. I was pacing the hallways at 1am and was finally able to get some sleep around 2. This morning I had an upper GI test done to make sure I didnt have any leaks and happy to report all is well. It’s still a struggle to drink as my throat is very sore from the breathing tube but I feel 200x better. I took a shower which also helped breathe some life back into me. The worst seems to have passed but still have some gas which now is just slightly uncomfortable. I am lucky that that is the only
pain I have as everything else seems to be healing nicely.



That’s awesome! Glad you’re doing better each day.


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Thanks All!!

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Thanks All!!

How are you feeling?


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Awesome! I had my 10 day post op appointment on Monday with my surgeon and was cleared for purees and Vitamins starting tomorrow. My incisions are none existent, you can barely see them which surprised the nurse and the surgeon how well they have healed. I am able to drink Water normally and have no issues getting 64oz plus a day and getting in two Protein Shakes to get my 60 grams of Protein. Honestly, it has been a really great recovery and I am so thankful. I will take those first hard 12 hours for such a quick turnaround. I am looking forward to starting the next stage and hitting the gym to do some strength training now that I have been cleared.

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Awesome! I had my 10 day post op appointment on Monday with my surgeon and was cleared for purees and Vitamins starting tomorrow. My incisions are none existent, you can barely see them which surprised the nurse and the surgeon how well they have healed. I am able to drink Water normally and have no issues getting 64oz plus a day and getting in two Protein Shakes to get my 60 grams of Protein. Honestly, it has been a really great recovery and I am so thankful. I will take those first hard 12 hours for such a quick turnaround. I am looking forward to starting the next stage and hitting the gym to do some strength training now that I have been cleared.

That is so amazing!! You’ll be at goal in no time. So at day 10 you don’t have to sip anymore. That’s very encouraging. I’m heading to surgery in the morning. Nervous but excited. [emoji15][emoji4]


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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
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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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      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.

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