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I had my surgery yesterday. I was sent home today. I packed one pair of yoga pants, a t-shirt, socks and a toothbrush. It was more than enough. PACK LIGHT!

The yoga pants were ok for me however, I probably should have packed something a little bit more loose fitting. Keep that in mind. You don’t want anything hugging your incision sites.




What surgery did you have and congratulations [emoji112]



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Hi and congratulations to everyone else with their ops scheduled in May (I'm getting VSG on 2 May - my ticker keeps saying 1 May but that might be because we here in Aussieland are a half day ahead of US?).

Quite a few of us are also chatting in the "Any MAY sleevers???" post in the gastric sleeve forum.- feel free to join us there too.

I plan to post/talk a lot in these forums to help keep myself focused and accountable. I made the decision at the start of February that I'd be having the gastric sleeve surgery (I had stopped dieting more than 10 years prior due to the rebound weight gain and mental health damage it caused me every time, focusing instead on figuring out my food intolerances, sourcing and growing nutritionally better quality food, and starting our family). Fingers crossed the lack of recent dieting works in my favour.

I still feel very strongly that all people deserve respect and I hate how aggressively anti-fat society is. While with weight loss I will get to enjoy no longer having to worry about seat widths, weight limits, limited clothing choices etc I'm still going to be angry at the systemic oppression of fat people in the modern world.

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Where is everyone from
Haverhill mass
Surgery is being done at Boston medical center.

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I am from Harpers Ferry WV, my surgery will be at Reston hospital in VA with Dr Fitzer.


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I'm in Adelaide, capital of South Australia. Our choices for Protein, Meal Replacements and supplements are a bit Different here, as shipping much from overseas costs a small fortune. I've been glad to find a number of newer quality products available here now though.

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Where is everyone from
Haverhill mass
Surgery is being done at Boston medical center.

Sent from my SM-G955U using BariatricPal mobile app



Fitchburg MA, surgery at Mount Auburn in Cambridge


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@divadee66 are you sure that's what she wants as a birtday present?

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36 minutes ago, Divadee06 said:

May 1 on my mommy’s bday

Awesome!!!!

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I hope your journey toward your surgery stays this smooth. so many of us have had such a weird bumpy trek there., WE all get there eventually though. Do you know if you'll have a short or long liquid pre-diet before your surgery? It is strange to see each surgeon has their own. favorite plan, so many different methods. Good thing for them all -they do guide us into surgery pretty smoothly. I will be happy myself when I finally get my date.😛

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