Surgery Center just called. I need to be there at 5:45 a.m. and my surgery is scheduled for 7:00 a.m. Holy crap! This time tomorrow I will be banded!!!!

I've done everything I'm supposed to do. I have everything I need. I have people praying for a successful surgery. It's all in God's (and the surgeon's) hands now.

Right now my gut feels like it might feel when getting on a roller coaster ride that hasn't started yet. You are sitting in your seat, strapped in and waiting for the ride to start moving.

I hope this is worth it. I hope I'm successful. I hope I don't regret it. I hope a year from now I can look back and say it was the best thing I ever did for myself like I hear so many others say.

Here I go!

CONGRATS!!!!!!

Your recovery as well as many others here seem to be going very well. I hope to have the same luck!

Keep us posted

Don't worry, you will! I am two days post op and really feeling pretty well! I'm still taking it very easy as I don't want to over do it and push myself but I've stopped taking the hard drugs and switched to liquid tylenol for the general soreness, Gas-x for when I'm a little too urpy, took a shower and washed my hair, put on regular clothes and feeling generally human again.

So it's all good. You will do great too!!!!! If you want more details just click on the link in my signature that goes to my blog on Obesity Help.

Good luck!

Hooray for you! I'm really eating up these "no complication" stories! Thanks for the blow-by-blow! Loved it!

Gees, I am glad to hear that you did well...my surgery is Friday and I am really getting nervous!!!!! ARGH! I will just keep looking for possitive stories like yours and know that I too will be writing my own soon enough!

CONGRATS!

I had to do that before my surgery as well. I avoided the complication stories as much as possible especially the serious ones. Others, such as pain in shoulders, or gas, or other things I wanted to know about and be prepared for. The serious complication stories were just making me too nervous and wondering what the hell I was doing! The nerves really kicked in about two days before for me. I told my husband that I felt like I had just gotten on a roller coaster ride, had strapped myself in and was getting ready for it to start moving. Waiting for that "lurch" that was going to take me to unpredictable places. It's a pretty good analogy and I stayed that way until they wheeled me into the OR and I shifted my fat butt onto the operating table! LOL It will seem sort of surreal, you will be short tempered and a little withdrawn and introspective, but you will wake up in recovery all sleepy and they will make sure you are comfortable. If you are experiencing pain or nausea, make sure they know. They will give you additional medication to make sure you are feeling okay. That is what they are there for.

It's really going to be okay. :thumbup:

My surgery is Friday also and I too am looking for all the positive stories on the board. I have read the complications threads and don't want to know anymore about that for the next week. For now I am sticking with the food threads so I have some recipes for post op and threads like this one that tell me what to expect.

Karen, I'm soooo glad to read how well you are doing. I thank you especially for writing about you experience on the day of surgery and forward. You have given me the hope that mine can be that good also.

Good luck to you as you move forward to you goal weight.

Gees, I am glad to hear that you did well...my surgery is Friday and I am really getting nervous!!!!! ARGH! I will just keep looking for possitive stories like yours and know that I too will be writing my own soon enough!

CONGRATS!

My surgery is Friday also and I too am looking for all the positive stories on the board. I have read the complications threads and don't want to know anymore about that for the next week. For now I am sticking with the food threads so I have some recipes for post op and threads like this one that tell me what to expect.

Karen, I'm soooo glad to read how well you are doing. I thank you especially for writing about you experience on the day of surgery and forward. You have given me the hope that mine can be that good also.

Good luck to you as you move forward to you goal weight.

Hey, I'm with you both, I'm avoiding the horror stories because they just mess with my mind. The positive stories are the ones I'm concentrating on until Friday when I have my surgery. It's going to be a good day!