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Ruthi    60

Ruthi
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Vangel, that is great, I know how you feel about being excited and scared, thats me. I actually tried to talk to my sister about the surgery today and the minute I mentioned Mexico, she didnt want to hear anymore. If it werent for you and the others on the forum, I would be so alone in this. I am looking forward to the phone call. I will have my lap top with me at the hospital and 2 different cell phones, I figure I will have something to do.

Six weeks seems like a long time, I hope it flies by for us

Ruthi

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Oregondaisy    2,021

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Honestly, I have no complaints. I was treated like royalty there.

They said they called my daughter and left her a message on her phone. She says she never did get a message and checked her voice mail. Maybe they dialed the wrong number and didn't notice because it's not her voice on the voice. It's only of those recorded voices that said "you have reached the voice mail box for

541-xxx-xxxx Maybe they just didn't notice that it was not the number I gave them.

It all worked out fine. Once we figured out that my daughter could call my cell phone and she was not charged international rates, she called me all the time. I could not call out.

I am glad to be home. I will be even happier when I advance to full liquids.

I don't seem to have the trouble that Susan and Elizabeth had with getting the liquids in. I have the opposite problem. I want to guzzle all the liquids I can get my hands on. I have to stop myself and remember what it says in the papers they give you . "No more than

2oz at a time"

I stopped on the way home from the airport and it took me an hour to drink a bottle of Isopure, but I could have easily guzzled the whole bottle right down. I have to force myself to sip, stop, and wait.

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WASaBubbleButt    41

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Honestly, I have no complaints. I was treated like royalty there.

They said they called my daughter and left her a message on her phone. She says she never did get a message and checked her voice mail. Maybe they dialed the wrong number and didn't notice because it's not her voice on the voice. It's only of those recorded voices that said "you have reached the voice mail box for

541-xxx-xxxx Maybe they just didn't notice that it was not the number I gave them.

It all worked out fine. Once we figured out that my daughter could call my cell phone and she was not charged international rates, she called me all the time. I could not call out.

I am glad to be home. I will be even happier when I advance to full liquids.

I don't seem to have the trouble that Susan and Elizabeth had with getting the liquids in. I have the opposite problem. I want to guzzle all the liquids I can get my hands on. I have to stop myself and remember what it says in the papers they give you . "No more than

2oz at a time"

I stopped on the way home from the airport and it took me an hour to drink a bottle of Isopure, but I could have easily guzzled the whole bottle right down. I have to force myself to sip, stop, and wait.

Due to my banding "issues" I came to know Nina pretty well over the last 2 years. ;o) So I called Nina yesterday and gave her a "heads up" regarding their system, too many people are complaining that family members are not being notified. That's just not fair to family members.

She has a computer print out of all phone numbers dialed and she looked up both you and Elisabeth. Your daughter was called at the correct phone number at 1:11PM and she did not pick up, so Maricela left a message. Elisabeth's sister was not called at all. Nina agreed that they would have to come up with a better system. No clue what they will start doing but she acknowledges they have to change things. It really isn't fair if a family member is waiting to hear about someone getting out of surgery and they are left wondering what is going on.

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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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