Preop shopping list- List of questions

[southernbelle13 0]

I am putting together my pre-op shopping list and list of questions for my doctor...I am a list girl and it helps me to get organized! I am reading posts here and blogs to help me ask all the right questions. If there are things you couldn't live without post-op and questions you wish you had asked please help me add them to my list. I appreciate all the help you can give, I feel so much more prepared since doing my research on this site! Thanks for all of your advice and help!

[RestlessMonkey 7]

If I knew what you know this would be SO much easier (LOL)

Post op must haves for me: Tylenol (they make adult liquid but after one sweet gicky dose I just took the pills and did fine) "Soft lips" (chapstick thingie) chicken noodle Soup (drained it for the broth, regular chicken broth was just salt Water with yellow dye, IMHO) Something to entertain me was paramount (good new books to read, a few videos I hadn't seen w/my fave actor etc) House cleaned before I went

For me recovery was easy and fast I had surgery on Friday, was back at school (student) next Tues. So I wasn't house bound.

Questions...by the time I got to surgery I didn't have much to ask my doc. You MIGHT ask him if he removes all the gas he pumps in before he closes you up. That can REALLY impact recovery. Otherwise, most of my surgeon questions relate to earlier in the relationship, like "what is your fill philosophy" and "on average how many fills do your patients need before they are in the green zone" and "have you ever had a patient die" that type of thing you've probably already asked