Presurgery diet and sickness problems!

Hey! :thumbup:

So I've had the lapband. Aug 07, exact. It worked slow at first, sped up after six months, I lost 50kgs overall... then it slipped. Anyway, to make a saga short, it took 6 weeks and 3 docs to get it checked with a barium swallow, another 2 weeks to see my offical surgeons, ect. I knew it'd slipped... I knew to the very minute it happened!

So anyway. Confirmed it slipped. Went on waiting list for replace and/or reposition. They had told me four weeks, it ended up being another six weeks... and when they realized ,the rushing started. I was rushed onto preop diet (before I could afford it and told a few days after it was supposed to start) and rushed in for preop checks.

So I got home from hospital after preop checks. Woke up the next day, 12 days till the surgery, feeling that 'uh oh, the back of my throat is really dry... head cold or flu...' feeling...

I did try and tell my father, whom I'm living with at the moment, whod idn't believe me. Haha, whatta know. The day after, when Istarted the Optifast, I also started a nasty flu of some sort.

So now here I am, two days into intensive Optifast, fighting a nasty flu that's in the nose, throat, lungs. I know that I should stick to Optifast exactly...

But I also know that Optifast's effect on the body- forcing it to eat its own fat stores- oonly happens after four (or so) days. So basically, right now as I have this flu, my body thinks it's being starved. And the flu is trying to get worse.

I'm wondering if anyone had this before their operation, or has suggestions for me. The docs will NOT let me delay the operation. I have to somehow get over this before then... and I'm so nervous already, because of previous breathing tube/anestheasia complications!