I hadn’t written about my hospital experience so here it goes….

Night before…

I was so anxious I could not sleep, kept tossing and turning all night.. I called my ex-boyfriend and told him that I was getting my surgery and that just in case anything happened to me I wanted him to know that I still loved him more than anything… And guess what he said the same thing to me which was great but we can never  b together. Anywho!

The drive To the Hospital..

I woke my mom up at 4:30 am we got dressed.. We went to get the car and bye to my dad and was on my way… We arrived there my mom had some parking confusion n we had to make change for the parking machine.. I went in to a deli and bought my mom a Snapple ( god how i wanted some!)

The wait…

We got there 15 minutes early…So my mom snapped some quick before pics (boy do I look disgusting!) Ill put them up when I find the cable for my comp. I met the girl that was having her lap band surgery after me she was nice but way to nervous so I refrained from talking to negativities.

Inside The Prep Room

They asked me a couple quick questions, was I pregnant? Was I on drugs? Allergic to anything? Yada yada… They game a bag with a gown, shoes and a hat . I went in to a little cubicle and got dressed… I called my mom in I could see the worry in her face…. The 1^st docs that came out were the one with the knockout stuff yum yum… they put my IV in that hurt a bit. He asked me to use my albuterol inhaler since I’d an asthma attack the day before. Ok so my doc Chopra comes out he asks me if I’m confident that this is what I wanted and I said yes of course ( what kind of questions is that?) any who I kissed my mom goodbye and off I went.

Operating Room

Woah! That bed looks like something out of a Hannibal Lecter movie! But whatever I scoot on over…The nurse asks me if Im nervous and to be honest I wasn’t not one bit. They strapped me in for the ride…Boy ill tell you that 1^st sensation of anesthesia was freaking horrible it felt like a rocket exploded in my body…. “What’s happening to me? Why do I feel like this?” and then all I heard was them saying “It happens, and now your falling asleep” lights out for me!

Recovery Room

They woke me up none to gently…CASSANDRA! They screamed I had a mask on my face and my first concern was getting it off… I pushed it away… I looked around and asked for my daddy… Lights out again… I slept so much I lost track… The nurses were not that great at all… Only one nurse’s aid MIKE he was awesome… Jacobi didn’t even have a bed available for me so I had to sleep on stretcher all night long in the noisy recovery room! They put the leg pads on and I swear they were laced with itchy powder! Gosh I couldn’t stand it! My mouth was sodry and I couldn’t eat or drink anything for like ever my mouth was so dry…one nurse swabbed my mouth and a bunch of dry blood came out..I didn’t know why… But late on the surgeon came out and said that my heartbeat had accelerated to 130 and theyd had to shove that tube down my throat… woah! No wonder he said my surgery would be 21/2 hours and it turned out to be 5 hours! But all turned out well… had a little bladder problem…I couldn’t pee without a cathardge whatever that is… and they had to shove that in me so many damn times!

I Went Home

My hospital stay was 3 days… I came home and got so many fever I got a blister in nose and on my bottom lip… so my mom took me back but all they did was give me more antibiotics and one of my stitches is infected…

My advice

Take an IPOD… and after your surgery EAT EAT EAT! Or you will feel so week it will suck! Drink all the water you can, take all you vitamins and Smile, your about to be fabulously thin BABY!