Well I have finally gotten around to posting an update.  Today is 1 week post surgery..down 8 lbs..that is 23 total with the pre-op diet...346 today!  Recovery is going good....a little sore..a little tired...but overall doing well.  I am pretty tired on the clear liquids...hard to get enough protein...the ISOPURE protein water I try to drink each day is pretty awful....I could get them down pre-surgey by gulping....can't gulp now!  Looking foward to tomorrow and whole liquids...soups....protein shakes...MD

I get on a plane in a few hours and I am off to San Antonio..then down to Eagles Pass...tomorrow morning..over the border to see Dr. Alvarez.  Surgery I am guessing sometime tomorrow late morning.  Day 8 of liquids...it has gone ok...I have dropped about 3.5 more lbs since Saturday....hoping to be 355 tomorrow on surgery day.  I fly back home Saturday afternoon and hope to be watching college football from my recliner that evening!

I'm hopeful to be back at work on Monday,....just taking Thursday/Friday off....I am a college professor and will just try to make my classes...no office time or anything,....classes and home to rest.  I am hoping for the best in recovery....little sickness, etc....

I'll post again in a few days!  wish me luck!

Well...looks like a good place to start....surgery is this Thursday..just 5 days away....been on the pre-op liquid diet since Wednesday...it has been going ok....down about 9 pounds since last weekend.  My stomach doesn't feel all that great most of the time...but I know it will be a few rough weeks.