ATTENTION : I have a date!!!!!!

well lucky for me I am staying at my best friends house. Dr F said not to travel the day before because of the bathroom cleanse. So I hope she will still be my best friend when i live in her bathroom on that Sunday!! I live 10 min from st Louis. thanks for warm wishes!

Hi Dee, You probably don't believe it, but after everything is over, you will look back and say to yourself the bowel prep was the worst part of the surgery. Stay close to the bathroom and don't hesitate to call Dr. F's office if you have any problems. They are wonderful as you already know. Evanston Hospital is great as well. I thought all the staff there were very kind and considerate of patient care. The time before your surgery will fly by and all the pretesting will seem like one giant blur. You've waited so long for this and it will be here before you know it. Bring comfy & loose clothes for the trip home as you will be bloated after surgery. I wore a loose jogging suit and slip on shoes and was glad I did. Mary

Thank you Mary! I am so calm right now it is weird. I have to go Tuesday for my chest x-rays ultrasound of gallbladder and blood work. Wend is my upper GI then I have the rest Monday 26 or Friday the 23! I can't wait to be on the loser side April 2nd here I come!! thanks for the advice on clothes.

then that makes you being around an hour away from me maybe a little more... and you're more than welcome~ and I'm sure she'll be your best friend even after having lived in her bathroom on Sunday!!~ Ck~

yeah we have been friends for over 22 years!! I am about an hour from marion in granite ****ty!! lol dee

lmao at granite ****ty!!! and my best friend of over 30 years lives up by Chicago also~ and I would think that friendships of that many years would uphold through anything... Ck~

yep We have been through everything you can imagine and still are best friends. It is funny when I moved here from Chicago even though it was only 300 mile it was like moving to another planet. I have been trying to move back to Chicago but it is just way too expensive. Hey maybe I can get to goal and then work for Dr Frantzides. Then I could move home!!

there ya go...lol once goal is reached for me I wouldn't mind working for the man myself and it would be nice not even so much to move back home but to be able to travel more often~ and to be able to walk into a store and know that if I saw sometihng that I liked I could just walk out with it knowing that it's going to fit please be sure and keep me up on how things are going for you... Ck~

You got it!!!! I did 3 of my testing stuff today and tomorrow is upper GI. The hospital called today to pre register me so I am all set as right now!!

I can say one thing and that is that Dr. F. is VERY thorough on the testings that he does pre-op... but it's all to make sure that everything is in order and that you're going to be okay...let me know how everything is going~ Ck~