Pre-op question

I am scheduled to have surgery on Tuesday (YAY!!) I woke up yesterday morning and have a slight cold!! I feel okay - no temp, just a slightly runny nose and one of those scatchy coughs. I've been drinking as much orange juice as I possibly can and just taking it easy. I have to do my preop prep on Monday morning so I'm thinking I will just wait and see how I feel then. Anybody else ever have this before their surgery?

Airborn, zinc lozengers or Zicam works great. Get on one of them as soon as possible. Zicam works for me. All it will do is lessen the symptoms not cure it. All you can do is keep and eye on what is going on with you until Monday morning. Do not hesitate to call the doctor's office if you are worse. It is more important to have your surgery postponed than to go into surgery with a respitory infection. You could develope pnuemonia, deadly. By the way you have a fantatic group of doctors that you are having your surgery with, Dr Rantis did my DH's WLS. Chris

I tried the Zicam last night and it is amazing how much better I feel today. For some reason, I woke up a few times during the night so even used it throughout the night.Thanks so much for your suggestion. I think I'll be okay for Tuesday

Get youself some Zicom. Works wonders. Best of luck on Tuesday