Surgery date 02/15/08 - Questions

Hello, I am new here......my name is Tammy and I live in Bamberg. I am scheduled to get my surgery on the 15th this month by Dr. Weiner. I see some of you have gotten your surgery done by him also. He told me to go on a liquid diet (if I could) a week before the surgery. I have sooooooooo tried to stick to this liquid diet. I am really having a hard time. I am so friggin hungry all the time. For the most part I have stuck to it but the 2nd day I ate some popcorn at the movies, the 3rd day I ate a couple of scrambled eggs for dinner and tonight I had a big pancake. The rest of the time I have stuck to the diet. Dinner time is what is so hard for me. Did you all stick to the liquid diet? I saw where someone recommended eating a big meal the night before pre-op. So I am wondering if my suffering is really necessary....LOL.

Hi! I just got home from surgery on Saturday night. I did do the liquid diet for 2 weeks with lots of protein shakes. I was told by the NUT at Ramstein that they are good to have pre-op to help healing after surgery. I did cheat on the liquid diet here and there but no big meals the night before surgery, food was killing me and I had to look at big quanities of food and bad food as the enemy, not my friend. That was just me and everyone does something different. He asks for you to do the liquid diet to shrink your liver so there is less of a chance that it gets knicked during surgery. However after I got my medical report, it said I still had a fatty liver even after my liquid diet. I know people who have stuck to the diet and did great and people who never did it and were great too. I just wanted to get started on my new life. Good luck to you! I know how nervewracking the waiting game is but it was easier then I though post-op. I was off pain meds by the 2nd day post-op and took a few steps the night of surgery. Please let me know if you have anymore questions. I know I had a million about hte hospital and what to bring and ect. ~Sheryl