ONE week from Today!

Just wanted to say that all worked out with the scheduling and job and my surgery is one week from today.  Thanks for the advice.  Go tomorrow for testing and then everything should be set.  I am starting to get terrified and up to this point I just rolled with it all but when I sat through that all day class a lot of thing**** home.  Worried about how I am going to schedule everything and still continue to be a mother of five very active children that still need to eat.  The thought of not being able to eat like I do now doesn't bother me it is the huge adjustment for my family.  Then the living will question**** home too!  I thought I would be more excited then nervous and now I am just plain NERVOUS.

Bobbi Sue, I am sending the best wishes for the trip that you are about to do on. It is a wonderful and exciting trip and one that I am so glad has a one way ticket. I never want to go back to where I came from.

It is normal to be nervous. I remember leaving here to go to the hospital for my rny and thinking that I could do this on my own. The thing is that I was 53 years old and never did it on my own before. I am not sure just what miracle was going to come to me but by the time I got to the hospital things happened so fast that I never thought about it again.

Know that you are in my prayers and that God keeps you in His healing arms and gives you peace, understanding, knowledge and a good surgery and uneventful recovery. I am keeping your doctors and medical staff in prayers too for knowledge, compassion and understanding.

Bobbi Sue,

Your time is going to go fast too!! The last week flew by for us. We were excited, scared, nervous--the whole nine yards. Just breathe and go with it is all I can say.
And if you don't get everything done it will be waiting (as I found out!!).

Good luck!

Connie

A new normal will set in.  You will learn to adjust the food of all around you.  I will pray that they will accept the changes.  You will get sick of watching people eat all the food they do.  I remember out favorite buffet that I went to after 3 weeks and wanted to vomit after watching what was going on.  I got chicken broth and ate it slowly and was happy.  I found it did not take long to accept that less food is a good thing.
God Bless
E