Tomorrow

Tomorrow is the day!! I'm very excited & just a little nervous.  I think the nervous is coming from the way my husband feels about me having this surgery though.  For quite a while he was very supportive & now it feels as though he's trying to discourage me.  I will admit that I have had a hard time with past surgeries (recovery takes longer for me than some people it seems) but as I told him "what's wrong with me wanting a better quality of life??" & "I'd really like to love what I see when I look in the mirror some day."  He always says that he loves me exactly as I am but I DON'T & HAVEN'T loved me like I am for a very long time.  I just don't know how I can get him past the negative thoughts. 
Anyway....today is liquids!  I am very grateful that I only have to do this 1 day preop instead of 2 weeks like alot of people I've seen on here!  I would have gone crazy by now!

You will do just fine! WLS is a lot of hard work and it is for life but it is so worth it!!

Good Luck

Julie

Congrats.  You'll do fine.  It will be the best thing you have ever done.  I was in your shoes only 3 short months ago so I can certainly relate to your feelings.  Today I'm down 60 lbs and feeling fantastic.  No regrets.  Wish I'd have done it sooner.  Sit back and enjoy the ride to a newer you.  Everyone on this website is here to help so ask away if you have any questions post-op.  Send me an email any time, I'll be happy to help.  Good luck tomorrow.  You're changing your life for the better.  It will all be worth it.  Trust me...so far it's the best thing I've ever done.  Keep us posted on how you do.  We'll see you on the LOSER'S BENCH!!!!

 SO funny, I was totally in your shoes one month ago today!  I am out one month today and I only had one day of the liquid diet too, which I am so happy for!  I don't understand doctors that make people go 2 weeks on liquids without the support of the surgery to help them through. 

My BF didn't support my surgery 100% either, said all the same things and told me that he would help me lose the weight "normally".  If only that could work.  So I took him to my doctor and he talked with him and that seemed to help a little, but he wore off soon enough.  As the day of surgery got closer he stopped talking to me about it, seemed really distant, but I was set to go and it was going to happen whether he liked it or not.  

Day of surgery he took me and he stayed the day, and came to the hospital everyday I was in, but I sent him home cause I was tired and I didn't want his wasting his day watching me sleep.

When I got home he was wonderful, because he loves me.  He nursed me and dried my many tears and made 100 trips to drug stores and health stores looking for protein or flavored water or creamed soups....LIL.  

Today is a month since my surgery and he exercises with me everyday, he eats small meals with me, he comments everyday how good I look and how  he can tall I have lost 24 lbs.  

Your husband will step up, he loves you and that is why he is freaked out right now.  When he sees how committed you are to this, he will commit too.

Good LUCK!   You must be so excited!  You are have a tough month ahead, but you won't regret it (after the first week which is hell...sorry but it is)

I understand about the negativity. My family is doing the same thing to me. I just keep reminding myself why I'm doing this and tell them they need to trust me.

I'm glad to see you only have 1 day of liquids pre-op. I'm having my surgery by Dr Blackstone in Aug.

Good luck!

Good luck tomorrow!! Sorry about your husband not being as supportive as you want him to be, but he'll come around. My hubby is the same way. At first he was all for it, but as I start going through different steps towards surgery he seems to sometimes be a tad bit discouraged.

I hope he'll be more supportive again at some point, all I can do is keep showing him before and after pics here on OH and talk to him about everything I learn.

Again good luck tomorrow! And enjoy your day of liquids .

 Jodi,  best of luck to you for tomorrow.  Prayers going up!.  You will be fine,  Dr Blackstone is awesome.  I was so scared the day of my surgery, but she came in before held my hand and reassured me over and over that I was doing the right thing for me and my future.   When she came out and talked with my husband, she again assured him it was the best decision and the it went like textbook.  Since coming home I've had to call the office twice and Melissa her PA is just as awesome I was in tears on the phone with her and she talked me through a terrible moment.  To me that's way above and beyond the call of duty.   I can't say enough good about them.

I think people who are not supportive of our decisions to have this surgery are just afraid of loosing us.  My mom was kind of the "quiet" non supportive one but she knows me well enough when I make up my mind that's that.  But since surgery she has been very supportive, in fact yesterday when I was having my mental break down she was one of the ones telling me you can do this its only one more day, and you've made it this far!  I've seen a change in her, hoping you see a change in your hubby too! 

Hi Jodi!!  I wish you the best with your surgery....mine is June 15....couple of weeks away...(  only have to do one day of liquids too!  So cool!!)......I too am nervous but I know it will be fine.  Husbands always get nervous...only because they care so much!!  Just give him a big hug and tell him everything will be just fine!!!    Holly

Jodi,

Wishing you great success as you start your new journey.  Tomorrow, I will be one week post op.

Be sure to use your pain pump.  Keep one step ahead of any pain.
Take chapstick or something else for your lips.
The swallow test isn't the most pleasant procedure, but it's over quickly.
Sip, sip, sip and walk, walk, walk.

What is the swallow test?>??