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Assuming I can actually sleep Sunday night! 

I got in the last of my post-op supplies and made arrangements for a taxi ride to the hospital today.  That leaves a short to-do list at home: clean house, get hair cut, cut the grass, PACK FOR THE HOSPITAL - yea!  Got everything ironed out to enable working from home the 2nd week of recovery, if the computer gods keep smiling, and finished all work projects - they're all out for review by others. 

Tried a powdered protein mix today and didn't gag.  Okay, so it was a half-strength mix, but it was still a check in the "yes" box!

I'm still trying to prepare for my recovery  at home alone - getting supplies accumulated, cleaning house, running errands.  Supposed to be able to have low fat/low sugar yogurt, but all the low fat yogurts I found at the store have 6 grams of sugar.  Oh, well, I'll have the g-tube in for 2 weeks, so I can just take in the protein drinks that way and sip on water, clear broth, SF drinks.  Two weeks of a liquid diet is a very short time compared to all the years of dieting!

I found out yesterday that I likely have torn cartilege in right knee so I may be going from weight loss surgery to knee surgery.  The bum knee will certainly make walking a bit difficult -- hope those pain meds are STRONG!

2 weeks to go and I'm absorbing so many hints from this web site! Starting to get nervous about recovery since I'll be alone.  Hope all the posts about easy recovery will match mine.