Weekend Before

Mar 08, 2014

Can't believe it has been nearly 7 months since starting this whole process of looking into the surgery. I knew little about the different types of procedures and all of the insurance caveats. This is despite three siblings and a parent who underwent some sort of surgical treatment of obesity. 

It is scary thinking about walking into the hospital and having the IV started and stretching out in a gurney. I've never had surgery of any kind before.  I worry about how hard it will be to keep hydrated and the postoperative pain. I sure don't want nausea.

What am I doing to prepare? The last 12 days I have been on a puréed diet. Most days using the blender, but often eating higher protein soups. We bought an expensive elliptical about 2 years ago, to be honest haven't used it much until the preop plan called for exercise everyday. While not using religiously, took off about 12 lbs and I couldn't take much more off as I barely qualified for the surgery. 

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