Well, I arrived in Mx this morning and yes still apprehensive to my decision. I had a layover in Las Vegas and thought about just flying back home. So, for those of you having second thoughts...its normal. I am probably on my hundredth.

If you are going to Aceves the driver is great and you meet your fellow sleevers right at the airport. Then off to the boarder about 2 hours. It will seem like you are off course, but I promise you, your on course.

You arrive and Karla or another coordinator will meet you with a smile and the off to the bathroom for urine sampling and then to the lab for blood. As everyone has stated the hotel is clean and the staff nice. Once you finish, Dr. Aceves and Campos will visit with the group to discuss the surgery and answer any and all questions...For those that have read some of my postings lately you can imagine I had a ton of questions and each was answered.

Once that is complete it is time for the chest X-ray and the EKG. Now the EKG machine was a bit old, but efficient. Then, you finish and off to the hotel, which is about 15 minutes from the hospital. Ernesto was our driver and very kind.

Now, I made have made it sound as if all of this took about an hour, but we were there for three hours. Tomorrow we all meet in the lobby and then to the hospital we go to meet with the internist, doctors, and anesthesiologist. Once, we are cleared for surgery then they decide the order and off we go. They said that is should take about 2 -3 hours from the time we go back until we wake up in recovery.

My surprise for the day was the blood thinner shot that you are given prior to surgery in your stomach.