Sunchik

I know, it sounds strange, but I went into surgery on Dec.29th expecting to have RNY surgery and woke up to a sleeve. On top of it all I knew nothing about the sleeve after doing months and months of research on RNY. How could it happen? Well, I am one of the people that have pretty much every co-morbidity that you can name, type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea, hypertension and my personal favorite, stress incontinence and was pretty much assured that they would go into remission, or be cured with a RNY. Sold. Into surgery I go, with game plan in place and what do I wake up to but my surgeon telling me because of the adhesions and scar tissue he was not able to do a RNY. But he had called my wonderful daughter (in Charlotte NC) from the operating room and asked her if he should close me up or do VSG. After 20 minutes of explaining the surgery (and being reassured that I had the same chances of the diseases going away) and her doing fast internet research, she gave him the go ahead. So he starts explaining all of this to me and I just start crying hysterically. I didn't know anything about the sleeve, I didn't know about diet, etc. Well long story short, surgery on Wednesday, home on Saturday (with a drainage tube I might add) and after a couple of days of research I found this board. I had been on OH extensively, but to have this board dedicated to the sleeve, all I can say is PRICELESS. So let me say thank you to everyone that posts and I look forward to loving my sleeve!

It has been 2 weeks and a couple of days and I am back to work, feeling great and I have lost 13 lbs. Still on full liquids, and purees and will be for the next 2 weeks. I have also had zero pain and all incisions are healing well. I have had these 2 weeks to do the research and I can now say it was fate, destiny and God's plan for me. Very, very happy that I ended up getting the sleeve and finding myself in such supportive company. Thanks everyone!

Thank you everyone for the kind words and support. Oopsseedaisy, I do not regret my daughters decision for 1 second. After all of the research that I have been able to do in the past couple of days, it seems as if destiny stepped in and gave me the best. I look forward to becoming an active member of the sleeve community.