HDmama

good morning! just wanted to drop you a quick note. today's day 1 of your liquid diet, yes? how's it going? day 9 for me.

yesterday i took the day off and did all my pre-op stuff. it's good that i did because I had to go to the doc in tujunga, the lab in montrose for blood work, Verdugo hills hospital for the chest xray....and then to st. joe's for the nurses assessment. took all day.

so you wanted to know about the nurses assessment. basically, it's like a pre-admitting. you meet with a nurse and she asks you all about your past histories of surgery, current meds, advanced directive, gives you surgery morning instructions. she enters all the info into the computer. it took about an hour or so...but they print up all your stickers for your charts, your wrist band...etc. it was pretty good.

I'm getting excited. just 6 days to go!!!