Surgery Week of August 24th?

[DownInSocal 12]

Anyone having surgery the week of August 24th and want to be surgery buddies? My surgery is August 26th. I would love a buddy.

I can be on yahoo messenger all day at work (when I go back after two weeks) and can receive texts all day. For the two weeks after surgery I am available through email, messenger, and text so I can be an available buddy for support!

[Malaika 50]

Anyone having surgery the week of August 24th and want to be surgery buddies? My surgery is August 26th. I would love a buddy.

I can be on yahoo messenger all day at work (when I go back after two weeks) and can receive texts all day. For the two weeks after surgery I am available through email, messenger, and text so I can be an available buddy for support!

man - what type of job do you have that allows you that much freedom?

[DownInSocal 12]

I am da boss and I have been here forever and get away with murder. :lol0: I am also a damn good Accountant (if I do say so myself).

The hand that controls the money is the hand that rules the world.

[ADNK 0]

My DEAR SoCal...

I have my surgery scheduled for the 26th at Weill-Cornell Med Center at NY Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhatten. I live on Long Island.

I'm an "at home mom" verging on the empty nest (IF they get jobs and get out)... So I have as much time as I like at the computer (once the laundry & shopping are done).

I find this message board tricky to navigate, so I hope I can find this thread as I starve for the next couple of days.

I would love to be your sleeve buddy.

My DH will be bringing my laptop to the hospital on the 27th so I can check in with you right after I get coherent.

Now all we need is an "old hand" who will tell us that it's NORMAL to be scared, to have pain in strange places etc etc...

[DownInSocal 12]

I am a working step mom with two teenage types at home. They know everything. Neither their father or I know anything so I am surprised they are not ruling the world already.

I live in the east county of San Diego. DH hubby and I have been married a year and together 5. He is a good guy. I am not sure how I have not run him off yet.

I will be discharged sometime on Saturday. I don't think I will have any net access. I might be able to use DH phone but I don't know how it handles message boards. We have a netbook and laptop but no wireless net card or service. I already scanned the hospital for wi fi and couldn't find an open one.

Learning to navigate message boards comes with time on one.

I start clears in the morning too. I am more nervous about being hungry for two days than anything at this point. I have to admit my doctor was kind enough to give me Ativan for the jitters so I am medicated. Thank god for meds....

[ADNK 0]

I'm ant-sy about the next two days too. I'm afraid of feeling lightheaded and woosy. I have a lot of stuff to do to get the house ready for my absence, so I'll be busy.

[DownInSocal 12]

This morning was awful! Tears galore. Scared tears but not like "what am I doing tears" just anxiety. So far clears is ok but I have only been up 3 hours lol. I can't whine too much about clears. I know people have done 11, 14, 16 days. UGH.

[ADNK 0]

Oh my dear! I expect that the sudden lack of food, added to the jitters about Wednesday have got your moods in a snit. I know that I didn't sleep much last night and I was a bit "short" with DH who has been nothing but a sweetheart throughout.

How I'm going to make it Wednesday without passing out from lack of sustenence is bothering me more than the surgery itself... At least once I get there it will be "out of my hands" and in the capable hands of the Doctor & Hospital. We're still kind of on our own.

[DownInSocal 12]

I am actually doing ok on the clears today. I am a little hungry but not ravished.

[ADNK 0]

I am actually doing ok on the clears today. I am a little hungry but not ravished.

I've made it to nearly 9pm and am doing better than I thought I would. I've discovered that green Jello slides into the cracks and I don't feel quite so empty.

[cajun 46]

Hank in there ADNK. Only one more day, you can do it!

[DownInSocal 12]

Jello does slide into the cracks.

I am not hungry at all today. Of course it could be all the excitement and I was running around work this morning trying to make sure I had thought of everything before leaving.

I am now drinking my "stuff". It is called Magnesium Citrate Oral Solution Saline Laxative, lemon flavor. It tastes like what you would expect Mr. Clean lemon would taste like. I can already feel my tummy rumbling. I have a feeling the bathroom and I will be best buds by the end of the day.

How ya doing sleeve sista?

[ADNK 0]

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I'm alright. I did grocery shopping so my 3 men won't starve while I'm in the hospital.. That ate up the time so I didn't sit & fret. Mr Doc hasn't asked me to take any of that stuff. I have been on Clear liquids since noon on Sunday though.

I've been told to report for duty at 5:45 AM... This is a 1&1/2 hour drive for us into the city, so I'm not sure it pays for me to even TRY to sleep tonight.

How are you doing?

[DownInSocal 12]

I spent all evening on the toilet, seriously. I was so close to hurling I didn't even want to post here.

I know you are already in surgery!!! I look foward to seeing how you are doing when I am out. I am going to try and post here from a friends phone at the hospital. See how it goes.

Good luck!!! I am thinking of you!!

[Denna 0]

Hi, I would love to have you as a buddie.

I hope everything is going smooth for you on this new life we have chosen. How exciting to think of our future.

I also had my VSG on the 26th. South West Medial Center in Tucson. I had a small amount of gas pain and some times when I swallow liquids it feels like a lump in my chest ,I guess it's air , I keep swallowing and it passes. I had my surgery at 7:30 wed and came home friday. I have slept a lot. I can't get the Purfect down and my system the Dr. said was doing well so he said I could go right on the shakes. Today I am hungery !!! Have you gotten to that point yet? I hate the shakes also but manage to get them down. Before the surgery they were tolerble now it's hard. Like I said today I am hungery.:mad: Probably in my brain not my fat belly. lol We can do it!!!:thumbup: Good luck and keep intouch.