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Good Luck! I hope to join you in January with my surgery. Just waiting for the insurance approval then we can set my date! Can't wait to see how you do!

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My surgery is Jan 16, I just got all the dates for my cardiologist, pulmonologist, type and cross and anesthesiology and of course the appt with the hospital for the up front copay! I feel a little surreal, I've been waiting so long and now it feels like it will be time and I won't be ready. Just decided to start ahead on the pre op diet so I have a little room to get used to it before it is critical, no enlarged liver for me to have them back out at the last minute, right? I'm down 9 lbs in just a week so I'm psyched. Yea, for us jan sleavers, Happy new year to all and to our new lives!

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I am scheduled January 20... eight days before my birthday... I am nervous and scared... I have a eight hour pre op appt Jan 4... I need to weight under 300 pds that day. Jan 6 I start my two week liquid diet, sheesh. Good Luck to each of you on your successful journey.

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what a great birthday gift you will have! you will be able to do it--good luck, we all have such exciting times ahead of us--change can make us freak a little but its gonna be the best thing we have ever done for ourselves, for once in my life I am putting my needs first, and I don't mean to sound selfish, but I think we all deserve it and I know my family deserves a more participatory wife and mom. Can ya tell I'm ramping up for this?? Can't wait....

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