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I am excited and nervous to have my sleeve on Friday. Im so glad to be done with my pre-op diet, but super proud of myself for how well I've done. It really gives my confidence as I get ready to embark on this journey.

I had a bit of a strange experience today. So, not only am I a bariatric patient, but I'm also the administrator of a surgery department which includes a bariatric surgery program. Essentially, the program coordinator and nurses are my employees, and I work very closely with my surgeon on program development, operations, and marketing. One of the reasons I'm having this surgery is because I have spent 20% of my professional life over the last two years focusing on how to make my bariatric surgery program better. So, anyways today I was in a meeting with the surgeon who will be operating on me on Friday talking about business operations. He was giving me this whole list of things that he thought needed to be done, and I had to remind him that I would be out after the surgery he'll be performing on me on Friday!

It is definitely helping my nerves because my surgeon knows me, I know his outcomes, and would recommend him go anyone. I joked it's him when I left that I was a little nervous, but assumed he wouldn't kill me. He replied that he thinks he can manage that!

I can't wait for this to be over and to be on the other side!

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