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I'm set for my sleeve on the 10th. I just have to see a cardiologist tomorrow for my final cardiac clearance and I'm golden. Today I have been sooo emotional. Almost broke down crying at Target. I start my preop tomorrow so maybe that's part of it? I dunno but it just seemed to come out of nowhere today. Sigh... I've read enough to know that many people experience emotional side-effects of surgery. Definitely expect I will be one of them!

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You show an awareness of the nature of this surgery. It will change your life. You will bid goodbye to former emotional supports and say hello to new strengths. It is a passage as profound as graduation or marriage. You are dying and being born at the same time. That which once defined you no longer will, you are writing a new identity. You are releasing into freedom the self that was always there and parting with the one that imprisoned you.

You are a sentient being of immeasurable worth who treasures life. Your emotions are valid.

My best to you.

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