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I went in for my final Pre-op appointment with my surgeon today... my surgery was just moved up, due to complications, moved a week up - to TOMORROW!!!! I AM FREAKING OUT... I have so much to do! Surgery is at 6am!

Hope Your Day is Great,

*Amber*

The Starving Mom

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“I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to

be worth it.” - Art Williams

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Wow - I would be freaking out too! I've got so much cleaning to do before surgery so I'd be screwed. Lol

That's where I'm at plus kid stuff to move around child care work stuff husband stuff lol I am scrambling right now trying to get it all done, while doing bowel prep ICK. Oh and I dunno what everyone else does for bowel prep but lucky me I have 2 more hours to finish this gallon of Go lytley... YUCK!

Hope Your Day is Great,

*Amber*

The Starving Mom

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“I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to

be worth it.” - Art Williams

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I went in for my final Pre-op appointment with my surgeon today... my surgery was just moved up, due to complications, moved a week up - to TOMORROW!!!! I AM FREAKING OUT... I have so much to do! Surgery is at 6am!

Hope Your Day is Great,

*Amber*

The Starving Mom

starvingmom.wordpress.com

“I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to

be worth it.” - Art Williams

I hope you surgery went well!! Looking forward to hearing about it

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I had ample time to prepare for my surgery and still managed to not accomplish everything I needed to do. But the good thing is life still goes on and all those chores were waiting patiently for me when I got out of the hospital.

That was 14 months ago and I'm still woefully unprepared for most things (like getting ready for a termite tenting next week where I'll have to be gone from my home for three days). Haven't done a single blessed thing yet,

I have to say that the best thing about aging (I'm 55) is that I have stopped worrying so much over the fact that I'm not perfect and have nothing in common with super woman. It's a lot easier now to just shrug my shoulders over most things and move on.

So do the best you can and let go of the rest. Your entire life is about to change and there's a lot more important stuff to worry about. Take a deep breath, relax, and just imagine how great things are going to be a year from now.

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Yay! I am finally home from the hospital! Woot Woot!

So here is the low down people:

On Tuesday my surgeon decided that because he would be performing multiple surgeries and due to the complexity involved that he would like to move my surgery date up- So I had surgery the next day (a big deciding factor in this was that he would be going out of the country the day after my originally scheduled surgery and wanted to be on call to me while I was in the hospital should any complications arise).

So we scrambled and moved stuff around and at 6am Wednesday morning I went in for surgery.

Dr Rogula performed a RNY Gastric Bypass, A midline abdominal muscle resection, removal of previous hernia repair (completely- scar tissue, mesh, everything), and hernia repair.

The open abdominal wound, mesh, and infection that has been causing me issues for months? He literally cut the whole damn thing out of me!

My stay at UH Geauga was 5 very long days- I do have to say, I AM NOT A FAN of this surgery. Not because of the long hospital stay but the pain OMG there is sooooo much pain! I thought eh itd be like a c-sec/hernia surgery MAN I WAS WRONG!!!

This surgery hurts super bad- I am not a fan.

The nausea has not been too bad, I am tolerating liquids and Proteins well, I am healing beautifully, no issues with my staples or anything :) everything is going great- ALTHOUGH I did have to have 6 IV's while in the hospital- that is normal for me my veins are fickle bitches like me lol.

All in All I am doing great, happy to be home, happy for liquid oxycodone, and happy for an awesome surgeon!

Hope Your Day is Great,

*Amber*

The Starving Mom

starvingmom.wordpress.com

“I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to

be worth it.” - Art Williams

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congratulatoins, your new beginning starts tomorrow. You must be super excited and super anxious I'm so happy for you.

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congratulatoins, your new beginning starts tomorrow. You must be super excited and super anxious I'm so happy for you.

Actually it was 5 days ago lol

Hope Your Day is Great,

*Amber*

The Starving Mom

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“I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to

be worth it.” - Art Williams

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Yay! I am finally home from the hospital! Woot Woot!

So here is the low down people:

On Tuesday my surgeon decided that because he would be performing multiple surgeries and due to the complexity involved that he would like to move my surgery date up- So I had surgery the next day (a big deciding factor in this was that he would be going out of the country the day after my originally scheduled surgery and wanted to be on call to me while I was in the hospital should any complications arise).

So we scrambled and moved stuff around and at 6am Wednesday morning I went in for surgery.

Dr Rogula performed a RNY Gastric Bypass, A midline abdominal muscle resection, removal of previous hernia repair (completely- scar tissue, mesh, everything), and hernia repair.

The open abdominal wound, mesh, and infection that has been causing me issues for months? He literally cut the whole damn thing out of me!

My stay at UH Geauga was 5 very long days- I do have to say, I AM NOT A FAN of this surgery. Not because of the long hospital stay but the pain OMG there is sooooo much pain! I thought eh itd be like a c-sec/hernia surgery MAN I WAS WRONG!!!

This surgery hurts super bad- I am not a fan.

The nausea has not been too bad, I am tolerating liquids and Proteins well, I am healing beautifully, no issues with my staples or anything :) everything is going great- ALTHOUGH I did have to have 6 IV's while in the hospital- that is normal for me my veins are fickle b*****s like me lol.

All in All I am doing great, happy to be home, happy for liquid oxycodone, and happy for an awesome surgeon!

Hope Your Day is Great,

*Amber*

The Starving Mom

starvingmom.wordpress.com

“I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to

be worth it.” - Art Williams

So happy to hear you are home! I've been wondering how you are. I'm happy it all went well (besides the pain, that doesn't sound fun at all). Hope you are feeling better & recovering :)

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Welcome home! I'm glad to hear all went well. Don't overdo the first couple of weeks, especially considering the multiple surgeries. Get some rest!

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