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I own a fairly large company, and less than a week before my surgery 2 of my senior people resigned! I cannot believe my luck. Now I have to hunt for new people during the holiday week and I am flying out on Thursday evening! This would have been a perfect moment for some chocolate ice cream!

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Hello September bypass buddies,

It's one week from tomorrow that I have surgery (9/11). I know some of you are having surgery this week. So, I wish you the best of luck. I'm also getting very nervous so I am trying to keep myself busy. I look forward to hearing you all after your surgeries.

Cheers,

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chasingpolaris321 How did your surgery go? I hope you're doing well! My thoughts are with you.


Hi!! Thanks for checking! My surgery went way better than I could have hoped for. I woke up joking with the nurses and was up and out of bed the first day. I haven't had any trouble with Water or fluids (protein shakes are a little harder) and I just came home after a two night stay yesterday afternoon. I had a bit of an unusual situation with the pain medicine where I have Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction as a side effect of having my gallbladder removed, and so they did some really creative thinking with my anesthesia- I had a Ketamine infusion during the surgery and then lots of local anaesthetic to keep the incision pain down. I did end of taking one narcotic that didn't give me any trouble, and so it's been a pretty smooth few days. Today I'm going to do more walking, sipping, and Protein Shakes. Good luck to everyone with impending surgery dates! I'm thinking about you all!


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I'm sept 15th also!!! I'm from Cabot Arkansas. On dat 4 of my 2 week pre op liquids and doing pretty good!


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So happy surgery went well for you @ chasinpolaris321!


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On 8/9/2017 at 9:25 AM, janini said:

9/13! Very excited!

I'm getting my revision to the bypass on the 13th. :D

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Tanisha Rny, Pigluva, dilenia1983, zleng--all of you are in my thoughts today. I hope your surgeries go well and you have a chance to check in with us soon!

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This topic is moving so fast, it's already hard to keep up with who's gone through and who's still waiting and the month is just starting. I just wanted to say, good luck to everyone having the surgery this week, stay strong for all of us dealing with the pre-op diet, and hang in there to those of you anxiously awaiting the end of the month.

As for myself, I am 1 week away from surgery and getting plenty sick of Protein Shakes. We can do this!

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Thank you. My surgery is on Friday but I am feeling really guilty flying away from St Florida right before hurricane Irma hits us. Some of my family is staying behind.

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