Fear of death?

[Lkalfakis 5]

On ‎6‎/‎14‎/‎2018 at 1:59 PM, Love2Travel816 said:

Ugh.

I've been doing great with mentally preparing for this surgery and life afterwards until literally LAST NIGHT when I started to feel anxiety about it. What if something happens when I'm having the surgery? I don't want to leave my seven year old, etc, etc etc.

The logical side of me knows that death is so unlikely but I still worry about something happening.

Anyone else feeling this way?

My surgery is on 6/22 and I just started feeling the same things.

Surgery is scary, anesthesia is scary but the thought of living my life in my parents shoes (heart attacks, high blood pressure, arthritis, you name an side effect from obesity, they have it.) is scarier

There are risks in everything and sometimes you have to take one to make things better

[Bryn910 519]

I will never forget what someone else told me when I was worried about surgery: you can either die on the operating table or die not trying to save your life as a fat person

[Frustr8 7,886]

I would rather live with 5-7 small scars on my tummy which I don't expose that much to the sun anyway than to die, fat and unscarred and unscathed.

[redhead_che 824]

First, hi to a fellow KCMO pal! 👏

Second, yes I thought about this. But I just talked myself through it. And actually the morning of surgery I was cool as a cucumber...it’s that week before that got me going “what if” to everything.