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My surgery is scheduled for 8/12/08 and I guess, subconciously I am more concerned than I thought I was.....LOL :)

This morning I woke up all mad because I dreamed that the room that I was put in, to wait for surgery was disgusting, like a dirty, old motel room but with unwashed clothing piled up all over the place and the bed was obviously dirty and slept in. For some reason, the hospital was in some sorth of un-used section of a strip mall somewhere and didnt look like a hospital at all! I kept insisting that I needed clean sheets and that the room was gross but none of the staff would listen to me and kept telling me that this is what my insurance paid for.......I am actually self pay so I was getting really irate in my dream and was getting ready to raise holy %$## - but then I woke up........what a crazy dream!!!

I guess my pre-op liquid diet is getting to me! eeeeek! :mad2:

Hope you are all doing well and hanging in there with this pre-op diet and waiting thing.......

Hugs,

Judie

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Wow! Definitely presurgery anxiety!! Hang in there, it'll be great!!!:teeth_smile:

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I know that it wasn't the least bit funny when it happened, but reading about it just tickled me. Isn't it amazing how our brain can put together the most bizarre dreams. We can always trace parts back to things that happened in the day before, or in the process as a whole, but to think that our minds can make up such a wacky story is pretty neat, I think.

Don't fret. I'm still a month away from sx but I'm sure that the jitters will be creeping in on me too as time gets closer. Keep hanging out here on the boards and you'll feel alot better. We're all band buddies here and we're here for each other!

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