freaking out!!! surgery on july 29th

You're not the only one, but I tink that I am just excited, I have premanent butterflies in my belly. my surgery is on July 28th. i have been on Optifast for 9 days now, it's not so hard, I do feel hungry sometimes but a big glass of water or a sugar free popsicle usually does the trick.
 I have a good friend that had the surgery last Sept and she is doing great! She was 430 lbs and she is now around 200lbs, I have asked her if she knew what she does now before  she had it would she do it and she says absolutely. She is a member if you want I can hook you up to talk to her before you go in.

 i, too, am freaking out. i'm on my pre op diet and it's hard. very very very hard. my family ordered pizza tonight and i sat in the other room and cried b/c i thought how mean it was for them to bring that into the house when i feel like i'm starving on my pre op diet.

at least after surgery my tummy might not feel so empty and when i eat a little bit, i'll feel full... right? certainly hope so! lol

reading this post has made me calm down a bit, but i'm so nervous about the actual surgery and the follow up post op diet and being able to stick to everything.

obviously, in the past i've never been able to pull this off on my own, so hoping i can this time around.

not sure why i'm so scared, i see lots of people on here doing fine, i just worry about risks and dying during or shortly after surgery.

:( wish i could hug a bunch of post ops the morning of surgery to feel/know i'm gonna pull through.

You all are going through the same feelings that 99% of us had. 

 It is strange to actually do something that radical to you body.  BUT... it will be fine.

Remember - you WILL have what they call "buyers remorse"  for the first week.

Then the pain and the remorse will leave more each day.

I am 17 days post op and this weekend was the first weekend I really noticed that my pants are getting very loose.  So far I've lost 14 pounds although I haven't weighted today.

Just remember to have all your immediately family on board with this.  Telling them you'll be on vacation for the next month and that you will leave all the cooking and cleaning to them.  Then just relax and enjoy the time off. 

 Be sure to look at all the stuff you will need post surgical.  Main thing is buy protein drinks and if you know how to cook, make up some broths (chicken and onions...is my favorite) Buy a Magic Bullet.  it is wonderful for those drinks... plus ice water is like slush... mmmm.

Make sure that you drink lots of fluid and eat the required protein otherwise your body won't heal as fast.  What my nurse told me is to sip, sip, walk, and sip...

If you read the June's bulletin board, you'll see they are doing well. 

There is a July Surgery 2010 forum that just started up to help us July people understand what the other July person is doing.  Hope you'll come and join us. 

   We also hope to have a weekly chat to get an update on everyone.

Take careFriendInDeed(linda)

P.S.  that fear won't go away until you are out of the surgery suite.... but like us all Sleeved people say... we wouldn't change it back if we could.