Congrats. I am also having my surgery on July 16th. I am not on a liquid diet this week. But I am on the protein drinks and the small meal a day. I am getting excited for the 16th to hurry up and get here. I am ready for the new start to a new lifestyle.

I'm going to be sleeved July 17th! 

 the subject is kind of self explanitory... 

I am getting nervous!

I'm thinking it is because of all my co-morbidities, I've had several surgeries on my stomach area beginning with my 1st of 3 umbilical hernia repairs, then I had my tubes tied in the same exact spot and then I've had two bladder repairs but one was vaginally and the second was from the outside down low under my overhang as I call it.  I have also had 3 back surgeries, 2 sinus surgeries, an implant installed to help with my pain and it didn't work and I had it removed. I've also had an elbow and knee surgery and I'm sure I've missed a couple.  Since my back surgeries failed I am in chronic pain daily and have two more disks ready to blow and my neurologist wrote a letter of referral for me to get this revision because in my condition I am too High Risk for another back surgery.  Between the 1st and 2nd back surgery I believe the first surgeon screwed up and missed several pieced of disk and they landed on my nerve.  Since this all happened during Christmas and New Years I had to wait from 12-7-1999 to Jan 4, 2000 for the second surgery and in the meantime I ended up with nerve damage all the way down my leg and into my foot - left)  I have been forced to take pain medication for quite a long time and at this time I take 200 mg of morphine twice a day every 12 hours and now have some morphine to take during breakthrough that doesn't stretch out 12 hours it there's immediately to help me out with pain.  I am so hoping that getting off 100 pound or more will help with the pain and I'm hoping to cut down on the pain medicine and I can live a more normal life.  As it is now I lay in bed most of the time.  If I go shopping I'm laid up for days.  Getting the little amount of exercise is very hard but we do have a treadmill.  Maybe all that is why they have said what they have.  I won't know for sure till I see the surgeon for the 1st time Friday the 13th.  My first appointment with them I seen the dietitian, the PAC and the insurance clerk.  They I was on hold since last December waiting for my insurance co to say yes to this surgery at the hospital where he does his surgeries and they are not providers for UnitedHealthCare - They finally approved it then I had to see a Psych which I passed, cardiologist, pulmonolist, x-ray of chest, ultrasound of stomach and lots of blood.  I have bad sleep apnea and have a BIPAP Machine I am unable to wear and the pulmonologist understands why I can't wear it with the settings I have to have it on.  My surge ion usually demands his patients to wear their machines and since the Pulmonology Doc ok'd me for surgery I'm not sure how that will be handled.  Where do you live.  Do you have a friend on here that will post about you while in surgery to let everyone know how you are doing yet?  I don't - I just figured out tonight how to put my surgery date on here.  Nice to hear from you and Hope you do well and I'm sure you will - it does bother me that they are putting me down for 8 hours for surgery and I was told I'd have a feeding tube and drainage tube and might be taking them home with me.  I do know I've been told revisions stay in the hospital longer than people getting their first surgery - were you told that?  Sorry for all the misspelled words.