November is Days Away. Please share your feelings about your surgery.

My Surgery is 11/24, lap-band, and I am nervous/excited.  I am doing my pre-op tests on 11/3.  I have given up pop/caffiene, which was pretty tough and I have started to take vitatmins.  I am getting a special balloon that I am supposed to blow up to stregthen my lungs as well.  Is anyone else's doctor having them do this stuff?  I am glad about the caffiene thing, though, I can imagine going through that right after surgery!  I had no idea how dependant on it I was!!

Any advice you have is welcome!!!
-Ready to Bloom

They gave me a breathing thingie LOL.  I breath in the hose and try to keep the ball up on one side of it and as I suck the air in, it raises a float on the other. I have to  raise that float to a certain level every time. 
I don't have to give up caffiene until the day before surgery, but I think Nov 1 I'm going to give it up. (my surgery is the 10th)

The biggest thing that I have noticed is that i am not as mentally sharp as is normal for me. I keep leaving things or forgetting things. I am mainly very excited. Every time I begin to think about getting nervous I seem quite successful at telling myself that I am not going there.  But I still have a week, so  I imagine when it gets down to he wire, it may be different.
Teri

My surgery is the 20th I have preop the 11th. I am so excited yet a bit nervous after all this is major surgery. I have a little girl so I worry I will leave her but I am also confident in my surgeon and feel like everything will be fine. I had a c section so I know what surgery pain is it hurt but was tolerable so that is what I am expecting. We are all starting a wonderful journey and I am so glad I have all you wonderful people to go through this with. I wish you all luck and great health. Here is to a new beginning.

I can't wait to turn the page of the calendar to see my surgery date (11/21)!  Three weeks from this Friday, but who's counting :).  I'm excited and impatient for the day to come.  I'm definitely more restless and anxious.  I'm grateful to be busy at work...otherwise I'm preoccupied with surgery most of the time.  

I have my pre-op appointments next week, then I'll start my 2 week pre-op diet.  I don't know all the details of the diet....4-6oz of protein per day, unlimited veggies, limited fruits & carbs, and protein shakes.  Half-way through my pre-op diet phase I have friends (who don't know I'm having WLS) coming for brunch, so I'm trying to figure out a creative menu.  They'll definitely notice me skipping the latte and mimosa!  Thanksgiving will be interesting too!  I'm fine with turkey broth, but not quite sure what to do with/for my family.  I'll only be a week out from surg, so don't plan to be cooking for them!

SG

18 days away!  Looking forward to the surgery and life after!  Find myself living in the future though and not the now and enjoying the moment - everything is "after my surgery this will be different."

Can't wait!

My emotions are all over t5he place wiating till the 6th for my Lap RNY.  I've had surgery lots of times before so I'm not worried about pain because I have a very high tolerance for it but I'm more worried about all the other things that can happen with this surgery. 

Had what I would call an anxiety attack last week.  Totally out of the blue.  Couldnt settle down, was pacing all over the house.  It was over in about an hour and thankfully it hasn't happened again but all I can say is "I can't wait for Thursday."

I have been forgetting things that I normally would never forget (appts, shopping list...) little things that lets me know I'm preoccupied with having this surgery. 

November 5
Im excited and so is everyone who i have told except my youngest son-
i am having my farewell to food and not enjoying it as much as i thought i would!!

Six sleeps and my day is here. I am totally calm about it. The problem is I am starving right now. I am on day eight of my preop liquid diet. Day five was the worst. I wanted to eat so bad. My stomach yelled at me for hours. I weighed myself and was up four pounds from the day before. I had not cheated. I was about in tears. I had to keep telling myself its for my liver. My liver is shrinking. I made it thru that crisis but here comes another one. Today I am starving again. My stomach is yelling at me to feed it. I am staying strong but it is actually keeping me awake. My liver had better be shrinking. This is painful. My DH is sick with a cold and if I get it and they postpone my surgery I will not be strong enough to go thru this again so I will be in trouble. I do not expect a long recovery and think I will be fine as soon as I get the surgery, Its the waiting and preop diet that is killing me. I wish I could sleep till then.

I received my surgery date a month ago. Then it was a little un-real. I would think ,okay in a month I'm going to have lap RNY but the date was weeks away. Now it's a few days away and I'm a little scared. But my emotions are really all over the place.