I had mine done lap.  To say the IV is the hardest part is both a joke and serious.  I am a hard person to stick.  Once the IV is in you, all you have to do is be wheeled to the OR, moved onto the OR table, then fall to sleep.  My wife had an open surgery done.  Your recovery time will be much longer and your pain worse, I'm sorry to say.

good luck to everyone with their upcoming surgeries. I hope they are uneventful with speedy recoveries. See ya on the losers bench.

Well daisy would not be my preference for my son, but he wants her to be part of the family, Soooooo what can I do....I wonder if she can cook since my son is convinced he will be living on burger king after my surgery ( he is used to me cooking dinner everyday and after Nov 20th, he is on his own)

So Congrats on your new life!  Anyway, I have not had the surgery yet, but I have heard from A LOT of people that they have diarrhea for a while.  Think about it, you are taking nothing but liquids in, how would a solid come out?  Liquid in, liquid out.  Of course you are nervous!  Any major surgery causes changes and we all want to live (isn't that why we go through this?) so any thing that seems abnormal we want told we are okay.  Jus****ch for fever, increased pain (real pain) and signs of infections at your incision sites.  Get plenty of rest and start taking/drinking protein asap, it helps to promote healing.  Good luck. 

Whey Isolate , NSI,  large container.  Don't buy the fruit flavor it is terrible. I'm gonna just use diet jello  if I want fruit flavor.  I have my EGD, wed., to check my stomach out. then next week preop workup  wow then next vixit is surgery. Seems unreal been getting ready for a year.