I appreciate you keeping me in your prayers.  Yes, I have  a leave of absence, then summer- I'm a teacher.  I will have lots of time to adjust and spend time I need to on myself as I start this journey.  I wish you all the best- your day will be here before you know it!  I didn't have Dr. I, but if you have questions about my experience I'm happy to share. 

To answer your quesion about getting up -

I live alone so I had some concerns about coming home and being alone during recovery. I didn't need to worry. My recovery was almost effortless and I hope yours is, too. The hardest thing to do, tho, was get out of bed. Here's what I did. Roll over onto your side and push up to a sitting position from there. I couldn't have done a sit-up to get up. So go to your side first then push up.

Dr. I didn't use a drain but did use a catheter. I'm glad, too. The catheter was painless. In fact I didn't even know I had one for the longest time. I had drains for my breast reduction surgery 6 years ago and they really bothered me. Glad I didn't have them for this surgery.

I think Dr. I is very good at what he does. I didn't have any problems at all post surgery and I'm losing steadily. He uses a size 38 fr. bougie. There doesn't seem to be a standard bougie size for VSG - it's all what the surgeon believes in. Some go as small as a 32 fr. I don't know how much difference bougie size makes as long as it's not a 40 fr or larger, I guess. If you have a chance to talk to him about it, do so. I mentioned bougie size to him as I was being put under - not a good time for a chat! 

 thanks so much for posting.  I am praying for you.  On the eggs, the last time I was at the U of M for presurgery meetings, the physicians assistant cautioned me specifically about eggs.  She said that even their own dieticians are telling people they can eat these sooner than they really can -- peolple tend to crave them and they look so soft and mushy and therefore "appropriate" but are easy causes of bloating that can break staples if introduced too quickly.  Wow -- I just love scrambled eggs so I hope I'm not one of the people who has to really be super careful about them.  Can****hat sounds fun.  Sounds like besides getting smaller, a lot of people get markedly fun lives after this surgery -- or maybe they just had them already.  I don't have any money to spare with the surgery and single parenting with a child in a nonpublic k12 school
best.

 thanks so much for the update.  I am praying for you.  are you on a leave of absence from an employer?

Yea!!  Congrats.