Pre-ops Monday!!!!
Right now I am more nervous about that than the surgery!! 
huh?
I knew your day would be here very soon! 
Congrats! 
Debi,
Try not to be too nervous. If I remember, they will draw blood on you, do a chest x-ray, a physical exam, a urine test, just to make sure you have no problems prior to surgery.
During my physical exam, they thought I had a hardness in my calf and made me go get a sonagram of my leg to make sure there were no blockages. (There weren't). I realized later that the hardness they felt could have been muscle because I live on a 3rd floor walk up, but I didn't think of it at the time. I was glad they were that thorough, tho.
My testing took a few hours and some of it was waiting to go from this exam room to that lab, etc.
Good luck and it will sail by!
Sue
You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is. - Ellen DeGeneres
Debi,
The tests include a ekg and blood work. They did have to take about 5 vials of blood...that was hard because my body didn't want to give up the last one. It was just time consuming...nothing scary.
I know just how scared you are...I was totally petrified. Like I told Tessie...I had thoughts of bolting when I was in pre-op on the day of the surgery. But, I am so glad that I didn't.
Keep the faith...I am here for you!!
Rosemary
Yayyyyy Debi!!! All my pre-ops consisted of was a weigh in at my surgeons office and some q&a at the hospital and a little blood work...Best of luck to you!!!
Future Loser!!!!!!
Future Loser!!!!!! 
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Deb,
You big ball of nerves LOL You are so cute. preop is no big deal, You go to the 3 rd floor follow preop signs. Sign in thet call you in take your blood do you ekg and then you get directions to xray dept go to x ray dept sign in then they take you back and do your chest x ray.don;t wory about the smoking you used to do tey are just looking to make sure you don't have namonia. Wear no jewlery. And your done they will fax evertyhing to your doc for surgery clearence appt. This is the easy part.it is painless and only takes an hour not even. bring your parking pass with you they will validate it and it will be 1.00. I had a copay of 15.00. You will be fine sweetie. Call me if you want to talk.
Sheila
Are you still at a plataue? I can't get the scale to budge no for anything and I am getting so upset by it. I feel like such a failure right now. I have to be doing something wrong, but short of going back to a liquid diet I am not sure what to do. I just want to loose. Hope you are having better luck then I am in that area.
Sally
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