Starting to get nervous...

Nerves are completely normal. Why don't you think of this time as a mini-vacation?  Rather than sitting around missing your kiddos focus on YOU, have some reading, etc., uninterupted YOU time.  Because with 4 kids, I bet you don't get a lot of that.  Maybe pack yourself some foo foo lotions, etc, and maybe even a facial mask or something like that that you could do  while resting.

You're right about that! *LOL*  Sometimes we actually have 5 children (when my step-son comes to visit).  I'm also a homeschooling mommy so my kids are ALWAYS home.  I'll definitely bring a book (or two since I read very fast) and some soduku puzzles.  A trip to Bath and Bodyworks wouldn't be out of the question to get some nice body spray and body butter.  Who doesn't feel better when they smell nice??   I have no idea how I'll be feeling since I'm having an open RNY.  My surgeon only does them open.  It's not like he's going to ruin my swimsuit modeling career or anything so the open part doesn't bother me.  But I'm dreading those first 1 1/2 - 2 days.  I remember how much pain I was in for the first 36 hours after my c-section.  Getting out of bed was agony.  Going to the bathroom was agony.  Trying to dress or clean myself was agony.  But then it was not so bad and then it was hardly noticeable and then it was gone.  I know the key is doing it anyway (walking and moving) even though it hurts.   I'm trying to consider this surgery a Christmas present to myself instead of thinking "why am I doing this right before Christmas?"  No matter when, it will always be right before something.  I want to be healthier before summer.  I'm tired of being the first one to sweat.  *LOL* 

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Hi there, I had my surgery with the doctor at United in April, trust me, you are in the best of hands.

The staff in the hospital in the best, the minute you walk into the hospital, you will see……nobody will judge you or look at you funny, as a matter of fact, you will find out that most of the staff had the surgery with Dr Warnock.

I had my husband with me, but he can only walk with you to the elevator, they move you to the “holding room”

Sound horrible, but it is not, where the doctor will check on you and then wheel you into the OR, that is all I can tell you….lol

I woke up in my room and send my husband home, I was either sleeping or watching tv, so I believed there was no need for him to just sit there, we are from Lawton also and had hit the road to WF early and he was tired, more than I was….surgery lasted just about an hour….In the afternoon, one of the wonderful nurses came in, showed me how to get up and out of bed ….there is a great trick to it….how to unhook the IV card and off we went, down the hallway and back, and one more time….did I tell you that you will love the morphine pump….lol….so I spend that day in bed, didn’t need my husband for that, he came back the next day, spend a few hour with me walking the hallway….I had a “squickie IV card, the nurses would start laughing because they could hear me from way down the hall)

But again, I send him home…..I looked at this whole thing as a nice vacation, ok, maybe I am just nuts, but I did enjoy the downtime of watching some tv and doing nothing but drinking water and walking and chatting with the other people there, I had the surgery on Tuesday morning, went to the Rathberger on Thursday morning, did my walking in the hallways there, by the way, it is a wonderful, clean place….had to call the doctor on Friday morning and since everything went well got to go home on Friday morning,

You will be fine, really…..