Less than a week... Am I scared?
Ok I will have my surgery on Monday the 19th at 10:30AM with Dr Stanley Hoehn at Shawnee Mission Medical Center in Shawnee Mission KS. I went yesterday for my final consult and was asked if I was ready. I said lets go now! He said I knew you would say that.
All labs came back perfect and he signed the paperwork saying I was having the surgery. Yippee!
Make some room guys cuz my fat ass will soon be taking up some space on that losers bench!
I get asked a lot if I'm scared.... the answer to that question is I'm terrified.... I am terrified that I will wake up and the surgery didn't happen, I will be content with that fact that if I face death and if I do die I at least died trying... Not just sitting here wasting away a slow miserable death. I will survive this surgery and I will succeed and make all my pains, trials, and time worth it. I will live!
I hope and pray a year from now I will be half the man I am today, living 10 times the life I am now.
See you on the bench!
You'll do just fine! I'm just about 3 weeks out and I wouldn't change a thing!! I didn't get scared about my surgery, just anxious and nervous. I put my faith in the Man Upstairs and he helped me through. It gets kind of scary when it comes time to actually go through with it. I was all for going for it until it was a couple of days before surgery then I thought WHAT AM I ABOUT TO DO TO MYSELF?? Luckily I got over it. Everything went better than expected, although I did have one LITTLE surprise! When I went in, I was expecting an RNY, however, once in surgery, the surgon found out that my small intestines wouldn't strech up to my pouch. The doctor talked with my wife and told her he could either close up without doing anything or have a VSG. Guess what I got? The only problem is that I hadn't researched VSG and knew very little about it. Don't worry, I'm sure you'll do fine. By the way, my wife had her Lap-Band done last wednesday. We'll save you a spot on the bench!
I remember driving to the hospital at about 5 in the morning and told my wife "This is the last chance to turn around and go home". I think that was as close as I came to being afraid.
I think guys are wired different.. We've got the Screw It attitude and we get it done. You'll have it, and you'll rock with the rest of us on the losers bench.
I think guys are wired different.. We've got the Screw It attitude and we get it done. You'll have it, and you'll rock with the rest of us on the losers bench.
You're statistically at more risk driving to the hospital. Go kick it's ass and reclaim your life. I'm 169 days out and haven't regretted the surgery not once.
The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking....... If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog.
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