Ottawa Civic Hospital WLS
Advice for the pre-ops?
My best advice is just breathe, you are about a week from the biggest change in your life, the pre-op is nothing, make sure if you have insurance through work or a spouse you bring your card, you may want to call the insurance company and see if they cover semi-private rooms, as they are much better 2 to a room, then 4. And after its all done patience, the weight didnt come on overnight and it will not come off overnight, but have patience, I started optifast nov, had surgery booked for jan, and there were complications, started optifast again in march, had vsg on april 11th, since nov till till now I am down 72lbs, so this is going to be life changing. That being said it is still not easy, after the surgery you are gonna have that OMG what did I do moment, this was a mistake but it will pass as soon as you hit a scale. Good luck, and welcome to your new healthier life
Steven
-got into some sort of a workout routine pre-op
-educated my family better (my husband does a lot of the cooking)
-taken the full 6 (or 4/as per surgeon) off to adjust to eating differently and, of course, heal
-not packed so much for the hospital
-do NOT get over focused on the scale. You will go through plateaus...mine lasted 4 weeks!
Really happy that I really educated myself beforehand and started therapy to deal with my relationship toward food as well as how to deal with changes in my family dynamic (suddenly high energy wife is frustrating to chilled out hubby).
Ottawa ~Referral Mar 2011~Orientation Aug 2011~Meet w Nurse May 14, 2012~Dietician/Behav/Abdo Ultrasound July 5, 2012~Colonoscopy Aug 8, 2012~Dietician#2 Aug 30, 2012~Endoscopy Nov 9, 2012~Pre-op class Jan 2, 2013~ Meet w Surgeon Jan 8, 2013 ~Start Optifast Feb 15, 2013 ~Pre-Admit. Mar 6, 2013 ~SURGERY March 8, 2013 (RNY/ Dr. Raiche)~Post-op Class/Follow-up appt. April 25, 2013