Question:
What is the best advice you can give to person facing surgery next week?

I am FINALLY one week away from my surgery date. My RNY is scheduled for October 2nd. What is the BEST advice you can give me? (Aside from eat protein, drink water and excerise lots. Thanks to this site, I KNOW all that!) I am looking more for the little tips...what have you learned that you wish you had known earlier? Any helpful hints? Any thing special I should pack for the hospital? Any thing special I should do at home to make my post-op period more pleasant?    — Polly F. (posted on September 23, 2000)

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