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The Day Before--San Mateo

VickySGV

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I never thought I would feel this way right now, but the biggest reason I want to get the surgery over with tomorrow, is FOOD!! I want some BAD!!!

The instructions say Day Before Surgery --- Clear liquids only!! The worst is yet to come!!

I saw Dr. Bowers in her San Mateo office today, it was fairly short, but she did answer a couple of my remaining questions about how it will go. My weight which is a bit high, and my diabetes make me only slightly riskier than someone else at my age, but Dr. B is pretty sure I will do fine. The bad part of the visit was a set of prescriptions that included what Dr. B's office manager Robin referred to as "Evil Drink" which is actually polyethylene glycol, and does a real good job of cleaning you out from top to bottom. I have had it before and it frankly tastes like anti-freeze -- don't ask how I know -- . I have spent 5 hours within very close range of the toilet. Its appropriate to say I have felt crappy.

I am here in my hotel room sipping a Gatorade while the folks that are here with me went out to a first class restaurant!! That loud growling heard over the world is my stomach!!

I had blood work and an extra EKG done at the hospital after I got my prescriptions filled and met the person who will be Dr. B's first patient tomorrow. I am number 2. A third girl who is from Hong Kong also had her appointment and blood work done with us, but her surgery is Wednesday.

I will be in the hospital until Friday, but hopefully my friends can deliver the computer to me tomorrow afternoon, or since one of them is a new member here, maybe get her to update this for me.

Its still hard to believe its happening, but my empty tummy is telling me I had better believe it.

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Hi Vicky,

It will be over soon enough! I know that last few hours can be rugged, but all so worth it. May you enjoy your first meal all the more!

My thoughts will be with you - I know you're in good hands and will be fine - but will be waiting only a bit anxiously for that word from you.

Take care, deary!

Love, Megan

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All the best, Vicky. Make sure the docs count all the silverware on the way in and on the way out, OK? :) Take care of yourself first and foremost, and worry about posting later. If you post something while under the influence of pain meds, we're likely to not be able to approve it anyway, knowing how your mind works. :lol:

(((HUGS))))

Carolyn Marie

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Here's wishing you a safe and speedy recovery and lots of good food to go along with it

Mike

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The bad part of the visit was a set of prescriptions that included what Dr. B's office manager Robin referred to as "Evil Drink" which is actually polyethylene glycol, and does a real good job of cleaning you out from top to bottom.

That is NOT the Evil Drink they gave you. I had a colonoscopy last month and had both kinds of prep and the Polyethylene Glycol is nothing compared to the other crap. I couldn't finish the Evil Drink before my SRS or before my colonoscopy. It didn't affect my SRS, but I had to do a second round of prep with the Poly for the colonoscopy. So consider yourself lucky because the Evil Drink is exceptionally nasty!!!

Good Luck and we'll see you on the other side.

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It was two years ago tonight that I wrote this in San Mateo CA, just having a little fun bumping up in the Forum again. Tonight I have some mild flu symptoms, but I also have the memories of fear and excitement that were happening back then. It was there that night that some of my attitudes about the surgery itself began to change, and I began to see things good and bad that had lead up to it. I do not know how I really got to sleep that night, but I did, and actually got up on time the next morning. What an interesting two years it has been. My thanks to the mod's and the rest of you who have put up with me, or who even think I have helped you by talking to you. I know now what SRS DOES NOT DO even a bit more than I know what it really does, but it has been done, I still am here, and the post will be easier to find this time next year.

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I had seen you IRL just a few weeks before this post. I can only imagine the restless night before....

Want to say congrats on 2 years this morning.

C -

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