Follow up on PreOp

Hey everyone!

So yesterday was PreOp, and I was completely ill afterwards.
Ill, as in p*ssed off!

Anyhow, this is how it went down:

I had to be there at 7 am, so I got my vitals done and then I was weighed. I have lost an additional 4 pounds. Which is great! I have started (kinda) my pre op diet habits to go ahead and get into the swing of it. Official PreOp Protein diet starts Tuesday though.
After some others arrived, our PreOp class started. This basically was just to re-emphasize the facts and important basics that everyone should have already known if they paid attention in their Nutritional Eval. (Clearly some did not.)
After the class, we all went down and signed up for pre-registration and had our blood drawn, urine tests and meeting with the Anesthesiologist.

The Anesthesiologist explained some very interesting details to me, but basically I did find out that I could wake up with a breathing tube in my trachea - which kinda freaked me out. I knew one had to go down during surgery, but they said they may have to keep it inside a little longer. She told me not to freak out and try to pull it out, because it did NOT mean that surgery didn't go well just because it was still there. She explained that with obese people, sometimes after general anesthesia they have a longer period of time before the gasses are expelled and they don't want to risk a collapsed trachea.

March 9th is my EGD (Endoscopy), and I will FINALLY meet Dr. Duncan face to face! I am very excited - to meet Dr. Duncan, NOT for the EGD lol!!

The hospital will be calling be within 2-3 days before surgery to give me an arrival time. I will be in surgery for about an hour and a half, and will be admitted to the hospital overnight and then sent home.

This is basically the whole shabang, and if anyone has anything they wanna ask please don't hesitate to email me or comment!

*Skinny Dreams of Skinny Jeans!*

~Elizabeth