Hi Sarah
It is so nice to know that we will be having the bypass on the same day and that we are in the same boat. It is perfectly understandable to feel the way you do and I expect we all feel like that from time to time pre-op. I just keep telling myself that this time it is all going to work. I went private for my band and, at the time it was the only option I could afford but I SO wish I had borrowed the extra two thousand and gone ahead with the bypass at the time.:sigh: It would have all be over and done with and I would prolly be nice and slim now.
However, I am putting things right now, thanks to an inheritance (thank you Auntie Rosalie), and although this surgery is a bit more invasive I am not going to feel it as I will be asleep and the recovery seems to be just a wee bit longer than the band.
I had big concerns and told my surgeon about them. I was worried about being too old and he laughed and told me that I was, in fact, one of his younger patients
He also informed me that the surgery would be a lot simpler and safer because I was slimmer this time and as I seemed to have no problems with anaesthetic he was not concerned about me undergoing surgery again. He said that my diabetes would probably go right into remission as soon as I had the bypass and my arthritis, arteriosclarosis (sp?) and angina would all improve dramatically.
Come on sweetheart, chin up. You can do this and you know that we will both be so pleased that we did next Tuesday morning. We can buddy up and compare notes on our progress and help each other out. As someone said in a previous post - the whole bariatric surgery team are totally used to operating on large people and they wouldn't operate on you at all if they thought you might be at risk.
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