You're going to do great. Luckily the clinic will give you some "chill pills" before surgery so that your anxiety doesn't get away from you. Sometimes you just have to push through the worry and tell yourself that this decision is one that you made to better your life.

surgery will come and go so fast you won't even realize what's happened. The doctor's at OCC I do sincerely believe have a passion for what they do and how they help people and they are blessed doing the work that they do. Why else would all of the patients that they have had - have such high regard for them?

I am a worry wart myself as I experienced a great tragedy early on in my life. So I've lived with this constant fear of death/dying my whole life which has really stopped me from living life. Being a single mom too made me all that more worried that if I went through with this surgery that I would leave my son behind. I always told myself if at any point I didn't feel comfortable at the clinic I would not go through with it. But everything from the driver, the hotel, the facility and the staff made me feel like I was in expert care. and I came out of surgery feeling better than any other surgical procedure experience I have ever had. I don't regret it one bit.

My thoughts and prayers are with you tomorrow and I'm so excited for you that you will be on this journey in your life.

i am still saving for my surgery, looking to do it end of may - begining of june. This is so great your doing this, don't worry about a thing! Remember you are adding years to your life! I am so envious , I hope I can come up with what i need and get my surgery done soon too. please let me know about your experience, btw what kind of pre-op tests did they do? oh well get some rest, you have a big day , I will pray for you. This is so exciting!

I'm so glad you've posted your progress. Everything will be okay....I come in on Sunday and I'm just like you a little nervous and excited at the same time .....I also have to have a hernia repaired so I praying that the pain won't be any greater or the recovery any longer. I am so blessed to have you guys for support.

Pre -op tests for me were blood test, which is why they need u fasting, meeting with nutritionist, ekg, and lung test (blowing in a tube 1 time). That part went fast.

Thanks so much for your post. I have 22 days until I go for surgery ( just think by then you will be done with liquid phase yippie). I found it so informative. You answered questions that I was unsure of & gave me a sence of relief. I was thinking I needed to take bottled water, broth, etc but if there is a store that close I am not fooling with it. I hope things are going well and you are pain free. Let me know how you are doing.

Today is my last day in Tijuana. We went to the Revolution Street Market (shopping street similiar to the Old Strip in Vegas or Bourbon Street in New Orleans). Lots of souvineers. It was fun, but you have to barter. I would rather just see a price tag and take it or leave it. The Lucerna provides 2 bottles of water per day, when they clean your room and they have a restaraunt in the hotel that my husband likes a lot. He has brought me up some tea and stuff from there. They do have a coffee pot in the room and I brought some boullion cubes and made broth a few times. Everywhere we have been sells bottled water, even restaraunts. We went back to the Mexican restaraunt diagonal to the hotel, it is called Casa de Mole, and I had the chicken broth. It was so yummy! Most everyone can understand english here but I also put the Spanish translator on my iPhone and it did come in handy today at the restaraunt to say "clear liquid diet" so they gave me the soup without the chicken and rice in it. This is unbelievable since it was just soup, but I feel like I ate way to much of it. And I was eating it slowly.