Thanks all!

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Thanks to all of you for the replies soo fast! I love the response

on this board! Everyone is always so helpful. I am feeling better

today...not as depressed. I think I just felt soo bad last night

cause I thought I was gettng sick again for the 2nd time this month

but I feel a lot better this morning thank goodness! I also counted

down on a calendar last night and realized I only have 39 days left,

that sounds better than 5 1/2 weeks! lol

Seems like we are getting more and more June surgery buddies...are

we up to 5 or 6 people now?? I guess June is a popular month cause

of summer vacations and taking time off...

Sara...definetly tell me how the pre-op work went today! I go to my

ortho on May 10th for who knows what lol...then the surgeon on May

24th...then the hospital pre-op stuff on June 7th.

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> > I ordered my Zip and Squeeze bags and head wrap yesterday for my

> > surgery on June 14th. I am counting down the days to this

> > surgery...and i am very happy to be under the 6 weeks away mark!

> > Although I am starting to get a little nervous. I have never

had

> > any type of surgery before under general anisthesia. What is

> waking

> > up in recovery like? Do you even know how bad you feel or are

you

> > too drugged? How many of you had a cathater and did they put it

in

> > after you were out? Is there any way to prevent throwing up

after

> > surgery...cause i have a major fear of it (like i start shaking

> and

> > crying whenever i do...which i havent thrown up since my wisdom

> > teeth 2 years ago..which is also what scares me!) And last...do

> > people still recognize you after surgery..but just wonder why

you

> > look a little different? or do you have to say who you are to

> > people?

> >

> > Also, I am a dance teacher so I spend every night looking in the

> > mirror lol..and I have always been self conscious of how i look.

> And

> > now that my surgery is coming closer, I am getting extremely

self

> > conscious of the whole thing and I feel like I am starting to

get

> > depressed a little. I dont even wanna go to dance cause I always

> > feel horrible about how I look after. And not to mention we

have

> > recitals (I'll be on video) and pictures and all this month. I

> dont

> > wanna take the pictures till after my surgery but my mom is

making

> > me now. Does anyone have any advice to get through these

> next

> > 6 weeks without getting totally depressed about how I look pre-

> > op??? Thanks....just not feeling good tonight cause Im sick and

I

> > had to vent!

> > ~