Mimi,
I can understand and identify with how you are feeling. In three and a half weeks I will be joining you on the quest for a healthier life. You are not alone in feeling the preoperative anxiety. My belief is all of us who make this step are ultimately increasing our lifespan as well as giving ourselves a gift many others would love to be able to do but are powerless to participate in the process for many of the reasons you are feeling. What we are doing is empowering ourselves and what others may think is in reality of no consequence. You would not have come this far if you were not committed to follow-through. I am not just talking to you when I say this but to myself also.
My best friend is a person I trust completely and his mother had the Gastric-Bypass done in Georgia here in the U.S.. Like a couple other forum members I have told many what my plans are for surgery in Mexico as well as a description of the Lapband procedure. This has been an ongoing discussion between he and I a couple weeks back he put me on the phone with his mom so I could ask her questions concerning her procedure. This was before I had let the cat out of the bag about my own plans. Well last week I gave him a call and filled him in. He freaked out a bit.
