Will I be able to Cope?

I am sitting here going through the Obesity Help forums and following links for recipes for shakes and trying to figure it all out. Then it occurred to me that this will be a massive undertaking. If I don't eat right I will get sick. There will only be a small stomach and it can only hold so much. I need help with the meal planning. It seems the more I try to find out about the food part the more confused I get.

The shakes I feel good about because it's all done for me, all I have to do is stir them together. The Lean Cuisine, I just have to remember to get. And the Crystal Light. I love iced tea CL but not the fruit flavours to drink all day long.

I just feel like, remember when you were pregnant and the baby was inside and all you were responsible for was yourself while the baby was inside. Well I remember how I felt when Amanda was finally here and I realised with a shock that here was this helpless little baby and what was I gonna do about it?

That's how I feel about this WLS. Dr Pohl will make me a little stomach and now that it is here, what do I do for it. This might sound strange but that's how I am beginning to feel. While I have quite a few things wrong with me, I have always been proud of my iron-clad stomach. I understand if I don't chew right or try to eat the wrong thing I will throw up or have pain and things I am not used to my stomach doing.

This must be my crazy mind working overtime but it's only now beginning to creep up on me. I am not afraid of surgery or hospitals, I have been there before. I am able to understand what will happen in the operating room and I know I will wake up after and be in recovery. They will keep me in hospital overnight and send me toddling off home the next day with a new little stomach. All that I know and understand.

What makes me nervous is, how do I feed the thing so as not to upset it? Remember I have an iron-clad stomach and so am not used to throwing up or any of those things. I have to have protein and vitamins so they must stay down to do any good. Worry worry worry