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Pre-Surgery Shopping List - by LBSG Patients

 •           Popsicles (SF as needed)

 •           Crystal Light

 •           Jello (Sugar Free as needed)

 •           Gatorade

 •           Bouillon

 •           Bottled water – some like Propel, Fruit 2-0, or plain

 •           Cream of Wheat

 •           creamy soups 

 •           applesauce

 •           yogurt - Dannon Lite N' Fit

 •           Ensure, Boost, Glucerna - or whatever protein drink the    Dietitian asked you to drink based on your history

 •           chicken/beef/veggie broths (low sodium as needed)

 •           protein powder for shakes

 •           frozen fruits for protein shakes

 •           soups & broths

 •           liquid Tylenol

 •           liquid Gas-X or Phazyme

 •           heating pad

 •           "Imagine" Soups - in cartons. (Potato Leek, Butternut, Squash, Corn, Creamy Tomato....and more. They are considerably lower in sodium than Campbell ’s soups.)

 •           Chicken – cook before surgery, and save the broth, and freeze it in very small containers.  Less sodium than store brands, if you have a salt problem.

 •           Check if your medications are “crushable” (able to be crushed without causing problem with effectiveness) - Nancy

 •           Soup-at-Hand - soups - for creamy stage - great "comfort food"

 •           Small pudding cups (SF/FF) or yogurt - I would take a spoonful to get my meds to slide down easier - Nancy

 •           Pill cutter

 •           Chewable vitamins

 •           Tylenol or Motrin on hand.

 •           make sure you have lots of fluids

 •           buy all the groceries you will need for at least 2 weeks 

  Slip-on shoes

• Sugar free hot cocoa

  decaf tea

•  Citrus Burst Listerine Mints

•  Toilet Tongs- to be used if you are just to sore from the surgery to reach around and wipe your "behind". Just wrap the wipes aroung the and you have an additional few inches so that you don't have to contort yourself.

•  adult baby wipes

•  heating pad

•  Body Pillow

•  Liquid Pain Rx (Tylenol)

•  a pair of walkie-talkies

•  Benedryl cream to use around the insicions (not on the cuts themselves)

•  COUGH DROPS!!!

•  PREOPERATIVE SHOPPING LIST

   FOOD

   For fluid stage:

    • Bottled water – plain or flavored, some like Propel or Fruit 2-0

   • Popsicles (sugar-free as needed)

   • Crystal Light

   • Crystal Light “On the GO” in different flavors - add to bottled water

   • Jell-O (sugar-free)

   • Gatorade

   • Bouillon or chicken/beef/veggie broths (low sodium as needed)*

   • Ensure, Boost, Glucerna - or whatever protein drink the Dietitian asked you to drink based on your history*

   • Protein powder for shakes*

   • Frozen fruits for protein shakes

   • Clear soups

   • Decaf tea

   • Hot cocoa mix (sugar-free)

    For creamy stage:

   • Cream of Wheat

   • Creamy soups

   • Applesauce

   • Yogurt - Dannon Lite N' Fit

   • "Imagine" Soups - in cartons (Potato Leek, Butternut, Squash, Corn, Creamy Tomato....and more. They are considerably lower in sodium than Campbell ’s soups.)

   • Soup-at-Hand soups

   • Small pudding cups (sugar- and fat-free) - Take a spoonful to get meds to slide down easier

   •Sugar-free gum (ask your doctor)

   •Sugar-free breath mints (Ask your doctor)

   DRUGSTORE  

   • Liquid medications

   Tylenol (adult strength)

   Pain medications

   Gas-X or Phazyme

   • Chewable vitamins

    •Cough Drops

   Stool softener

   • Antihistamine cream, if you tend to get irritated by tape or bandages

   Do not put directly on incision.

   • Heating pad

   • Flexible ice pack

   • Pill cutter

   • Gauze pads 4x4

   • Non-irritating tape, such as paper tape

   • Kitchen timer – for 15 minute sip intervals for the first few days

  • Blender

  • Wet Wipes or “adult baby wipes” like Cottonelle

   • Toilet tongs (long barbeque tongs) – Use if you are just too sore after the surgery to reach around and wipe your “behind”. Just wrap the wipes around the end to get an additional few inches so you don’t have to contort yourself. 
  
   OTHER THINGS TO MAKE YOU COMFORTABLE

   • A few books or movies

   • Comfy clothes, such as loose-waisted shorts

   • Slip-on shoes

   • Squishy pillow for car ride -to cushion seatbelt

   • For women, a sports bra – “doc said no under wire for a few days”

   THINGS TO DO BEFORE SURGERY

  • Check if your medications are “crushable” (able to be crushed without causing problem with effectiveness).

  • Get rid of all the foods in the house you are not to eat, before you go to the hospital.

   • Buy all the groceries you will need for at least 2 weeks after surgery.

 • Catch up on your laundry and housecleaning.

 • Make arrangements for someone else to prepare family meals – You may not feel like cooking for some time.

 • Get a manicure or pedicure.

  •house dress that buttons up the front for trip home from the hospital. thick enough to just wear underpants and not able to see thru.

• medicine cups (for portions :) )