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HOOAH My Way To A Thinner ME

A blog by armywife4life in General

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I am an overseas military wife stationed in schweinfurt germany who is in the process of trying to get the lap band approved, and this is my story.:thumbup:

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a lil over a month with the Band

well its been lil over a month since banding date and i can honestly say i feel great. I was very lucky i did not suffer much the first few days afterwards. no gas pains, weird sounds, etc. easy peasy and i am so grateful for that. I had the surgery done on a friday and went back to work the following tues. Probably could of went back on monday but i had already scheduled it off so i just took it. I have lost 21 lbs when i went to the doc office they said they would not put a fill in their

My Consult APPT

Okay i went on monday up to Frankfurt to see Dr. Weiner. I spent an hour in his waiting room. When it was my turn my appt. was like seriously 10 min. He just asked me which WLS i wanted. I told him the lapband, he said that he liked to do them on higher BMI then mine(what 40 isn't good enough:smile:) But i told him i was sure that this was the right choice for me and so no more was said. He just asked me when i wanted to do it. We settled on June 27th 2008. So it looks like ill be a jazzy

My Process so far

Well, i had been thinking about WLS for a long time. I started looking into different types about 8 mths ago. About 4 mths ago i stumbled onto this website and decided that yes the lapband was for me. I am overseas right now. My journey is a lil more complicated then most. I have tricare overseas, which my reps say is very hard to get approved for WLS. But i still needed to try. On March 28 2008 I went to my PCM to see about getting a referrel to see a WLS surgeon. My PCM was seriously n

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