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Time to change

Ok I have always wanted a Blog but never had the time or anything worth writing about, I guess this is it!

 

A Bit about me, I am 44, married to Tony with 1 son Josh who is 18.

 

Untl recently my job was working as an Admin Supervisor on a remote Gold Mine here where I live in Western Australia. Tony also works on a remote Gold Mine, just not the same one as me! I will come back to work a bit later...

 

I am from Wales (UK) originally and migrated to Perth in 2000 so my accent is still really strong! My family is still in Wales and I only have my sister and niece who migrated to Perth last year here.

 

I lost my job in Jan after working at Davyhurst Gold Mine since Feb 08 (mine closed) decided to take the time to get the lap band done before I start to look for another job as I have been in this situation over the years and always put the op off when a job offer came up. Not this time! This time I will get the band done first, get better then look for a job. My health had deteriorated over the last 6 month and after finding out I have Haemachromatosis (hereditary blood disorder) and type 2 Diabetes I decided I had no choice but to proceed with the band if I wanted to keep living past 50!

 

So, I made an appointment with a surgeon, checked our insurance and made the appointment for surgery. Imagine my surprise when he would fit me in as quickly as 10 days away on 23rd Feb 2009!

There wasn't a lot of time to think about it and I knew I wasn't going to change my mind!

 

There was no liquid diet that I have been told other people go on, I was told a light breakfast early morn of the surgery, before 7.30am and a big glass of water at 8.30am then nothing.

 

I had an appointment to see the anethetist on 19th who asked lots of questions about how am I with anesthesia, etc and that was it!

 

All I needed to do was wait for the op...

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Alisoninoz

LAP-BAND Patients

Ok I have always wanted a Blog but never had the time or anything worth writing about, I guess this is it!

A Bit about me, I am 44, married to Tony with 1 son Josh who is 18.

Untl recently my job was working as an Admin Supervisor on a remote Gold Mine here where I live in Western Australia. Tony also works on a remote Gold Mine, just not the same one as me! I will come back to work a bit later...

I am from Wales (UK) originally and migrated to Perth in 2000 so my accent is still really strong! My family is still in Wales and I only have my sister and niece who migrated to Perth last year here.

I lost my job in Jan after working at Davyhurst Gold Mine since Feb 08 (mine closed) decided to take the time to get the lap band done before I start to look for another job as I have been in this situation over the years and always put the op off when a job offer came up. Not this time! This time I will get the band done first, get better then look for a job. My health had deteriorated over the last 6 month and after finding out I have Haemachromatosis (hereditary blood disorder) and type 2 Diabetes I decided I had no choice but to proceed with the band if I wanted to keep living past 50!

So, I made an appointment with a surgeon, checked our insurance and made the appointment for surgery. Imagine my surprise when he would fit me in as quickly as 10 days away on 23rd Feb 2009!

There wasn't a lot of time to think about it and I knew I wasn't going to change my mind!

There was no liquid diet that I have been told other people go on, I was told a light breakfast early morn of the surgery, before 7.30am and a big glass of water at 8.30am then nothing.

I had an appointment to see the anethetist on 19th who asked lots of questions about how am I with anesthesia, etc and that was it!

All I needed to do was wait for the op...

yoco28

LAP-BAND Patients

Wow! u got ur surgery in 10 days after ur first apointment? So I guess u had no pre-op testing. How did it all go? Best of luck to u!

yoco28

danitrabrown

LAP-BAND Patients

congrats on the decision to get banded! It is life changing...I have a really good friend that lives in W Australia...Cant wait to go visit her and her husband their new baby...did u get it done in Australia...wow! good luck!!!

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