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Hope the owies go away soon! Your probable more tender d/t the muscles are still not totally recouped from the Gall bladder surgery :hurt . However YAAAAAHOOOO you got your band!

Your surgery is 3/23/05? Thats Wednesday! I saw on another post you were getting a little apprehensive. thought you could use a pep talk. You will be fine. Sounds like your DR knows what he is doing and alot of his pts have posted here on LBT with all good things. Its normal to be scared before hand, your taking a big step. A big step in the right direction that is. Relax and go with the flow right now. your exciting new life is right around the corner.

Yeah your having way to much pain for being a week post op :think Did you go to a Oral surgeon? When is the last time he physically saw you? Get back in there. I had mine out years ago all 4 at one time, no it was not a pleasant experience. I was swelled up and black and blue forever. I sympathize with you greatly. Do Ice packets help? I thought straws were a no no. Any way (((((SOFT HUGS))))) to you and hope you feel better soon

Our hearts are heavy with sadness, our faces wet with tears, but today we must lift our hearts and faces to the sky and rejoice for Blossom is soaring with the angels. Blossom, May God bless and keep you and may Gods face shine on you may God be kind on you and give you peace

Hope all is well, take care of yourself. And YAAHOOO.

I find if I have to ask is because I don't think I look good. So even If he would say no I would probably still feel self concious. If you don't feel good in it don't wear it.

My thoughts are with you. You will be fine. You are so much closer to living your dreams not just wishing them.

what kinda wine should I bring?

Regarding Gadorade. Be careful with it if it has red food dye in it. When my kids were little(before all the pedilyte) we would give them gadorade for diarrhea. And the Dr said not with the Red dye because it can irritate the intestinal lining and make things worse

Alright Jan, glad to see you here. LBT people are very supportive no question to big or small or dumb. You got a date? keep us all posted.

Your going to be fine, may your recovery be uneventful. I am so envious. (not banded yet) Let us know how your are doing when you feel up to it.

Its called a 23 hour hold for insurance purposes. It is billed al little different. Give me an over night stay for piece of mind. You may not feel like you had major surgery but you did. Between possible urinary problems, cardiac problems, stomach problems, blood clot problems, internal bleeding problems, I wanta be where they can moniter me. I'm not a worry wart, just a nurse and know what can happen. I can sleep when I get home the next day.

Miracles do happen

He sounds wonderful, but I need to be the Devils advocate, Do you have his phone number and have called him? And do you know where he lives? So far from your posts he has called you and been to your place but not visa versa. Sorry to have to ask but a friend of mine got burnt big time by a married man, who inadvertently forget to mention to her about being married but always had an excuse regarding reasons he could not give here anything but his work # or never invited her over to his place. Oh I'm a bad house keeper, or my roommates home or whatever. Putting that aside I hope He REALLY is a nice guy. I'm married to one for 18 years not and he still makes me smile.

Glad to hear your doing good and are the mend. As a bandster hopeful people like you are an inspiration

I love it, very cool

Kim,your living now what I am dreaming. Your an insporation, keep up the good work.

Someone suggested I start my own thread. I bumped my intro. The bypass is very invasive, there are more complications possible, and I really don't like that alot of the weight loss with it is due to malabsorbtion. My PCP knew alot about the band when we went to him to ask about a referral letter. he already has a couple of pts that had the Band and they are doing well. Since he has been our PCP for 15 years he knows us very well including all our weight loss attempts and co morbities. We asked him and he said he thought we were both excellent candidates for the band. No problem with the letter. We have gone to 2 seminars We have both had our psych consults. and have a consult with Dr. Bhesania on March 28. The Lap band center of Michigan is only 25 minutes for us to get to. Another nice thing is the shorter recovery time. I am a RN and work contingent (when I want) but I have no benefits ie paid medical leave and my husband is self employed. He doesn't work, he don't get paid. So that is also a big factor 6 weeks to recover from the bypass would but us into financial ruin. We also buy our own health ins. We have bcbs it will cover the band if you have a bmi over 40, 12 consecutive months of Dr supervised weight loss attempts, pass a pysch consult. we meet that so now do the banding consult and summit to bcbs and cross our fingers. I have been doing alot reading on the internet. forums and articles. Just ordered a book and a cook book both written by people who have had the band

Good luck to you tommorow, I think there is someone else being banded tommorow too so good luck to both. :banana

Sounds like a bunch of us are in the middle of preauthorization land

So glad you are right, everything else is replacable or fixable. Sounds like your boy is becoming a man, Mom.

My B-day is 3-23-05 and dh asked me tonite what I wanted. Guess what I told him I just hope he gets the blender not the suppositories !( when I used a search engine for magic bullet both come up!)

Thanks Kelly my 17yr son read your post for me and put it through. I am so dumb when it comes to this thing.

Sorry to here it was such a bad experience. In Port Huron Mi. One of the 2 banding Drs speaks for about 1/2 hour. Take and answer questions afterwards. There nurse manager speaks also and tries to shed light on the preauthorization things and ins matters. Then at least one person who has been banded intros themselves and tells you of their journey. ALL are available afterward for questions. Then you need to call your ins for info, A letter from your PC. and a psych. consult. Then you set up a private consult with the DR.(This is where my dh and myself are at) and I believe that day talk to financial person and nutrition person. Give it one more chance and see if you feel better if not maybe you should look elsewhere. You really need to feel comfortable with these people.

Oh goodness do not get me going on teenagers room. I think the health dept would condemn our house! The only thing I can say is there is NO food in there. Yeah my 14 yr old is still like that. When she goes to bed at night, it all has to be on her night stand. tissues, water, chapstick, benedryl lotion, flashlight, notebook and fluffy pen,cough drops, container with 2 tylenol and a snotty nose pill, picture of her and friends, extra pony tail holder. When she does not feel good so she sleeps in the living room on the lazy boy all this comes with her. you should see when she spends the night at a friends house it takes two trips to the van. And visa versa when a friend spends the night. Everything in her room has stuff stuffed in it. purses, boxes, etc and all this stuff needs to be around her. Enjoy smile, shake your head because there will come a day when it is all gone no more clutter and you will so miss it and wonder where the time went.