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I just had surgery so it wont be until well into May or June next year. {)i(} Sent from my iPhone using VST {)i(}

That's funny you mention that because when I go for the EGD I was thinking I might just drive myself there and let the Marriott take me to and from the OCC, however they drive so crazy in Mexico. The marriott is super close to the border though, it's almost easier to drive there than do the whole border crossing thing. I was thinking about scheduling mine around my friends lap band fill and follow her in. She and her boyfriend drive back and forth all the time for lap band fills and to visit. Then I was thinking I could follow an OCC van back the other way {)i(} Sent from my iPhone using VST {)i(}

I confess that I want to go back also because I want to go to the Marriott because some of the foods at the buffet looked soooo good. Even if it is just a teaspoon of some of the items. Speaking of confessions, I started using a straw a few days ago. I haven't exploded yet. {)i(} Sent from my iPhone using VST {)i(}

Is anyone going to go back to the OCC for the follow up EGD or when do you plan on having it? I want to have it there because I have a ridiculous copay (800) for it here and I also don't want anyone messing up my new tummy. How does that part work? {)i(} Sent from my iPhone using VST {)i(}

The Batcave is well equipped with all the fancy gadgets and gizmos. No need to pack anything of that nature. They do have magic glue! They use that for your other incisions though. I was expecting to have a huge mark where the JP site was when the steri-strips fell off, but it looks just like the other sites- small. It has one little mark above and below it where the stitch the hold it in place was. I don't know why I was thinking it would be a huge hole. The longest incision I have is the one to the left of my umbilicus and it's just over 1.25 inches long (I measured it). They are definitely way better than I expected them to be. {)i(} Sent from my iPhone using VST {)i(}

Karliy, you're right! It was going to be at the pool. I definitely don't think you will be in any condition to get in any pool even if you could, much less expose your fresh incisions to chlorine. You're going to have a 4x4 dressing on your JP site with a lot of tape over it that you can't get wet. You don't shower until day 3. You shower before your appointment and they change it that day. Then the day you leave, they pull the drain and put steri-strips on the site and a couple 4x4s just in case you have a little drainage. {)i(} Sent from my iPhone using VST {)i(}

Jane I've tried that. It doesn't work!! {)i(} Sent from my iPhone using VST {)i(}

You have to give her you goal weight too. {)i(} Sent from my iPhone using VST {)i(}

I would leave a message on the thread for the OP and she'll answer you. We just started on Thursday and will check in weekly every Thursday until Thanksgiving. {)i(} Sent from my iPhone using VST {)i(}

http://www.unjury.com/store/protein/reg/chicken_soup_flavored_protein.shtml {)i(} Sent from my iPhone using VST {)i(}

It's a challenge for sleevers to set a realistic amount of weight to lose and try to reach it by Thanksgiving. It started on Halloween http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/topic/97485-thanksgiving-challenge/ {)i(} Sent from my iPhone using VST {)i(}

Thank you Thinnatater, Raven, and Lew. I'm gonna kick it into high gear for the Thanksgiving challenge {)i(} Sent from my iPhone using VST {)i(}

Here I go Lew! Preop Day 2 postop with my doc Almost 4 weeks postop (will be 4 weeks Monday) Not a major difference. We'll see after the Thanksgiving challenge {)i(} Sent from my iPhone using VST {)i(}

I'm sorry I feel that way too because I truly didn't expect to. That's ok- I get back to reality aka work this week. {)i(} Sent from my iPhone using VST {)i(}

No! No tap water. They give you bottled water in your room daily and you get an additional couple of bottles daily from room service at your request. I didn't drink it all and took a few bottles home. I went to Walmart the night before surgery for Gatorade. Does Gatorade make powder to mix in water? That's an idea to bring with you if they do (I think they do?). I took some of my Unjury chicken soup flavored protein powder with me. As far as foodstuff, i don't think there's anything you can bring that you would need that wouldn't be perishable. You can have FF drinkable yogurt I believe day 4 but that's about it. I had clears until I made it home. {)i(} Sent from my iPhone using VST {)i(}

Had to chime in again. Some of the newer people on this site choose not to post because the vets are a bit abrasive under the veil of being or trying to be sarcastically funny with one another. They really crack themselves up don't they? I've attributed it to the hormone shift once you get closer to your goal weight. We will be there one day as well. What I will do if I'm still posting on this site in one to two years is be mindful of where I was at that point in time and if I can't control myself and feel the need to be pushy with people on a support site is find something else productive to do with my time and log off. Or maybe start a private group somewhere else where I dont have to try to resist being overly aggressive with nervous preop/freshly postop fat people. There's a difference between tough love and being snide, but just like in our real lives when we have to deal with dumb a@ comments- some people just don't know any better. {)i(} Sent from my iPhone using VST {)i(}

MOM is nice. It hasn't caused me any abdominal cramping like some laxatives do. Doesn't taste great, but the result is. {)i(} Sent from my iPhone using VST {)i(}