headin_to_mxico

Where do you live? Good ol' California How old are you? 28 Are you married, dating, significant other, partnered? Happily Married Any children? Yes a two year old son and a just turned seven year old daughter Grandchildren? Someday I hope! Pets? Yes a kitty and a Dalmation Currant Health Morbidities? I dont have any serious morbideities, but my Dr said my blood sugar level is boarderline diabetic. He said if I lose weight I can get it in check before it turns into something serious. Also my feet hurt all the time, my back hurts all the time and I dont have enough energy. What are your greatest Fears? By far it is that my band will slip or errod. I am self pay so the expense of the removal surgery and the loss of my band would be more than I think I could take. I would never be able to afford to replace it and my insurance doesnt cover any complications from WLS so Id even have to pay for the removal myself. What is your weight loss short term goals and Long term goals? My short term goal is to get this band so I can get started! My long term goal is to shed 60 lbs and never gain them back! Also to get a TT once I lose the weight! List at least one thing you want to do/wear/eat/buy when you reach your goal? I want to wear a bathing suit that isnt a granny bathing suit. It doesnt have to be a bakini, but at least a cute one piece that dosent have the granny skirt thingy attached to the bottoms. God damn Im so sick of wearing a granny skirt bathing suit and only being in my 20's. Im way to young to be wearing one of those!!!

Aww I see my name there. I had to switch my sugery date till June 18th. =( Its a sad day for me knowing today would have been the day I was suposed to be banded. =( Stupid swine flue. Its all calmed down like I totally thought it would, but I cancelled last week because of the President's urge for people not to do travel to MX if they didnt absolutely have to. June 18th was the soonest I could go back because I have finals starting next week for two weeks then I jet off to Hawaii for two weeks and when I get back from there Im going to want a week with my kids before I leave them for another five days to go to MX. So no banding stories from me today. I wont be posting that till June.

Hey good luck tomorrow! How exciting! Well my insurance wont cover ANY of the band or any complications that arise from it, so Im going to MX to have it done there where there are skilled Dr who charge half the price. My cost for a single insision surgery is 8400 USD It took me a year to save up for the money. Now it will pay off for the rest of my life! I already love my band that I dont have yet. Kinda reminds me of being pregnant and loving the baby I didnt have yet lol

My Dr uses the 35 rule. That is that you have to be under 35 years old and you have to have a BMI of 35 or less. He will let you go if your 36 too though.

Who's your Dr? Thats the same preop diet and the same single insision surgery that I am having. Im going to Dr Rumbraut in MX

My date is the 18th

Thanks for all your stories. You guys are amazing! Im so scared. To think Im traveling to MX all by myself and Ill have to recover there alone for four days. =( But Im going to bring books and a dvd player and movies. Hopefully I dont get sick and I can just relax and treat it like a mini vacay away from the tots. Any alone time is usually heaven, but Im not sure about this kind of alone time. Im going to miss my hubby. =(

Im doing back flips over here that my Dr doesnt have much of a preop for low BMI'ers over here! Its gonna be hard enough doing the post op diet. But ya'll will have a head start on me with the weight loss. :thumbsup:

I think Looney Junie's is cuter than looney Junes

:thumbup::thumbdown: My Dr doesnt really have a preop diet for me because Im at 35 BMI. He said just Clear liquids the day before surgery. But I think Im going to diet about three weeks before surgery to get things boosted. Im good at losing ten pounds fast lol. Perfect crash dieter. But I could never do a full on liquid diet of slim fast or anything like a lot of people are having to do the weeks before surgery. My Dr said Im going to have to do a few days of clear liquids after my surgery then full liquids for a week after that and then mushies for another week or so after that. Hopefully it will be easier because Ill have the band in place; but he said it would be hard the last week because its not filled at all so once the swelling goes down you are as hungry as normal without the band. Either way it sounds no buino! :thumbup: At least we will have eachother to vent to! :thumbup:

Hi everyone :laugh: I thought Id introduce myself. Im a 28 year old girl from Cali, and Im getting banded in MX with Dr Rumbaut on June 18th. I was going to go this month but then the whole swine flue thing hit :cool2: and the President said no travel that wasnt totally necessary so I desided to wait till June. I guess thats coming up here shortly so Ill try not to bust with anticipation!

I cancelled my surgery but I reschedualed for the 19th of June. Bummer this stupid flue had to come out right now! I wish I could have reschedualed for later in May or earlier in June but Im going to be out of town and then my babysitters out of town when I get back so the 19th is the first weekend things will work out again. What luck I have! Ive been considering this surgery for two years and when I finally deside to do it theres some weird mass hysteria flue virus going around. Go figure...

:thumbup: I dont have a May date anymore. I cancelled my surgery because of all this flue stuff and Im going to be in Hawaii for two weeks at the end of May so Im gonna be reschedualing for June 18th in Mexico. Another month of waiting!

I just dont think I can go right now. As badly as I want to, I cant justify putting my family at risk like that. I am thinking about it so much I had a dream about it last night. I have a toddler and I could never live with myself if I brought that home to him. Im so depressed because I was so excited and so ready to go. I feel like a teenager who's just been told she cant go to her prom or something. Im so crushed. But I cant let my selfish want for the surgery over cloud my motherly instincts for my children's safety. And even the President is asking people not to travel to MX if not completely necessary. Looks like Im going to cancel my surgery and not reschedule until this whole thing calms down. I guess Im not going to be a mayo bandito after all. :biggrin: Im so so sad. I know its just a set back, but my unreasonable side feels like its never going to be my turn.

Is anyone else as bummed as me and seriously considering reschedualing? :drool:

Well actually only one is mine. He is two. The other one is my best friends who I watch while she works. She is only part time so its only for a few hours a day. Her son is one and a half. Then there's also my 7 year old. But she's my angel and a big helper. Thank god for her!

I have had the same thought too. It makes me feel selfish to take the risk, but honestly, I trust my Dr and his team. (and I have life insurance which is all I can do for them if I did go) I think these thoughts are normal. Besides, we are way more likely to go in a car accident running errands than from such a noninvasive surgery. Im pretty sure we are going to be just fine!

Im so lucky, Im a student so I dont have to worry about this. I can study from bed and school is only three hours at night twice a week. Im having my surgery on Friday and I have a class on Monday that I will be going to. I think Ill be ok though. I thing Im worried about the most is being able to keep up with my two toddlers! I can hardly keep up with them when Im in perfect health. I guess the house is going to be a disaster for a week.

I am personally even more worried about going to the hospital than anywhere else. I think thats a less safe place because thats where all the sick people will go with their germs.:thumbup: I was going to have my surgery done at the big hospital there, but the Dr also has a smaller out-patient office. When I originally booked my apt, I chose to use the big hospital because if something went wrong in surgery I wanted to be in a hospital, but Im going to change it and have it done in his smaller out patient office because only patients having the band surgery go there. IDK though. I really am considering reschedualing the whole thing. Even if I am carefull, that doesnt mean that Im not going to get infected. And even if it is treatable, I dont want to chance having to deal with it at the same time Im trying to recover from WLS.

My Dr doesnt have me on a preop diet at all except for the day before surgery. And Im kinda jealous because all of you are getting a jump start on your WL. My preop is clear liquids for one day before surgery and then nothing not even liquids from 10pm the day before surgery. I am only gaining weight. The last meals so to speak. How ridiculous am I? I know I should start cutting back; and instead Im doing the opposite, trying to eat all the things that bandster's say they have trouble with after surgery. Thank God I will have a tool to help me fight this battle in a few weeks. Im kinda worried about the post opp diet. That one is a few weeks long. Full liquids then a few weeks of mushies then Im free to try to start living my perminant new lifestyle.

Add me! Im shooting for the 8th if my passport will hurry up and get here. Ive been trying to will it here faster, but it hasnt shown up in my mail box yet!**Come to me passport**

Im from Sac too. :thumbup: But Im headin to MX to have my surgery done. Insurance issues. :smile: Basically, I dont have Insurance anymore. That would be a big insurance issue. lol So here I come MX. I havent seen any bill boards here in NorCal advertising the band. But Ive seen a commercial on TV.

Dr Rumbuat is also a member of the American Biartric as well as the International Federation surgery of Obesity. He came highly recommended by Inamed and has trained a lot of the Drs here in the US. He is on the same level as other Drs like Ortiz and Kuri. I considered all three of them but chose Rumbuat because of his single incision approach. My second choice was Dr Kuri because I just really liked him when I talked to him a few times over the phone. He seemed to really care deeply about his patients. If Kuri did the single insicion I probably would have gone to him because of his bedside manor. I think all three of these Drs in Mexico are beyond qualified and pioneers of this surgery. I honestly chose my Dr over the other two because of my vanity. I hope someday after my 8,000$ works for me I can get back into a bikini and I dont want to have five scares. The bikini is probably wishful thinking, but hey! We can all dream right?! lol

Ohh Im going to call the airline later today and find out. Im flying into Monterrey MX and the girl who works for the Dr with the US patients told me I needed one if I was flying. Im going to call the airline and find out. That would be PERFECT if I dont need one. Then I could for sure go on the 8th. Im going alone. Im a little nervous to go all by myself but my husband cant go with me because of work. I dont want to go with anyone else. So Ill just strap on a pair and do it. Im going to Dr Rumbrant. Anyone else using him? Ive heard a lot of good things about him.

Yay! I have a siggy, now it feels official! :smile: