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Hi All,
Would love to join this group! I went through the CMC program and was banded back in 2009, the band slipped had revision surgery in 2010, it slipped again then had it removed completely in 2011. Needless to say all the success I had in that first year is gone and I'm back to square one. I'm now attending the Dartmouth program and hope to have sleeve surgery with Dr. Wood at the Elliot in March or April.
Looking forward to getting to know everyone and talking about the sleeve process.

I am starting my 3 weeks of liquid diet today it's not so bad at all I'm happy about that I find eating ice helps

Congrats! I got my surgery date yesterday and it's April 4. How are you feeling about it being so soon?
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I am so so so happy! I just did my last drs visit yesterday and they submitted my paperwork today and I got an approval. I do not have to do the psych evaluation. O I almost forgot surgery date April 12th.
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Hi All,
Would love to join this group! I went through the CMC program and was banded back in 2009, the band slipped had revision surgery in 2010, it slipped again then had it removed completely in 2011. Needless to say all the success I had in that first year is gone and I'm back to square one. I'm now attending the Dartmouth program and hope to have sleeve surgery with Dr. Wood at the Elliot in March or April.
Looking forward to getting to know everyone and talking about the sleeve process.

I went to a new eye doctor today (new to me, not new to the profession). His waiting area had three armed chairs, and a cushioned bench. The old me would have picked the bench, no question about it.
Today, the new me thought, "let's give the chair a try". Slipped right in, no problem. I was sitting there grinning like an idiot.

My final straw was... buying YET another pair of jeans.
I love wearing jeans when I am a normal weight and this was quite recent, about a year ago when I was very successful with the lapband reaching a normal BMI. But, the band failed mechanically and I had to have it removed. Within one year I regained all the weight and am obese again
Every time I bought a new pair if jeans as I went up the sizes I would say "This is ENOUGH. I am not going up another size" but, slowly but surely I did, with no sign if stopping.
One day I put on some fairly recently bought jeans and, YET AGAIN, they had become too tight only a month or so after buying them. This was my breaking point... the straw that broke my camel's back... the jeans that tipped me over the edge... I looked at myself and I just knew that I couldn't fight it any more
So, so sick and tired of being obese. And it feels 100 times worse because I know what it's like to feel normal when I was a healthy weight with the gastric band.
I'm now awaiting a date for a gastric sleeve. Going through checks with psychologist, dietician, endocrinologist, and any other ologist they tell me to... just ask me, I'll be there!
I have just been given a possible date in April, but am not going to start believing it until it is definitely confirmed after all my preop assessments are complete. Hmmmm, probably won't believe if until I'm in the operation room being given the anaesthetic. Although I'll probably be so scared by that point that I will be worried that I'll run away screaming! So, on that basis I probably won't be able to believe it until after the operation.
So, I am very much looking forward to joining the losers' bench with @@green*eyed*girl and @ in April. Here's wishing good luck to both of you