Denise2

:omg: It is now October and I am schedule for October 19th to be banded!!!!!!!!! Wow the reality has set in. This is really going to happen. It is all I am thinking about lately. Soon I start the liquid diet. I know I will be successful with the liquid diet but I know it will be hard. Any suggestions out there on getting through the pre-op liquid diet? What did your diet consist of?

Great News!:clap2: I have an October 19th surgery date!!! I am thrilled and I am now nervous which I have expected to feel as this whole journey progressed. But I know the goal that I am after which is to be healthy and thin. I could hardly picture myself living as a thin person. Now I am excited.

Here I am going for the last of the cardio evaluation today. I'' be glad when it is all over. I am anxious to get a surgery date scehuled for October hopefully or the latest beginning of November. I feel like time is going so slow.......I guess it is living in the uncertainty which is worse.

The support of this site helps me keep going. Its better than a WW meeting!! I think you all are super

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Thank you "ediparks" and "Teresita" for your words of encouragement. My husband wasn't all that happy that I was going to have the band done. Reluctantly he said that he supports me but I still don't feel that he is fully on board with it. I know that it is up to me to take control of it anyway. But having all of you out there makes my heart SMILE!!!!!!!!! So far I have went to all my pre-op testing by myself and I know I will be happy later on. I am a size 18 in jeans and that is quite large because I am short. I know I need to have the strength to fight for myself.

Denise2

I am now 40 years old and have had a weight problem all my life. Now I want to make sure I am healthy for the next 40 years. I am scared if I don't do something about my weight issue now I will end up in a hospital bed, ill, on tons of medication and saying to myself "What did you do to yourself all these years!" I am ready !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:cool:

I am in the pre-op stages of just testing. I already had an upper GI series, blood work, ekg, and stress test. On Friday I go for an ECHO. My nutrtional and physch. are set up for Monday the 18th.

The dr. that will be performing my surgery will be DR. ALAN GEISS in SYOSSET.