finding me

Hope you don't mind if I join this thread. I am new to the forums but have been lurking for a few das now. I am excited and scared to have this done, so I am looking to find a few people that are about to get banded as well. Good luck to all of you on this wonderful new journey that we are about to start. Date of Surgery: March 25th Where Surgery will be: KS Doctor/Center: Dr. Malley/New Hope Bariatrics Seminar date: December 2009 1st consult date:Feb 10, 2010 Consults and tests completed: I only had to have 1 consult and only pre-op blood work to do in March. Tests still needed: pre-op blood work How is surgery funded? Partly cash, some help from my parents , but mostly financing. Concerns? How will I eat after? Will my family be forced to eat the foods I eat or will I be the one eating something different? Will I regret having it done? I could keep going.... Reason for banding? I have become a person I never wanted, nor thought, I would be. I need to be a better mother and in order to do that I need to lose the weight so I can play with them and just have the energy that is need to keep up with them. Plus I want to feel comfortable about myself so I can be a better wife to my husband. Somewhere along the road of life I have lost who I once was to the weight and I am ready to find that person again.