Hello everyone! My name is Dez. I'm 30, about 300lbs and live in a burough of NYC with my husband and two dogs.

About a year ago my husband and I started on this journey...we did the six months of dr visits and then spent six more months fighting with the insurance company...we finally got approved (me as in-patient, him as out patient) and I went in for surgery on April 22.

As part of my surgery they were going to remove my gallbladder. I knew that there was a chance they wouldn't be able to do both the gallbladder and lap-band at the same time, but I thought the chance was slim...turns out, my gallbladder was really bad and they only did that surgery. My husbands surgery is scheduled for May 6th and my next surgery (for the lap-band) is on May 10th.

I've been poking around on the forum for a while, so I just wanted to introduce myself and get a little more involved.

Has anyone else had this happen with their gallbladder? Is the second surgery worse than the first? (I am going to go search, but figured I'd ask anyway.)

Nice to meet you all!

I haven't had my lap band surgery yet but I have had my gallbladder removed. From what I can tell, they are done the same way and my surgery was pretty easy.

No gall bladder issues here, but I wanted to say HELLO, WELCOME and I really appreciate the title of your post, recognizing this as a "never ending journey." I'm glad you haven't gotten discouraged because the band wasn't put in at the first surgery. It's awesome that you have a live-in LapBand buddy! Best of luck to both of you!