After 8 months of insurance hoops and appointments I FINALLY have my date!! I'm October 8th and my partner is October 1st. Anyone else here October bandsters? I'm getting very excited!!

Oct 5th.....so excited!

Hello, everyone! My name is Tim, and I just joined.

My wife and I are being banded on October 24. We are lucky enough to self-fund the surgeries, so we didn't have to go through a lot of insurance hoops (neither of our insurances will cover bariatric surgery). We would have loved to have the surgery earlier in October, but the surgeon said we would not be able to drive for a week after the surgery, and I have many commitments in October.

We are really looking forward to this life change!

Hi Tim! Welcome, I noticed your wife is being banded the same day? How did you come to that decision? My wife and I are being banded a week apart. We thought about the same day but then decided a week apart. I think there are pros and cons to both. Do you have friends or family coming to help?

Yes, we have plenty of family in town. If we did not, we wouldn't have scheduled for same day.

We both feel that it will be easier with the pre and post op diets if we are on the same schedule.

I have mine Oct 3

Just got an October 15th date!

Just got an October 15th date!

We're going to be band buddies, Oct 15 here too!

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Cool!!!

Oct 5th.....so excited!

Me too! October 5th... Holla!

I'm getting done on October 11

October 9 for me:)

Yes' date=' we have plenty of family in town. If we did not, we wouldn't have scheduled for same day.

We both feel that it will be easier with the pre and post op diets if we are on the same schedule.[/quote']

I agree with that. I'm glad my wife and I are only a week apart but it's been hard this week because she started her presurgical diet this week and I don't start mine until Monday. Best of luck to you.

What type of presurgical prep is everyone doing? We have two weeks of optifast. I start Monday.

What type of presurgical prep is everyone doing? We have two weeks of Optifast. I start Monday.

This is my blog post about it- http://theflubhub.blogspot.com/2012/09/denial.html

I start October 1 with 1000 calories made up of prtein shakes and 2 CPUs of vegetables.

I've been trying out various brands and flavors. I'm really glad I'm doing the taste tests.

Oct 3rd and getting really anxious too !