I wanted to organize one area of people having surgery in June 2010 so we can keep a sort of thread journal of the process that starts before the surgery!

June 28th for me!:thumbup:

Hi Kathy

Well done - great news that you are feeling better. I see you are in Valencia; beautiful city. Did you have your op done in 'espanol'? I'm having mine done in 'Francais', lol. Although I am perfectly competent in French, I have found this board such a relief to be able to express clearly in my own language any hopes and fears...

And you are less than a week post-surgery, and 2 weeks ahead of me, so I shall be watching your progress with interest!

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Hi Judy

You're right - we're about 1hr15 south of Valencia, which is such a fab place. Yes my surgeon was Spanish and although he speaks a little english I did most of it in Spanish - we've been here for 7 yrs now and love it.

like you I prefer to get things like this sorted out in my native tongue as although I am good I am not fluent so its much easier for me.

Each day I feel so much better, and the next 2 weeks will fly by for you. How long is your pre op for?

Good luck - keep informed and let me know how you get on, but if I can help at all then fire away!!

Kathy

Good luck Monie!

Hi Judy

You're right - we're about 1hr15 south of Valencia, which is such a fab place. Yes my surgeon was Spanish and although he speaks a little english I did most of it in Spanish - we've been here for 7 yrs now and love it.

like you I prefer to get things like this sorted out in my native tongue as although I am good I am not fluent so its much easier for me.

Each day I feel so much better, and the next 2 weeks will fly by for you. How long is your pre op for?

Good luck - keep informed and let me know how you get on, but if I can help at all then fire away!!

Kathy

Hola! I am now actually only 6 days away from the op, which I think puts me 2 weeks behind you? I'm so glad you are feeling better each day - I am now focussing on 2 weeks time, when I will be home, and feeling better... I am such a baby :001_cool: .... Are you still on fluids only? I'm quite envious of what our American friends seem to have available to them for their post-op care and diet. I have put some orange juice ice cubes in the freezer, so I have something to lick when I get home :wink1: I've packed and repacked my toiletry bag.... Anything practical, to keep me imagining I'm still in control!

Buenas tardes!

Judy x

Congrats to all the June losers!!! My date was June 7th. Post op tomorrow, I am still excited! Yay!

My surgery is booked for a week from today! I am on the preop diet at the moment and I am struggling. I am tired, grumpy and scared. If its this hard now - what will it be like after?? My friends have voiced their concern about the impact of the surgery will have on my mental state- particularly in the first month postop. Is anyone else dreading the clear fluids and pureed stages?

Home today from the hospital! Had it done on Tues. Did everything I was supposed to - frequent walks, sips etc and only spent two nights in the hospital!

I am very sore still at my incision sites, and have these weird hiccuppy sort of things which really hurt, but otherwise I actually feel quite good! I cant believe I did it!!! Hope the pain goes away soonish though..... ;-(

Hi Ladies - Well done! I will watch your progress with interest!

Xquisit - I'm scared too, but look at all the success on this board - we will be one of the Gang soon too!! I keep focussing through and beyond the op. I am now at the "This time next week it will all be done and dusted". Soon it will be "This time next week I'll be back home" (Last week, it was this time next week, I'll be on the operating table :scared0:)

I don't think we will feel like a plateful of food, and the liquid phase won't last tooooo long...

Bon courage!! As they say over here in France! :thumbup:

Hi all

June 23rd here for me.

Starting "thick liquids" pre op stage tommorrow..v8, thick Soups, cream soups, etc.

Then Clear liquids Mon and Tues.

Getting the jitters a little.

Had a band for 5 years, it just wasnt working out, so had it pulled

in april of this year. So I have been thru a couple of surgeries but still scary.

Best of luck to us!

Lisa

June 22 for me!

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We are the same day Anne - look forward to seeing you on here the other side of the operation! :001_rolleyes:

June 26th for me.

Getting nervous.

Will

Yay will, I will check the place out the day before you get there. Come find me I should be recovering!

I hope everyone's surgery has gone well now that the month is nearly over. I weighed myself today! OMG! I had a whole world of pain and regret the first few days, but today is the first day that I feel what everyone has been saying I will - It really is the best thing I have ever done!

So on my 2 week pre-op diet I lost 25 pounds (crazy) and since surgery (9days ago) I have dropped another 10 pounds. Thats 35 pounds!!!!!!!!!!! wow!

I have always been a fast loser though, its the putting it back on that gets me. Hopefully the sleeve will help with that.

How is everyone doing?

How is everyone doing?

Congratulations - you've had a great month from the sound of it.

I dropped 6lbs pre op, and gained it all back in hospital.... but now am 14lbs down on my pre op weight. My pre op was only one week, and I had already been dieting prior to that for 6 months.

But doing well thanks!

Good luck everyone else!

Kathy

Hi everyone. I'm only one day out but feeling good. The only thing I have to say is that I couldn't believe I did it. Like I finally did it. The only down side to this whole thing is the gas pain that keeps creeping to my chest and makes it hard to breath. I know that will get better. Other then that I'm happy I'm on the losers bench.

Have 'only' lost 2 kgs so far, but I wasn't on a pre-op diet. In fact, in the French hospital, they don't go in for clear Soups afterwards, they get you straight on to pur?es to get your stomach working. Was on a drip for 2 days, then Water (tasted like champagne!) and then a pea velout? Soup thing, followed by a natural yogurt, which was very cool and soothing.

I also had a mid morning Cr?me Vanille, and for lunch yesterday, another soup. At dinner, I had some pur?ed potato with a teeny tiny bit of cheese melted into it.

NO post-op diet advice given at all, which is why I have found this US site so flipping useful.

Managed half a small tin of tomato soup for lunch, and my husband had saved the first 2 juicy strawberries from our garden, which I pureed and stirred into plain fromage frais. That will be my mid-afternoon treat :001_tt2:

Still have lots of gas to get rid of :blushing: And you're right, it does obstruct your breathing.. But nothing alarming, and I feel remarkable considering.

Oh, nearly forgot! I have a nurse coming in every evening (from this evening) to give me a blood thinning injection, and to do a blood test every 2 days. Voil?!