You go girl!! thinking about you a lot and I hope everything is going well!! Good luck, and I hope you enter banddom with no troubles!

Best wishes for an uneventful surgery and a speedy recovery! :hug:

Thinking aboutcha and hoping for a safe surgery!!!!

Saying a prayer all goes fantastic and you are back here soon!

Good luck!! :cheer2:

I can't wait to hear how it went! :clap2: :hug:

Sending you good thoughts and prayers. Hope everything goes wonderfully. Let us know how your feeling.

Hugs,

Sherri

Alysha!! Sending you good thoughts for an easy recovery, Welcome to Bandland!!!

I was banded 2 weeks ago today by the same DR....It was a very clean little hospital..and I have no complaints...I know she is in good hands....I just wish she could have taken along a friend or someone.......I am sure she will be fine......I can't wait to hear

Beacheegirl,

Major major hugs to you and wishes for a speedy recovery. I know that you can do it. Getting the band is the easy part, now it's time to work it.

Best of luck to you!! I hope you have an easy breezy surgery and a speedy recovery. Please let us know how you did and how you're doing.

Go BG !!!! let us know when your home safe and sound :eek:

Now its your birthday girly girl. how are you feeling!! Hope the surgery went really well! Happy birthday!!!!

Hi, thanks to FunnyDuddies I got this thread. Someone else had mentioned it to me when I got back but I couldn't find it! You don't know how much that means to me that you guys truly cared about how I was doing. Yes, I did go alone but I survived and I am no worse for wear. I really feel now that I have been embraced by y'all so thank you.

It's like 5:21 am here and I just got done feeding my THREE 6 week old PUPPIES! And, there 2 parents, lol. (My husband leaves for work at 4 am) Today I woke up actually feeling sooo good. Sat down at the computer and now drinking some Water and eating some Jello.

Here's what I wrote in my journal about my experience in Puerto Vallarta:

Flew into Puerto Vallarta, beautiful city but didn't see much the

1st day. Was met by Natalia, Dr. Joya's Asst at airport. Taken

immediately to the hospital, blood tests done, met Dr., surgeon's

assistants and anestesiologist. I was put at ease immediately, all

of the doctors were VERY nice and offered to answer any questions I

had. Dr. Joya felt my abdomen and said "good, it's very soft, will

make surgery very easy".

>

> Next, I was Hooked up to IV and started on fluids, this helped

with the hunger a tiny bit, was still ravenous though. I had not

eaten any food since 12 pm the previous day - that was over 30

hours, NO FOOD, only some sips of water and decaf coffee the next

morning before plane took off. Surgery done about 2 hrs later and

lasted approximately 45 minutes long.

>

> Woke up in recovery room with some mild pain in my abdomen. After

recovering there for a while I was wheeled into my room. They told

me surgery went well and that my liver was normal size so no

complications there. I braced myself for the infamous gas pain that

everyone talks about - it never came! The only pain I had was the

incision pain. Now, my stomach was VERY bloated from the gas,

however, I did not have any gas pain in my shoulder or anywhere.

This may have been because I went to the bathroom A LOT before

surgery, or, because I did not eat anything for over 24 hours before

surgery.

>

> The negatives - What I did not like about the care at the

hospital was that after I woke up from surgery, I COULD NOT sleep. I

complained about 5 times to the nurses and they would give me

something for pain, but that's not what I needed and that did not

help me sleep. They said they would call the Dr. but I don't think

they did. They then gave me two pills but the didn't work either.

Basically, I was awake from 10 pm and walked the halls until FINALLY

I fell asleep for 2 hours at 4 am. This really irritated me because

I was sooo tired but could not fall asleep and I really wanted my

body to be able to rest after surgery. The night nurses you could

tell they were getting irritated as when I rang the buzzer when I

tried to go to sleep and couldn't and would ask for something to go

to sleep with, they came in looking like they just woke up and would

be like "si, si" and then wouldn't come back again until I buzzed

them the next hour.

>

> I also had a hard time peeing after surgery. That may be perhaps

because they put a catheter in after I was asleep?? However, I would

just have to sit on the toilet and kind of "push" my pee out. That

has lasted through today....

>

> A couple of hours before check out they brought me 2 cups of

apple juice and some ice and water. I took slow slips and had no

problems keeping anything down.

>

> Oh, let me describe the room in the hospital: Beautiful! Had my

own private room and bathroom/shower. Hospital bed VERY comfortable.

Very cute, stylish and colorful couch and chair in the room. Flat

screen tv and remote. Marble floors. The entire hospital was pretty

it was called The Cornerstone Hospital in PV.

>

> Check out time came and Natalie the Dr's Asst came and gave me

all the paperwork, receipts, box for band etc. She drove me to the

hotel, speedily checked me in and I was off to my room. (Room was

VERY nice) Marble floors, open sliding glass doors and balcony and

was right on the beach so I could sit outside and look at the ocean.

I included some pictures of the resort and hotel below.

>

>

>

> I pretty much slept off and on that day, drank some broth, juice

and water, etc. - The next day I woke up and decided to bravely go

downtown to buy some souveniers. It was a 10 minute cab ride and

yes, I was in a bit of pain when he was bumping over the

cobblestoned streets but I made it. I walked around holding my tummy

and hobbled along, at one point a stor worker said "Oh, you having a

baby?" I just nodded and laughed to myself not bothering to correct

him. My stomach was sooo bloated I looked about 5 mo's along and I

couldn't blame anyone with the way I was holding my tummy or walking

along to think that - too funny, any other time I would have been

insulted!

>

>

>

> Shopped and bought some blankets, windchimes, art, and a good

bottle of tequila for my husband. After about an hour I caught a cab

and took a nap for 2 hours then woke up and headed for the airport.

(I decided to check out a day early because even though the resort

was nice, I missed my bed and I missed my AMERICAN TV, lol!).

>

> At the airport after getting out of the cab and I asked for a

wheelchair as I was wore out and sore and didn't want to drag my

luggage around. This turned into be a great idea as I was whisked

through customs and immigration and becauase I had a first class

ticket back to LAX (TOTALLY WORTH IT ON THE WAY HOME BY THE WAY - IF

YOU CAN AFFORD TO UPGRADE TO 1ST CLASS, DO IT, WILL MAKE THE FLIGHT

BACK HOME SO MUCH MORE COMFORTABLE!)

>

> All in all, it feels great to have had this done. Have not got on

scale yet, will probably wait a few day. At home, feeling sore but

good. Body healing, eating jello, broth, juice, popsicles.

>

> Oh, I keep getting an uncomfortable painful shooting feeling in

my diaphragh area and it lasts for a few seconds every once in a

while after I swallow something, then goes away.

>

> Hope this helps anyone thinking of going to Mexico, so far, I

highly recommend Dr. Joya....

Beachee,

Maloxx Plus will get rid of that feeling. Trust me when I tell you I whole heartedly believe it's gas.