So I am having my surgery on March 15th with Dr. Kelly in Tijuana, MX. I would love to make friends with some fellow March 2012 sleevers to share the journey....

Hi everyone. I got sleeved by Dr. Kelly yesterday. I'm in Florence Hospital now feeling great!

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Congrats Sexy Slim! Welcome to the world of the sleeved!

Thanks ChaCha!

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Hi everyone. I got sleeved by Dr. Kelly yesterday. I'm in Florence Hospital now feeling great!

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Congrats! I am glad to hear it went well.

I was sleeved on 3/14 at Phoenixville Hosptial in PA. Started at 226, lost 9 during pre op liquids, weighed in at 206 today.

With weekend coming up, I plan on getting out and doing some walking down by the lake -- the weather is really nice here. Anyone else have anything special planned for the weekend?

With weekend coming up, I plan on getting out and doing some walking down by the lake -- the weather is really nice here. Anyone else have anything special planned for the weekend?

I live outside of Seattle, and the weather here is less than spectacular. So I won't be dong anything outside for sure, lol. I don't actually have any plans....boy sounds exciting eh?

My plans are to be nice to my sleeve. I'm trying to get in liquids, medicine, and vitamins but it's not easy. A friend came over and walked me in the a.m. Another friend is on her way to walk me, she's bringing her husband to help around my place. He is an EMT so he will change my bloody bandages too. Very exciting, but it's time to put me first!

Enjoy the weather chacha

Chacha I'm jealous of your nice weather and I live in San Diego lol! I'm 6 days post op and plan to take a walk with family as soon as my son wakes up from his nap I'm so happy it's the end of the month and everyone here probably has their sleeve...yay we did it!!!

Congratulations to everyone who had their sleeve performed this month!!! Only 31 days but so many positive steps in so many lives!! I look forward to watching everyone including myself transform and to post our 1 year surgiversary pics!

Chacha I'm jealous of your nice weather and I live in San Diego lol! I'm 6 days post op and plan to take a walk with family as soon as my son wakes up from his nap I'm so happy it's the end of the month and everyone here probably has their sleeve...yay we did it!!!

Gotta tell you....I had my sleeve done in Tiajuana 3/15 and it was rainy and cold the whole time I was there! I was not expecting that kind of weather, I thought I was going to FREEZE!

Congratulations to everyone who had their sleeve performed this month!!! Only 31 days but so many positive steps in so many lives!! I look forward to watching everyone including myself transform and to post our 1 year surgiversary pics!

I know, I look forward to getting to know everyone better on this journey! So many life changing events....I feel like a different person, I am so happy and the scale is becoming addicting, which is something I haven't experienced in...well....FOREVER!

Great things for all of us.....

Natural you already look great, I can't wait to see you in 1 year!

Natural you already look great, I can't wait to see you in 1 year!

Awww thanks Liberated! :wub:

I too, can't believe the month is over, and I am really excited to watch everyone's progress!!

Surgery was a week ago tomorrow. My last sore incision felt significantly better today, it had really been pinching until then (it's deeply puckered, I call it my button tuft incision).

I'm able to eat between 3 & 5 tbls of food a day, depending on thickness. 2 - 3 tbls of broth, or a tbl of yogurt, pudding, or cottage cheese. About 2 tbls of a thick, strained soup. I'm not really ever feeling hungry yet, but I do feel a bit gurgly once or twice a day.

The pain with drinking has almost subsided. Today I was able to take 3 very small sips with only a few seconds in between. This is the first day I've been able to drink more than one small sip at a time. I stop before there's pain, but there's still pressure. I'm still having a hard time getting more than about 25 oz of any fluid in per day - hopefully it will start getting easier soon.

My first post-op is Wed. I'll know scale change then. I'm not expecting much since I'm still taking predisone (allergic reaction to meds from surgery). The meds I have to take are definitely still an obstacle to eating/drinking more. I have to take sucralfate (4x daily) to keep the predisone (2x daily) from irritating my stomach too much, plus the omeprazole (2x daily). Just my meds keep me stuffed for several hours.

How is everyone else doing?