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Okay....I will take Argon's suggestion.

This will be my yammerin' thread....

I'm too zonked right now though, so I'm off to bed.....but beware of future yammerin's.....MMMMMWWWWaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

:huggie: :ban: :)

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How much weight have you lost Mr Yoda? You are doing so good sticking to your diet.

Good luck Mr.Yoda!

Good luck Mr. Yoda!!!!! Keep us posted!

All the best Mr. Yoda!! I know Mrs. Yoda will take very good care of you!!

Good luck Mr. Y - I know you are in good hands Dr. Yau is amazing!

See you on the other side..when you join the Band. Good luck on you surgery. They will take good care of you.

Thanks all...

Here we go... My journey to the banded side is almost complete...

See you in a few days... :sick

Check out the new ticker... MmmMMmmmm Huuuuuuulllllaaaaaaaa!

-=Huge smiles=- You are doing GREAT!!! Nice ticker!!!

Thinking of ya Mr and Mrs Yo.

Here is the skinny (no pun) on what happened…

We arrived at 12:15 and where whisked off to the pre-op room and signed, signatured and led into a room to get changed. With in minutes of that, we talked to Dr. Yau, the Nurse and the Gasman. It seemed that the feller before me, Robgoblin, had a complication and had to be done last so they rushed me into his spot. By 1300hr I was in the Op-room, prepped and drifting to sleep.

The next thing I know, I’m in recovery, with a tube in my throat and a gallon of spit that had nowhere to go. They took it out and I woke up more and more by the minute. Then (Totally freaked me out) I couldn’t breath, it was like my throat had a spasm and wouldn’t let any air in. For a few Panic filled moments I was sat up and slowly the breath came back to me.

About 1430hr (2:30pm) I was staggering my way to my room for the night, where I sucked up 3 bags of IV and drifted between the waking world and the dream world. Puke/pain killers where the preferred cocktail (though drinking through my bum was not my favourite part) but the needles made the pain subside and made me sleep more.

I was up at 0500hr and on the road by 0630hr and home by 0800hr.

Ouch! Need to stop now…

Welcome back Mr.Yoda! Glad to hear all went well!

Mr. Yoda it sounds like a rough start. Glad that you are doing okay now and I am sure with Mrs. Yoda's help you will be better in no time. Just take it easy and be good to yourself.

Well the gause came off this morning, so I look more like an accident victom than a mummy now.

Only a little bruising and a couple abraisions from the tape. But it fells ssssooooooo good to have the tape off, it was iching like crazy.

It sounds like you were done at the hospital, not the TLBC clinic, eh? What kind of pain meds did they send you home with? Demerol or Tylenol 3s? How are you feeling post-op?

Lots of questions, eh? And lots of congratulations to you from Green!!!! :waytogo:

Alrighty then. To celebrate my one year bandiversary (21 Apr 07) and to quell the previous demands for photos, I have relented and here ya'll go (for those who are interested!). :phanvan

The "before" was taken around Dec 2004. I may have been about 10-15 lbs heavier at my heaviest but alas, there are very few photos of me around that timeframe and later (gee, I wonder why?!! - I'm sure many of you can relate!). :bandit

The "after" was taken the first week of Apr 2007 (about 2 weeks shy of my one year mark).

(& yes, that is Mr Yoda in the "before" photo with me....we look like twins, eh??) :paranoid :heh: