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Hey! My name is Breanne! I will be having my surgery at Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA sometime in the near future!

I'm 5ft 5in and and currently 250. I have been accepted as a patient and have begun my journey to being banded!

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Oh and I just found out that I will have a new Doctor at Lahey Clinic seeing he will have the most availability.....

Dr. Lelan Sillin

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Oh and I just found out that I will have a new Doctor at Lahey Clinic seeing he will have the most availability.....

Dr. Leland Sillin

You will love the care and attention at Lahey. I hope you go to the support meeting in December. It's the 30th and I will be there. They are a great bunch.

I just had my third fill. I hope I get a bit more restriction.

Hope to meet you there...take care and good luck.:rolleyes2::thumbup::cursing:

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You will love the care and attention at Lahey. I hope you go to the support meeting in December. It's the 30th and I will be there. They are a great bunch.

I just had my third fill. I hope I get a bit more restriction.

Hope to meet you there...take care and good luck.:rolleyes2::thumbup::cursing:

I know I want to go so badly but I work nights! My schedule will be changing soon so hopeflly I can make it to the one in January! :laugh:

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Breanne,

Congratulations. It's an exciting journey. I hope it works out well for you! :rolleyes2:

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luv2teech7 - congrats on your bandiversary :)

Breanne - congrats on the start of your banded journey :biggrin:

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Thanks, Sherry!

I'm not quite where I hoped to be...but I think I may have relied a little too much on hope and not enough on wanting and doing. I will lose the last 40 this year, but I'm happy with how far I've come. Good luck with all you have going on! :)

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You're welcome. I think many of us have DREAMS of where we will be when we hit the 1 year mark but......when it comes down to it at least we took the steps to help ourselves and we need to remember that. It took us a long time to put it all on so it takes longer to come off. I really think we all forget that because it comes off easy at first for most. Me...I never dreamed I'd be in this predicament right now nor did I EVER think I'd put 30 back on after working so hard to take it off UGH. I'll get there though...after this revision. It's nice to have a fresh start and I plan on doing better for myself this time around :) Including getting my gym downstairs all set up and ready after I heal up from the surgery :biggrin:

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You will love the care and attention at Lahey. I hope you go to the support meeting in December. It's the 30th and I will be there. They are a great bunch.

I just had my third fill. I hope I get a bit more restriction.

Hope to meet you there...take care and good luck.:):thumbup::frown:

I'm trying to get someone to cover for me so I can be there on the 27th of January!

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Breanne, good luck to you! I have just started the process myself. I'll be going over to Beth Israel and I think I'm going to choose Dr. Jones, based on the experiences I've read from all the Massachusetts bandsters :thumbup:. I have my first appointment on January 12th with the nurse. Are you nervous? I am! But excited, too. I'd love to hear about your progress and have someone to share with. Take care!

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Hey SherryW, not sure if you'll get this but I thought of you today and hope that your surgery goes well. Let us know how you're doing later, if you can.

Happy Holiday's Everyone!

-music

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wooohoooo! I will be at the meeting in January @ Lahey!

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Thanks music....just got home today from Thur surgery. They kept me an extra night because of the snow. Everything went really well and i do have new band in place. They said when they went in the band had slipped more than they thought. When they first went in it didn't look bad until they looked around then they could see it in the back. My stomach had prolaspsed up through the band and the band was slipped. My stomach looked fine though so they put a new one in, in a higher position. I'm so thankful for that! I'm pooped though so I need to go rest but, thank you everyone for your healing thoughts. I know they helped!

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Sherry,

Glad to hear it all went ok. Rest up and be glad you can't shovel! :tongue_smilie:

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

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