Alright my fellow February sleevers! There does not seem to be too many of us currently, but I know more will come along! Please join the February 2013 Sleevers group so that we can keep up with each other!!!

Happy Holidays,

-Liz

Yeah, you'll probably be fine. Just to be safe, though, could you call them tomorrow and ask what tests they'll be doing? That should give you a better idea.

Hey! Im Randi from atl. Ga... Im scheduled for feb. 25 and it cant get here soon enough! Im 30. Since having kids I've had trouble with my weight. My bmi is 31 but im considered obese so fellow friends lets take control of our lives and get back to living!!

I went to my last set of classes before surgery. I thought I was going to be on a full liquid diet after the first couple of weeks for 3 weeks coming to a total of 5 weeks...yeah no...I'm going to be on full liquids from week 3 to week 8. My nut said the tendency is to have leaks at the upper portion of the staple line and since they switched to this slower re-introduction of solid foods, they've not had any leaks in their patients.

My biggest, non-complication concern at this point is controlling the diarrhea or constipation while trying to work. I'm really hoping this will fix my hunger issues to at least get me through 2 months of liquid....no wonder people lose their hair. With the 2 month liquid diet, I really going to have to come up with something else to revolve around other than food! Oh this going to be so hard.

When I met the surgeon today he told me that since i'm bottom heavy it's going to be even easier to do this laproscopically......................thanks...................I was 300lbs at weigh in today, he thinks this will get me down to 200, obviously my hope is that I can push for more but it did sort of get me thinking that 150-160 would be my goal, but realistically I've never been under 220lbs in my adult life so anything below that is just gravy.

"When I met the surgeon today he told me that since i'm bottom heavy it's going to be even easier to do this laproscopically......................thanks..."

This made me chuckle Juny! I'm bottom heavy too

Wow...8 weeks of liquids?? I feel for ya..I'm doing pre-op diet right now (2 shakes and 1 low cal meal) and my tummy is already protesting. I hope that time flies by for ya!

Yeah it's right up there with the cardiologist who said I wasn't going to last long w/ the stress test because of my short legs.

Oh no girl! I got those too! LMBO! We are just too easy to pick on, it seems

Hi....fingers crossed, I will be sleeved on Feb 28 in NC.

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Fingers crossed here too. I have my last appointment with the nutritionist on Monday. Then its waiting game withthe insurance.

Hi everyone

My name is Rosa and (26) married no kids and just got my approval letter !!!!! My date will be for sure In February. I been obese since I turned 18 it seems so tired of it so glad I am almost their. Oh and I live in sherwood arkansas

? How many days will you be taking off? Is it FMLA covered?

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Congrats

Hi, I'm Terry. I'm 5 feet tall with a starting weight of 260. Starting pre-op diet on Monday - will be sleeved on Feb. 11th.

? How many days will you be taking off? Is it FMLA covered?

My fmla cover me for 2 weeks 2/27 - 3/18

Hey New Jersey----My date is Feb 11 at Pennsylvania Hospital. I am nervous.have been on a diet for about 45 years. I think that is enough!

My fmla cover me for 2 weeks 2/27 - 3/18

I am going to have my dr fill out the form for FMLA. I just didn't know if it was going to hard or not for them to fill it out.