Hi there! :banana

My name is Lori, I live in Dover, NH, I just turned 20 y/o, and I currently weigh 278 (BMI: 49). I'm not sure the exact date that I will be having the Lap Band implanted, but I am sure it will be sometime this year. My surgeon, Dr. Looser, will be able to tell me when the surgery date is, once I finish up some blood work and group meetings.

This looks like a nifty place to chit chat, so I think I'll be sticking around a while!

Hey Lori.. good luck with everything and welcome to LBT! This is a great place to get information and to meet a lot of great people! Keep us updated....

Darcy

Hi Lori,

Wow, another youngster!! You're in such a great place in your life to be doing this; I know you'll do extremely well with the band.

It does my heart good to see young people gravitating to the band instead of bypass surgery. It seems a no-brainer to go with the less-invasive procedure when someone is really just recently an adult. I wish more doctors agreed.

Welcome to the board and we look forward to hearing about your progress. Nice to meet you!! :)

Lori: Welcome Welcome. I second Alex's statement of wishing more young people would come to the band instead of bypass. Makes so much more sense to me anyway. LOL!!

Anyway, welcome and visit often. Glad to have you aboard.

Hi Lori,

Glad to see you hear. You'll learn a lot hanging out here, get your questions answered and make some great friends. Keep us posted on when you date is. Best wishes, Teresa

Lucky Lori. I'm 41. I wish I the band was around when I was 20. I'm really excited for you. Welcome home. : )

Welcome Lori!! I wish you a great beginning of a 'band' new life!!

Leatha

Age 43 for a few more days..

Banded 5-29-03 - Dr. Wetter/ San Francisco

250/193/??

Slippage Repair - Tomorrow

Lori, the very best of luck to you! You'll have a lot less problem with saggy, baggy skin than I do. You probably don't have your first gray hair yet!

Thank you all for the kind words and introductions!

I am looking very forward to the procedure, and me being so young will probably work to my advantage! I am choosing the Lap Band over the Roux-En-Y Gastric Bypass, because the Band can be removed if there is a problem. If there is something wrong w/ the Roux-En-Y, there is very little that can be done, in ways of reversal. The comfort of knowing that the Band can be reversed is a sense of great comfort.