Hi I am newly banded. Just banded on January 16, 2007 in Mexico by Dr. de la Garza. It was a great experience going through him I am just learning to adapt to this stage of liquid eating and its difficult sometimes. I haVe 3 children who all need to eat and its so tempting to want to eat something solid when your still on liquids. My next step is finding someone here in Florida that I want to do my fill. I live in north Florida so if anyone has any suggestions I would love to hear them. Aside from the smells of solid foods everyone else is eating and the itching from my incisions, so far all is well.

Donna:hippie:

Hi bandqueen! Congrats on your surgery! I am glad to hear that you had a good experience. I will be banded on the 30th-10 more days. I too have children(4) who will need to eat and am anticipating this to be difficult when I won't be at that stage. Best of luck to you! Keep us posted. Gigi

Hi Donna,

I'm right there with you (even the 3 kid part) I was banded on the 12th in Mexico, and luckly have been given a pretty casual post-op diet, but I have already caught my self many times by spitting out a grape while making the kids lunches or spitting out Cake batter while making the Birthday cake!~ it's habit. Which got me in trouble in the first place I'm sure but still hard to break. I almost went with De La Garza, glad to hear it went well.

If you haven't already done so join us over on the January Banded link.

Take Care

Sara

I don't know what I would do without having cobanders to talk with especially ones that I have just had bands placed at the same time as myself. Trying to talk to family members and friends is frustating sometimes they aren't going through this and every sip of liquid I put into my mouth is being questioned. I know they only mean well but it is frustating. As far as joining the january bandsters, hope i'm doing the right thing. I'm not sure if I'm navigating this site like I should. I know it's not rocket science but I think my nerves are just a little frayed right now with everything.

Donna, congrats on your surgery. I'm glad your recovery is going so smoothly. You will do great. Best of luck.