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Yup, thanks. Nothing but the post surgery diet plan, it appears. Oh well. But if anyone wants to get together for a Protein shake, I'm buying!

Oh no!

it took me right to the seminar schedule, sorry.

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No, it took me to the seminar schedule, but the only thing happening while I am there is the

Blossom Bites (Post-Op)

seminar which, I am assuming, is the post-op diet planning on Oct 29th.

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Hi everyone...I'm in Vegas too. I am scheduled for the sleeve in Dec but have done WLS before with the band. Would love to have support from other locals.

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I'm heading to Vegas next month (ugh!) for Dr. Umbach. Traveling from Montana.

I'm from Montana too. Considering if I dont get qualified by my insurance I'm looking into Vegas to. What part of MT are you from.

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Hey guys! I'm looking to join or start a local VSG support group as well as the one's on here.

Is there anyone who has been sleeved in Vegas that would be interested?

I just relocated back to vegas...Im almost a year post op but I would be intetested n joining group

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Awesome! Maybe I should make a group. Does everyone have Facebook? I could make a private group

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In Vegas and interested in a support group too!

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Awesome! Maybe I should make a group. Does everyone have Facebook? I could make a private group

I'm in Vegas ... Summerlin. I was sleeved 7/22/13 by dr Soong.. Let me know if you do a FB group

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I will plan on setting one up :-)

I'll post as soon as it's done

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I was sleeved By Dr Umbach in Vegas (baby!) but live in Portland, OR. But hey, I'm going to be there at the end of this month for a conference. If y'all get something going, I'd love to drop in.

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I am traveling from Washington to have my surgery done by dr umback. How was it traveling afterwards? Did you stay through Monday? Were you able to leave the hotel and get some sights in?

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Traveling was fine. Wear the TED socks and walk around on the plane every 20 minutes or so to avoid blood clots.

My surgery was at 8:00 and I was discharged around noon and back at the Golden Nugget by 12:30. Took a 4 hour nap, woke up, took a shower and the wife and I went out to dinner. I told the waiter I had a late lunch and wouldn't be eating. No problem. We walked all over downtown and I even played a few hands of blackjack.

The next day we went up to the strip visiting a lot of the casinos. Walked no less than 5 miles, I'm sure. Sunday, of the same. Met with Umbach Monday morning and he removed pain pump and final check. He is very close to the airport now, so it is a quick jaunt to the airplane.

Good luck!

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Traveling was fine. Wear the TED socks and walk around on the plane every 20 minutes or so to avoid blood clots.

My surgery was at 8:00 and I was discharged around noon and back at the Golden Nugget by 12:30. Took a 4 hour nap, woke up, took a shower and the wife and I went out to dinner. I told the waiter I had a late lunch and wouldn't be eating. No problem. We walked all over downtown and I even played a few hands of blackjack.

The next day we went up to the strip visiting a lot of the casinos. Walked no less than 5 miles, I'm sure. Sunday, of the same. Met with Umbach Monday morning and he removed pain pump and final check. He is very close to the airport now, so it is a quick jaunt to the airplane.

Good luck!

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Thank you it is so nice to hear how well you were feeling afterwards. So you had to have a pain pump? That is not something I have heard of? Do you know if all patients have a pain pump after the procedure? Was the removal hard or painful?

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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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      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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      1. summerseeker

        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.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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