Now my sister is getting a lap-band too. So that makes me, my mom, and my sister to get lap bands in my family. Is there anyone else that has had lap-bands in their whole family?

I LOVE MY BAND!!!

Yup, I was banded on the 2/14, and now hubby is jumping through the hoops for his surgery.

Somewhere there is another post about family banding, here.

I had mine in August and my mom had hers in October!

My aunt is getting one this summer. My mom was not very supportive of mine but has been great about my aunt. She says I will be great support for her. I told her I would be great support because I have had to overcome her being so judgemental. ~Mandy

My mom and I are both being banded by Dr. Cywes in Jacksonville FL on 4/2/07 :-D

She's scheduled at 7:15, and I'm right behind her at 8:30 :clap2:

My dad was going to do it, but he needed surgery on some nerves/muscles in his neck area (he's in surgery right now in fact), so he postponed his for the moment (he's lost 40 lbs just by supporting my mom and eating only what she can eat though! So he may not end up needing it!). My hubby doesn't need it. My sister (who is the person who introduced us to the surgery 3 years ago) was trying to get it done, but she's 10 lbs too LIGHT to qualify for insurance coverage and she said it's not worth putting those 10 lbs back on after working so hard on weight watchers to lose the 40-50 she did lose on her own. ((i don't blame her though)).

AND We have a lady at my church who is in the 6 month doctor supervised diet part of her insurance approval. So it's all over the board with me :-D

We could start our own support group in the family :-D LOL

I got my band in April of 2006 and the husband had his put in in June 2006

Me and My wife went from Chicago to Monterry MX 2 1/2 years ago. On the same day we both had surgery. We had lost weight before surgery, but lost much more after surgery. It was awesome to do this with my best friend. I have seen Debbie go from a size 30 to a size 12. I am so proud of her, but I was proud of her before surgery. It is like being on a honeymoon after 22 years of marriage. I know thats TMI.

Dow

Frank, that is so nice to say, it sounds like something my husband would say. How did you both do with recover, considering you were both done on the same day? Did you make contingencies in case one of you or both of you had problems?

I am happy for you, and you both deserve it.............

We just prayed alot. NO ONE even knew why we were traveling. We knew we could lean on each other. Thank God it went OK. We had a friend from church watch our children for 3 dat while we were gone. We did leave writen instructures in case of emerency.

Dow

Me and My wife went from Chicago to Monterry MX 2 1/2 years ago. On the same day we both had surgery. We had lost weight before surgery, but lost much more after surgery. It was awesome to do this with my best friend. I have seen Debbie go from a size 30 to a size 12. I am so proud of her, but I was proud of her before surgery. It is like being on a honeymoon after 22 years of marriage. I know thats TMI.

Dow

We have a chicago group that meets for lunch once a month. We meet around Naperville or Oak Brook, you are both welcome to join us. There is a Chicago Friends thread in the Illinois section where we make the plans. ~Mandy

My family story is this:

I had surgery 7-05-06 lost 75 lbs

Sister had surgery 8-30-06 lost 46 lbs.

Husband had surgery 1-31-07 lost 45 lbs.

We have all been very pleased with our results so far.