Well, the day finally came..... ; ).... not as smooth as I had wished but worth it.

Hello, My name is Christina.... I was banded on 3/19/07 @ the weight of 228. My surgery was done by Dr. Clarey and Dr. Bruce (awesome team). Unfortunately, right after being released from the hosp. on 3/20 I ended up right back in only 6 hours later with a temp of 302.5. Needless to say that my family was in a panic that infection or something to do with the band had set in........ But, come to find out that I had double viral pneumonia ..... Can you believe it... I was actually happy to hear that it was only pneumonia.....ya right. Dr. Clarey & Dr. Bruce called in a great respiratory Doc and I was finally released on 3/26. I am just now starting to feel like my old self.

There was something good (as morbid as it sounds) that did come out of the extended hosp. stay..... Because I felt like DooDoo and was kept on the "full liquid" diet ..... I ended up departing the hosp. weighing 202.6lbs .... Nice little jump start huh? ; ). Except ..... now I am dreading the fact that I am once again HUNGRY and going through withdrawal ..... and then there is the cheating. At least I have begun my walking again .... which I started in the hosp. .... I was more stir crazy then wanting to exercise... but it all worked for me...lol.

Well, anyway.....thats my story and I am sticking to it ; ).

Christina

ChrisP

Sorry to hear your start in bandland was so rough. But Welcome. We have a thread for people banded in March (Marchies in April) if you would like to join us. Love to have another person to share with and learn from.

I guess that hospital stay had a silver lining, huh?

Good Luck!

Welcome to Bandland!

Hi Christina,

Glad to hear you feeling better...pneumonia is so horrible and luckily you had people to help. Again glad to hear you are feeling much better.

Christina, glad you are feeling better. Congrats on getting banded.