Hi everyone,

I'm scheduled a week from Monday. My sleeve is a revision after an unsuccessful gastric band. From one minute to the next, I'm hopeful and nervous and excited and terrified. I respect and trust my surgeon so it's not that. It's just that the band didn't work for me and I want to have confidence that this will. I'm looking forward to sharing support with the group.

Mine is the 28th too! Can you believe we're just two days away?? It feels so surreal

I hope you both had a great surgery. It will be soon time to sip sip and walk walk.

Hi Tisa and Lady K44,

Sorry it took so long to reply. Message notices went straight into junk mail and I just found them! Future communication shoudn't be a problem.

Tisa, It didn't feel surreal until I was waking up but I'm amazed that surgery is behind me and my new life has begun. Still getting my bearings with new eating schedule - especially how long it takes to get down a Protein "meal." Thank goodness I'm not experiencing hunger. I had a rocky first few days. I was a band conversion to sleeve so my first few days were rocky. Mostly pain in the abs where the port was attached to the abdominal wall. Each day is a noticable improvement. My post op appointment is Wednesday so I'll know more soon.

Lady K44, thanks for the encouagement. The walking is slower than I'd anticipated because of what I described above. I'm tiring easily and the abs burn ALOT. Still I've been chipping away at it every day and it's made a huge difference.

Today's a new day! Wishing you both the best.

I had my surgery done on July 28th also and feeling such a difference already. I have not been on the scale in over two weeks but last time I did check I was down 32lbs. I am trying to hold off weighing myself again until I go back to the surgeon for my next check up which is on October 7th.

Edited September 8, 201412 yr by gdussell1