I'M FROM ATLANTA AREA ANYONE FROM AROUND HERE??

I'm from Chattanooga

OK I'M ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF AWAY FROM CHATT. Have you had your surgery yet?

No not yet. It has been a long road to get here. I was all approved (I thought) last Thanksgiving time, but the surgeon couldn't do it the week I needed, and I couldn't take any time off until January. Then I had planned to do it the first week in March, but the psychiatrist had said I should go to therapy, and so the surgeon wouldn't do it then (not sure why it was OK in November, but not March) *sad trombone*... So here I am, after having 6 months of therapy, and my appointment with the surgeon is on Thursday, 9-11-14. I saw my PCP last week and got all of my pre-op lab work done, and I had an EGD last October and the surgeon's office said I would not need another one since my heartburn has gone away with prilosec. I already have approval because I work at the hospital where I will be having the surgery, and there is an excellent program. I am automatically approved, and I work with like 11 other nurses who have had the surgery. So I quit smoking 3 weeks ago, I stopped caffeine on Sunday, and I started the liquid diet over the weekend (I have cheated a bit, but done better with each successive day). On track so far today!

Have you had your surgery yet?

I start my liquid Thursday. In having surgery on the .18th. I started the whole process in July Si I have been very fortunate not to run into any problems. What types if things are you drinking for your liquid diet? I'm a food addict I know it's gonna be tough in me to do this but I want to live a long life.

Ya I know! I have had a problem with substance abuse in the past, and I honsetly didn't have much trouble quitting that, or with quitting smoking either... that said, I went nuts last night and found some really old cream of wheat in my pantry... I made it w sugar and butter... all of which I threw away this morning--I now have nothing in my house that in unapproved... tonight will be really hard... I would suggest trying to half-ass do the diet tomorrow, I have found it is much easier to taper off and onn things like that I have seen some posts on here about carb/sugar addiction, and then in class this morning the professor showed a slide of a MRI of someone's brain on sugar and on cocaine... the areas which were lit up were exactly the same, and they were the exact same color...

Yeah Iv have seen that before its crazy.

So have you had your surgery yet?

oooops you already answered that, sorry. I got distracted from the feed by having to pay attention in school hahahahahahahahahaha

Hi, I'm all the way down in Valdosta. I had my WSL in Gainesville, Fl. Best of luck to you.

You too! Maybe I can stop on by for a Protein shake the next time I go to Miami

That would be nice. I'm now on phase 3, very soft foods and everything is going as planned. I did have internal bleeding after surgery and needed to go back to the hospital for a few more days but it was stopped with medication. Please try and stay on your diet before surgery and again best of luck.

Thanks for the support merckman I have done really well since that cream of wheat incident! Hahahaha

I'm in villa rica...down 20 past douglasville

Hi! I'm about 20 mins outside of Atlanta in Covington. Had surgery on July 8th

I am in Buford, having the RNY robotically on 10/14 with Dr. Nguyen. Good luck to y'all.