Hi! I'm Valerie. I was banded this past Thursday in Jacksonville, FL by Dr. Javier Herrera. I had been on a 5-week liquid diet before the surgery (500 calories or less per day) and had dropped 57 pounds as of the morning of surgery. Still have a ways to go - but that 57-pound weight loss shows me that I can do this!!

Congrats Valerie,

I am hoping to be banded on June 15th...Scared to death but also looking forward to it. I hope your surgery went well and all the emotions that followed. :myscared:

Cat

Everything has actually gone very well. I was originally scheduled for May 24 but when they did blood work the morning of the scheduled surgery my potassium was critically low - so it was canceled. I thought I would be devastated if anything like that happened - but I really wasn't. I took higher doses of potassium for a week. My count came up and I had surgery on the 31st. I've really not had any emotional reaction to any of this. I've been trying for 3 years to get approved for this surgery, so I think I'm all "emotion'd" out! At this point, I was just ready to get it done so I could get on with my life. I'm still very sore over my port site (which I hear is normal) but other than that, I'm doing pretty good.