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7/17/07 Surgery Date!

unruhlyhd

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unruhlyhd    0

unruhlyhd
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Hi! New to the group - just got my surgery date today - am SO EXCITEd and Nervous as well - haven't been waiting too long in the process, just a very impatient person, especially when I've made up my mind to do something!

Looking forward to experiencing this journey with the rest of the July Bandsters - :clap2:

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My doctor told me to go on a "mini-diet" so that's what I'm attempting now - at least there are a lot of fresh veggies and fruit this time of year...but it's not a lot of fun - just too hungry all of the time! I do full Clear Liquids 24 hours before surgery, so guess I'll get a taste of the liquid life soon enough!

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7/17/07 was my surgery date too! I'm feeling better everyday after the procedure on Tuesday! I hope you're doing well too!

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Hi. I'm a newbie from South Australia. I had my band done on Tuesday. I am having chronic left shoulder pain and some pain in my lower right hand side. The wound sites are fine. I'm not hungry very often and I'm just having liquids in 100mL lots. Not as much as I should yet - the aim is 1.5L a day.

The wind is pretty bad, but otherwise, I'm doing well.

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Oh. I did Optifast for 8 weeks before the surgery. In the first month, I stuck to it pretty well and lost 9kg. The second half was harder with all kinds of social stuff (and lack of willpower) so I ended up losing about 11 kilos all up. So, the free fluids are still kind of a treat right now! :rolleyes:

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Mindy and Carmel - sorry I didn't reply to your posts for a while - I've been on a trip and at meetings for work - that's awesome that we were all banded on the same day! How is everything going now? What stage of the post-op diets are you on now? I'm on mushies/soft - will be for another week and a half, then supposed to introduce "regular" foods - kinda nervous. I've had a couple of times when the food doesn't go down so well and it sure is painful. Have either of you had that experience? How are you doing on the exercise part? I don't seem to have that motivation yet - and it's hotter that heck here so not to excited to get outside and walk.

Hope to hear from you soon!!! Kim

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Hi Kim,

I'm still on fluids - will be until August 15. Things have been going fairly well in terms of recovery but I've hit a couple of snags. My blood pressure and blood sugar have gone really low and I've been passing out/getting light headed. I have to talk to the dietician tomorrow about increasing the amount of fluids if I can tolerate it coz the GP said that's the only way to get the blood pressure up.

Other than that, things are good :) Glad to hear you're doing well!!

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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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