I would love to make some surgery buddies now so we can go through all the pre-op requirements together and stick through surgery and beyond. Anyone else already know their surgery will occur this summer?

My surgery is going to fall in the July or August time frame. Most of this is dependent upon checking all my surgeon's boxes, the rest is dependent upon my financing since I'm self-pay. I'll be getting the sleeve.

I love my surgeon and feel really lucky to have found him. So far the pre-op stuff has gone smoothly, but I am just at the beginning stages. I've scheduled all my evals and classes and attended my first weight loss class last week. I found it to be mildly helpful. It was certainly geared more toward those that hadn't already read through the surgery binder and/or those that had no clue what healthy eating consisted of. I'm hoping future classes focus more on the post-op eating.

My first visit with my PCP about this surgery is next week as that's the soonest I could get in to see her. I'm hoping she'll be supportive as my surgeon knew of her when I told him that's who I see. But if I have to find another PCP so be it.

My first dietician appt is next week and psych eval is the week after that. I only have to get these three meetings out of the way to schedule my surgery. So I'm anxious to get that done!

I'm excited to hear from others along the same timeline as me!

On 7/30/2018 at 5:52 PM, Ylime said:

All -

I think I'm caught up on adding all the new members and dates to our list. The number of people that I moved over to the Completed tab is amazing!!

For the members listed below, I do not have a date listed for you. If your surgery has been scheduled and you'd like your date listed, please either tag me or quote me with your date and I'll get it updated!

@Auroragirl4489, @Brina1980, @DebSom54, @dutchamy, @HealthierBetterMe, @Ivy Joel, @jessicasz, @Jolexis, @Lauren26, @Love2Travel816, @newme1962, @NYJenn, @savannah_Lee, @TaylorMade4One, @zulayyinet4, @CKap10, @monies, @KRush88, @theresahyatt19

MEMBER LIST: tinyurl.com/SummerWLS

Hi everyone! could you please add my husband Mike, today is his 1 day of preop liquid diet. In order to support him and motivate him I am doing it too! He will be having the surgery on 8/7. As some of people posts, we are worried a little scare, but he refuses to get insulin so this is the only option. Praying for all of you . That God gives you the strength you need, and hope to here in 6 months the wonderful changes that all of you will be sharing ?

Hi rosawise. we all on here are all on the glidepath to Surgery or have recently had ours. A little of knowledge, a lot of sharing the burden, and much friendship. Ask,any questions you may have, we love to help others.

@ttj3mom Thanks. Its a huge help seeing we all struggle with the same things.

We All may Struggle but We All Have Within Ourself the Will and Spirit to Win!

And the more new friends we meet here , the more rich and varied our experiences become! Smiles?and rainbows? today for everyone!

guys- quick question! i’m babysitting right now and forgot to bring food, the kids are having pizza for dinner so i ordered italian wedding soup, do you think that’ll be okay to have or should i just have yogurt? and if it’s okay i need to take out the pastina right?

Yes and mushify it as much as you can. You know it does sound very tasty at 6 pm to me!

@newmebithebypass - I think the overall stress and pressure of this entire process gets to everyone. I didn't even have to do that much in my process but the anxiety over the cost and thinking about the post-op experience certainly got the better of me. And I've already warned my family that I just might be a royal PITA after surgery when all I'm doing is drinking and eating mush. lol

7 minutes ago, Ylime said:

@newmebithebypass - I think the overall stress and pressure of this entire process gets to everyone. I didn't even have to do that much in my process but the anxiety over the cost and thinking about the post-op experience certainly got the better of me. And I've already warned my family that I just might be a royal PITA after surgery when all I'm doing is drinking and eating mush. lol

oh yeah im definitely there with you on that LOL! Im 3 days post op and im whining like no ones business. I just cant wait to get past the stages, pain, and just gassyness, bloatyness, im definintely cranky LOL!

July has been our biggest month yet with 38 members completing their surgeries. Congrats to all who have earned their golden keys for July!

@AshAsh12 @Momtokaitlyn @libbyleeb @Sleeved2Achieve @Em_Jay75 @sdcheesehead @mckenzie @lamoore1216 @LindyPablo @CKap10 @NYJenn @jsan @Bellasoo @Lioness815 @Nnoi @greensmoothie @MissPriss81 @insta_adventurer @nisha10 @pumpkinlocks @Anne1657 @Camme @NrseMel77 @KristinOlivia @MN_Meg770 @zodiacalm @Redapples @GeminiSky @Luzbella @sentaric @Jbyerly101 @DianK @Ladybabs @mplsgal

genevao, MeltingDS, and mckenzie are also listed but the board won't let me tag them.

Congrats to us the July people! Proud of myself and everyone else. Im so glad this forum exists. The support has been great

I can't wait to see my name on the next list!!!!

On 08/01/2018 at 15:30, saygrace said:

my incisions are so freaking itchy...... send help ??

I have one incision that's very red. I'm just over 4 weeks post op. I called doctors office and they suggested warm compresses. Don't know if that'll help the itches but seems to be helping my situation. Good luck

And then after your month comes mine, and we will both earn our gold keys.?