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Well, the days are flying by. I start my liquid preop diet tomorrow. Surgery in 2 Weeks...can't wait.

Good Luck to everyone going before me.

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Hi, everyone I am getting banded tomorrow 05/08 excited and scared at the same time. Good Luck everyone!!!

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Good Luck Michele and everyone else!!!

Funny about the acid reflux comment because that was one of the side effects of Morbid Obesity in my medical necessity letter??So, I guess you can have it either way????

I can NOT believe how fast this month is going compared to March when I was waiting for approval! UGH!!! I am so excited and so scared at the same time....

I know I have made the right decision but the waiting is so.......scary???

We will all be great!! Hang in There!

TTFN Shelley

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I just found out today that I am scheduled for my band on May 21st! Woo hoo! I can't wait! Congratulations to everyone! Good luck Michele! You will do great! Let us know how it goes! :frown:

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How is it going blondiebandie...I hope well!

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Hi everyone, I'm new here and haven't gotten around to making my introductory post yet -- but May 15th is my big day! I'm self-pay as well, as my insurance company specifically excludes weight loss surgery from coverage. I had to take out a loan against my 401K but at least when I make the loan payments, I am paying myself back!

I've done so much research I was on overload -- read every online post-surgery blog and diary I could find, every doctor and surgeon's website I could find, I watched the surgery being performed on YouTube, I attended support group meetings and seminars.... and yet.... there is still always more to learn, and all of your posts have been so helpful. I understand that surgery is not an overnight trip to paradise, but the beginning of a new journey.

I haven't figured out how to add the little tickers and whatnot yet either, but I'll get there. Good luck to all my fellow May bandsters! :thumbup:

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HI, I will have surgery on may 27th as well...

I started my pre-op diet today....

Vicky Barberena

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Hey all! My surgery in on May 27th and I just started my pre op slimfast and Water diet for the next two weeks! Im having my surgery at Mercy in Chicago IL. So far ive lost 29 lbs since 3-30-08!!!!

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Hi all of you Late Bloomers! May 28th here!!! No real preop diet but just being overly cautious until then....I love cooked broccoli with a tad of fat free mayo on it!...I actually went to a resturant the other night and ordered 3 sides of it so I had lunch today too! I have a Protein Shake for breakfast...fruits and veggie's and some sort of Protein at lunch and dinner...

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Hi Amsderb, it sounds like you are doing all the right things. Any thing that will help make your surgery go smoothly will be great, plus you have a jump start on your post op diet. I had my lap band May 12th and I am doing well except for some pain around the port sites on my left side. It is so worth it. I really have no appetite yet and have just been sipping on Protein Drinks and then waiting for 1/2 hour to have some Water. You spend most of your day sip, sip sipping. Best wishes on your upcoming surgery. Keep us posted. Love, Becky

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Good for you Sadie.....that is fantastic!! May 12th was my LB day and I am doing great. I am not going to weigh until I see my doctor. I know I am up because of all the IV's and I tend to hold onto Water in my body. I am so glad I had the LB....WOO-hoo Becky

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        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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        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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