A super congrats to Lellow who is is Australia and will actually be banded before all of us in the States have even gotten home from work on the 31st! Lead the way Rubber Duckie!

On lellow's heels we have edel and keisha 85, followed by Moe128 and Claudine1975. Next up we have southerngirl24, Andrea20405, and Cathrine Ray. We don't know where fee and Tracyde730 are, but our wishes will be with them all day too.

We look forward to seeing you again on the other side. Come back soon :biggrin:

Yes, Good Luck to ALL!!

I hope you all have a great surgery and healthy speedy recoveries. Be sure to post about it when you can! I know I'd love to hear from you all!

I hope everything goes great for all of you. Let us know how you are doing!

Will be thinking of you all!!!! Praying for quick, uncomplicated surgeries with little post pain!

Make us proud ladies and update. Here's to a newer and more healthy you.

Thanks everybody!!! T-10 hours!!!! I just wanted to post one more time before I try to sleep and say that I will keep Andrea20405, Cathrine Ray, Claudine1975, edel, fee, Keisha 85, lellow(who is long out of surgery by now:), southerngirl24, Traceyde730, Gilta and anyone else that is going tomorrow in my prayers and wish you all the best. I look forward to getting thin with all of your help!!! I'm off to sleep before I start chewing on my desk for something other than broth:biggrin: I'll post as soon as I can! Moe

Thanks for all the well wishes everyone. My dr. has moved up the surgery to 8:15 and I am very calm right now. I will post as soon as I can.

Lana - we can meet up next week - I will be home all next week.

See you guys on the other side.:biggrin:

OMG, so I have to tell you a funny story! After creating the roster for this board I noticed that Claudine was in the same town, Raleigh, NC. Turns out, she lives less than 2 miles away. We haven't met yet...but sure will soon. Anyhow, I have ordered just gobs of Protein samples. I had some duplicates and some that I am not willing to try at all (I have a thing about orange-flavored stuff.) I bagged up a few of these and put it on the porch for Claudine to swing by to pick up sometime. Some of these were sealed in little heat seal baggie-type things.

Here's the fun part!

So, this morning I actually opened my front door. We go in and out a side door usually. Strewn ALL over the porch is protein powder! There was chocolate, banana, vanilla. Probably about 4 different kinds from the mix of colors that were there. Seems the squirrels decided to give the stuff a try :biggrin:

I don't think they liked it because they only bit the corners off of the packages instead of tearing them to shreds to get every last morsel. Oh well...I guess they figured that since they didn't have any Crystal Light the stuff just wasn't worth it. :biggrin: Let's see if they can get the pull tape off of the Low Carb Slim Fast!!!

Woo Hoo! It's August and we are off and running. Good luck and safe surgery to all the August first banders!

Post as soon as you can - we are all looking forward to hearing about your experience.

:biggrin: Yes, Good Luck to All August All-Stars!! :biggrin:

Exciting that August is finally here!! Good luck to all those being banded today, I wish for a speedy recovery for you all!

OMG. Reading these posts it just clicked to me that it is finally August. Then my heart jumped. That makes this surgery even more real to me. Before it was 6 weeks away, now its 3!!! My liquid diet starts in 2 weeks.

Good luck to our Aug. 1st bandsters...thanks for leading the way!!I look forward to hearing about your success on the other side.

I wish all you August 1st bandster a speedy recovery, I can't wait to hear how all of you are doing!

Hi Cutie - I'm on August 6th too and I'm getting really excited! I see that you are also in Orange County, CA. I am in Fountain Valley and getting banded at Orange Coast Memorial. Where are you going?

Hey guys - I was banded on Friday and everything went very well. I was not in too much pain waking up from the surgery. Actually, I didn't feel pain until Saturday. I would not describe it as pain but more of discomfort. Gas pain and pressure has been the biggest issue. Walking and gas x strips are helping. I have a timer to remind me to sip slowly every 15 minutes. I took a 1 mile walk today and that seemed to drain all my energy but after a nap, I feel pretty good.

Good Luck to all the August 4th bandsters!!!