For those of you on blood thinners please make sure you do what you are told and talk to your doctors about the parameters surrounding them. I was banded on Thursday afternoon and had one scary moment when they considered canceling my surgery. I was told to stop my Coumadin 5 days prior to surgery so I stopped it on Saturday. So I showed up at the hospital, got processed and was moved to the pre op waiting room: Well while laying on the gurney they told me they where waiting for my blood results and when they arrived my PTT was 1.6 and the guidelines say it should be 1.5 or lower. So I had to sweat out a mini conference by the surgical team until they decided to move forward. What a nightmare: I was imagining the worst case scenario where I got canceled and had to go through rescheduling but it worked out in the end.

Thanks for the tip. I'm glad to hear you were still able to have your surgery.