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Being Banded 01/02/09 Getting nervous....

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tracey1034    0

tracey1034
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Hi all! My name is Tracey and I am new here. I have a surgery date of 1/2/09 in Tijuanna with the OCC (Dr. Martinez) I *just* decided to have the surgery a week ago....but I have been researching and considering for a year. My birthday is January 5th and I thought that this would be an amazing gift to myself, and a wonderful way to start a new year. I live in the East Bay Area in California. Anyone from around here?

Does anyone have any advice fo me? Wisdom? Encouragement? I'll take it all :>

Thanks in advance!

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wow you decided a week ago to have surgery! that is so quick. i have been going through the process for almost 3-4 months now. im sure Dr. Martinez is an amazing surgeon, but when i think of TJ i think of it being dirty and very run down :] good luck with the surgery! I wish my process of surgery would be that quick! Surgery will be fine! congrats on taking the big step of being banded!

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tracey1034, I here in San Francisco... go Bay Area! :-D I have been looking for people around here. Looks like we have a similar story and a similar surgery date. I've got a Jan 9th appt with Dr. Ortiz. My decision to go to OCC was rather quick as well, as my husband thought I was crazy at first.

I've def had second thoughts about the surgery in the past few days, probly cause I started the preop diet and I'm a bit frazzled anyway. So I have two things to tell you that will hopefully make you feel better. First, my husband helped me research OCC and Dr.Ortiz online and came up with nearly all positives. Second, my local Lapband doctor has a lot of respect for OCC, and will do aftercare/fills with me even though I'm being banded outside of the US. That in itself is an endorsement.

What a fantastic gift to yourself! A little bit of nervousness is good so don't worry about it. If my family and friends knew I was going to have surgery in Mexico they would send the guys in white coats to drag me off. I've done my research so I'm confident that this is a really good step. Financially it makes sense, and Dr.Ortiz has way more lapband experience than any American surgeon.

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FatRuby    0

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Hi Tracey,

I'm also in the Bay Area. I'm in Marin and I know how you feel. I'm having my first appointment with my surgeon Dr Stanley Rogers on 7th Jan. I'm nervous too. And when I'm not nervous, I'm excited. Good luck to you!

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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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      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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        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.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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

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