Hi All, I am a newbie, more ways then one.

I had my lap band surgery on New years eve, Yes I even did the 2 week prior pre diet which meant No goodies for Christmas, It was hard but I did it. I have not had my first fill yet cause when I went in for my 2 week check the incision area in front of the port has not healed up yet. I was the crankiest person ever for the liquid diet for 2 weeks after.

Things so far are going good, I can fianally do soft foods and am feeling more human now.

My DR is Mario Longoria at Southwest Bariatric in Austin Texas, he is absolutely awesome and considering all I have been thru he has been the trooper for me!

I went back in October for pre op bloodwork and found out that I was very anemic, they were wondering why I was not in the hospital. After going thru More Dr appts to find out the problem , took forever had to have colonoscopy and endoscopy all in one day, still did not find anything.

Finally got the anemia under control :Dancing_wub:. Bloodwork was all good. Went for my last appt before the surgery and waited to get the appt, they called me back and asked If I wanted to do it on New Years eve, I asked if the Dr was OK with that and they said yes because he knew I wanted to get it done by the end of the year. Plus I had to wait cause of the other issues. Again he was a trooper and came in that day for my surgery, He came in to see me and I told him since I had to make a 2 year comittment to be here to see him, then he needed to make sure he did not get in any accidents on NYE. Ok so I had the suregery, to top it all off I had a Hyatal Hernia (SP) . he fixed that for me, all is well now and just trying to heal up. I would tell anybody This young man and I say that cause he is a good deal younger then me.:wink2:

He is a wonderful Dr.

Hi, welcome to lapbandtalk, mountainmomma. Sounds like you are doing great!

Do you live in the Austin area? I went to college in San Marcos and fell in love with the hill country. If all the family (both my wife's and mine) weren't in east Texas, I would live in the hill country.

Thanks! I am in the austin area, I would love to be out in the Hill country, But it's too far out to commute. I love San Marcos, But alas too far to commute. I am waiting to move back east eventually, Looking forward to real mountains.