Hello, I have never blogged, don't know how, took me 5 minutes to mistakenly get to this! Yea, March 17, 2009 is my surgery date, I am almost 45 years old and have waited my entire life to get here! Patience please! I cry when I read some of your stories, I laugh, jump for joy for all of you who have been brave enough to get here too! I hope I do not love my band more than my husband (he is skinny, so he would not understand)! For all the christian banded I pray for yall, God DOES work through Dr.'s to heal us, especially if our faith is'nt quite there for skinniness! Yes I am a faith walking. tongue talking, Jesus loving, free to speak my faith person! My starting weight is about 212 lbs (my highest weight has been 272), 5' 1" tall.

CONGRATS!! :thumbup:

You have a date! You will find so much helpful info on pre-op/post-op and answers to just about every question imaginable!!!

Welcome Nancy!

I was born in 1964 too so almost 45 :thumbup:. I was banded on 25th January so I am well on my way to recovery now. Congratulations on your date, it will soon come round and the start of your new life will begin. We will all be skinnies and the Lord will walk with us if we ask Him.

Blessings

Where is Dubai (spelling?)? It took me a while to find this and figure how to answer! I will post some pics when I download my camera! What were your starting stats?:tongue2:

Congrats and welcome

Nancy, great day to be banded; Luck of the Irish to you and of course Gods speed for safe and healthy recovery.

Oh yes well spotted TQUAD! It will be St Pat's day!:w00t:

Nancy, Dubai is 1 of 7 Emirates that make up the country called the United Arab Emirates or the UAE for short. We are east of Saudi Arabia and south of Iran and Iraq on the Arabian Gulf. It's very hot here as it is desert and can reach over 50 degrees c in the summer! Have updated my ticker with starting stats although didn't measure myself! I'm a self pay so didn't have to wait long from when I decided to do it.

Ok, are you american? are you christian? do you live in a safe place? I could go on with a page full of questions, i am studing escatology and you are right there in the middle of all that! In the states you can not have a wls surgery if your bmi is under 35, congrats on what you have lost so far, keep losing!!!!!!! Nancy

Yea, look at u go, 25lbs, very exciting to see everyone suceeding! How do I get one of those ticker things?

No reason to fret over 45, I believe after we lose all our weight we will feel 25 again, or what should have felt at 25!!

CONGRATS!!! :tongue: GOOD LUCK.

Hi Nancy,

My BMI was 34.5 and heading upwards! It was 39 a few years ago and I was heading back there so that's why I decided to get a lapband. I'm sure I would have been there before long. I've always had weight issues.

Anyway I am a Brit from the UK and yes I am a Christian too. We are lucky over here that the Sheikh allows us to practice our own religions in an Islamic country and I go to a church over here. We are not allowed to prosletise here though, at least not the to the Muslims.

I did a few workshops on Escatology last year, very interesting!

If you click on someone's ticker it will take you to the website. Fill in all the details then copy and paste the url into your signature by clicking on CP at the top of the front page then clicking edit signature. It may take a few goes!

Good luck with your weight loss!