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My first fill!

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ssmom

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:drool:Well, what a surprise, kind of sort of. Went for my one month check up and he says, Ok let's do your fill! Nerves set in. He leaned me back with a pillow rolled under my lower back for me to arch up. He pokes and pokes to find port, says "lean your head and shoulders up" so now I am doing a semi "crunch". He finds it, sticks it, rolls it around to get to the po( had to go in through and angle due to incision not dissolving correctly) then I feel it, my port. It felt weird to have something in there with no feeling since it is plastic. He filled, then had me drink to see if I felt pressure. I sipped and sipped then did feel the pressure, like the water pooled up in my chest, so he took a bit out.

 

THEN the hurting happened. Those incisons that did not dissolve, he had to pull them out! OUCH! Now I have two open wounds.

 

But, I am SIKED that I have my fill. I ate some oatmeal (since I am still on mushy) and could only eat about 1/3 cup. So YES I will loose this weight!

 

I did also loose about 5 lbs in the past three weeks, and he said that was good for the healing stage.

 

I am just on cloud nine that the procedures are going so timely and smoothly, with a couple of bumps here and there.

 

Yippee!

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I'm curious, is oatmeal on your Dr.s list of approved soft solids list? My Dr. said only protein rich foods, or soup with added protein isolate. What I wouldn't give to have a bowl of oatmeal! LOL!

Keep rolling... every week you lose a pound or two, is a good week!

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Yeah! How much is in there, did he tell you?

It was so wierd feeling the port, huh?

Congrats, and continue to feel good :-).

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Congtats on your first fill. I wondered what it would fill like. Sounds like it wasnt that painful. This I am glad about for you and for me. LOL. Since I only had surgery on Monday, my first fill is a ways off. I go for my first office visit on the 8th. Soooo. we will see what happens then. Anyway, glad things are going smoothly for you. Junibug

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Congrats i to had my first fill today ,I also can have oatmeal but he told me stay with liquids today i will try oatmeal on thursday to see if it goes down. Good luck and keep up the good work.

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Oatmeal is a soft food, especially when milk is added. I checked on Lapband.com food dairy area. In fact it is around 11grams.

I am trying to get high protein foods in, instead of depending on protein shakes.

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