Well today was my first day back to work. As expected my desk was doing its Mount St. Helen's impersonation buy being extremely tall with work, and ready to blow! My voice mail's message stated that I was out of the office till today, yet it was full to capacity with people asking me urgent questions. ( My voice mail message sounded like it was in English to me) My e-mail had my out of office assistant on, yet I had 237 emails. ( I type in English too) My secretary even scheduled me for two meetings, and one of them was on the day of my surgery? The gene pool in my department could use a real good chlorination. Then I had my employees running in and out of my office like small children on a play ground with a lot of this; while you were gone this person was mean to me, and while you were gone this person was talking about me, and my favorite I do not think so and so took a shower today. PEOPLE! Believe it or not my department is full of licensed professional people, yet to me the are my children and my office seems to be their playground. I think I am going to have to start giving time outs!

Now as for the trader part. I went to the canteen today to buy a half pint of milk for my protein shake, and there they were; dozens of pairs of eyes just staring at me as if I just defected to the other side. These eyes belonged to the people I used to stand in line with waiting for my double cheese burgers with fries, my sausage egg and cheese sandwich, my grilled roast beef sandwich, and my favorite my bacon double cheese double burger. They just stared as if I was trespassing on their dietary battle field. " How dare you waltz in here and just grab a simple half pint of milk and run back to your office!" I guess it is true I have defected to the other side, the side of healthy eating, weight loss, and dare I say the word "fitness". I have to bring my own milk tomorrow, for I heard grumblings of a firing squad with french fries!

Biker

lol........... does anyone in ur office know that u got banded?

best of luck to u!

yoco28

Yes they know, most of them do not understand it though. Most people seem to lump banding and bypass into the same procedure. The most commonly asked qestion is "so is that thing permament?"

Biker

Biker

Hang in there! Sometimes it does take our old friends some time to get used our new way of life! Either way as you keep feeling better with yourself you will start to not even notice or care.

How long were you out if work for? And how are you feeling, physically? My surgery is 3 from today, I am getting nerveous.

Vicki