DynamoMini

I was sooooo happy and brave until 9pm, I am doing the Hibiclens and beginning to realize I'll be in surgery, that I have elected, tomorrow. OMG I appreciate all the warm wishes, and if you can spare, a prayer or two wouldn't hurt. I hope I'll be posting tomorrow night or on Tuesday. Positive thinking will take the day. Just soaked in the hot tub, laundary, dishes cleaned and put away. I'm ready. We're gonna rock this town, Denver!

Well - I walked the dogs around the neighborhood, it is like everything is waking up. I love spring. I am ready to go for tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who wished me well. I'll let you know how it goes. I think it will be great. dede801 - what support group do you attend? I have read horror stories of people moaning and groaning. Not my style, but an upbeat support group is always helpful. Collector - I am thrilled that you are doing so well. I am more in your age range, and I want to be walking and talking just like you. You are funny about the bill collecting! Glad it provides a living - Bye all - tomorrow I'll be banded. Yeah!

PreOp diet advice is hard to give as so many docs request different stuff. I think they want high protein and low carbs to shrink your liver for surgery. My doc said that as long as i didn't eat potatoes, bread, rice, etc. my preop diet was good. I got EAS protein powder at Costco. It had good amounts of protein, i mix it with half soy half water and a banana if it is for a meal. I find it satisfying. Good luck finding everything - but just use common sense and you will do fine. Best wishes,

Collector - I hope your surgery went perfectly and you are up and running. I go in Monday! So let's keep in touch. I live in Greenwood Village, near the Denver Tech Center. I love Ft. Collins. Hugs to you, What do you collect?

Hey - I am from Colorado! Dr. Kirshenbaum has a big following, however, many of his patients are from out of state. I have connected with a few other Denver area band or to be banded people. So Howdy to all of you! Wasn't it gorgeous today? So glad we didn't get the snow.

Misty (aka Tater Bug asked me to post this on the sight) Complications Hey Dynamo, I have been back for many hours but was too sick and in pain to get on. I am barily holding my head up to type and cant really see what words are coming out on the screen. I am not banded yet. They had complications with me on the talbe ttying to get the large breatheing tube down my throat. I have such a short neck, and small mouth that when they did.. My toungue and throat swelled shut. Folks are telling I stopped breathing for a bit but Dr. K and all worked fast and got me breathing on my own. I guess that they also tried using a smaller tube but by that time nothing would work. My mouth and tongeu are stil swollen and hurt like I never thought they could hurt. My jaw where it connects, throbs I guess from trying to get my mouth to open more. and we are not even going to touch on my throat. I got violently sick on the ride home as well as a few times once home. Even with the patch! I guess that I am still full of the different chemicals to put one to sleep which is why I am so tiredd. I am better though after I was able to nibble on some toast.. it has setteled my stomach. Dr. K said this was was first time anything like this has happened and (if I remember right) he was upset that I thought this was somehow my fault. I still kinda do.. but I did everything I was told to do... but I guess that there isn't naything I can do to control the way i was made. They want my swelling to go down and I will reschudle after a week or so. And the exact same staff wants to do it next time (if okay with me and it is!) the sleep guy knows how they are going to treat me... just have me breathe on my own during the surgery... still put me under but not assistance to breathe.. That with me.. that is the best way. So I am confident in their treatment and handleing of me.. Right now I am just raw emotions.. I hurt, I was sick, Im not banded and now I am more scared. I know that I am in perfect hands otherwise they would have just done surgery regardless. They all are so wonderful down there! Even after I woke up in such an emotional state. Yes.. I thought I was banded when I first was woke with all the pain in my mouth and neck.. then I really lost it when I was told I wasn't banded. I still crying. So.. when I go back in I need to find out hwo not to get as sick as I did today. I had a taste of how I will feel afterwards of being banded due to the anisteitic but I vomit as violently as I did today I will want to die... I wanted to die today. So needless to say I am an absolute wreck! I know that it is nobodys fault, and not my fault but somehow I still feel like a failure. My family and I are firm believers that "whats meant to be will be when it is meant to be... but tonight.. that is a hard thing to swallow. I am going back to bed.. I finally got a whole toast down me and some mroe sipps of gingersale. If you would be so kind to either copypaste or just post what is going on with me on Kirshenbaums thread and the April 2007 thread I would greatly appricate it. Please Please Please...Keep me in your prayers that I will be strong and that the next time.. is the correct time for me to be banded. If Woofay heard a chicken sh't howlerin' for her momma.. that was me. Odd.. its funny how when I was in that much pain and scared so totally out of my mind that I wanted my Momma.. just like a little child. Just to let you know and everyone else using that facility..THEY ARE AWESOME!!!!!!!!... Before they were wonderful... and after what happened to me... one nurse held my hand the whole time.. even after my mom came back. She did not even try to let me go.. I guess that at that momment I just needed to be touched and conncect by both hands. And she was 100% ok with that. YOu dont find such careing and wonderful people much! Yes I am very afraid now... but not because of the doctors, nurses, or faciliies... nothing like that.. I am more afraid of my own body. and I am horrified that I will vomit next time like I did today. It was painful without being banded... So please.. I can't beg you enough to please pray for me. Thank you so much! I am sure that I will be feeling more like myself tomorrow. Thanks ahead of time for letting everyone know. __________________ Misty Dr. Kirshenbaum: Colorado: www.lapbandrockies.com Banded: Friday 13, April 2007

:peace: Congrats Woofay and Tater! Ya that highway is full of pot holes. I commuted to Co Springs when my son was in the hospital. :bump: I am so proud of both of you. Woofay - what time was your surgery? I can't believe you got on the internet already. You obviously will recover quickly. :clap2: Let us know how it goes! Hugs and best wishes, Michelle

Christy - welcome to bandland. Glad it all went well.

Tater and Woofay - I think the banding gods are with you :high5: and there isn't much snow. So, you are probably just going to the hospital now. My last supper :hungry: will either be sushi (sashimi) or steak (filet mignon) - maybe both! I am not a cheap date, but hey, wait a minute, I am paying for this myself! Tee hee. Best wishes to both of you! :gluck: To the Monday and Tuesday clan - We are gonna rock the joint! Fast recoveries and on our way to meeting our dreams. My trainer gave me a celebration bracelet with the charms "Dream" "Believe" "Achieve" ! Hugs to all, Michelle

KAt817 - Thank you for writing your heart out. It was the best explanation I have read so far and spurs me on to really want the surgery Monday. I appreciate your sharing.

Good luck Woofay! I am sure you will do great and surgery will go well. I saw Dr. K for a preOp and he is so nice and competent. You will sail through. Best wishes and be sure to say hi to Tater Bug (also getting banded on Friday 13th.

Wow! It's really happening - we are doing this. I hope the storm isn't as bad as they predict. Maybe it will be rain instead of snow. I am scheduled at 9 am on Monday the 16th, so LapDance I probably will be outta comission and not able to call, but best wishes and a speedy recovery. I'll be online as soon as I can walk and talk. Hugs to all,

Angie - I am about 15 minutes from the hospital, so I think I will be ok driving with a pillow in my lap, and sleeping:notagree on the recliner in my family room. It works pretty easily and there is a bathroom close. Staying in the hospital isn't all its cracked up to be. This is a "minor" surgery, so you might have to wait for the nursing staff to get to you.:help: The only thing is that the roads in CO Springs are awful, unless they've fixed them. I was down there every day when my son was hospitalized at Penrose for pancreatitis (too much drinking in college). The experience seems to have "cured" him. :clap2: People online have mentioned bumpy roads being awful :omg: to cope with. So a motel room might be a nice luxury, I have a feeling we'll just want to sleep, but the next day we may feel even more sore, so. I don't know. I find it rather confusing that so many doctors deal with the aftercare so differently. It is also confusing with the range of experience online members express. I guess we are all pioneers on our own special journey. I say this with a smile. I'll be happy for a week from Monday when all the pains should be better.

Sunnysea - i think that is in the old Stapleton area, which has recently been developed. I think it would be nice. You'll need a car, but it is right on the highway that will lead you to 225, which is where Dr. K is. Spot - congrats on your date! You'll be a May Flower!

Good luck Bubbles. Let us know how it goes......

mdrai - You are working really hard and I hope the insurance jocks get it right. We all have been through the wringer, otherwise we wouldn't be taking this step. I have BC/BS of Colorado and they don't even consider WLS. Other states that have BC/BS cover it, but not here. I think that is really unfair too. So, I am a self-pay. Cough! But I deserve it. So I am going ahead with it. Good luck with the system! You are a woman on a mission and surely will be approved!

Tracy - Don't be too hard on yourself! You were going for a record breaking perfect diet, which has always been a set up for me. Look at what has gone right and love yourself. Hugs to you, been there - perfectionists of the world - and there are lots of them out there. Huh, guys?

Thanks DrewsLou - I was panicing. It is hard enough to take them whole, then to have to slice and dice. FORGET IT!!!! Six days into PreOp I lost five pounds, I'm so happy. I know it is water weight, but I wanna get below 200 by June. I really want to meet you. You are one of my heros too. I hope you'll consider coming to the May meeting. Maybe afterward we can go out for an ice tea or something?

Sunnysea - Wow! You are losing weight really well. I will have to deal with the med issue with both Dr. k and my pharmacists. I go to King Soopers and they know me there. I will just have to pick a slow time so I can talk with them.

Mal - Congrats on your date! Just think of how to get yourself ready, start practicing eating slowly, drinking lots of water, etc. I am surprised that it is a month, but then, I think there is a plan for all of us. So you'll be banded sooner than you think.

DrewsLou - I won't be there tonight but am planning to be there in May. I have a Mah Jongg game that is lots of fun tonight. Mal - Did you get your date? Woofay - That's lousy that they forgot about you. Did you let a secretary know? I hope you let them know. I think the staff really cares and would be careful not to let it happen again. To all you getting banded this week - good luck, keep us informed, have easy surgeries and recoveries!

laura - guys definitely have it over us when it comes to the weight thing. I know it isn't all guys, as there are a few that are on this website. But in general. It has been my experience that the food-gender thing just sucks! It isn't fair at all. But it is what we have. Hugs and good luck. We are being banded on the same day. Do this for you!

Ok - now I am worried about pills. I take lots of them every day. Some will go bye bye with weight loss, although not right away; but what about vitamins? Those are the largest pills I take with the potential for being hard to digest. Are you on liquid vitamins? i guess I can deal with the rest suppositories and all. The underwear is a personal judgment - so to each her own. I can't wait to meet you. I will go to the May meeting, who plans to attend?

Hey Gina - we have the same sugery date! My Preop is high protein/low fat with one liquid protein meal replacement. I don't know about afterward, but I have been on a liquid diet before and it is the easiest thing in the world. You don't really have to deal with food, it was such a relief to a consumptive person like me. Perhaps this will be your experience too. I did kinda go crazy on the SF popsicles. Oh well. Best wishes to you and hope to hear how you are doing!

Obsessing is one of the things that I've been doing too. It is wonderful to be online with so many other obsessives! Hugs to you all - best wishes to those recovering and those waiting, like me,