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I'm having my surgery during my one week spring break. They just said to not carry heavy books for the first few weeks back to school.

So I'm 21. Its obvious that I don't have alot of money laying around. Coming up with the $3000 (I was quoted) that is not covered by the insurance was a feat of itself. So I get this call from the surgeon office exactly one week before surgery, and their like we need the surgeons fee before friday. I was like ok how much is that (remembering that there was a $500 fee to the office that I had put aside for), on the other end of the line I hear shuffling paper. That will be 3500, we only accept cash or a cashiers check. I felt like someone had punched me in my stomach. I don' know what I'm going to do, I have three days to come up with the cash, and I don't see how thats possible. And to boot I've already survived 9 days on slim fast and water only.

I believe I will have my first fill about 3 weeks or so before I leave.

I am having my band in on the March 18th and have a trip to Hawaii planned for the 9th of May. Does anyone know if the plane trip will be ok? I tried to ask my surgeon but he is really hard to get a hold of.

I'm getting banded on the 18th. Excited and Scared at about a 60:40 split right now.

Man I am on day 8 of liquid and still going strong. I went to my post-op nutrition class and met two people who are alos having surgery around the same day as me (one on my day and one the next). And I am a little mad. One of them has been on the liquid diet for one day less than me but he eats sugar free pudding, and soups and stuff while I was told over and over again that I could only have slim fast, protein powder and water (which can be flavored with crystal light if I choose). I want soups, I want pudding, I am sick of slim fast and crystal light. And the other girl, she only started liquid today, she was on a cruise and got to eat real food for another week. I am depressed by my food choices and now I am upset that I feel like my request for broth should be allowed since the other people are obviously getting such an allowance for food and everything else.

I am so excited and starting to really get freaked out over the surgery. I mean less than two weeks to go and then I will join the league of bandsters and start down the path to my true self (I know she's hiding somewhere under all this fat). Now I just need to keep my cajones and last out until after surgery. I keep hearing this nagging voice telling me to keep trying the old fashioned way and I am just ready to scream "I have, it didn't work." I am glad there are others on my same day, maybe we can help each other with food choice and stuff afterwards. "Like hey I just tried mashed potatoes and they went down really well." etc. Good luck friends.

I've not only thought of telling them this but when I was about 16 or so my doctor mentioned my weight and how if I changed my diet and excersice habits I would lose the weight easily since I am so young. And me being a smart mouth told him (he's over weight too) that he should shut his mouth until he is within the ranges set for healty weight. But I stayed with the doctor and him knowing how i had worked hard with little change in weight was very supportive when I asked him to refer me for surgery.

The toughest part for me hasn't been a craving for non-liquids, I mean sure I want those things but I really want something like miso soup or chicken broth or some other non slim fast food. I thought that the 2 weeks on liquid would include things other than slim fast. I am sick of sweet slim fast. But I still haven't cheated.

I just started my liquid diet this morning. So far so good other than the fact that I have to pee like every five minutes. I have to stay on liquids for the next two weeks and then it will be surgery day. I am really excited and really scared too. Like I realize each time I ate something in the last week that it was my last time. I need to find something to do to occupy the time I used to spend eating or getting ready to eat. <a href="Weight Loss - Diet Ticker"> <img border="0" src="<A href="http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/wdOLFKT/weight.png"></a">http://tickers.TickerFactory.com/ezt/t/wdOLFKT/weight.png"></a>