wiggygiggy

My port is about 4 inches above my belly button and about 2 inches to the left. The surgeon told me that she wouldn't know where she could put it until she got in there. It had to be a place that wasn't too thick with fat, and embedded in the muscle tissue. So far I'm happy with where it was placed, but didn't have much say about it at all.

It went great! We came home last night. I virtually had no pain at all, just little soreness from the incisions. And was tired too so went to bed as soon as we got home around 9 pm. I was up just about every hour though going to the bathroom, and at 2 a.me. I was feeling little pain - like someone had kicked me in the gut, so I cut up a pain pill and took that. My mouth has been so dry too - just terrible! If you want details - here yaw go ~grin~ warning...its long! We left Mora on Thurs evening about 5:30 pm, and got to the hotel shortly after 7, watched some to.vs.. and went to sleep early (as per your instructions~grin~) Very nice hotel and the showers were fantastic! I got up at 4:30 Friday morning and showered, then we took the 5 a.me. shuttle to the hospital. Could've taken the 5:30 one, but didn't want to be late. Sat around and waited until 6 when they called me in to go get prepped. Craig was like, what do I do? They told him to just sit tight and someone would come to get him when I was ready. They weighed me (I had lost 14 pads since this all began) and did all that other junk - drew blood, changed into the lovely gown, etc. Then Craig came back and sat with me. Poor guy was so bored. Then at 7:15 the anesthetist (sp?) came in and said he was going to give me something to relax me. Apparently I said that I was feeling dizzy and don't remember ANYTHING until I woke up in recovery. So weird isn't I? LOL Craig said we kissed each other, said our I love you's and see you later's, and they wheeled me off, so he went to the waiting room - thinking an hour later I would be done and he could go get his shower. Well an hour and a half goes by and he is going nuts - no news so he asked the receptionist what was going on, she checked and informed him that there had been an emergency come up for Schlosser right as they were taking me into surgery so my surgery was postponed a little bit - and they were just starting me now! 9 o'clock! I woke up in the recovery room and noticed the time was 10:10 and thought, gee, it took alot longer than they thought it would, but you know at that point you are just happy its over with and you are on the road to recovery. By 11:30 my nurse was on the phone trying to get it arranged to transfer me upstairs to my room and getting very impatient with the wait - and someone else was coming into recovery from surgery, etc. Finally they took me up to my room and got me all situated in there and then Craig walks in, looking really ticked off about something. After everyone left the room I said what's wrong? He said well what the hell is going on? Someone out there had told him that there had been complications and that I wouldn't be going home that nite and he was upset. I reassured him that they must've been referring to someone else because everyone that I had talked to had said that I would be going home that night. I guess once I was out of surgery,. he went back to the hotel, showered and packed up and checked out of the hotel, then came back to the hospital and someone in the waiting room area had told him that. Poor guy was freaking out. He still hadn't eaten anything so I shooed him off to go and get something to eat - and then I rested while he was gone. The gal in the bed next to me - oh my gawd - I felt so sorry for her. At first I wasn't sure what was going on over there, just listening - couldn't help but hear. Her mom, 2 little girls, and her sister were there when I got there and this lady (patient) was upset because she had entered her two little girls in a state baby pageant in Alex, paid 200 bucks for an entry fee for them, and now she couldn't take them cause she was sick in the hospital. I didn't know what had happened to her at that point. Her sister told her that she would take the girls to the pageant for her, and her mother kept saying it wasn't that important, etc. Kind of like a family fight. I was like- ya know what, just whisper or something? I just got out of surgery and don't want to listen to this arguing, PLUS the two little girls were wild and noisy. I just laughed and said can't I get a day off from kids God? Some time later they all left - apparently the sister did take the girls to the pageant and mom was gone too - so just this lady in the bed next to me. We never talked. She was really sick though. She had had gastric bypass on the 14th of April (the day I wanted to have it) and Schlosser did her surgery. She was fine the first 3 weeks, then last Mon she started throwing up this green junk, so went to the hospital and they admitted her for further tests. She hadn't eaten anything - and couldn't keep anything down, not even water. I think they took her back into surgery though yesterday to see if there was a tear or leak or something cause I overheard Schlosser telling her that she couldn't see anything with her telescope. I wonder what it could be. Schlosser told her that the only thing she could think that it might be was that her sinus's were draining into her stomach. (the gal had a bad cold). Hope she gets better though - man that would suck! Ok - now back to my story. Craig comes back from lunch and is a much happier guy now (typical man). The plan was for me to have the x-ray at 3 pm, then i had to drink stuff and pee and then I could go. We were thinking we should get out of there by 5 pm. No such luck. The x-ray went fine - man no one told me that stuff you had to drink those was nasty! YUCK! I hope I never have to drink that again. Got that done and then they pushed me out into the hall and I waited there for 1/2 hour. I finally said something to this hall monitor older lady that was out there and she raised a ruckus about it for me. She told me that they do that all the time and it was just very disrespectful she thought - so her job was to make sure things like that didn't happen. She told me I was a good sport at least 3 times, LOL. Back up to the room and Craig is crabby again- just tired of waiting I"m sure. I found out he isn't a very good bedside companion - but he is an awesome nurse - just give him something to do. Sitting on that uncomfy chair for hours was driving him crazy. I told him to take a nap and he did - and woke up much happier (thankfully) We waited and waited some more. Finally my new nurse came in and I asked her what the plan was now - I had had the x-ray, now what? She said that I had to drink something and pee then I could go - if all goes as planned I should be out by 7 pm. So I drank one glass down, then tried to pee, and just alittle came out - so drank some more and was about half done with that and brought me a tray of food - broth, apple juice and jello (the jello was really yummy). I looked at hubby and said i didn't know if I could consume all of that, plus drink all that water, plus pee more - I was feeling rushed. He said no rush now - he wanted to at least stay through Deal or No Deal. LOL Ok - pressure was off, but I kept to my tasks and finished everything without any complications. Called the nurse in at 7:30 and told her that I was ready to go. She offered me some pain med in my iv for the road - which I took, just in case but really didn't need it that much. She said i must have a high pain tolerance cause i hadn't had any pain meds all day - told her that I didn't have any pain! Oh well - took the shot anyway - just made me sleepy on the way home. Craig went to get the car and they wheeled me down to the door to wait for him. They had this huge wheelchair that two people could've sat on, but the gal pushing it said she liked it cause it was kind of automatic and she didn't have to push it - just steer it and stop it. Craig pulled up, I jumped in the car and we were home shortly after 9 pm. About 6 miles from home my tummy started feeling queasy and I was like oh crap, I'm going to get sick. I just lightly rubbed my tummy and the queasiness went away. Soon after we got home I went to bed though. So nice to sleep in my own bed! I woke up at midnight, and every hour after that to go to the bathroom. At 2 a.m. when I got up I was like, uh oh - no I'm feeling pain, but is it 17,000 of pain? No it was just like a bad bruise pain so I hobbled out to the kitchen to get the pain meds and cut one up to take it then wobbled back to bed. Woke again every hour to go to the bathroom, but not with the pain like before. Got up this morning about 9 and took a shower and got dressed. Felt good to wash my hair and brush my teeth! Then I sat down to the computer and have been working on this email to you amidst phone calls. Abbott called this morning to see how I was doing - I thought that was nice. I did have some questions for them, mostly about what to do with the band-aids - leave them on, change them or what? She said to leave them on until they fell off. I am to go back in now in 2-3 weeks for a post-op check up and visit with the dietician - then again in 3 more weeks hopefully for my first fill - right? Its kind of amazing how comfortable I am driving down there now that I've done it a couple times. I drove down there Thurs night so hubby could eat on the way. He likes it too that he doesn't have to drive all the time. I told him that I wanted to start doing more of the driving so that I wouldn't get so out of sink with it and I think its really helped. Well I am just about finished taking the pain meds for my noon schedule, lol, takes forever to get all the pills taken during the day. I just finished breakfast and then started taking the pills. Weird. I'm feeling alittle sleepy now and so am going to go and lie down for a bit. I'm so thankful that everything turned out ok, and now hope that this "tool" will help me lose weight and keep it off. Thats all for now.......Hugzzzzzz Deb

It went great! We came home last night. I virtually had no pain at all, just little soreness from the incisions. And was tired too so went to bed as soon as we got home around 9 pm. I was up just about every hour though going to the bathroom, and at 2 a.me. I was feeling little pain - like someone had kicked me in the gut, so I cut up a pain pill and took that. My mouth has been so dry too - just terrible! If you want details - here yaw go ~grin~ warning...its long! We left Mora on Thurs evening about 5:30 pm, and got to the hotel shortly after 7, watched some to.vs.. and went to sleep early (as per your instructions~grin~) Very nice hotel and the showers were fantastic! I got up at 4:30 Friday morning and showered, then we took the 5 a.me. shuttle to the hospital. Could've taken the 5:30 one, but didn't want to be late. Sat around and waited until 6 when they called me in to go get prepped. Craig was like, what do I do? They told him to just sit tight and someone would come to get him when I was ready. They weighed me (I had lost 14 pads since this all began) and did all that other junk - drew blood, changed into the lovely gown, etc. Then Craig came back and sat with me. Poor guy was so bored. Then at 7:15 the anesthetist (sp?) came in and said he was going to give me something to relax me. Apparently I said that I was feeling dizzy and don't remember ANYTHING until I woke up in recovery. So weird isn't I? LOL Craig said we kissed each other, said our I love you's and see you later's, and they wheeled me off, so he went to the waiting room - thinking an hour later I would be done and he could go get his shower. Well an hour and a half goes by and he is going nuts - no news so he asked the receptionist what was going on, she checked and informed him that there had been an emergency come up for Schlosser right as they were taking me into surgery so my surgery was postponed a little bit - and they were just starting me now! 9 o'clock! I woke up in the recovery room and noticed the time was 10:10 and thought, gee, it took alot longer than they thought it would, but you know at that point you are just happy its over with and you are on the road to recovery. By 11:30 my nurse was on the phone trying to get it arranged to transfer me upstairs to my room and getting very impatient with the wait - and someone else was coming into recovery from surgery, etc. Finally they took me up to my room and got me all situated in there and then Craig walks in, looking really ticked off about something. After everyone left the room I said what's wrong? He said well what the hell is going on? Someone out there had told him that there had been complications and that I wouldn't be going home that nite and he was upset. I reassured him that they must've been referring to someone else because everyone that I had talked to had said that I would be going home that night. I guess once I was out of surgery,. he went back to the hotel, showered and packed up and checked out of the hotel, then came back to the hospital and someone in the waiting room area had told him that. Poor guy was freaking out. He still hadn't eaten anything so I shooed him off to go and get something to eat - and then I rested while he was gone. The gal in the bed next to me - oh my gawd - I felt so sorry for her. At first I wasn't sure what was going on over there, just listening - couldn't help but hear. Her mom, 2 little girls, and her sister were there when I got there and this lady (patient) was upset because she had entered her two little girls in a state baby pageant in Alex, paid 200 bucks for an entry fee for them, and now she couldn't take them cause she was sick in the hospital. I didn't know what had happened to her at that point. Her sister told her that she would take the girls to the pageant for her, and her mother kept saying it wasn't that important, etc. Kind of like a family fight. I was like- ya know what, just whisper or something? I just got out of surgery and don't want to listen to this arguing, PLUS the two little girls were wild and noisy. I just laughed and said can't I get a day off from kids God? Some time later they all left - apparently the sister did take the girls to the pageant and mom was gone too - so just this lady in the bed next to me. We never talked. She was really sick though. She had had gastric bypass on the 14th of April (the day I wanted to have it) and Schlosser did her surgery. She was fine the first 3 weeks, then last Mon she started throwing up this green junk, so went to the hospital and they admitted her for further tests. She hadn't eaten anything - and couldn't keep anything down, not even water. I think they took her back into surgery though yesterday to see if there was a tear or leak or something cause I overheard Schlosser telling her that she couldn't see anything with her telescope. I wonder what it could be. Schlosser told her that the only thing she could think that it might be was that her sinus's were draining into her stomach. (the gal had a bad cold). Hope she gets better though - man that would suck! Ok - now back to my story. Craig comes back from lunch and is a much happier guy now (typical man). The plan was for me to have the x-ray at 3 pm, then i had to drink stuff and pee and then I could go. We were thinking we should get out of there by 5 pm. No such luck. The x-ray went fine - man no one told me that stuff you had to drink those was nasty! YUCK! I hope I never have to drink that again. Got that done and then they pushed me out into the hall and I waited there for 1/2 hour. I finally said something to this hall monitor older lady that was out there and she raised a ruckus about it for me. She told me that they do that all the time and it was just very disrespectful she thought - so her job was to make sure things like that didn't happen. She told me I was a good sport at least 3 times, LOL. Back up to the room and Craig is crabby again- just tired of waiting I"m sure. I found out he isn't a very good bedside companion - but he is an awesome nurse - just give him something to do. Sitting on that uncomfy chair for hours was driving him crazy. I told him to take a nap and he did - and woke up much happier (thankfully) We waited and waited some more. Finally my new nurse came in and I asked her what the plan was now - I had had the x-ray, now what? She said that I had to drink something and pee then I could go - if all goes as planned I should be out by 7 pm. So I drank one glass down, then tried to pee, and just alittle came out - so drank some more and was about half done with that and brought me a tray of food - broth, apple juice and jello (the jello was really yummy). I looked at hubby and said i didn't know if I could consume all of that, plus drink all that water, plus pee more - I was feeling rushed. He said no rush now - he wanted to at least stay through Deal or No Deal. LOL Ok - pressure was off, but I kept to my tasks and finished everything without any complications. Called the nurse in at 7:30 and told her that I was ready to go. She offered me some pain med in my iv for the road - which I took, just in case but really didn't need it that much. She said i must have a high pain tolerance cause i hadn't had any pain meds all day - told her that I didn't have any pain! Oh well - took the shot anyway - just made me sleepy on the way home. Craig went to get the car and they wheeled me down to the door to wait for him. They had this huge wheelchair that two people could've sat on, but the gal pushing it said she liked it cause it was kind of automatic and she didn't have to push it - just steer it and stop it. Craig pulled up, I jumped in the car and we were home shortly after 9 pm. About 6 miles from home my tummy started feeling queasy and I was like oh crap, I'm going to get sick. I just lightly rubbed my tummy and the queasiness went away. Soon after we got home I went to bed though. So nice to sleep in my own bed! I woke up at midnight, and every hour after that to go to the bathroom. At 2 a.m. when I got up I was like, uh oh - no I'm feeling pain, but is it 17,000 of pain? No it was just like a bad bruise pain so I hobbled out to the kitchen to get the pain meds and cut one up to take it then wobbled back to bed. Woke again every hour to go to the bathroom, but not with the pain like before. Got up this morning about 9 and took a shower and got dressed. Felt good to wash my hair and brush my teeth! Then I sat down to the computer and have been working on this email to you amidst phone calls. Abbott called this morning to see how I was doing - I thought that was nice. I did have some questions for them, mostly about what to do with the band-aids - leave them on, change them or what? She said to leave them on until they fell off. I am to go back in now in 2-3 weeks for a post-op check up and visit with the dietician - then again in 3 more weeks hopefully for my first fill - right? Its kind of amazing how comfortable I am driving down there now that I've done it a couple times. I drove down there Thurs night so hubby could eat on the way. He likes it too that he doesn't have to drive all the time. I told him that I wanted to start doing more of the driving so that I wouldn't get so out of sink with it and I think its really helped. Well I am just about finished taking the pain meds for my noon schedule, lol, takes forever to get all the pills taken during the day. I just finished breakfast and then started taking the pills. Weird. I'm feeling alittle sleepy now and so am going to go and lie down for a bit. I'm so thankful that everything turned out ok, and now hope that this "tool" will help me lose weight and keep it off. Thats all for now.......Hugzzzzzz Deb

At the pre-op class yesterday they said that guys need to have between 70-80 grams of protein a day, and women are 50-60 grams a day.

Wow Kelli- thats awesome that you are up and at 'em enough to be online! WTG! Where did you get the GasX strips from?

Well I kind of figured the pre-op class would be a waste of time, but I did learn that I have to drink this stuff the night before to clean me out - oh yippee. The class was mostly geared for gastric bypass patients but occasionally they would say something that was for lapband people. There were only 2 of us out of the 10 in the room having lapband. Man, I hope I"m making the right decision. I really feel that I am. So far on the liquid protein diet - day 7 today - I"m down to 270 on my scale. Thats down 10 pds since the beginning of March, and 6 since the beginning of the protein diet. Its really not as bad as I thought it would be. I am not hungry, not craving foods, etc. I do miss the enjoyment of foods though - but not that much. I still haven't figured out what I"m going to do after surgery - Larry's party is the first week post -op - :confused: Will cross that bridge when I get there I guess. First things first! First - pre-op physical tomorrow! Tonight - work on the new room and get stuff ready for the weekend!! Friday - (tomorrow) leave to go camping for the weekend. Home Sunday - get groceries for the week and work on the room some more. I was really hoping we would get the room done before surgery but it doess't look too promising. But I"m not giving up! We have free evenings next week M-W and so hopefully we'll make some progress. One more week - I can't believe its finally almost here!!

Well I kind of figured the pre-op class would be a waste of time, but I did learn that I have to drink this stuff the night before to clean me out - oh yippee. The class was mostly geared for gastric bypass patients but occasionally they would say something that was for lapband people. There were only 2 of us out of the 10 in the room having lapband. Man, I hope I"m making the right decision. I really feel that I am. So far on the liquid protein diet - day 7 today - I"m down to 270 on my scale. Thats down 10 pds since the beginning of March, and 6 since the beginning of the protein diet. Its really not as bad as I thought it would be. I am not hungry, not craving foods, etc. I do miss the enjoyment of foods though - but not that much. I still haven't figured out what I"m going to do after surgery - Larry's party is the first week post -op - :Banane59: Will cross that bridge when I get there I guess. First things first! First - pre-op physical tomorrow! Tonight - work on the new room and get stuff ready for the weekend!! Friday - (tomorrow) leave to go camping for the weekend. Home Sunday - get groceries for the week and work on the room some more. I was really hoping we would get the room done before surgery but it doess't look too promising. But I"m not giving up! We have free evenings next week M-W and so hopefully we'll make some progress. One more week - I can't believe its finally almost here!!

I'm on the pre-op high protein diet too ( having surgery on the 12th of May) and have been loving the shakes! Slim Fast Opitma, Atkins Advantage, Boost, and Boost Breeze, Carnation Instant Breakfast - sugar free) I will drink them chilled, or as a smoothy. Most of them all come with a vanilla flavor so I'll just add a flavor packet to them. I hate the strawberry Boost though - ICK! Then I've been adding a scoop of Beneprotein to everything to get the grams in during the day. I feel great and haven't been hungry or craving foods at all! I think I've lose 10 pds too, according to my scale!

I am doing the pre-op liquid protein diet and so far so good. I'm really not hungry at all! I am getting my chocolate fix and so its been rather easy ~knock on wood~ I've been taking my vitamins, keeping active, and so hopefully I'll be down even more by surgery date (may 12) 10 more days!!

I started the liquid protein diet on Friday, April 28th. Friday night though I went out to eat and just watched what I ate. Its not been that bad at all. I'm not feeling hungry at all! I've been consuming between 60-65 grams of protein per day, and staying under 1000 calories too. Yesterday was only 650 calories! Needless to say I've lost four pounds. I sure hope it stays this easy. I can't say that I really am missing food per say, but I haven't been really tempted either. As long as I am not hungry there shouldn't be a problem, I hope!! I imagine by the end of this requirement I will be really missing chewing foods. lol. I am/was constipated up until today. I took some Metamucil and that must've done the trick. Gotta make sure I keep up with my drinking water too! So much to remember!! 112 pds to go!! :clap2:

I started the liquid protein diet on Friday, April 28th. Friday night though I went out to eat and just watched what I ate. Its not been that bad at all. I'm not feeling hungry at all! I've been consuming between 60-65 grams of protein per day, and staying under 1000 calories too. Yesterday was only 650 calories! Needless to say I've lost four pounds. I sure hope it stays this easy. I can't say that I really am missing food per say, but I haven't been really tempted either. As long as I am not hungry there shouldn't be a problem, I hope!! I imagine by the end of this requirement I will be really missing chewing foods. lol. I am/was constipated up until today. I took some Metamucil and that must've done the trick. Gotta make sure I keep up with my drinking water too! So much to remember!! 112 pds to go!! :clap2:

My Doc wants me to do a 2 week pre-op high protein liquid diet to shrink my liver - which will make surgery much easier. I'm all for that. I have to consumer 60-80 grams of protein a day. I'm on Day 2 now - not too bad at all - not hungry either!

I started the liquid protein diet today - not real thrilled about the Strawberry Boost - any ideas to improve the taste of it?

I am getting nervous and anxious at the same time. I'm nervous because I'm afraid it won't work for me, but I want it to so badly! I'm anxious because I can't wait to get it done. I start the liquid Protein diet on April 28th and really really want to stick to it 110%. It would be so great to lose weight before even getting the band and be that much further ahead in the game. I have the pre-op class on May 3rd, at Abbott Northwestern in Mpls. Then on May 5th I have my pre-op physical. Next week will go fast. I think the week prior to the surgery I'm going to plan on doing some things to help that time go fast too. Once I"m banded I probably won't have much energy for a while, right? I love this forum, it has helped me so much and I look forward to learning and reading more as time goes by.

I am almost ready to start the liquid diet, starting it on Friday. I am excited to start, but at the same time I am a bit apprehensive. I'm afraid of failing - cheating - gaining weight - etc. I want to do so well on this, I want to acheive my goals, I want to lose weight! But I'm afraid it wont work for me, that I'll somehow manage to figure out a way to cheat the band and I dont want to do that! I can feel myself slowly getting more and more nervous about the entire procedure. I hope that this goes away and that I'll get more confidence soon. I really should attend a support group meeting, maybe that would help. Thats all for now.....

I am almost ready to start the liquid diet, starting it on Friday. I am excited to start, but at the same time I am a bit apprehensive. I'm afraid of failing - cheating - gaining weight - etc. I want to do so well on this, I want to acheive my goals, I want to lose weight! But I'm afraid it wont work for me, that I'll somehow manage to figure out a way to cheat the band and I dont want to do that! I can feel myself slowly getting more and more nervous about the entire procedure. I hope that this goes away and that I'll get more confidence soon. I really should attend a support group meeting, maybe that would help. Thats all for now.....

Molly, did your surgeon think you could lose that much with the lapband? Mine didn't think it was possible. I'm rather disappointed by her attitude and determined to prove her wrong. Just curious if your surgeon said anything like that to you, or was your very positive?

I figured this would be a good way for me to jump start my weight loss. I am scheduled for surgery on May 12th and need to lose at least 10 pds prior to surgery - the more the better.

I have a date for surgery and things are gonna happen fast!! One month from today is my surgery date - May 12th - I can hardly wait. I drove to the conseltation by myself today :clap2: and home. Met with my surgeon, Crystal Schlosser. I'm not sure I'm "that" crazy about her, but she seems to know what she's doing. I got the feeling she was more for gastric bypass over lapband due to more weight loss potential, but I'm sticking with the lapband. Now I have to schedule a chest X-Ray, and lab work for this Friday or next Monday, meet with the surgery team for a pre-op class on May 3rd, then I'll be good to go. I start the liquid diet on April 28th for two weeks straight to shrink my liver. Hopefully I'll lose some weight during that too! I was down 5 pds from a month ago already so slowly but surely I am getting there. Thats all for now. I love having this journal.

I have a date for surgery and things are gonna happen fast!! One month from today is my surgery date - May 12th - I can hardly wait. I drove to the conseltation by myself today :clap2: and home. Met with my surgeon, Crystal Schlosser. I'm not sure I'm "that" crazy about her, but she seems to know what she's doing. I got the feeling she was more for gastric bypass over lapband due to more weight loss potential, but I'm sticking with the lapband. Now I have to schedule a chest X-Ray, and lab work for this Friday or next Monday, meet with the surgery team for a pre-op class on May 3rd, then I'll be good to go. I start the liquid diet on April 28th for two weeks straight to shrink my liver. Hopefully I'll lose some weight during that too! I was down 5 pds from a month ago already so slowly but surely I am getting there. Thats all for now. I love having this journal.

:help: I am trying to hard to be patient with this process, but really getting frustrated with all the hoops and BS that we have to go through. I can honestly understand why people go to Mexico now to have it DONE! I just found out that now I'll also have to attend a 4 hour pre-op class on a Wed. before I have the surgery. That means ANOTHER trip to the cities - oh joy!! Maybe I'll just have to switch our piano lessons to Tues. nites now until this is all done with?? Or Hopefully they'll let me skip this part of the process, I"m going to try and see if I can do that - since I've already done had a surgery before?? We'll see if that works. Thanks for listening.

:help: I am trying to hard to be patient with this process, but really getting frustrated with all the hoops and BS that we have to go through. I can honestly understand why people go to Mexico now to have it DONE! I just found out that now I'll also have to attend a 4 hour pre-op class on a Wed. before I have the surgery. That means ANOTHER trip to the cities - oh joy!! Maybe I'll just have to switch our piano lessons to Tues. nites now until this is all done with?? Or Hopefully they'll let me skip this part of the process, I"m going to try and see if I can do that - since I've already done had a surgery before?? We'll see if that works. Thanks for listening.

Well needless to say I am bummed out today. Abbott called and canceled my appt today - the surgeon was out sick. I was almost there too - 20 more miles. UGH. Now I can't get in to see her until the 12th of April. I had hoped to be banded on the 14th, but obviously that is out of the question now. Good news is that I will be able to enjoy Easter dinner instead of the liquid diet. I'm trying to find something positive. ~Deep Breath~

:cry And angry too! :eek: I had a pre-op meeting scheduled this morning at 10 a.m. with Schosser - had everything done prior to meeting with her, on my way to the cities, 20 miles away from the hospital when they called and cancelled - she was sick with the flu. :mad: So I turned around and drove back home and called to re-schedule and can't get in now until the 12th of April!!! FUCK! I had hoped to be banded on the 14th but thats impossible because they want you on a 2 week diet before that - I suggested that I would go on it and be ready to go, but the person I talked to just laughed that idea off. FUCK FUCK FUCK! Now we have to take a day off and have it done. I didn't want to do that, didn't want people to ask questions about why were taking off, etc. Maybe I'll just make something up. Guess things were just going too smoothly. :think I wanted to stop and pig out at McDonalds on the way home, but didn't. Why hurt myself? OK - more waiting....thats all for now.

:cry And angry too! I had a pre-op meeting scheduled this morning at 10 a.m. with Schosser - had everything done prior to meeting with her, on my way to the cities, 20 miles away from the hospital when they called and cancelled - she was sick with the flu. So I turned around and drove back home and called to re-schedule and can't get in now until the 12th of April!!! FUCK! I had hoped to be banded on the 14th but thats impossible because they want you on a 2 week diet before that - I suggested that I would go on it and be ready to go, but the person I talked to just laughed that idea off. FUCK FUCK FUCK! Now we have to take a day off and have it done. I didn't want to do that, didn't want people to ask questions about why were taking off, etc. Maybe I'll just make something up. Guess things were just going too smoothly. :think I wanted to stop and pig out at McDonalds on the way home, but didn't. Why hurt myself? OK - more waiting....thats all for now.