keisha85

hi

thanx for the positive thoughts, did you find you had a bad night then i good night, alternate?

hi,

how are you? how are you feeling about tomorrow? the best of luck for it. im sure you will be fine.

sarah

hi,

it turns out that isnt my port and is in the sae place that yours is going to be, but the port site has not caused any pain at all, just this incision on my breast bone, which is now bruised. i am in no pain at all today and havent taken pain killers for 18hours. i hope you have a speedy recovery to and the best of luck for tommorrow.

sarah x

hi,

its ok took me a while to remember to check this part of my profile. how are you feeling? i am at work, on lunch break with my soup in front of me, everyone else is having roast from the canteen

hope you are ok and glad you made the decision

sarah

hi. the count down is on for the first of september for you!!

sarah

hi

each day was getting better, but i had a bad night last night, so i think i am going to just take it easy today and hopefully notice the improvement again 2moz. i think it is more that i slept funny and have woken up with back ache. but i dont want to take any pain killers, because they taste so disgusting!!!!

hi

i saw you are from the uk, so thought i would say hi. i am just outside reading and have been banded for 11 days. what stage are you at etc?

sarah

hi

i thought you might be on chat, so i hope ive got the right person!!

i will be on chat later, but just to let you know it all went ok on friday and im feeling fine apart from pain where i think the port site is,

sarah

hi

im not sure how many calories i am having at the mo, the protein drinks are 200, the yoghurt is 121 cals and 220 in the soup, but i think that is the full tin and i have half.

so yes, something like 500. might be a bit more now im havign pureed stuff for tea.

i have just bought myself a couple of lapband cook books, have been warned they are a bit fiddly, especially one of them. but i like cooking, so it will be nice to be a bit fiiddly. also as my food shopping is costing about ?10 a week instead of ?40, i can splash out on some nice posh food sometimes!!!

id better go and start pureeing my chicken for my tea, bye for now

i remember what i was going to put!! was bout shopping bill, it was ?5 for the last fortnight, but think it will stabilise where it is at now, the chicken is 400g, this use to last me 4 days, a chicken breast a day, maybe 2 if i was starving, but it is now lasting forever, in its 25g pieces in the freezer!!! when i was cutting them up they looked tiny, but now its just rite.

hi

it will probably arrive quicker then you think, as i tried not to count how many days and suddenly 10 days came up so fast and now im down to 4! when i wake up it will be 3! im not a little scared as those numbers are now tiny, but i am so ready for this, as you say you are. i will certainly let you know how i am getting on. i cant wait to be one of the people who post on the surgery day stories thread!!!

hi

sorry its taken me so long to get back to you, forgot i had to check the PM's with out an email notification, will have to change that!!

how are you feeling about your op? i cant wait for mine, even though i will be so nervous the night before

hi

this morning i had somehow gained another 3lbs, so im not sure how that happened, i thought i would have put some weight on over the weekend, but i didnt, unless it was a delayed reaction.

im going to go on liquids for a bit to re start what im doing.

hi

wounds are healing up fine, i am only bruised on the one that is very high up. the rest arent bothering my any more but stupid me has managed to twist something in my ribs yesterday on the way home from the nurse's appointment!! im not normally acident prone, honestly!!

the appoinment went fine, i will be weighed etc next time i go as i still a bit bloated and therefore she said we will wait.

hope you are ok.

hiya,

i have seen your friend request, but when i press add, it does not seem to do anything. do you know how to make it work?

hiya,

the appointments with the nurse should not be a problem, and therefore i will not have to see the as much, however, i obviously do have go for fills with him. i have my pre-op blood work etc on tues, so am going to mention it again, and also take the academic diary with me, in the hope that i can be booked in before the 2 week notice period they normally ask for. you dont realise that there's so much to think about, like i was going to put some nail varnish on this mroning, and i have to remember to make sure it is all of efore i have my op. have you got those thought of things to remember?

hiya, hope you are ok

thanx for the suggestions, its not going to be an issue now until the 18th sept as he is not coming and they are then giong to australia til then.

are you counting down the days?!

sarah

hiya, hope you are recovering ok and your trip to belgium went smoothly.

welcome to the world of being a banster. it does get easier after the first week

hiya, i am virtually normal foods now, but i want to get use to them before he comes. had a small jacket potato for my lunch, some tuna and peas.

have you got everything organised? i was making list after list at the stage you are!!!

hiya, just to let you know how it went, it went really well, i was walking 3 hours after coming round and the nurses were really pleased and half surprised at that. but it really helped with the shoulder pain.

one thing i will say is get yourself some disolveable paracetamol before you go in as i was not sent home with any painkillers, just antibiotics and anti-clotting injections so was in pain yesterday but now i am taking that every 4 hours i am absolutly fine. and slept in my bed all night last night, woke twice because i was thirsty.

hope this settles any nerves you might have, and i am willing to answer any questions

sarah

hiya, me again.

i will let you know some of the recipes if they are nice once i get my books. my dad foned 2nite to say he was probably going to come and stay with me at some point next week, he lives 500 miles away, so will be staying ova nite. only problem is he doesnt know anything about what ive done, any suggestions?

ive completly forgot what you wrote, so im sorry if there was something i needed to answer. i will have a look again in a min!!

sarah

hiya,

i lost 3lbs over the weekend, but havent weighed myself since, keep forgetting to do it in the morning before i get dressed, as ive been tired this week. i looked in the cookbooks just now and there are some nice things, but ive got to work out the quantities for one person or do the things that can be frozen, like the meatballs. seems like alot of ingrediants though, but my shopping list is long this week, with lots of variation, so ive, for example, got one onion and 2 oranges. trying to make it as varied as i can as my head is now complaining it wants food when im not hungry, so need to make my diet as varied as i possible can. people in the office had donoughts today and cake 2 days ago, its not normally that type of an office, unless it is someones birthday, but has been in this last week. think that is why my head is going mad!!

hope you are ok, only a few more days to go. are you on liquids?

hiya,

keeping you posted!!!

i feel absolutly fine today, just the bit that is bruised, but it just feels a tiny bit tight on my skin.

i can ot feel my port at all, did feel it 2 nights ago when i couldnt get to sleep as i was to hot, but apart from that ive not felt it at all.

i feel completly back to normal now (or normal as in person, not normal as in hungry). i had the tv on yesterday, there are so many food adverts, but not one of them was bothering me which i was really surprised about and when my sister stayed she was really surprised how her take away did not make me feel hungry either.

i have lost 7lbs since friday which i am really pleased about, taking my loss upto 15lbs since 3 weeks ago, which i am sort of shocked about.

hope you are well

sarah

hiya

it went great, the nurse's were surprise that i was up and walking down the corridor 3 hours after id come round, but it really does help with the gas pain in my shoulders, so i did it everytime i needed to. the people i went with always do an overnight stay, and i was glad of that as i needed some IV paracetamol, which made it able for me to sleep, it was the port pain (which is very high up, close to my breast bone) that was really hurting. i was officially discharged by the surgeon at 5pm on the operation day as the nurses had let him know how well i was doing, so lef tthe hospital at 9am on saturday morning. one thing i will say is that they did not send me home with pain relief, so make sure you have some dissolveable paracetamol as i did not have any until about 6pm and was in agony. very thankful to my friend who went out and got some. apart from that it is the easiest thing, so there is no need to be nervous at all. i slept in my own bed all of last night, only waking up because i was thirsty and my sister was talking in her sleep! any other questions you want to ak, feel free.

sarah

hiya

ive not had a proper look in the cookbook yet, so not got any ideas yet.

sounds like your very organised-good for you!

sarah

hiya

that was quick for a first fill, it was never going to be before the begining of october, however, i only eat tiny ammounts as i have alot of restriciton apart from at lunch time. but i still have to eat very slowly, otherwise i get ill, it sticks in the back of my throat and really hurts.

how much have you lost? ive lost 35lbs in 5 weeks.

Sarah