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Good luck tomorrow Old Goat!

I am new in this room but getting banded on 11/25. I am 52. I started the pre op diet today. I decided to do this back in August. It's been a long road to get here...but then you all know that. Good luck to everybody.

This past weekend my daughter took time from architecture school and came home to cook me a full Thanksgiving dinner before I start the pre surgery diet. That was very sweet. Tomorrow I start the liquid diet. (raises glass to all fellow soon to be banders)http://www.lapbandtalk.com/images/smilies/modern/crying.gif

Kijo I go on Nov 25th also. No turkey for us!! Its actually a great time because nobody does much work on the Friday after Thanksgiving around here. Then the weekend. I can get a few days of to recover without the usual stress.

They know I already had my gall bladder out. Maybe I can tell them it grew back....

Glad to hear things went well Pebbles.

Hernia! Good idea! I think my cover story will have to be that I am out of town for a few days. If I say I am having surgery I will end up on the Prayer Chain at church and the minister will come visit. Very sweet but I don't want to go there. I have enough problems without lying to a minister. Maybe we will make an imaginary trip to Jamaica. Last time we were there my cell phone didn't work there but they did have email in the hotel rooms. Doh! Wait that cover story won't work. We would never go away for:wink2: Thanksgiving. This is going to require some fancy footwork....I am starting to feel like I have a hernia....http://www.lapbandtalk.com/images/smilies/modern/wink.gif

Looks like a lot of us will be thankful for no turkey on the 27th. I am trying to set things up in my business so they will leave me alone post surg for a week or so. It will be hard without telling them. I think will tell them they can email me but not to call. Where do they have internet but no phones?

I just got word I am all approved for Nov 25th by Blue Cross Blue Shield. I start the pre-op diet on the 18th. The clock is ticking....

I am being banded November 25th. My plan after healing is to play a lot of golf in the spring. The way I play there is a lot of zig zagging back and forth from the rough on one side to the rough on the other side so 18 holes = about 5 miles of walking.

My surgery date is Nov 25th two days before Thanksgiving. I have decided not to tell anybody except my wife and kids. They are keeping me in the hospital until the 26th. My wife's family and my family both live nearby. Typically we go to my mom's house for a full Thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat (obscure Alice's Restaurant reference) and then have another one at her mom's later that same day (see how I got so big?). If I show up and don't eat that will be bad but if I don't show up that will also be bad. I guess I will just have to be "under the weather". The problem is my mom can always tell when I am lying.

Hey OG I got my surgery date. November 25th. You go first!

Good job Renob and Donna both. I cant wait to quit carrying around 40lbs. btw for example racecar spelled backwards is....wait....nevermindhttp://www.lapbandtalk.com/images/smilies/modern/blink.gif

I am taking "before" pics tonight also. This will be ugly lol. I have 18 days till B day. Good thing about getting banded in November is we have time to make real progress by summer and bathing suit season at least in NY. Not so much for those of you in FL.

Hello November bander types! Those of you who have already had surgery I hope you recovery quickly. I made many jokes that "with my luck I will prob get banded the day before Thanksgiving" ...I got my date ..Nov 25th ..two days before Thanksgiving. I am gonna save so much money on turkey! I am not really freaked out about the surgery. I have had many surgerys for sports related things, knees, shoulder, ears from scuba diving. Waking up from the anethesia is the worst part and from that moment on you feel better. I have been thinking a lot about the necessary lifestyle changes but I am not getting cold feet. I made up my mind. My wife says I have never changed my mind about anything ever lol. Good luck to you all. See you at band camp

After months of doing all the various appointments and completing them all I finally had it all done. The Dr's assistant said she would schedule my surg right away. That was over 2 weeks ago. I called last week and left a message. No body even called me back. I need to plan things with my business so I can take time to recover. My wife is a nurse she wants to take time off to take care of me. I guess I will call the doctor today.

YAY!!!!! I finally got a surgery date!! Nov 25th two days before Thanksgiving. I am gonna save so much money on Turkey!:smile2:

I grew up in Riverhead way out east Rick and I just turned 52 a cpl days ago.

....you leave you house on Long Island (elevation about 5' above sea level) and go to the top of Pikes Peak in Colorado (elevation 14,000' plus). I was really huffing and puffing up there. Good think I am supposed to get banded next month. There has to be a lot less of me before I take up mountain climbing.http://www.lapbandtalk.com/images/smilies/modern/blink.gif

It is very encouraging to see you guys losing all this weight. I hope to have a surgery date soon. I am very much hoping to lose the cpap machine!

Only 3 of 15 (I think..I lost count) pre-op appointments left to do! I am glad they are being careful but sometimes I think they do this just to make sure you are committed. Next week I should get a surg date in Nov sometime. After all these appointments are done I am going to feel like I have sooo much free time! I have actually lost a few pounds in all of this. Mostly because I am too busy going to appointments to eat.:grouphug:

Old goat, They haven't said I have to lose any weight pre-surgery but I am sure it wouldn't hurt. I find myself saying "I better eat all this pizza cause I won't be able to later" I better watch it or I will need to get TWO bands. Maybe if they just put a band around my so my mouth wouldn't open wide.....:Dancing_biggrin:

I forgot to mention...there is a road all the way to the top of Pike's Peak. We drove up there in a rented Nissan Altima lol. I got out of breath walking from the car to the gift shop!!

I have only three appointments left before being scheduled all next week. Two with cardiologist and one with pulmanologist. Today they said it would be late November. With my luck it will be Thanksgiving Day. I don't care I just want to get started. So Old Goat you may have company. I prefer thinking of myself as a "middle aged goat"

I am an evil real estate developer. I spend most of my time at jobsites talking into a cell phone and pointing at things.