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Yep it is close now. I am excited to get this done. Doesn't seem quite real that it is finally here. Yep did the milk of mag stuff and now having the runs!! It says for constipation...........didn't have that so I guess it is overdoing it job!! LOL. I hope it stops by tomorrow!! Ah Easter huh Nicole?? Didn't think about that..........boy I know the head hunger is gonna get me. I already know I will have to adjust. Yep I take the anti nasaue stuff tonight and in the morning. I have a really sensitive stomach though. Everything makes me sick or at least has the last year..............I think the meds will do the trick but just wanted to know what everyone dealt with. 2-3 hours in recovery. Did that include the barium swallow? Hmmm.......I hope I don't get bored but than again I know I will recovering there.............not just sitting around!! Anyway I will check in tomorrow afternoon or Tuesday morning if I am to sleepy.

That is GREAT news. I was the same about getting into th2 220's.......ok yes I am 229.........but it has been years since I was in the 220's. My next goal is below 200 and I think give it another 4-6 weeks and I will be there as well!!! I hope this week give me a push in that direction.......... Feeling more excited than nervous today. I am sure this afternoon they might kick in. Right now I am so busy getting my daughter taxied around than doing SDI paperwork later today...........Time is going a bit to fast right now. But at least my house is clean and the laundry and grocery shopping is done..... Hey how long was everyone in the recovery room?? Also were you nausious when you woke up?? Ok off to get my daughter to her swimming party!!

I am going the hernia route as well and in my case it could likely be true........... None of family my knows I am going or that I even have the time off except a select few. I probably won't say anything unless I am asked......... A few months down the road if the questions start up I will probably be honest.........I don't know yet. I am not really embarrassed but just don't want to hear the #@*&% Thanks Candy for the prayer on MOnday!! :-)

Yep Nicole I think you need to be on bedrest. Worried about you and hoping this will pass soon..............

Hey everyone. Yep Monday is the day for me. Going back and forth with the nerves this afternoon. This is just me I always second guess everything and than I am glad when it is done. I did the same with Africa debated until the last minute about going............LOL. Than it was great....... No last suppers. Weird. I did have my diet coke!! Thanks Christine I figured if you did it I could do it as well. I am just not really tempted.............weird I thought I would be. Nothing really sounds good right now. Maybe nerves or maybe all the rushing around to get "my house in order".......................... I think the CD is coming out again this afternoon. I am not spending the night. I am leaving at 5am and should be in Richmond by 6:20 or so. I don't want to be to early though cause sitting around will stress me out. I just want to be in and moving before I have time to really debate it!! LOL. I know myself very well!! I also am not really telling anyone at work or in my family. About 3-4 people know in my family. My mom knows because she is driving me there and back......but she has been weird this week about it. Whenever I bring it up she totally changes the subject. I sorta wonder if she is stressing about it.............weird because before it was this close she would ask me about it off and on. I just know she is gonna be anxious to get home too since she DOES have to work the next day....... My daughter is 14 and we finally did go to the store and get stuff so she can do her own thing the next days Oh I also bought these disposable sippy cups.......for babies I know, I know............but I am a gulper so I think the first week or see I will have to learn to sip slowly.............My dauagher thinks this is hilarous. I added it to my baby spoons and bowls!! LOL

Ok maybe I will finish up the Diet Coke. I was just having visions of my liver grown with every coke yesterday and I started to panic a bit!! Surprizingly I am very calm today. I am really ready to get this done. I plan to finish cleaning up the house.........I want things to start out clean anyway!! Maybe do some cooking and freeze stuff for my daughter. Also get her packed up to leave this week. So did you guys stress out on Sunday. Cause I am just alot calmer than is normal for me!! It can't be all the CD can it??

No last meals really......I haven't been losing this week and I have not been as careful as I could be. Not gaining either though............still having diet coke off and on. I actually am gonna totally stop in the morning. Sad thing is I have a 6 pack of diet coke and I realized today I won't be drinking any of it!! I didn't plan well............. Hope your doing better Nicole. That is kinda scare I read your other post. It has gotta get better..................... Christine it is looking up? Hopefully the worst is all over and it gets easier every day. After I am done the next one will be in May........... I am up cleaning house and doing laundry. I want to get ahead of things. Tomorrow I am gonna get enough TV dinners and easy to make things so my daughter can last a few days without me cooking for her..............oh Cereal and milk too. I don't think she realizes I really am NOT cooking as she didn't want to pick anything at the store. LOL I have the medication, Vitamins, gasX, liquid Tyenol. Got the baby spoons and in the baby section got 4 ounce containers with lids..........very cute. Jello, pudding, broth..................oh yea and got the themometer tonight. So I think I have it all. I am sure there is something I am forgetting though............way stocked up on Crystal light. I need to get a little bag of things together tomorrow and leave it by the front door................not taking much. The nurses told me today not to bring much since your in and out before you have time to miss or want anything............ So am I ready?? I think so......more excited than nervous now. Mostly excited to have a month off work. I think the whole impact of what I am doing will hit next week when I am not able to just run up to the store or grab something quickly on the way out the door........... Anyone else have kinda a psychological shock after surgery?? I think I might once I start getting used to the restriction and new way of eating........... Night all

Reggie my weight goes up and down around that time of the month. And the Kaiser scale is always a bit higher than at home. But not by much. I have two scales at home....don't sake how.........and I weight on both of them to confirm. They are usually not more than a 1/2 a pound apart so than I have an idea.......... I am excited and nervous about Monday but really excited I am officially off work for a month!!

Hey Christine hope your feeling better. I think the combo of no vits/meds, surgery and vicodan has done ya in. I bet tomorrow will be better!! :-) I am at scheduled for 6:45 am just like I though. The "laughing hyena" will be right behind me in line!! So I hope to be outta there by noonish or so................. I am gonna wear PJ's that look sorta like sweats and just be comfortable. Do you have to ride a wheelchair out to the car after..... wearing flip flops.....so can I take the IPOD into OR??

Anyone hear how NIcole is doing? Riley let us know how the appointment goes todsay. Christine you feeling better today. I am waiting until 1:30 now to get my surgery time. I am assuming I have to be there at 6:45 and will be shocked if it is different than that but we'll see

Hey Nicole how are you doing? Just thinking about you this morning...........

I will be banded on April 13, Monday HOw do you join the group?

I will be having surgery in three days now. Lots of debating about it and worried how it will go but still sure I want to do it. :rolleyes2:

I will be having surgery in three days now. Lots of debating about it and worried how it will go but still sure I want to do it. :thumbup:

I want and need to know so I am reading it all and making notes!! I am glad I have time off!!

NIcole watch it and be careful. Riley had something like that and had to go back to Richmond. Just watch it. I think it is common since Riley was told to call back if it got red and infected..............so I really think it is something he hears alot. Oh you guys!! I think I have a long week ahead next week. Maybe two long weeks...........I am getting ready for that. I am planning to take the meds. I just hope they give enough in case I turn out to be a wimp. I won't have my daughter around so I can sleep as much as I need to. Does the Loratab make you sleepy...........probably good to sleep so the body can heal faster. Christine I hope tomorrow is a great day for you. I will be thinking about you!! Thanks for all the advice girls!! I hope you all feel better. I want to get it done so I get the worse part over as soon as possible. Nicole please watch that blood thing that worries me your bending over and it coming out..............

Nicole your gonna be under 200 really soon here............oh that is my next goal!! Well I am gonna learn from you ladies as I go. I am worried about the port site..............Riley had a problem and that is what your read the most about.........port problems. Hopefully your just bleeding a little and not spurting blood...........I really hope it calms down. Is is still hurting................ Ok well I am cleaning house, doing laundry and making sure I am a week ahead on the housework here..........LOL. What to be able to really rest.

OH did you get the letter for work with the discharge papers or did you have to ask for them?

So Christine your on stage 2 now right? You feeling better today? Today is the fourth day the day things look up...........right? I guess I will be finding out next week. One more day of work!! I am so ready.........been rushing around all week to get ready to go. So everyone what did you take with you? What should take with me on Monday? Lip balm, icentive spirometer, glasses, ..................and...............what else will I need?? How are you Nicole? Two weeks out now............still losing? Christine what about you? Reggie and Riley you guys also? Meandmyweightloss so you have 2-3 weeks now? Ok waiting to hear how everyone is doing today........

I am not telling work at all. Just hernia which could be true. I don't want to hear the negetive talk. They know I am losing already and think it is to get healthy for surgery!! I am so ready to sleep.....even the day of surgery I get to sleep and Dr. Baggs has to work. That is a crazy thought but makes me happy...........I get to sleep through it. I hope.......

Hey All You know the CD does work. I know it makes me laugh at bit but still I am not stressing as much the last few days. So I think it is sinking in. I am feeling more relaxed about the whole thing and I am starting to really like the CD. Whenever I think about listening to it I feel calmer............ I joke around but truthfully it is working!! Just doesn't put me to sleep but makes me calm. I am definetely taking it with me on the IPOD. Security blanket I think................ Christine you doing ok? Take the pain meds if you have to but I hear you I am hoping to stop within the first week. So how many days do they give you Loratab for?? I guess that would the estimate for what they usually see in patients? Just curious................ Well tomorrow I get the time.....did Kaiser keep calling you the week before to "ask questions?"

I agree Nicole......age is not the important factor. But it seems that some of the young girls that day I was there were not ready. They were giving me tips on how to cheat!! LOL. I hope I am ready to be honest. I still have a love affair with Diet coke...........Monday is a sad day saying goodbye to coke!! I will be happy when I wake up and know I am alive. That will be the best moment. So Dr. Baggs really plays that CD?? I thought he was joking about that......or that you just put it on your IPOD on your own. I think I will go out fast. I tend to be a deep, deep sleeper but that will make it harder to wake up too I think. I keep thinking how nice I can sleep and not worry about having to be responsible or work that day.............I am weird I know. Just ready to catch up on some sleep next week........I hope I can sleep and it won't hurt so much I am awake all night. Anyway ladies going to bed.............

Hello All I have also meet quite a few people that aren't serious. Scary thing is they are going for bypass!! But again they are young girls. For me I thought about it for almost a year before I decided to ask for the referral. I was 100% sure even before orientation. Just got thrown on the decision between RNY and lap band until the last month here...... Dr. Baggs was laughing at me the last time because he asked if I had questions and I said I was still trying to lets Lizs advice from the pre op class sink in and I was overwhlemed..........I could tell he was trying not to laugh. But really I have done so much research and talked to you girls so much I know what to expect. He just gave me a brief rundown..........gown, chair, iv, shot, nurse, surgeon...or, time out........recovery, swallow and home!! And he stressed NOT TO CANCELL the radiology appointment like one of his patients did............he said he told the barium people he won't be available he was having surgery!! LOL!! He was laughing about that!! Well off to listen to my CD about great surgeons and perfect surgery conditions...............I hope am asleep before that comes on because it will make me laugh again!! I am likely to laugh in the middle of surgery if I hear it again................

Welcome meandmyweightlose!! Wow another Richmond Kaiser. Cool!! I am also with Dr. Baggs and have sugery on Monday, April 13, 2009. Very cool to have another person online!! Wow your the fastest I have heard of. I have been about ...........hmm.........3 1/2 months but over a little over 4 if you count the time with the PCP before I got the referral.............. I think you'll like Dr. Baggs!! I do. Also Liz was ok ......just if your not gonna follow the rules 100% don't tell her!! We had so many people at our orientation that were kinda throwing stuff in her face.............maybe just to see her run across the room and yell at them..........I saw lots of really, really young girls in my orientation and they not really as serious about things as I thought was appropriate........just my thoughts........they were all bragging how they broke rules and got away with it............sorta bugged me.......I thought why bother ya know...............and she did give them a good show........... Anyway welcome to the site we always need another person to add to the group!! You will be in less than three weeks!! WOW!!

Reggie I also went back and forth on the RNY and Band. Even this week I started the debate again.........but after really sitting and thinking.............and that crazy pre op CD does calm one down who knew.........I am SURE the band is the best option. Well I think is is safest and the other thing and lack of absortion scares me.......... Oh I have to say that the crazy CD does make me laugh not relax at times.........like when it says the "compentent, caring, great doctors are there"..........Kaiser propoghanda!! LOL. I am all relaxed and here all this stuff and perk up and laugh............and all the stuff it says about............"this is great and I am feeling so good and healing so well" LOL I know it is true that it works but it could be brainwashing it I didn't want it to be true so badly!! Just cracks me up in some places!!