seraiah3
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2 years has passed since you registered at LapBandTalk! Happy 2nd Anniversary seraiah3!
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Once they started to put the lap band in, they noticed a hole in my diaphragm so big my doctor could get his fist through it. I am healing from that surgery....plus two lap bands...the first one failed. I went in Dec 17th, but had to have a new lap band put in Dec 23rd. Not fun, but my life was in danger and you will do anything they say to live. They had to drain the contents of the pouch, out my nose so to knock me out, they put a fist to my throat...I guess anaesthesia could have allowed me to inhale the contents into my lungs. It is not something anyone would want. So, my advice is NEVER TO CHEAT....do exactly as they say, because a blockage of the lap band can cause you to die very fast. I did not cheat to experience this. But I am the better for it, and know that this is nothing to fool around with. May everyone find freedom in obedience in 2010. Love to everyone :tt2:
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Once they started to put the lap band in, they noticed a hole in my diaphragm so big my doctor could get his fist through it. I am healing from that surgery....plus two lap bands...the first one failed. I went in Dec 17th, but had to have a new lap band put in Dec 23rd. Not fun, but my life was in danger and you will do anything they say to live. They had to drain the contents of the pouch, out my nose so to knock me out, they put a fist to my throat...I guess anaesthesia could have allowed me to inhale the contents into my lungs. It is not something anyone would want. So, my advice is NEVER TO CHEAT....do exactly as they say, because a blockage of the lap band can cause you to die very fast. I did not cheat to experience this. But I am the better for it, and know that this is nothing to fool around with. May everyone find freedom in obedience in 2010. Love to everyone :Dancing_wub:
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how are you doing now? I guess your surgery is done and you are on a liquid pahse still, or mush phase. I had mine (re-done) on Dec 23rd, after a failed one on Dec 17th. I had to have major diaphragm surgery before they could do the first one, causing the band to seal and nothing would go down. I then needed emergency surgery to take it out and put in a new one. But today I am six days into recovery and feeling fairly good.
I don't need a drop of pain medication, nor nausea meds, so I consider I am on the mend. I becamse so dehydrated from the first one, not knowing nothing was going down...threw up three times and was really really sick.
In my case, a doctor I did not choose did the first surgery and my own doctor "assisted." It was not done properly and I could have died. I could hardly breathe, either. the hospital let me go home before I could rink or breathe. lots of mistakes, but the good news is that I got my own doctor after all and he did it right.
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I am drinking now just normally and fine and the ordeal having to have it vacuumed out my nose...they made me inhale and swallow arfrin and some jel and swallow that so they could get in the nose tube....after they "put me out" by literally pressing on my throat..I was telling myself so this is how it feels to have someone choke you to death. ...no anaesthesia before the fist went to the top of my throat, and then they leaned down on it...I went out cold, or I could have inhaled it.
ANYWAY, I am all better now and feel ready to heal and comply withe verything they tell me to do. I have now already had the benefit of an education what happens if you eat the wrong thing and you block the lap band....you throw up, it slips and you are back for a new one. Not the kind of thing to mess around with.
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I had been released from Fair Oaks Hospital without being able to breathe or drink fluids, which is a litigious matter, but I am hardly there; this time I got my own doctor and was at a very good Reston Hospital. What a difference.
So I got dehydrated at home after the first release, trying to get down even 4 oz of any fluid whatsoever over four days....I threw everything up.... the lap band put in was too tight, and in the wrong place....due to the larger surgery they had just done. One doctor called all the shots so my own doctor, four days later, had to put in a new one and he really fixed me up....this time it felt right, I could drink and breathe, etc.
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TODAY IS MY DAY....everything we do takes courage, and faith. getting into our cars and out on the road takes courage and faith, and so does eating food, since we do not know if it will poison us. This is not differenet...I am just full of courage today and ready to step into that new realm of existence. I have surgery in about seven hours, and I just realized that not only are we all starting a new life by the end of the year, but we are starting a new decade!!! May we all have successful surgeries and may The Lord guide the hands of our surgeons. May we be rgateful for our blessings, and may our families be calmed from their fears. May we become lights to those around us and surely goodness and mercy will follow us. Psalm 23 Love to everyone...you'll be seeing LESS of me! heh heh Sara
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Got another video for you....gonna walk this way into the doc's office one day.....heh heh...now if I can just learn to sing..... YouTube - Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible [High Definition]
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I Listened to these words again. AND YES, I AM ABOUT TO LOSE CONTROL ... but this time it is giving it all up for G-d Giving the control TO MY HIGHER POWER.....and I am so thankful..... :confused: THANK YOU G-D.
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I Listened to these words again. AND YES, I AM ABOUT TO LOSE CONTROL ... but this time it is giving it all up for G-d Giving the control TO MY HIGHER POWER.....and I am so thankful..... THANK YOU G-D.
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Well, here I am two days away from getting the band...I got all my Rx's and got all my ducks in a row. I have lost 15 lb on the pre-op liquid phase and today is the eleventh day....I have had no problem at all with the liquid part. I just ordered some Isopure powder off Amazon [cookies and cream flavor, no less!!!] and I mix it with water and some cremora...either coconut cream or irish cream...love it. The carbs stay under 30 per day, and almost all of those come from the cremora. I add 64 oz. of water, and though it is thin consistency, it is sorta likemilk. I work on it at the gym, and coming home, and make sure I get in the 64 oz of water. I got some Hood milk but have not used it yet...I even dropped using the cremora yesterday, as I really want my liver to be reduced to make this easier. I am probably getting way under 30 carbs a day. Am getting excited... usually don't pack until the night before a long trip...now I am cleaning house and doing all of those little projects around the house to stay on my feet and not relax...when I get back from the hospital, I am sure I will appreciate coming to a clean place.
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I have spent a couple of hours now to try to update my profile and figure out the avatars, etc. Got rid of that dancing smiley avatar, thanks! Here is my own photo...maybe one day my hubby and I will get the harley he has prpomised me for so many years....and we will be up to see you. I am down in Reston Va
