AngelaT

Hi...p[lease let other bandsters know about the trip... :-)

Welcome to all the new November Bandsters!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi everyone go to the November board in the general board..... we have a big group...I started this one also but the other one has more people!

Thanks for all of your words.. it is encouraging for those of us who will be banded Very soon!! I am sooooooo glad you are ALL here!!!!!!!!!

Yes...my doc does this instead of liquid...it also reduces the size of the liver... although i think I will still do liquids the last two days....just in case! :guess

Hope you can make it!!! Keep me posted

Oh...by the way, if you live in Florida you can catch a flight directly from there. Also I will try to post more dolphin trek related pics on www.myspace.com/atrumbauer Sometimes my space does not taqke large file pics and I do not know how to reduce the size!

Hi Nov. Bandsters! JUST 16 DAYS TO GO! For me anyway... some of us much less...who has started their pre-op diet? Good luck...remember we are here to support each other... Beginning Tuesday I am startin my VERY low-carb diet... bye bye chocolate! bye bye pasta! :faint:

Hi...we are the asme age... WOW you are down to my ideal weight...awesome! What are you doing in Malawi? Where are you from? I also love to travel... tell more about your life and how you find your life different now that you are thin!

Hi Everyone! I am so excited about this trip! I will try to answer all your questions. When....i was thinking beginning ofMay of 2007.... Possibly March if everyone prefers a bit early...but some spring brakes are in March and brings cost up. The cost will depend on how many people go, but roughly for 1 week at an excellent island resort with meals included, double occupancy.... 7 night hotel accommodations Fish and coral under Water ID cards 2 snorkel trips daily by boat with guide in which we can see dolphins 1 dolphin encounter at the resort Reef ecology lecture and fish ID slide show Full American meal plan – 3 meals daily Daily dolphin presentations Welcome island cocktail and orientation Tropical picnic on Tabyana Beach Island Fiesta Night on the Key Horseback riding Kayaking and Canoeing Entrance to Roatan Museum Airport transfers and airline ticket reconfirmation All of this for about $1,750-$1,950! :wow2: Does not include airfare Air fare is extra from Houston on Continental, but I can try to get a group discount when I have enough people that sign up. The airfare now is in the $380 area, but don't know what it will be for 2007. We will need to have a deposit ready for the resort by the end of November or December...they sell out quickly. It is really one of the best experiences you will ever have!:smilingface (52): What a great gift to yourself for such hard work losing weight with the helpof the band!

Great! By the way...your weight loss is awesome!:clap2:

Hi, I was diagnosed with MS several years ago. I just wanted to let you know I reversed it all through natural, holistic means and have been symptom free for over 5years. I could barely walk back then...was lloking for a wheelchair...then I decided nO! With that I decided to go back to school and got my degree as a Doctor of naturology/Naturopathy. If you need any tips let me know! Now my challenge is to lose weight....I eat very healthy, but just too much~!

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Dear Full of Grace...where is your surgery? By the way complication rates are VERY low with this surgery....

I feel so much better now that i switched docs! i was soooo anxious and the moment I decided to change dos, I felt better, lighter.... perhaps I should have gone with Dr. Aceves to begin with. I really need to follow my intuition always!

I feel so much better now that i switched docs! i was soooo anxious and the moment I decided to change dos, I felt better, lighter.... perhaps I should have gone with Dr. Aceves to begin with. I really need to follow my intuition always!

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Dr, Aceves in Mexicali is great!

WELCOME!!!:clap2:

You are absolutely doing the right thing!!!! Where is your surgery? How much? Mexico is a great place to go if you don't have insurance... Dr Aceves is Great and it is around $8500!

Hang in there. make sure you have enough protein. Protein shakes can be really yummy! Egg drop soup is also good. i just heard back from my doc and I do not need to do a liquid diet! Just low fat high protein diet, and liquid the day before. I think just to be safe I will do two days liquid. Let us know how you are doing!

Hi, I have been crying all afternoon...the U.S. office staff of the doc I was going to use in MX is not very nice. The physician is excellent, but they leave much to be desired. Calls not being taken care of in a timely manner, they get irritated with many questions, and the coordinator forgot what it used to feel like to be fat! She is now hard and snobby and not compassionate at all. They did not like that I kept asking why things were not being done...like why hasn't a doc called to get my history when the surgery is only a coiuple of weeks ahead. Of course already i was anxious with the surgery, but with so much uncertainty and questions not being answered my anxiety went through the roof. A health prefessional should know how to deal with anxious patients. Instead I was scolded harshly like a child and told I was rude and that maybe they should not do the surgery. She said she did not want to send any more rude americans to MX!!:speechles I could not believe my ears. I am so not rude in most cases...anxious yes I have been but they just needed to be compassionate! My job is to take care and help others! besides I am from Latin America and know better than to be rude, especially down there! I called my second choice, which should have been my first! They are soooo nice!!!!!! within one hour they had sent me the pre-op questionaire and all the info I could possibly need. WHAT A DIFFERENCE...I COULD FEEL THE WARMTH and Compassion! On top of it all I will be saving $2,000! Sorry for the venting, but it hit me really hard, I did not think that professionals would act like this with an anxious patient.:cry

Cindy, I am sure they are VERY nice in Mexico, but here they do not know how to handle someone who is anxious. I am not the only one...someone else who is having surgery there says she has not been trated very nicely either...they are snobbish and appear annoyed at her questions. And the main one has had a lap-band herself!! She forgot what it was like to be overweight and how it felt right before sugery and all the questions patients have.... its too bad because I think the doc is awesome! I am so glad you had a nice experience....

OK...Who has to do a liquid diet before? I am excited!!! Since I just switched docs I am not sure if I need to be on a liquid diet for more than a couple of days.... I;ll find out hopefully today!:clap2: