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Mornin' Yawnin' fellow bandsters:drool:. The "training wheels" come off today and I will enter the Land of the Banded!!! Surgery time today scheduled for 12 o'clock and it couldn't be a day, hour, minute sooner. I am sooooo ready! No nerves yet, no emotions yet but will expect them a bit later at the hospital. I told everybody that would listen that I was being banded so that I could weed out any and all Naysayers:cursing: early on in this journey. I told everyone so that when they saw the weight coming off and possibly would have "heard what I did", I didn't have to deal with hearing their uneducated ignorant comments later on. So I've already handled everyone and any one early on in this process and have shut them down so as not to have to hear a word of discouragement from them:angry:. So to any and all that are going in today or this week I wish you the best recovery and thanks to everyone that I have "read" up until this point and been so encouraged by your thoughts and input.

So yeah "Let's get this part started".:):mad::eek:

Smoothes Gracias!

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I LOVE YOUR MINDSET - I too feel like it is time to get this party started!!! GOOD LUCK TODAY!!!

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Wow !!!! such words of encouragement, I am scheduled for Friday and I am so ready for a new begining. Congratulations and good luck !

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I'm Friday too :) Absolutley cannot WAIT, lol...Congrats to all who make this life-changing decision...

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Good luck! You are probably already banded by now and hopefully everything went well!

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Heyyyy! Mornin' Yawnin'! ALL DONE YAAAY!!! Everything went pretty well yesterday. We got to hospital early at around 10:45 they took me right away and got started with all the preliminary questionings to make sure chart information was correct. I was shocked to find that they had me listed as a Diabetic and required an Accucheck reading on me even though I protested that I wasn't they said that my Pre Surgical Testing determined that I was so borderline to treat me as though I was.

The worst part actually only real bad part is that they couldn't find a vein for IV administration, they had to try 4 times before they finally got it!!! Yikes that got me really frustrated! Oh yeah and the fact that I had to wait from 11am until 3pm to be finally sent down to the operating room, and yall know me and my short patience. Thankfully my girls were with me and kept me entertained. We laughed the whole time.

Then when finally my time came and I was being wheeled into the surgical unit I met all the surgical staff and everyone there were really really nice, then Doc Brathwaite came in I joked around with him a little asking if he had eaten lunch and he said NO but he'd be alright and I told him we bought him a Subway Sandwich FOOTLONG and to take a few bites... he laughed and said he was VEGAN! lol.

Best part...when they were finally rolling me into Operating Room they were playing Alicia Keys song that is my favorite "If you ask me I'm Ready" I almost started crying..Happy Tears and was telling the girls wheeeling me down how this song was like my Anthem in this whole process, so the one girl was like we will play it for you in the OR and I was cool. (Side note - my niece Jasmine just put the music channel on and its playing now) lol. Anyway I really wasn't expecting them to do it but sure enough when they put my anesthesia gas mask on the song was playing and I was clicking my fingers to it and then I was in recovery.

When I woke up in recovery clock said 5pm couldn't talk for a while, words were in my head to say something but all I could do was nod when asked a question. They told me everything went well and I would be in the Step Up Stage shortly which included walking and drinking 30cc's of Water. At 5:15 I was able to talk and asked if I could walk and they told me I need to be out of anesthesia at least an hour and I still told them I was ready and they let me walk at 5:30. I walked so far with the aid my recovery nurse came looking for us. lol. Drank some Water, that was really weird felt like I ate a full course meal and hurt a bit going down.

I finally was sent to the ambulatory surgical unit at 6pm for my step down to be released. There I walked quite a bit down there. I was reunited with my girls and they met me down there with my clothes and I was out of there by 7pmish and home at 8pm.

Couldn't sleep and stayed up until 12:45am. I walked every commercial and my niece has been excellent rubbing and patting my back for the gas to come up, which hasn't happened yet axiously waiting for the first release which is said to be glorious!

So there you have it! Took a percocet and slept sitting up pretty compfortable and am up and ready to go for a walk up the block but my friend that is an RN said to take it easy today and just walk around the house as I have been doing.

Love you guys and ttyl Diva.

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Congrats on the easy time of it and good luck in the future :) My time is scheduled for 10 am tomorrow but they'll call today to confirm. people keep asking if I'm nervous but I have to say, not yet! I'm a quick healer and my doctor is fabulous so I expect things to go super smoothly. See you guys back here soon:thumbup:

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Had my surgery about 10:30 yesterday and am doing great also. I too woke up this morning wanting to go walk around the block but decided to wait til tomorrow.

Sore throat is finally gone thanks to warm broths.

I had severe ankle and heel pain on my left foot before surgery that too is gone. Nice to be able to walk without pain. Im thinking it will probably be back after all the anesthetia is out but heres to hoping it stays gone.

My sight is also off, has anybody experienced this? Im reading with my glasses and its like I dont have them on.

I've not had any gas yet and fell asleep sitting up but woke up on my side, it helped taking pain meds right before sleep.

Just got on the scales and I have lost 7 pounds since Monday...Woo hoo

Sherri

Edited by Laylas grandma

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What a great surgery day story! Thanks for sharing :) I'm glad to hear you are doing super good... many blessings. Now the fun begins!

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