1 week out from surgery and new here!

[hairdoerbren 1]

Hello Everyone!

I am so excited to finally have begun my journey! I looked into banding about 3 years ago, and vowed that someday I would do it for me, for my health. BUT I didn't see a way that I could do this unless we had insurance. Two years ago, we got the insurance, but unfortunately my then 13 year old daughter was diagnosed with brain stem cancer, so obviously and rightly so, all of our financial and emotional resources went to helping our daughter. This year, I finally took the plunge and started the process. I started in June 2010, and things proceeded slowly, but finally got approval from insurance and the timing was finally right considering my daughters condition. I had surgery Dec. 9th!

I am so thrilled that I took the plunge. I had a few jitters, but kept repeating the words that I read in my approval letter from insurance..."this surgery is medically necessary." I'm SO GLAD I did it! Including the weight that I dropped on pre-op diet and this week alone, I am down 30 lbs. I never would have imagined ME losing that much weight. All I've known is gain, gain, gain. It is so fun seeing the scale go THE OTHER WAY!!!

The thing I'm battling right now is I did catch a cold/virus. I've got a red,raw throat and have been coughing like crazy. My port sight is SO sore anyway, but then add the coughing to it and I just have felt rotten. I called the doc office today and they told me to stay with consistent doses of my pain med as it also has a cough suppressant in it. Thankfully that has helped considerably.

I have learned a lot just reading posts and replies from people. I think this will definitely help make this journey easier!

BTW...how do you get the weight trackers into your sig line??

Thanks!

Hairdoerbren

[krasc001 0]

Congrats on your weight loss. I am so sorry to here about your daughter and I hope she is doing well. I am set to have surgery on the 28th of December. I got all my pre-op testing done and just have the sleep study left. I am excited for the journey as well and would really just like to a decent change in my self and my environment in the year 2011. Plus I am looking for that weight track in the signature too. LOL

Best of luck to you in the near future and Happy Holidays to you and your family.