March 2007 Bandsters

[Mrs Husker 3]

Glad to here you are doing well Brandi.

I just did my pre-registration. Found out that I have to be at the hospital at 8am with surgery at 9:30. I feel like crying and I don't know if it is relief or if I am just scared.

[SGDodge06 0]

TracyinKS,

How are you dealing with the waiting?

Susie

[momlambert 77]

Glad to here you are doing well Brandi.

I just did my pre-registration. Found out that I have to be at the hospital at 8am with surgery at 9:30. I feel like crying and I don't know if it is relief or if I am just scared.

I hear ya! I'm sitting here shaking inside waiting for a 3:00 call to tell me when to be there on Monday. Maybe a good dose of both relief and scared??? You tell me! Karen

[RowdyReptile 2]

what's up march bandsters! just got home from the hospital a few hours ago. the banding went well. i'm in a little discomfort, but no gas, hunger, soar throat, or any of that.

oh yeah, peeing is interesting.. It's like my stomach muscles are warn out and i can't "push" it out. takes about 5 minutes to use the bathroom.. did you guy experience that?

[TracyinKS 7]

ooooooohhhhhhhhhh you know... I'm doing ok....... (SCREAMING LIKE A WILD HAIRED BANCHEEE!) LOL

I just found out last night that dbf has been asked to be best man at an old friends wedding in July, and it is smack dab in the middle of the SMALL town where he and his exwife went to high school and lived .. (she still lives there, and she is fine.. but the REST OF THE TOWN will be eyeballing me!!!!!!!) They were well known because he was the fire chief when they divorced....... So I am under pressure (from myself) to loose as much weight as I can before it rolls around.

[PianoPlayer 0]

I have been chewing all my pills. It tastes NASTY but no sliming or PBing.

I chew up as many as I can that will make a small "bite", then fill my mouth with something that has flavor (I've been using Gatorade). If I have to take more, then repeat. Then I wash the Gatorade around in my mouth to get as much off my teeth as possible, swallow and then grab some gum to chew on to get rid of the taste.

It's a royal PITA and you may have some pills that aren't meant to be chewed, but so far, so good.

(and me say again, they taste NASTY, NASTY, NASTY, lol)

I purchased a pill crusher at Walgreen's and have been grinding my pills up, adding them to a little bit of sugar-free pudding and spooning them down that way. It has made taking the bitter pills much easier. When I tried mixing them with crystal light, they never seemed to dissolve.

[tammyj 15]

Hello Everyone!!! I just wanted to check in to let you all know that everything went well. I am feeling really good and I am happy with my decision to be banded. My incisions look great and I am having very little pain. I am belching alot, but I guess that's a good thing. I appreciate all your prayers and positive words and thanks to everyone who sent me a message. I hope you all are doing well. I will be checking back very soon......

[Berry 0]

I hear ya amrdmr!! My nerves are shot as well. I'll be a nervous nelly all weekend. I probably won't sleep a wink Sunday night! I guess it's okay because I have to be up at 3:00 a.m. and out the door at 4:00 a.m. It takes me 2 hours to get to the hospital and I have to be there at 6:00 a.m. with a surgery time of 7:30 a.m. YIKES!!!

[momlambert 77]

So glad to hear from you, Tammy! And so happy that all went well for you. You have been in my thoughts since Thursday morning. I'm anxious to hear more as I go to bandland Monday morning at 6:15 a.m. Woohoo! Speedy recovery! Karen

[Ms Jen 1]

Hello Everyone!!! I just wanted to check in to let you all know that everything went well. I am feeling really good and I am happy with my decision to be banded. My incisions look great and I am having very little pain. I am belching alot, but I guess that's a good thing. I appreciate all your prayers and positive words and thanks to everyone who sent me a message. I hope you all are doing well. I will be checking back very soon......

I'm Happy for you!!! Looking to be banded next month

Jennifer:clap2:

[tammyj 15]

HAPPY BANDING DAY!!!!!!!!!

Machele - 03/16

RowdyReptile - 03/16

countrygirl1404 - 03/16

mnkbrly - 03/16

I hope all of you had a complications free surgery!!! Looking forward to hearing from all of you!

[tammyj 15]

So glad to hear from you, Tammy! And so happy that all went well for you. You have been in my thoughts since Thursday morning. I'm anxious to hear more as I go to bandland Monday morning at 6:15 a.m. Woohoo! Speedy recovery! Karen

Thanks Karen!!! Everything will be just fine....You are going to do great on Monday. Good Luck!!!

I didn't get much sleep in the hospital last night...not band related. I just don't like hospital rooms and whenever I did get to sleep a nurse always came barging into the room flicking on lights and everything. Anyways, I am going to bed now, but I will post more very soon....

[tammyj 15]

I'm Happy for you!!! Looking to be banded next month

Jennifer:clap2:

Thanks alot Ms Jen! I wish you all the best!!!

[FurEllie 0]

I purchased a pill crusher at Walgreen's and have been grinding my pills up, adding them to a little bit of sugar-free pudding and spooning them down that way. It has made taking the bitter pills much easier. When I tried mixing them with crystal light, they never seemed to dissolve.

Yeah, I've tried crushing them myself (and made a mess - I'm sure the staff at the hotel in Mexico thinks I do cocaine) and never could get it to mix.

Now that I'm being more adventurous on what I'm eating, I'm sure the SF pudding won't be worse for me band-wise than the FF fried Beans I just ate

Thanks for the suggestions everyone!

[kyethra 0]

Well I ended up sleeping all day so I didn't get to call my GP. I can see if I can maybe call the clinic though yet... anyway, pain is improving. Still have Urine in blood and still a decent amount but this time was less I think than previous time. Still is pretty unique for me though. And I was given clindymiacin with the op so I don't know why I would be getting a bladder infection but I guess it could be because of the catheter. I'm just glad it isn't band related.

The band is stil really sensitive/swollen. My little sips take a second to go down and then I burp. But they do go down. My poor band! So I need some Protein so I'm going to start sipping on my protein Water. I hope the band swelling goes down soon-- I was looking forward to full liquids. And I hope I don't stay this tight! I'm not sure how well I'd be handle food. But I sitll have swelling thats slowly going down so that tells me that Its likely pretty swollen up in there too. So now its just wait and see and do what the band tells me.