My date is July 28

[Embrace 11]

Hi everyone,

I'm scheduled a week from Monday. My sleeve is a revision after an unsuccessful gastric band. From one minute to the next, I'm hopeful and nervous and excited and terrified. I respect and trust my surgeon so it's not that. It's just that the band didn't work for me and I want to have confidence that this will. I'm looking forward to sharing support with the group.

[Tisa 52]

Mine is the 28th too! Can you believe we're just two days away?? It feels so surreal

[LadyK44 263]

I hope you both had a great surgery. It will be soon time to sip sip and walk walk.

[Embrace 11]

Hi Tisa and Lady K44,

Sorry it took so long to reply. Message notices went straight into junk mail and I just found them! Future communication shoudn't be a problem.

Tisa, It didn't feel surreal until I was waking up but I'm amazed that surgery is behind me and my new life has begun. Still getting my bearings with new eating schedule - especially how long it takes to get down a Protein "meal." Thank goodness I'm not experiencing hunger. I had a rocky first few days. I was a band conversion to sleeve so my first few days were rocky. Mostly pain in the abs where the port was attached to the abdominal wall. Each day is a noticable improvement. My post op appointment is Wednesday so I'll know more soon.

Lady K44, thanks for the encouagement. The walking is slower than I'd anticipated because of what I described above. I'm tiring easily and the abs burn ALOT. Still I've been chipping away at it every day and it's made a huge difference.

Today's a new day! Wishing you both the best.

[gdussell1 5]

I had my surgery done on July 28th also and feeling such a difference already. I have not been on the scale in over two weeks but last time I did check I was down 32lbs. I am trying to hold off weighing myself again until I go back to the surgeon for my next check up which is on October 7th.

Edited September 8, 2014 by gdussell1