December Banders Where Are You?

[kiba78 12]

Sage you will do fine. I felt the same.

[Earniece 8]

Yesterday was my surgery date. I'm officially banded. I woke up from anesthesia feeling like I had been stomped repeatedly in the stomach but after some good meds the pain subsided. My travel time home was about an hour. I would sleep an hour or so and get up and get walking. The next 48 I expect to be hell due to the trapped gas but I've got gas x and milk of magnesia to help me out.

[kiba78 12]

Hi earnice. I felt the exact same way. They gave me so much for nausea. The gas pain is not as vad as I imagined ut would be. I have been taking those gas strips.

The pain from one of my incisions is intense.

[belladonna_1975 1]

Mine was 12/16. I'm doing well. Still a little soreness around incisions, but not bad. I switched to soft food Wed 12/23. I had a scrambled egg and a piece of toast. Seriously the most delicious food ever! Hope everyone else is doing great and feeling good!

[kiba78 12]

I am still on the full liquids diet. I move to the pureed diet in two weeks. My surgery was on the 17th

[windysample 13]

I get my band the 31st!!

[Earniece 8]

@@windysample great best wishes for a successful procedure and a smooth recovery

[Earniece 8]

@@kiba78 I am on full liquids too but my surgeon told my mom I could puree food as long as no particle was larger than a bb so I had pureed candy yams and green Beans for Christmas dinner. A table spoon each and just to be the safe side I ate it with a baby spoon lol

[kiba78 12]

Earneice. I ate watered down dressing with the sauce from the meat. I was satisfied. This was challenging for me because of the sweets. I did get to enjoy my family. It gave me a new way to look at enjoying my family without food binding us.

[Earniece 8]

@@kiba78 me too I was telling everyone don't skimp on any food food because I can't eat it. I had more time to talk laugh and joke so it was a great Christmas holiday. even more so because I hosted Christmas dinner this year. We potlucked the menu and I'm overjoyed that everyone enjoyed themselves