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Very cool! Yes please do a reminder of that when it comes. I would love to watch what I went through. :(

Angie

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That is really neat! Thanks for sharing. I will be traveling that day, but maybe they will have a replay after the live event.

I am happy to see Adjustable Gastric Banding getting more press and approvals by insurance companies. My doctor told me yesterday that the insurance companies are getting tired of all the appeals and are really coming around -- Here is CA she said that Cinga and BCBS are now approving the Band. YEAH!!!

Thanks again for sharing!

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Very cool, I would love to watch.

Yes please remind us!!! and thanks.

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I had the rare chance to see the procedure during my OR rotation in nursing school. Watching the procedure is what made me start doing more and more research on the lap band. It is amazing to watch .I hope all get the chance. Kudos to your doc for doing the webcast..

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This is today!

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Wow- I hope alot of you got to see it- It was really cool- I was surprized at the stitches around the band to the stomach wall & how far up they pulled on the wall. It looked like it was coming around the outside of the band alot. Very cool to see it. It also looked like a very easy operation overall. Great to see it live like that!

Thanks again BabyPhat for telling us about it!

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I had to go pick up my daughter from Camp Invention at 3:30 (which is when the surgery started Central Time). So I made sure I had the website up when I left to go get her....anyway, she gets to the computer before me when we got home. She can hear the doctors talking, she wiggles the mouse and up pops this surgery!!! She ran out into the kitchen screaming, "Mom, there is the grossest thing on your computer...yuck." I told her it was the lap band surgery that I am having....she said, "then I would not look if I were you"!!! I did look (yes, I hesisated), but I am glad I checked it out since it was very interesting and does appear to be a simple process. (And it really was not gross...only to a 9 years who screams at spiders too!!!!)

Margo

Surgery Date: August 17

only 21 days to go....

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