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Hi everyone, I will receive my band 8-8-05



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Hi everyone,

I will be having surgery on 8-8-05 in Mexico. This is my 40th birthday present

to my self. If anyone has any advice please let me know.

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congrats on your date. i will be banded exactly one month after you on 9/9/05. i have been reading these posts for weeks and doing a lot of research. i obviously can't speak from experience but i can tell you that it seems most people don't regret it. so that must mean something. right?? good luck to you!!!!

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Hey Nickie.......Good Luck to you as you start your journey.

Patty:)

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Hello! I had surgery in Mexico on July 14th, and I do not regret it yet!!! Ha, it's only been 11 days, but I am very excited. Advice - just soak in the experience and feel good about doing this for yourself. I love Dr. Rumbaut and his staff, they are great. It is weird to be in a place where not much English is spoken, but everyone is extremely nice and helpful - nothing but curteous!! Dr. Rumbaut himself is fabulous, ask him to show you his before pics, he is a whole new man! He let me use his cell phone 2 times to call my husband in Maryland because I went by myself...pain varies after the operation, but the ladies I met were up and about no problem. I had more pain because he went through my belly button and did a more cosmetic surgery since I am only 25. But even that wasn't bad, just very tender and sore...but you get plenty of pain medicine and information. If you have any questions, let me know...I'd be glad to go into more detail about everything and send you some pics from my trip to Mexico (there's one of me and Dr. Rumbaut as well as the hotel and hospital!) Congrats!!!

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It sounds like your doing great. Please send me the pictures, Have never been to Mexico. I am going a couple of days before surgery so I can see a few things. Could you tell me what Dr. Rumbaut has told you about getting fills.

thanks so very much, I fell better already

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