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GOOD LUCK TODAY and please let us know how your are doing :)

Your in my prayers.

Bethlampwork – 11th

Happyk – 11th

Holiday0522 – 11th

Shanmnband – 11th

Enndee - 11th

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Thank you NJChick! You are so great to be so supportive! I am so excited and can't believe how fast the 24th is coming -- I have all plans in place for my kids care for a couple of days and can't wait!

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Oct. 11th is here and gone- that means I did it! I'm home and recovering from having the band put in. The first day seemed to go by with a lot of emotions but I managed each step with a lot of prayer and support from my husband and sister. I was surprised to find the pain didn't seem too bad at all. Unfortunately I didn't fair as well the next day since I had a student nurse who wasn't being supervised well enough and who wasn't a good communicator (wasn't understanding English or speaking it too well) and even though I was telling just about everyone I could see I needed my pain medicine she was the one they were leaving it up to to give it to me. It was extremely frustrating. I ended up going 8 hours without any pain meds and today has been much more painful. I have been playing catch up all day. My throat is pretty sore also-I must of asked four people to get me something warm to drink before I actually got something-this also contributed to me playing catch up with my throat. Well, once my sister got there she did a lot of advocating (she also works at my hospital) and needless to say my care had a nonsurprising turn to having very concerned staff commendating me.

Advice for the early days: prayer, have a support person to advocate for you if able, bring soothing music and easy reading, keep on top of the pain meds and don't lapse on the four hour schedule if your feeling pain, sip sip sip- warm liquid really helps for the dryness, walking when able, pillow for the ride home.

I'm doing better now- not as much pain for sure!

Good luck up and coming October bandsters! Best wishes on all of our recoveries early October bandies.

:D Shan

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Thank you NJChick! You are so great to be so supportive! I am so excited and can't believe how fast the 24th is coming -- I have all plans in place for my kids care for a couple of days and can't wait!

Your welcome :D I'm just a worry wort, can't help it I worry about everyone.

Your not kidding its coming fast... gee, we'll both be in La La Land (no not CA) at the same time, do you know what time your OP is ? All I know is I'm the 2nd one of the day. Good thing IMHO... it gives the doc a chance to warm up b/4 he gets to me :D

Its funny because every morning when I look in the mirror, my fear goes away and I say to myself I CAN'T WAIT (thats how disgusted I am with my appearance).

Shan, Congratulations. I'm so glad to hear from you and I'm especially glad to feel the excitement in your post. Thanks for the advice :D Your on your way girl !!!! HUGS

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I got to the hospital @6:30am for my 8:30 surgery, well the surgeon had an emergency so I was delayed for 2 hrs. Those extra two hrs. that I waited felt like 8 hrs...I'd say it was pretty close to hell. I drove myself crazy with worry and I cannot tell you how many times I wanted to cancel the surgery because of nerves. I remember being wheeled into the OR (large cold room with big bright lights)at 10:10a...next thing it's 12pm and someone is calling my name.

About an hr. later I was settled into my room. Around 6pm I was up walking the halls(w/minimum pain) passing away the time. My entire experience as far as pain on a scale of 1 (lowest)to 10 (highest), the most pain I felt was about a 3 max...it feels like I did about 400 crunches and now my stomach muscles are sore. I did have a sore but that was nothing a throat suppressant couldn't cure.

As I'm typing this I feel foolish for worrying myself nuttier and for even thinking about cancelling the surgery out of fear. Instead of being wheeled into OR, I'm lucky they didn't wheel me into the psych ward.:speechles I got sent home with liquid tylenol w/codine and thank god I haven't had to take any as of yet...no gas pain either(so far),can we say so far so good........;-)

**Thanks for the support NJChick, Banded for Life and Gunn4ya ( I think I pm'd her every week w/the craziest questions while waiting on my date. I think I'm the real reason why she's hardly on anymore...come back I'm banded now:D).

Good luck to the folks with upcoming surgeries.:D

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LSasha,

Great to hear you are finished and finally in Bandland. You dont have to worry about bugging me, I loved talking to you. I wish I had a person to bounce stuff off of and really a lot of the gals in this group talked me thru a great deal. Good luck to you and hopefully you will PM me soon!!!

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As I'm typing this I feel foolish for worrying myself nuttier and for even thinking about cancelling the surgery out of fear. Instead of being wheeled into OR, I'm lucky they didn't wheel me into the psych ward.:speechles I got sent home with liquid tylenol w/codine and thank god I haven't had to take any as of yet...no gas pain either(so far),can we say so far so good........;-)

HEY BABY GIRL !!!

Thanks so much for posting this. I'm so glad to hear everything went well. Congratulations and enjoy your journey to the new and exciting YOU !!!!!!

HUGS

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Thanks NJChick -- you rock -- so supportive!!! It must have taken you forever to dig out all those dates -- so kind -- thanks for noting all of our dates!

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Just wanted to let everyone know I'm home and doing fine. Not much pain except the bloated tight feeling I have and I'm assuming that is from the gas pain.

Melissa

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