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Sharon H. Northern Part, DE, USA Post Op - BMI: 24.9 Surgery Type: Other Member ID: H1123336179 Surgeon: Isaias Irgau, M.D. |
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   8/7/05 I have an appt with Dr. Peters on Sept. 28th. I know it doesnt seem like my BMI is that high with it being 36 but with this Diabetes and Hypertension I really do feel the surgery and losing this weight will help with my health and make me feel better. I am so tired all of the time. My lower back and legs also hurt but then again I stand all of the time with 100lbs of extra weight. DUH! I have tried many weight loss programs and exercise programs only to lose and gain again and again. Yo Yo I would say. Now I have health issues that have become problematic. To be able to exercise and not have my legs kill me all night would be a dream, well hope that is in the future for me soon.   8/10/05 Called my Insurance company today to see if Bariatric surgery was covered under my policy and was told that I have to have a medical nessisity (and I do with being a Type 2 Diabetic and have Hypertension) letter and be over weight (no kidding LOL). I dont need a referal since I have a PPO insurance but when I went to my PCP two days ago he agreed that weight loss surgery would be a a great choice for me. He said " Sharon, I'm not going to let you die with this Diabetes and High Blood Pressure''. That was touching for a doctor to be so caring. Guess What? I decided to call the Weight Loss Surgeon to ''SEE'' if ''Possibly'' there was a sooner appt then the 9/28/05 appt and she said '' How about 9/7/05? YES!! That is 3 weeks sooner. That is less then a month from now. It does pay to call a doctors office and sweet talk a sooner appt. Ha Ha I have to go have blood work done today for my PCP to see how this dreaded Diabetes has been over the last 3 months. I can tell him that without the testing. Its been yukky. The pills are horse pills, I have diarrhea(no that doesnt make me lose any weight either darn it) the testing 3 times a day makes me feel like a pin cushion too. I think I am alittle winy now. LOL With the weight off I know I will feel so much better and I just hope and pray that the Diabetes will get better and maybe just maybe I wont have to take any medication. Until later..........  8/19/05 Surgeons office has a cancellation for Monday 8/22/05 and do I want it? Heck Yeah! Let's get this ball rolling..... 8/21/05 Tomorrow I go to the surgeons office and all I think about is what if I weight 1lb NOT enough. That my BMI would be under the limit for surgery and I have lost just a pound and that is the right amount not to have surgery. I stress about these kinds of things for some reason. Nerves I guess. LOL Maybe eating a spaghetti dinner today will keep the 1lb on huh. Until later....  8/22/05 I had an appt. with Dr Irgau instead of Dr Peters today and it went well. He agrees that the Lap Band would be a good choice for me. I now have to have all of these tests ie:stress test, echo, Cardiologist, Pulmomologist,Dietitian,Nurse Practitioner,Psychologist,a Medical doctor for clearance and three classes about the Lap Band. Whew when I get threw all of these I have to have a EGD then go back to the surgeons office for a pre-op appt. Try not to stress about all of this. I know this tho. After going threw all of this I will stick to this and lose the weight. I am not going to mess this up for nothing. Until later........ 8/23/05 Started throwing out candy that I had in the house last night. Talked to DH about my feelings with the surgery and that doing all the testing that this is something I was going to complete. I think and he agreed to go to a gym when the surgery is completed since it will more then likely be fall by then. I feel good about doing this, getting healthy. My DH said that he doesnt want me to do the surgery for him because he loves me the way I am. Trust me I wouldnt do that. I am doing this because I am tired of being tired and not feeling good. Until later guys.... 8/25/05 Talked to the surgery case manager yesterday and she answered alot of questions that I had. I will see her the day of my surgery. I now have to wait until the scheduling lady Judy from PMRI calls for appts there at PMRI. I go to the lung doctor on 8/30/05 to get the ball rolling starting these pre-op tests done. I look forward to getting all of them done soon. Until later.... 8/29/05 Looks like September will be a busy month with pre-op appts. The only appt. that I have to make is the final clearance with the medical doctor which is busy until November. I was hoping to be done by then but oh well I will hope for a cancellation in October. The pre-op surgeon appt. will be after all these appts. are finished. Hopefully the first part of November I can get a surgery date. Until later.... 9/4/05 Thanks Tracie for sprucing up my profile. It looks great! I am looking forward to my stress and echo test in two days. It will finally get this ball rolling. Having a good holiday weekend just me and my hubby. Until later..... 9/8/05 Went to the lung doctors and he ordered a Sleep study test and a Pulmanary function test. These will be done in October. I was hoping for earlier dates but couldnt get one. It looks like the earliest for surgery will be November. Great holiday huh. Well I am all about losing this weight and what better way to do it then to eat mushies. LOL My husband said to me that I have come to far to quit this now and that is true. I will finish this and afterwards the surgery I mean I will follow the eating to a T. I really want this, to be healthy...... 10/8/05 I have a Date! 11/16/05 is the day of surgery for me. It seems so far but I know it will be here before I know it. I still have the EDG and the Sleep Study to do but I dont have any worries about getting passed for thos. I still do worry about the Insurance but talking with Misty at the surgeons office yesterday she said not to worry, that she didnt think I would have any problems. Let's hope not. I will be on liquids during Thanksgiving but thats ok. I have waited so long and I will do what it takes to get healthy..... 11/11/05 "I'M APPROVED" I can't believe it. Misty just called me and said that the insurance DID APPROVE me and my surgery is a GO. I have been so worried. Gosh I am sitting here shaking, but a good shaking tho. Now I can begin to get healthy..... 11/16/05 ''It's Time'' for my surgery. Today is the day I get my Lap Band Surgery. I am excited and alittle nervous. I think the nerves is from the not knowing how I will feel. I know I have researched the surgery but no one can say how I will do. I do good with pain and I know what goes on in the operating room so that helps. The last few days with the clear liquids wasn't that bad. I drank the Isapur drinks with 40g of protein and I think that helped me feel full. I stayed busy by going to work on Monday and yesterday I planned a ''girl'' day for myself, having a facial (which was awesome). got a pedicure and my fingernails done too. I also went last night to a hypnosis class that really helped me to relax. I even joined a gym. I know that I am prepared for the journey ahead. I will go now and thanks to this board and its members I am well informed. I will see all on the losing side...... 11/17/05 Well I am home from the hospital and I have my Lap Band. The surgery went very well. The pain hasn't been too bad. I am walking around the house and drinking alot of fluids. I have already cut my Diabetic meds in half (well the doctor did). I lost 10 pounds so far. Yeah! Looking forward to better days ahead but so far this journey hasn't been bad at all. I would certainly recommend Dr Irgau and Dr Wynn and Christiana Hospital. They were awesome! Thanks to this message board and all that wished me well. Until later..... 11/29/05 Its been 13 days since my surgery and I feel really great. I still get tired and have soreness where my port is but that I expect. I went to the gym with Elissa and worked out with riding on the bike 4 miles (which was easy while talking) and walking a mile on the track. Still can't get in the pool but soon. Tommorow I'm going to go sit by the pool and even stick my legs in it to relax. I have lost 16lbs and boy I can tell it too. My stomach is not so swollen and my clothes are lose. I get head hunger at times but mostly when I get bored so I drink water or tea. I get filled up so quickly on something like 2 ounces of soup. Hard to believe huh. I feel stuffed. I laugh at that because I didn't think I would be the one saying that this surgery would work. It does and I am thankful for that. I am down on my Diabetic medication and my blood sugars have been very good and low. Now to get off of them. Soon I hope. Take care all........ 12/4/05 18 days Post-op now and have lost 20lbs. Wow. I can't believe that at all. I have been still going to the gym every day and working out with riding the bike (rode 8 miles), walking the track (walked 1 1/2 miles) and even lifted weights for my arms for about 15 minutes. Getting in about 64ounces of water and about 70 to 90 grams of protein a day. I really don't feel hungry. I know I know hard to believe since I am still on liquids, but it's true. I have head hunger in the evenings and want to grase so I fixed that with drinking hot chocolate (ya know I am a chocolate freak LOL) with protein and FF milk with a splash on non fat whip cream. Feels like I am cheating. Still off from work intil I go to the surgeons office in 12/15/05. I thought I would go back to work 12/19/05 and work that day. Opps ya know what I still have 2 weeks of vacation that ''I have to take" by the end of the year or I lose it. What a shame for the company but not for me huh. LOL I will use the time off to getting my eating on track with the liquid diet and then onto pureed foods and going to the gym getting stronger. Hope all is well and Happy Holidays..... 12/16/05 I have lost 24lbs as of this morning and many inches. I went for another Post-op appointment with the surgeon yesterday and he said that I am doing great. I can go back to work on Monday 12/19/05. Ah not that I want to go back to stress but I can deal with it. Hopefully it won't be too busy. I am still going to the gym 7 days a week and look forward to the work out that I do each day. I have to admit I do have much more energy now days. My blood sugars are in the 90's now. What a difference since they were over 200. I am hoping that when I have my bloodwork next month to be able to come off my Diabetic medicines. The holidays are upon us and I am trying not to stress about that and working out has helped alot with stress issues. Well off to the gym and the errands that I have to do. Take care all..... 1/7/06 Happy New Year's. This is the beginning of a resolution of being a healthier me. Over this past Thanksgiving and Christmas the first time ever that I did not gain weight. I am still going to the gym on a daily basis and actually look forward to it. I think it relaxes me. I had my 1st fill on Thursday 1/4/06 of 5cc in my Vanguard 11mm Band. Whew, it didn't hurt. No problems that night at all, but yesterday the day after the fill I was sick as a dog no matter what I tried to drink or eat. I went back to Dr Wynn and she took out half my fill so now I have 2.5cc's in my Band and I feel so much better. The elephant is now off the middle of my chest. LOL I am now down 29lbs! Yeah! Hope all is well with everyone...... 2/15/06 Been awhile since I have updated. I am off my Diabetes medications after going to see the Endocrinologist. At that visit I had also lost 11 inches since the surgery and now have lost 36lbs. I feel so much better most days with energy. I got a 2nd fill a week ago this past Monday and I am still not sure if it is working. I am having problems with regular foods. It makes me sick. I know I must be eating too fast. Even gag on water if I take too big of a gulp. I know not good but sometimes if I don't have the time or if I am hungry I really dont realize it is too big a bite or it is too fast until I get that god awful tightness and chest pain and the feeling that I want to throw up. For Valentine's Day I cooked Filet Mignon, mashed potatoes,mushrooms,biscuits and had a bottle of wine that my Mom sent from Texas. Let's see I had maybe if I was lucky 1oz. of steak with mushrooms,2 teaspoons of potatoes and 1/4 of a biscuit. I didnt think that was too much at all. I did drink about a 4oz. glass of wine thru out the night (1st time since surgery for wine). By bed time I was hugging a bucket and wanting to die. Oh god was I sick. This morning even coffee didnt go down well because my esophagus is sore fromm the PB'ing, so back to liquids for lunch. Soup did go down and some of a Starbucks Low Fat Latte. Discouraging at times to learn this Band but I am sticking to it. Still going to the gym daily even tho I missed 2 days, one being that I was oncall and worked 15hours and the other was from the snow and being snowed in. Enough for now since I better get to the gym before I get called into work (oncall AGAIN) and I miss another workout. Til the next time...... 2/18/06 Image problem! Yes I think I have that. Here's what happened. I went the hairdressers wearing jeans. When I was leaving, the hairdresser (she has done my hair for years) said Hey I think its time for you to get smaller jeans girl. Well, I was embarased because people were around and she said you are getting so skinny. Still I was embarased but crushed thinking oh god do I look frumpy or what. Ya know I had to leave there and go to a store and try on new jeans. The jeans I was wearing I thought looked so small to me and were a size 16. I remember dying to be small enough to even fit in these jeans. While in the store I tried on size 12's and some 14's and I don't even believe it but they fit. Come on now and to my surprise I tried on a pair of Medium workout pants and they FIT. I bought the workout pants and a pair of 14 jeans. Didnt feel right just yet in the 12's since I dont like my pants too tight. I look at my self in the mirrors and still see the ''Fat Chick'' and when I look at these smaller clothes I think Oh hell no this aint gonna fit me, I am too big. I have to work on this. One of the girls at the gym said yesterday that I am getting so small and she can tell I am losing. Still hard to hear stuff like that because I still dont see it. I really have to work on a better self image..... 3/12/06 Wow! I am now down 41lbs. Finally able to see the light at the end of the tunnel most of the time. LOL Still going to the gym 7 days a week and do feel so much better after going. I can say that I need to change my routine because it becomes a drag. I went back to the surgeon last Thursday and was going to get a small fill but when he heard that I was having pain on my left side he said no to the fill. Have to have a Cat Scan to see what the pain is from. It could be a Kidney Stone. I think I have enough retriction tho as I can only eat about 2 ounces of meat=protein and maybe 2 or 3 tbls. of a vegetable. I'm not really hungry at all. Now my head will tell me all day long that I want something to snack on and I'm trying to work on that. Damn head games. Ok on to the gym now before it gets too late....... 4/15/06 Happy Easter. Still going to the gym on a daily basis. I hear daily how ''Skinny'' I am. I want to look around and say ''Who me''? My daughter keeps telling me that I have not butt and stop losing weight. Even my husband says that he thinks I have lost just about enough weight. Even went to the nail salon and the Vietnam lady that does my nails said to me in broken English that I am so skinny now and I must be working out. I still have this goal in my head, a weight goal of 150lbs and to not be in the over weight catagory any more. I have had to buy in the last few weeks all new clothes which is exciting. Today I thought well it is going to be nice so I will wear thos cute capri pants that I laid on the bed to try and zip up last year to no avail. I am hear to tell ya that when I put the cut capri pants on they fell down off of me. I still wore them to the gym tied tight at the waist. My husband laughed when I showed him that they now fall off. Off shopping I went, buying size 10 and 12's and Medium tops. I don't really see that I am small. I know that I am smaller but I don't feel ''Too Small''. Image thing I guess. I feel good just not where I want to be at. When I worked for Weight Watchers many moons ago I weighed 150lbs and I dont think I worked out like I do now but maybe that is why that number still sticks in my head. Oh well I hope to know when I get There. Take care... 4/25/06 Guess its time for an update. I had been having left sided pain (not where my port or band is at) for approximately 2 months. After many tests and going to different doctors with negative results. On Easter late at night I woke to terrific pain and passed out twice being found on the floor by my husband. I went to the emergency room only to sit in the waiting room for 8 hours and never being seen. On Tuesday 4/18/06 I was admitted into the hospital for testing and pain control. My Band was deflated with hopes of the pain subsiding which it didnt. Wednesday I had a EGD to see if maybe there was something that would show where the pain was coming from only to be negative. Thursday 4/20/06 I had Laproscopic surgery and I was found to have Scar tissue, Adhesions and a abdomen full of fluid (possible infection). My Diabetes acted up while in the hospital due to the stress and I had to be given Insulin to control my Blood Sugars. I was discharged on Friday with the liquid diet for 2 weeks and I even tried to talk my Surgeon into a fill to no avail (have to wait until my 2 week Post-op visit). The liquid diet really isnt as bad this time as it was after my Band surgery. Maybe it is because I have in my head that it isnt that long and I keep my Protein level high and Carbs low. My husband and daughter have said that I am so skinny and dont lose any more weight. Oh while in the hospital I was seen by a GI doctor for my bowels and colon and I remembered that when he did my Colonoscopy 6 years ago he had said that I was morbidly obese. When I woke up after surgury this hospitalization the GI doctor was at the end of my bed reading my chart. Ya know I was wondering if he would still say I was mobidly obese. Probably not but I know he is presise and he would say I was ''overweight''. GRRRR My husband has never seen me this small even tho I am not that small (size 10 and 12's) and my daughter was young when I was at this size before. Guess that is why it freaks them out even tho my husband is small. He says well he has always been. DUH Well off the get ready to go to the GI doctors office. He just called and wants to see me to see how I am doing. Take care.... 4/29/06 I had a Colonoscopy yesterday and Whew glad that is over. The prep is the worst part. The testing wasn't bad at all and no pain. I just felt ill all day with some nausea. Next week starting Monday is going to be busy with 3 doctors appts. I dont think I am this busy when I work full-time. LOL Glad that I am on sick time so that I dont have to take off from work. Back to the gym today with my daughter and her girlfriend. Having 2 16year old girls around wears ya out but they are fun. Well off to a fun day......... 5/03/06 Found out that I have ''Severe'' H-Pylori'' and gastritis results from my EGD and that could of been causing me pain also. Went in for my Post-op appt and saw Dr Peters which did my surgery. He is so sweet. I told him that Dr Irgau promised that when I had my Post-op appt I could have my ''Fill'' back. He isnt agressive at all but said if that is what I felt like he would do it. I got my 3.2cc's back and am on liquids for today. Not bad at all. When I aked about going back to work he said do you really want to. Of course not! LOL I love being paid my full salary to sit hope and go to the gym. Still going to the gym every day and actually have increased what I do there. Today I went to Brandywine park which is local and met a follow Lap Bander. Hey Renay! I have volunterred to be her Angel. What a great time walking and chatting in the sun, enjoying the scenery. Guess I should go for now and hope all is well with everyone. Take care...... 5/14/06 Happy Mother' Day to all. Back to work this last past week for me and now I wish I had of taken the extra 2 weeks off. Not that I dont feel well just because work sucks=been busy and I hate being oncall for emergencies. I have really been in a funk lately, Maybe it is the work, the surgery or whatever. I made a counselor appt and am going tomorrow. The counselor is great and I have talked with him before. This is usually the week that we go on vacation to Myrtle Beach but couldnt go this year with moving and with me having the surgery. With Mother's Day here today I did talk with my Mom which was a good conversation and I think she might of even listened some what. Never can tell with her. LOL I was supposed to get my daughter this weekend but with me getting called into work yesterday my daughter decided that she would just come another weekend. Oh and did I get her ''text message''? It said Happy Mother's Day. Do you even think that I could get a phone call on the cell phone that I bought for her and on MY minutes that I buy for her. No but she did get online to tell me that her dear dad and I say that lightly took her out to dinner (the place that HE knew was always my favorite when we were together). I said to her that it was nice that she got to go to dinner and spend time with her dad on Mothers Day. The kid didnt get my drift! My son is another story. After him spending time and being in Iraq for the past years I had over looked him calling or anything else for Mothers Day but had a little hope that maybe just maybe. He is a dad now maybe he would understand. Guess I hoped too much. Off to the gym I went, to the tanning bed, got a cup of coffee and to the health food store. Come home and even had to cook something to eat for myself, not that the DH would wake up from his 24hours of straight sleeping to say ya wanna eat or something. Atleast I no one hassled me today. Single life aint all that bad huh................................................................ 6/22/06 It's been awhile since I have updated. Where do I begin? The weight is not really an issue any more if you can believe it. I am right around the 60lbs lost point. Nothing pretty much fits me and the new clothes that I have are size 8's and 10's. I never thought that I would be in these sizes. Food I would say or you might say is an issue. Why is that huh? Because ''I don't eat''. I never get hungry any more and if and when I do eat it is maybe a yogurt or a few crackers like 4 and a piece of cheese. Not all at one time but over the course of the day. I dont even know how many calories I eat because its not much more or less about 500 if that. I never thought I would be writing all of this. I have been going to a counselor for the past 6 weeks for ''issues''. Just life I guess. Pretty much got the promotion at work that I have worked for. It took almost 7 years but hey it is here. Am I happy about it? Ehhhh I can do it and this is what I wanted was to be the boss but I am not happy. Life in general. Losing all of the weight and hearing how damn skinny I am from many of my fellow co-workers gets to be too much. They now watch what I dont eat and say '' Thats it"' WTF Being skinny, fat or whatever does not make one happy does it. Personally I dont know what would make me happy right about now. Sounds sad and guess that is where I am. I still am not satisfied with my self image. (weight wise I mean) As far as my professional life I know I can do this management postion but my personal life I suck at. I am not just taking one day at a time because any more then that and I would be a basket case. Until later..................... 9/9/06 Whew, its been awhile. I was just reading what I last wrote and not much has changed except I am ''still'' losing weight. I went out today to try (laughing) to go to a seamtress and get my clothes made smaller. The oriental lady said that it would be cheaper to buy new clothes. I didnt think that the clothes were that big. What was I thinking I ask. Losing right around 70lbs now and tons of inches and yeah size 20's and 18's arent going to be made into a size ''8''. I STILL do not see myself small. Weight was not healthy for me and that is why I thought I would have the surgery. Ok I am healthy now but am I happy. HELL NO! I am still trying to find the real me. My marriage is on the rocks, in fact I am moving into my own apartment in 6 days. He liked the old me, the fat ass girl that even tho I was healthy he loved not that it kept him home any more or less. I dont know where I am going here but I do know that I have to find ME. I am tired of being miserable with myself. I have the greatest job in the world. (I am the BOSS)(got a big raise) so I can finacially take care of myself. Its the other parts of life liking me for what I am and who I am (HUH) dont know all that but plan on trying yes trying to find me. I must of been hidden under all the layers of FAT....... 12/10/06 Ok ok ok its been awhile since I have written on here. Let me see where to begin. For the last past something like 3 months I have been sick ie: chest pain, reflux, vomitting. Fills, unfills, partial fills, seen in the ER in the middle of the night. Can we say nightmare? The surgeon both of em ordered Xrays only for their stupid office staff to never ever to get back with me to have them done. I have been to my PCP and a GI doctor plus the Surgeon. Do you know how many co-pays I have paid plus missing work, RX's. gas, vomitting, doctors and pharmacy's, etc. You get my drift. The only thing that would stay down in this time thank God is protein drinks. If a cow were here I would eat it on the hoof. LOL Ok back to story. This past Monday night and Tuesday sick (vomitting) again after 2 oz of turkey with Mayo. All NIGHT Tuesday the chest pain was really bad and I can take pain. Yes I vomitted too. I went to work thinking that since I work in a operating room maybe some kind surgeon that dont know a damn thing about me and my health that I work with will help me but I didnt have the nerve just yet to ask so I called my surgeons office to page the oncall doc. The staff member that is NOT a Registered Nurse had the nerve to say do I think I need a unfill and ok she will page the doc and call me back. After waiting lets see here with chest pains over 2 hrs I leave work and head to the hospital. Do ya know how fast they take ya with shortness of breath, radiating pain that is uncontrollable and a Lap Band FAST. Many hours later and ekg, blood work that is negative the sweetest ER doctor lady ordered Xrays! Yes finally. Seems that my xrays dont look right when it comes to my Band and I was sick. Imagine that. My Surgeon was called and came and unfilled me to say that I should feel better and I DIDnt. I was sick and tired at this point. He then looked at all the xrays and said hmmmm my Band ''dont look'' right and ordered the swollow test. What a relief. The xray doc said '''Sharon, this is bad''. No kidding I knew that. My Band had half of my stomach on one side of it and the other half on the other like an hour glass and I bumped the traumas because I was now on their level of being Emegent. Ya know I didnt come this far to loose my Band and ya know insurance wont ever pay again since I am this close to goal and I dont have $$$ so I did what I had to do and begged I tell ya begged my surgeon before, on the OR table and I know me while he was cutting LOL to please dont let me loose my Band and oh save my life too. Phew He did just that and all of it and dont ya know no less then 12 hours one of his partners said oh yeah you can go home. NO freakin way. I had surgery and the best insurance ever I am staying so call my insurance I was sick. Insurance authorized my stay imagine that again. Here I am now going back to the surgeons office again tomorrow. (they dont know it yet but I will show up) with pain, yes I just did have surgery, my Diabetes is high Again, and diarehea that Kaopektate wont touch. Oh by the way the doc that released me said sure I can go back to work in a week. No driving, no lifting over 15lbs or was it 20lbs thats confusing, no bathing, dont get my sutures wet . How am I do work as I am '' in charge of Laproscopic surgery in a real operating room lifting real people not kids and instruments and there isnt any light duty. Do I walk to work or what? HMMMMM Lets just say that I am not a happy camper right about now. 3 surgeries from the start of this Lap Band journey and its not the Band its others. To be continued................ 6/10/07 The road to a Healthy Journey has changed. Oh boy has it. Where do I begin or even start. Since last writing with a Band slippage in December I was hospitalized twice in December with C-Diff (infection) and sick as a dog. PHEW Then kinda sorta didnt even feel good since. April brought me to the hospital with vomiting blood only to be told that my band did NOT slip. HMMMMM Had a few cc's taken out of saline from the Band. Now on to the newest news. This past week 6/5/07 after vomiting for over a week, (oh and no the doctors office would not see me since hmmm I owe less then $100.00 on a bill even tho my insurance has paid tons) I passed out at work and was sent to Christiana to be seen. After a barium swollow which wasnt easy since I passed out again I was told by a trusted (I say that lightly) ''Resident'' that oh no my Band did NOT slip and that I needed a unfill. I was admitted for dehydration and passing out. A few hours later I received a phone call from my surgeon saying ummmmm did I hear the news? HUH WTF My Band DID infact Slip and I was having surgery and the Band had to come out. Within a matter of a few hours I was being operated on and the Band had turned my stomach blue (my husband even saw the pics) afterwards my stomach did turn pink after removing the band. Now I am told my head doesnt know that I dont have the band, I have to go to the gym atleast 6 days a week and I have to do this on my own. What the hell! Hindsite huh. I could of saved thousands and yes thousands of $$ but I didnt have to be this damn sick for over 18 months, miss tons of time from work and from my family, for complications to arise. I tell you this I was/am the poster child for Lap Band Rules. I worked out (did until complications) 7 days a week, wrote down ever thing, followed everything to a t and have complications. Now I say this if I had complications anyone can. Forever, until recently I begged to keep my Band and knew it was worth it. Life changes when one things and feels sicker then a dog and hears that your stomach was turning blue (dying). What this Lap Band Journey worth it? HELL NO if for only now that after wards I still have to do this damn journey on my own. I will do it and can do it since point frankly I havent been happy since getting the damn Band and being so sick the whole 18 months. Be careful what ya ask for because you just might get more then you bargined for. I DID.................... action=http://www.obesityhelp.com/morbidobesity/oldbmiresults.phtml>
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