Congrats you are going to do great... I hope you have an uneventful surgery and a speedy recovery like me... Lauren

The newest group in lower Delaware New Life WLS Support Group West will be having its monthly meeting tonight, thursday May 15,2008 at 7pm. we will be meeting at: Trinity United Methodist Church 17249 Phillips Hill Rd Laurel, DE All are welcome!! We look for ward to seeing you all there. This week we will be having a taste test of some of eggface's bites, recipe sharing, protein taste test and more!! If you have any questions please feel free to contact me!!

Lauren, great to hear from you, so glad you are doing so well. I am 10 days out and I can't wait to see the doc on the 22nd and get advanced. Still retaining a lot of water so my weight loss is a little less than you but I am HAPPY! Cheryl Here goes: Before program 298 Day of surgery 286 Today 279 -19lbs

How exciting for all of us. I got a call this morning, actually. They want to change my surgery date so it can be used as a live broadcast for some doctors!! So, instead of the 27th, I may go in on the 31st! Just for the sake of cool, I really hope I am selected!!!

Post Date: 5/14/08 9:39 pm Last Edit: 5/14/08 9:49 pm I'm home and sleeved. Scoot over on the loser's bench! On the good side, the surgery went very well, and my recovery has been pretty easy as well. I can walk and climb stairs without much pain at all, and NONE of my surgical scars hurt unless I do something stupid like forget and bend down to pick something up. On the down side, I do have some pretty incessant acidy nausea. I hope it's just the anesthesia and drugs, but those things never bothered me before. I'm taking Zantac, and have been prescribed Scopolamine (?) patches and Phenergen (?). The Phen knocks me flat on my bum, so I don't want to take it if I don't gotta. Also, my blood oxy kept dipping every time I took of the cannula, so they made me take oxygen home. I'm hoping this also has to do with the anesthesia, and that I'll be able to rid myself of it by later this week or early next. I took 3 weeks VACATION time to do this, and had hoped that I would feel pretty good by 2nd week and have some time to enjoy myself. But I don't see myself enjoying shopping with friends or seeing a movie if I have a damned oxygen tank to schlep. Anyway, it's mostly good news. I'm sleeved, recovering well, and despite a few things I'm not thrilled about, I'm glad I did it. Right now the most I can manage in a sitting is about 1/3 cup of Jello, a few tablespoons broth, or a popsicle. One other thing that's interesting - NOTHING tastes very good to me right now. Did anyone else have this, and did it go away after awhile? I'm kind of hoping this will go away with the acid/nausea. But even if it doesn't, it just means my relationship with food as a way to celebrate or comfort myself is gone for good. And that's a good thing! Thanks for all your prayers, PM's and good wishes.