Hi, I am Nicole.  I am 34 and have been married to a wonderful man for almost 16 yrs.  We have 2 boys, 3 and 10.  I have always been "thick" but since I had my last son I haven't been able to lose any weight.  I am a nurse and work with the geriatic population, I love it!  Since I have been struggling to lose this weight I felt I had to take drastic measures before I developed weight related health problems.  One of my coworkers and soon to be very good friend went to Dr Joya in April and when I found out about it I picked her brain.  I knew this was what I was going to do to solve my problem.  My husband not knowing anything about the band then on top of that I was going to be going to Mexico to have it done, wasn't so thrilled.  My insurance wasn't going to cover it.  Billy not one time questioned my rational, he stuck by me and supported me no matter what I wanted to do.    So, now we are at today.  My mom went to Mexico with me on Tuesday Aug 12th.  We arrived at the airport about 4pm Puerto Vallarta time.  Blood work and EKG was done.  About 730 I was taken to surgery.  Mom said about 3 hours later I was brought back to my room.  As of today, I have some gas pain, from the CO2, and some incisional pain.  That's it, nothing more.  I am on liquids for 1 week, full liquids(tomato soup etc) for 1 week then mushy foods for 2 weeks.  Then I will be released to eat real food.  It has been almost 1 month since I have eaten food!  I miss it, but to tell you the truth I haven't been hungry maybe 2 or 3 times since surgery.  I lost 9 lbs preop....more to come!!

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