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Hello Everyone,

I wanted to say "THANKS" for all your support. Everything is going great, and I will go and get my 2nd adjustment on May 30th. I have gone down two sizes, but I have not lost any weight. I am working out a few times a few, and I put on about 6lbs of muscle, but other than that I am the same weight I was when I had my surgery. My doctor said that if I keep working out that the muscle and weight loss will balance itself out, and I will be able to see better results. I told him that I have had to go through and give away my clothes twice, my face has gotten smaller, and believe it or not I actually have a collar bone (smile), but as soon as I get on the scale nothing has changed. It's only been two months and one adjustment later so I know that I am still in the early stages. Again, I want to say thanks to everyone for their support and your continued success as well, and I am going to try to post more often, and give an update after I get a feel for my second fill.

I am so sorry that I have not posted for a while. I want to thank everyone for your well wishes, and prayers especially Ms. Dana K, I really appreciate it. I am now four weeks out on week number five from my meal plan, but I have gained 6lbs back of what I lost when I was doing strait liquids so I was a little down about that because I am not sure if I gained it back because I am eating regular food again or if I am going over board with the regular food.

No worries because I was not down long, I have since joined a dance exercise program called B-Risqué Fitness which is teaches you strip tease, Latin dance, fun aerobics, sexy cardio, pole 101, plus size pole, and so on. I go for my fill on the 28th of this month so with B-Risqué Fitness and the fill, I should be good to go in no time.

I really do feel great. It’s been a week and two days since my surgery, and I don’t even feel like I had surgery. Monday was a little rough for me because they made me do the liquid diet 1 week before surgery so by the time my week was about to wrap up after surgery, I was mentally, emotionally, and physically exhausted because I had absolutely no food in my system and everyone knows you need food for energy. I called my doctor, and they told me I could go ahead to week two of the program, but I must admit I have included a couple of things from week three as well. I mainly do my shakes and Flintstones vitamins and felt 100% better from Monday. I went online and about a scale and my first appointment since the surgery is Monday. I am excited to see my progress. The only thing bad that has happened to me is I had an allergic reaction to the pain medicine which just caused me to break out in hives, but nothing a little itch cream can’t take care of. I will keep you posted for Monday.

It's been four days since I had my surgery (Wednesday 3/12/08), and things are going well. I have been off my pain medication since Friday because I felt I did not need it anymore. I drove a little yesterday because I had some errands to run for my sister and daughter, and I also took my daughter to see Horton Hears a Who since we had not gotten a chance to spend a lot of time together. I went to church this morning, and now I am resting. I plan on going to work in the morning if I still feel up to it. The only thing I am noticing which I noticed from the next morning after my surgery is a taste of blood in my mouth. I am not alarmed however because blood is not coming from anywhere. I can spit, go to the bathroom etc.., and blood is not coming from anywhere. What I think it is, is like when I got my tongued pierced, the tissue/linen died as tissue does, and then it comes out because when I first saw it on my tongue I thought it was puce and infected before I was told what it was, and when I woke up this morning, I had the same little pieces of blood tissue linen on my tongue like when my tongue was healing from being pierced, but that was it. This only happens to me first thing in the morning, but this morning was the first time I got the small pieces of tissue linen that probably came from my stomach. I still am not in any pain; I only feel where the port is, and this aggravating gas that won't go away fast enough. I have not had to change any bandages or anything like that because I never had any. All my incisions were covered with liquid Band-Aid so even that’s been pretty easy. I will keep posting my updates. I go back for my first doctors’ appointment on 3/24/08. I have been a little hungry, but I am trying to learn mind over matter.

It's about 10:15pm, and I am doing fine. I went to the hospital at 1:00pm because my surgery was scheduled for 3:00pm, but the lady before me had complications so I actually did not have my surgery until a quarter to 6:00pm, and was discharged at 9:30pm. I feel fine, but I don't like the gas build up. I am going to lie down because I am still a little sleepy. They only gave me one prescription, and told me not to drive for a so I'll see what happens.

Yesterday I went to the hospital to register, but my doctor put me on a strait liquid diet for the past week, Wednesday to Wednesday which kind of worked out because I still ate small amounts of something just to take away the hunger feeling, but I still lost 6lbs in four days. I check in tomorrow at 1:00pm and I have my surgery at 3:00pm. I am asking for your prayers, and I will try and post something tomorrow if I can.

I went to my pre-op appointment yesterday, and everything went fine. The appointment was to tell me the results of all my test which would determine if I could still have the surgery, and everything is a "GO". I go in to registra on Monday the 10th at 8:00 a.m., and I am scheduled for surgery Wednesday (3/12/08) at 1:00 p.m. the doctor told me I have to go on a liquid diet starting today becasue I have to be on liquids one week before my surgery, I don't like it, but I will be fine. Did anyone else have to do that?

Today I got the call that my insurance company signed off on the lap band surgery, and I am scheduled to have it on March 12, 2008 which again,is the same day my daughter turns 8-years old. I am very excited, and I can't wait to see what the journey ahead will be.

I am now waiting for all the information to be submitted to my insurance, and I have been given a tentative surgery date of March 12, 2008 which is also my daughter's birthday.


Wanting to get everything done quickly, I scheduled and did all five things below within a week:

•Chest X-Ray February 2, 2008 (Had it down at the hospital)
•Arterial Blood Gas February 2, 2008 (Had it down at the hospital)
•Nutritionist February 5, 2008
•Cardiologist February 6, 2008
•Therapist February 6, 2008


January 28th

I went in today for my initial appointment weighing in at 244lbs, down from 256lbs. After Dr. Moran's examination of me, he decided that I did not require much. Below is all that I required:

•Nutritionist (Required)
•Cardiologist (He said because I once had a smoking history)
•Therapist (Required)
•Chest X-Ray (I'm not sure why I had the X-Ray done)
•Arterial Blood Gas (Check to see my oxygen level in my blood)


January 9th

I went to the required seminar to see a presentation. At that presentation you were able to get all your questions answered by the doctor himself, and someone from his staff took a copy of your insurance card so they could call your insurance company ahead of time to see if this was a surgery they covered, and if so they would call you within a week to schedule your initial appointment. I WAS TOLD TO BRING in DOCUMENTED WEIGHT HISTORY SHOWING THAT I HAD BEEN OVERWEIGHT FOR THE PAST 5 YEARS SO I BROUGHT HIM MY O.B.G.Y.N RECORDS.