Hi everyone:

Well as luck would have it, the eventual will have to be put off till the 8th because I was on way out the door to catch the bus only to have one small problem....

I somehow managed to lose the RTD 10-Ride Ticket Booklet I needed for my bus fare!! (I knew I should've put that thing in my billfold, but knowing MY luck, I'd have found a way to lose THAT instead!).

So now I'll be seeing my PCP _BEFORE_ my first fill (But all is not lost. When they see my pants start to fall down like they did at my first post-op visit to Dr. Metz' office, they'll KNOW I've lost some weight ). My appointment with my PCP is on the 5th.

But thanks for the comfort anyhow! Nice to know it won't be excriciatingly painful. :D

Cheers :D

Pat - You will be fine!  I was nervous but it is really pretty painless.  The part that hurt the worst was when he was massaging my port area to soften up the scar tissue.  Really - you'll be more than fine! Julie

Good Lord Pat, I don't know what I'd have done with a brother like that.... I can think of a few things though, being from Wyoming and having lots of wide open space here... I'd have taken him out for a drive in the hills, and drop him off and let him walk home and think about what he said... I'm mean that way. Course, not that either of my brothers wouldn't love that lol. Thanks for the OMG!!! Story hun. Makes mine seem pretty minor. *wink*

dr johnell banded me in dec. i love his office. everyone is really nice and when i get my fills im there 10 mins max. I have probly called at least 20 times with questions after surgery and im suprised they didnt get tired of me calling lol. I saw a local dr also. hes highly recommended in my area. i schedualed a fill here so i wouldnt have to drive the 2 hours to greeley. one visit with a local dr and back to dr johnell i went. i love how they keep a very detailed medical chart on me from emotional, weighloss, blood pressure, temp lol everything even pictures. the dr in my area i had to wait in the waiting room for 20 mins, another 20 in the back room, and he just told me how much he was putting in, no questions asked kinda deal and they only monitor weight. denvers a lot bigger than greeley so i think maybe dr snyder just might have more patients or whatnot but dr johnells is my pick

On April 11, 2008 at 7:59 PM Pacific Time, frankielarkey wrote:  I just have to say.... I have told my friends and relatives that I am getting the RNY gastric Bypass.... OMG!!!     First of all... I am paying for it myself... No Insurance... Please keep that in mind...  Everyone I talked to today said stuff like this: 1) You know... You are still going to have to exercise and watch what you eat and blah blah blah... 2) You really should have gone with the lap band... blah blah blah... Why would they think that I haven't done my homework???? I have been thinking about this surgery for frickin ever!!!   They can't be serious.... OMG!!!!!!!  Anyhow, I just had to vent. I can't believe what morons I hang with lol ============== UGH - THIS BOARD NEEDS TO BE UPGRADED TO PHPBB!!!!!!! Anyhow....I said.... Hi everyone: You think that's bad, that's NOTHING to what one of my younger brothers (Who BTW is a certified trainer) told me last Christmas. He went on this diatribe that EVEN IF I had the lap band, I would STILL have to eat properly, excercise, etc. (Like I didn't already figure this out? *DOH!*) He also went into things ranging from self-esteem to my love life (Or in the case of the latter, lack thereof), blah....blah....blah. He even suggested that I just go on a pureed diet for SIX MONTHS.  You see, I had made the mistake of doing on that diet pre-op and almost didn't have the surgery AT ALL.  In fact, he even went so far as to call it a "blessing" and that it was a twist of fate that I didn't go through with the surgery as if I was somehow saved from making the worst mistake of my life or something. After it was finished, I told him that while I respected his opinion (And still love him even though I disagree with his opinion, which he is constitutionally entitled to have), I was nevertheless going through with the surgery. This was on Christmas Day at my mom's apartment with her present. She thought we were fighting. If THAT was a fight, it was pretty one-sided as although my certified trainer/loving brother did all the talking, I had the final say so. But it even gets EVEN BETTER!!! In the days leading up to the surgery the second time around, I sent him a text message asking if he was gonna be able to take me to the hospital or not. Guess what happened.... HE NEVER GOT THE MESSAGE (Or so he claimed). And when I sent another text message from the hospital room before checking out (Because you just can't use the RF side of a cell phone inside a hospital without adversely affecting any equipment in the room) indicating that I had the surgery and was checking out of the hospital, guess what my loving, caring brother did... HE CALLED MOM & HOLLERED AT HER BECAUDE **HE** WAS NOT NOTIFIED. She told him to call me and leave her out of it. I wasn't too happy that he never bothered to AT LEAST reply to my text message indicating he didn't know about the surgery either and *****ed at her for not telling him. I assumed he got my text message but couldn't do anything to help out on the big day but just simply didn't bother to actually respond to my text message. I could've handled that Anyhow....Those are my OMG!!! stories. Cheers :D .