Happy Sunday

Vicki I will be praying for you in your attempts with cigs. I was the same way as you, nothing was going to stop me from having my surgery. Do you plan to try the patches, the helped me a lot. There is also Welbutrin, but I heard at the doctor's office last week that there are some newer and better medications then Welbutrin. If you want to go that route, you may want to check with PCP. As to your question regarding having a drink now and then after surgery. I am 15 months out and have not tried having a glass of wine or beer since surgery. I have been told that when the time comes where you can have a drink that you have to be carefull because one drink is like have 4 or 5. As one person put it, it makes you a real cheap date. Of course you will have to wait until several months out from surgery. My problem was having a diet pepsi after surgery. I am a pepsi holic. My nickname at our church is Pepsi Dan since I always have my 24 oz of pepsi with me. I was able to try it about 3 months out from surgery and had no problems with it. Some people however never are able to drink carbonated beverages after surgery. Of course that is something you would want to discuss with you nutritionist and or doctor. Now that I have been sitting here posting to you this morning, I am starting to think about trying stop the cigs myself. I have a carton and half left so maybe I will try and do it again. Even my back doctors tell me nicotine does not help with the nerves in my back. You will find that WLS really does change your life. You have some wonderfull people here on this board to help you both before and after surgery. I had my surgery fifteen months ago and just hit my 200 lb lost mark when I weighed this morning. Time for a celebration, yep my diet pepsi is sitting right here with me. Dan

HI Vicki, I too work for Anthem (lytle building) and I had my paperwork sent last friday from St. Francis I will update you on how long it takes to receive a response. I have gotten a lot of good feedback from like 7 different people that it took less than a week for a response but all of them worked for other companies and I am not sure if since we are inhouse they may take longer. I also included a letter and a photographic history of weight starting at age 7 and girl that really hurt to see a pic of me for every year between age seven and now and see myself steadily get bigger and bigger. keep your fingers crossed for me and I will do the same for you!!!! Mindi Ps what are the angel friends I would like to be involved!!!

mindi i also work in the lytle building on the 4th floor. in customer service. i work mon-fri 930 - 6 maybe we can meet up and use the gym down stairs sometimes as well. it will be nice to have someone going through at the almost same time to work together walking and so on. have you put in for the time off work yet. and if you did , did they approve it yet and for how long . i was thinking i would like to take 3 weeks maybe 4 just to get a jump start on being healthy before i have to go sit behind a desk all day.my email at home is [email protected] and work is vicki.smith2@ sherri i think i emailed you info about the angels thing but in case i didnt you have my email address could you email the info i need. thanks hun dan good luck on stopping i know its hard but we can do it. i hope you have good luck with your back problems . they are no fun at all. vicki

Yep! You're all set Still waiting for a few more...

cool and i dont mind knowing who my is if they want to show thier wings