DS vets and clever folk I need you help and advice .

Hi guys!

I'm in London with my beautiful mate Kingy awaiting her DS on Sunday. Kingy flew from Oz to have her surgery with Dr Patel.  Now many of you may have clocked that I'm a bit of an eccentric which also hasn't slipped past Dr Patel and Beth his NP.  I have been on-line mentoring a few of his patients (direct referral from Beth) and referring people to him for the DS from off here. 

Beth gave me a new booklet for DS diet and after care which has made me want to beat my head off a wall.  It is essentially a hacked together RNY/Band how to list with the word DS plonked in every so often.  She has kindly asked my advice on it and I would like to utterly re-write it.  It is as useful as tits on a bull.

I need you help.   What pertinent facts, recipes etc do you want new DS patients to know?  What diet information and recipes do they need 1 week out, two weeks out, 6 weeks out and 12 weeks out.   Send me all the good stuff you have and I'll collate the **** out of it and hopefully make a kick arse DS how to guide which I'll post on here and where ever it can do some good.  Hopefully it will be used by Beth and Mr Patel to inform their patients. 

We can do some god here peoples.....and no I'm getting nothing for it...........it is simply paying it forwards like so many have done for me.

On a bright note I'm meeting up with Peking Sal, Donandra and Angela all from here.  Sal and I are going to the Huntarian museum on a date to look at picked willies.  I plan on eating my body weight in Balti and Vietnamese food.  Mr Patel cannot believe my weight loss and I feel ******g awesome (and broke...*******ing ******g expensive London).

Be well my sexy minions.

Having all of this information in one go-to source would be amazing.  As it is now most of us have to comb through bookmarked threads and scrounge around through old posts and websites just to simply learn how to care for ourselves post DS, how fun is that?  Everyone knows that there seems to be that "Duh Oh Crap Frozen" moment after surgery where you're like, "Oh crap, what do I do now?!" For me, having a booklet handy would be perfect.  Who wants to be sifting through threads on the Internet, trying to find EN's Rules for Hydration, for example, when you've just gotten home from the hospital.

Yeh it would be handy wouldn't it?

You have taken on quite a job. I would be hesitant to devote a great deal of time into if unless I had full assurance from my surgeon that my advice would be taken and used. I would think that you could glean lots of information from DSFacts.com.
I think it is a terrific project and hope to see the results.

DS facts has everything on it but I don't want to plagiarize anyone's information but if any of the vets on there and here are reading this and happy to give me their blessing then I'd be VERy happy to use their information for the kids this side of the pond and for the virtual folk on this forum.

Get paid.

No I'm literally doing it for people just like me. Where as there is plenty of information available on the DS in the US there is almost nothing at all over here. The fact that I rely on a US web site for my health information needs speaks volumes. I know I'm not the only person in the UK that finds this hideously annoying. No money need change hands unless you're offering.

Kirm- The fact that I rely on a US website (and I'm in the US) for my health information needs speaks volumes! God bless us all, it's damn nuts that because the procedure we seek isn't glamorous or fashionable or money enough to have pretty glossy brochures of info. for us to refer to.

But Beth and Patel get paid and this is intended to be used by them, right Why should you work for free?

Well technically no one is asking me to rewrite it but it is chaffing my arse so much that I want to write it. Beth and Mr Patel areon the NHS as hepatobillary specialists and do bariatric surgery on Sundays when they can get a theatre slot... Very low tech! So yeh they get paid but I also get paid by the NHS and I'll be waiting for Kingy all of Sunday so it will give me something to do other than pacing and hand wringing. also I asked them to give Kingy a discount cause of the support I've given and they agreed so all is cool.