Helllo!!!

Hello everyone! I'm Cas.. I just found this website. I didn't realize there was a teen forum for WSL. I just wanted to say hello and see what this board is all about. Just fyi.. I was 18 when I had Roux-en-Y gastric bypass on 15 June 2005 *almost one year ago!*. I'm now 19 and would love to talk to others around my age.

Wow! Congradulations on your success Cas. I'm 17, havent had surgery yet, Im just researching and going to get a doc appt soon! How are you doing? --Maggie

Thanks so much! I'm doing great, and yoursef? -- I'm getting ready for my year follow up appointment this Wednesday. My official year is Thursday, so it's very exciting. How's the research coming for you so far? What are your thoughts on getting the surgery? Have you made an actual decision to get it as of yet? If you have any questions, let us know! -Cas

Hey Cas, I'm doing just fine. I actualy went to a WLS Seminar Saturday morning and got alot of information. I think I've decided I'd like to get the lap-band. The lady who held the seminar had the lap-band and to that date had lost 80lbs, She was realy nice. And since I was underage she said it wasnt realy a problem and that actualy, 2 girls my age had gotten it done in Omaha (about 2hrs away from where I live) and were doing great! We filled out a referral paper to give to the surgeon that had done her surgery right there in Lincoln, so he's suppose to get ahold of all who filled out a referral sheet. About 20 or so people showed up, it gives me hope that I could actualy have this done. ;) Who knows, maybe he'll call today. -maggie

Ahh! Well that's great. Just remember everybody differs surgery wise. Although lap-band is a lot slower in losing the weight.. there could still be complications along the way that others might not have experienced. I had the Roux-en-Y.. and I believe it was because I'm younger, that I only had the complications I did. The only problems I had after having the surgery last June was having gullstones, resulting in having the have my gullbladder removed 56 days later. I had kidney stones, a UTI and an ovarian cyst all at the same time. That was terrific to deal with! -- Well.. not so much. But then I had a hard time finding protien products that I could keep down. Now that' not the case so much anymore, and I'm able to eat just about anything I want. I'm actually able to keep down a lot of stuff I know a LOT of people can't.. such as beef and steak products. (I'm glad I can keep these down due to the fact that there's protien in these, so this is actually my essential primary resource for protien). Overall, I'm very proud of the progress I've made and even though I had a bit of trouble along the way, I know there are so many other people who've had it SO much worse than I (my mother for instance), I just like the remind people it's not going to be the same for the next person. But seriously, that's so awesome. I hope everything goes well and that you get what you want done. I know it's a really exciting time and I wish you the best with this all! If you ever want to talk on PM or anything.. I've got Yahoo and others. Just let me know! -Cas

Lookin good, keep it up!

Thank you! I'm going for my one year follow up here just today. About to leave shortly and head to St. Louis. Very exciting. Hopefully everything will check out well, which I'm sure will be the case. It's too exciting having my official one year tomorrow!