Shari

I hope I answered all your questions. . . LOL. . . I am here for you and for the rest of our forum. My email is osharilee@earthlink.net and my cell number is 903-316-8998. . . Shari

Nicole: You should be home by now. . .How is everything going? Oh, BTW, for those getting the plication. . . There is now a forum set up for plication patients. . . I will still check in here every once in a while, but will mostly be posting on that forum . . . Wishing all you Nov. patients a great and successful surgery and a wonderful after surgery experience. . . LOL

I stayed at the Camino in Sept. when I had my plication done. It's the one to stay at. It is closer to the clinic and very, very nice. It has two restaurants in it and with a little help, you can get broth at the international one.

Hi all! I had my plication done on 9-16. Most of my posts and experiences are listed under the gastric sleeve forum as this one had not been started yet. I have lost 53 pounds since starting my pre-op diet. I had no post-op pain. I had some discomfort at the drain site, but once that was gone, just a little tender in that area for a couple of day. But as far as surgical pain. . .none. In fact, I was up and wandering around Tiajuana 2 days after surgery. And as the staff can tell you, I was up and dancing around the clinic the next day. I had one bout of nausea and that was when I was up wandering around the night I had surgery. It didn't last long. Had Sophie help me back to bed, got some medicine and that was it. Anyway. . . a little about myself, so you know I am not really a crazy person. . . LOL. . . I am a registered nurse, live in Texas, am 57 years old and have a 16 yr. old at home and a 34 year old about to get married. I will be happy to answer any questions anyone has, just give me a day or two as I don't check the forum every single day, due to work schedules, therapy session (physical) and other personal daily routines. But I will check as often as I can. Again, to see what all I went through, go to the Gastric Sleeve forum and then we can continue to discuss stuff here now that this forum is alive and running. Shari

I had the band removed because it wasn't working. . . And it seemed that no one would touch me as long as the band was in place. When I had the band removed at OCC I had never weighed more in my life. . . And that was AFTER having the band for 7 years and throwing up all day and not being able to eat at least 4 times a week. . . My body was starving and storing everything it could as fat.

I have found that, as per usual, once you get the product, it never works like it does on t.v.. . .Sigh. . . But, I am still using it pretty much daily. . .

Day Twenty-Four thru Day Thirty-One Soft foods are going well. . . Learning new things as I go along. . . Can't believe that toast and crackers were on my "soft" food list. . . But, as long as it is, I am taking advantage of it. . . Did go back to primarily full liquids on Thurs. afternoon, Fri & Sat. in order to make things easier on my sister. . . Thursday night I had a serving of KFC mashed potatoes. My sister had the same but added six hot wings to her dinner. . . Had no problem watching her eat it as it was going to be her last "real" meal for a while. Found some wine and had a glass of wine before going to bed. . . And I don't go anywhere without my Easy Cheese. . .LOL I think all I had on Friday was clear liquids and a protein drink for dinner. . . Oh, I had a couple of tablespoons of scrambled eggs for breakfast. . boy, I sure wanted that darn bacon that was next to them on the buffet line. . . Saturday, I had a couple of tablespoons of oatmeal and again a couple of tablespoons of scrambled eggs. . . Kim had some yogurt and some oatmeal. . . We loaded the car, loaded our Crystal light drinks and headed home. Sunday, I made a great Mexican type casserole for everyone except Kim and me. . .We had creamed soup that we put through a blender. . . Since then, I have added chicken salad, toast, a soft fried egg. . . Still think I am maintaining under 1000 calories a day. . . And at night, if I feel like I am getting hungry, it's off to bed I go. . . Or it's another cup of broth that I can sip on for 30 minutes or so. . . Continue to lose weight, but it has slowed down. . . but I am not discouraged. . . it is still coming off and that is what counts. . . Am going to start massaging Mederna onto all my puncture sites now that they are healed. . . Hopefully that will cut down on the excessive scar tissue I have a tendency to develop. Middle of next week. . . SOLID FOODS!!!!! Portion controlled, of course, but. . .SOLID FOODS!!!!! Hope everyone is doing well. . .

Anyone else having problems with tickerfactory recording the weights you typed in and showing them correctly on the ticker?

Day Twenty thru Day Twenty-Three Am dying to ride my maxi-scooter. . . Just another day or two. . . Actually, I am going to sneak around and ride both of them to the cycle shop and get them inspected so they will be ready for a nice ride on Sunday. . . Woohooo. . . Don't tell. . . Monday, Day Twenty-Two, I finally felt some hunger pangs. . . Went to bed hungry. . . Refused to get up and drink a shake or eat more soup. Today, Day Twenty-Three post plication. . . Saw my therapist today. . . he is very pleased with my progress and how I am being true to the diet and myself. . . And then after that I dropped off my mom to get her blood work and blood shot. . . while she was there I quickly went across the street to see everyone on the unit I work on. . . That was fun seeing everyone. . . Then mom and I went to Appleby's for lunch. . . She had a salad and I had my first mushy food. . . mashed potatoes and I also (stupid me) ordered French Onion soup. . . I asked the waitress for a to-go box to be brought ahead of time. When the food got there, I immediately put 2/3's of the mashed potatoes in the to-go box and had a couple of spoonfuls of the soup and then dug into the mashed potatoes. . . . Heaven!! Didn't need the soup and left most of it. Brought the mashed potatoes home and ate another third of them for supper and will have the last of them tomorrow for lunch. Sigh. . . Then will have some soup for dinner tomorrow night. Thursday, I am going to eat an early lunch of tuna fish & mayo, and then go take my sister to Dallas for her lap band. . . Couldn't convince her to go with me to OCC, silly girl (but lucky me, I didn't have to share Dr. Ortiz and the rest of the Doc's with her, Hehehehehe). . . I am sure she will regret it someday. . . LOL I will have a protein drink with her on Thursday night so she won't be too miserable alone. . . Hopefully will be back and posting on Sunday. . . .

Oh, btw, I ate some mashed potatoes today for the first time. . . Just about 3 tablespoons. . . and ate some French Onion soup. . .Not much of that because I didn't want to over-do, but boy, were they yummy. . . Brought home the left-overs which I figure will be about two meals worth. . . one of which I already had for dinner. . .LOL

As soon as your wound sites are healed. About 10 days. I started back on my water therapy 2 weeks ago . . . still had a few scabs, but they were not open or draining. You want to not take chances on getting an infection started by going in water with open wounds.