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NOVEMBER BY-PASSERS
- Thread starter gillabean
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Fashionably Late
is a skinny size XS & 6!
I am being done on the 27th at the Alex by Mr Ammori.
Cuppacocoa
wants the sunshine back!
Meeeeeee!! 
I am awaiting a call from my local Spire to confirm the date but it should be either the 7th or 14th November, wish they would hurry up and let me know which! Not that I'm impatient or anything!
I'd also love to be in touch with others having the op in November, I don't know anyone in the 'real' world who has had weightloss surgery so I'm relying on you guys!!arty0038:
Cuppacocoa xx
I am awaiting a call from my local Spire to confirm the date but it should be either the 7th or 14th November, wish they would hurry up and let me know which! Not that I'm impatient or anything!
I'd also love to be in touch with others having the op in November, I don't know anyone in the 'real' world who has had weightloss surgery so I'm relying on you guys!!
arty0038:Cuppacocoa xx
Cuppacocoa
wants the sunshine back!
Lol nope!! Haven't tried that one yet!!
I am going through my pre op assessment now. So far, I have met my surgeon and spent quite some time discussing all my options with him.
I then spent a morning at the hospital meeting the dietician, followed by the psychologist, followed by blood tests and a resting ECG. I was told to lose 5% of my bodyweight before surgery, this is a requirement of my surgeon to show that I am committed to losing weight.
I have an appointment with the consultant physician next week to get the results of the bloods/ecg and check I am fit and healthy enough for surgery, then a further app with the dietician and surgeon again before the actual op.
Hopefully all being well November will go ahead as planned. Following the Slimfast plan at mo to try and lose this 5% (14lbs).
Have you met any of the team yet?
Cuppacocoa xx
Haven't tried that one yet!!I am going through my pre op assessment now. So far, I have met my surgeon and spent quite some time discussing all my options with him.
I then spent a morning at the hospital meeting the dietician, followed by the psychologist, followed by blood tests and a resting ECG. I was told to lose 5% of my bodyweight before surgery, this is a requirement of my surgeon to show that I am committed to losing weight.
I have an appointment with the consultant physician next week to get the results of the bloods/ecg and check I am fit and healthy enough for surgery, then a further app with the dietician and surgeon again before the actual op.
Hopefully all being well November will go ahead as planned. Following the Slimfast plan at mo to try and lose this 5% (14lbs).
Have you met any of the team yet?
Cuppacocoa xx
gillabean
Really living now!
OMG I think I've done it! Cuppacocoa, I think I have sent you a pm, look at the top right of your screen and it should say 'private messages' and click on there.
I met Shaw Somers at my initial consultation and I believe I won't see him again until the operation date. I am due to meet with the anaesthetist, dietitian and assesment nurse in one week and four days to get all my tests done. I have already had my MRSA screening done as I am a nurse and obviously am more likely to come into contact with it. So that was OK. I am reasonably fit so I don't envisage there being any problems with the anaesthetic, apart from my total fear of masks. I am going to ask the anaesthetist if I can have a pre-med to calm me down. My hospital is only about 7 miles from my home and I have worked with many of Shaw Somers' patients so I know what an excellent surgeon he is, very caring. So I have no worries, apart from logical fears of things not going according to plan. I am trying to upload photos of my fat-mare self but being an IT numbtie it keeps telling me that my photos are too big. Personally, I find that remark very rude and insulting! Maybe the computer doesn't mean me!
Hey, shall we start a gang? Go on!
I met Shaw Somers at my initial consultation and I believe I won't see him again until the operation date. I am due to meet with the anaesthetist, dietitian and assesment nurse in one week and four days to get all my tests done. I have already had my MRSA screening done as I am a nurse and obviously am more likely to come into contact with it. So that was OK. I am reasonably fit so I don't envisage there being any problems with the anaesthetic, apart from my total fear of masks. I am going to ask the anaesthetist if I can have a pre-med to calm me down. My hospital is only about 7 miles from my home and I have worked with many of Shaw Somers' patients so I know what an excellent surgeon he is, very caring. So I have no worries, apart from logical fears of things not going according to plan. I am trying to upload photos of my fat-mare self but being an IT numbtie it keeps telling me that my photos are too big. Personally, I find that remark very rude and insulting! Maybe the computer doesn't mean me!
Hey, shall we start a gang? Go on!
Cuppacocoa
wants the sunshine back!
Laughing about your photos being too big, yeah I would probably take that personally too!
Like you I live very near to the hospital, less than 3 miles away so it's really easy for the appointments etc. Am I right in assuming you are going private? I tried and tried to get funding to have surgery on the NHS but other than my weight there was absolutely nothing wrong with me so was repeatedly turned down. :cry: So decided to say what the hey and pay for it. Hopefully it will be money well spent.
So working with Mr Somer's patients you must already have an idea of what is ahead? Like you I worry a little about things not going to plan but I'm guessing that's just normal. Actually I'm more worried that I will wake up to find they couldn't do the bypass for some reason! That would be baaad. :wave_cry:
I am not brave anough to post any piccys of me yet. Especially the pics I got my hubby to take before I started my pre op diet; they are in true Gok Wan fashion in just a black bra and knickers and are most definately to be locked away until I no longer look anything like that!! It took all my courage just to let hubby see me like that let alone anyone else!!
Cuppacocoa xx
Like you I live very near to the hospital, less than 3 miles away so it's really easy for the appointments etc. Am I right in assuming you are going private? I tried and tried to get funding to have surgery on the NHS but other than my weight there was absolutely nothing wrong with me so was repeatedly turned down. :cry: So decided to say what the hey and pay for it. Hopefully it will be money well spent.
So working with Mr Somer's patients you must already have an idea of what is ahead? Like you I worry a little about things not going to plan but I'm guessing that's just normal. Actually I'm more worried that I will wake up to find they couldn't do the bypass for some reason!
That would be baaad. :wave_cry:I am not brave anough to post any piccys of me yet. Especially the pics I got my hubby to take before I started my pre op diet; they are in true Gok Wan fashion in just a black bra and knickers and are most definately to be locked away until I no longer look anything like that!!
It took all my courage just to let hubby see me like that let alone anyone else!! Cuppacocoa xx
Cuppacocoa
wants the sunshine back!
Impressed! Now I just need to work out how to read it!!
Cuppacocoa
wants the sunshine back!
Hi FA, you and me both, November seems ages away!
Cuppacocoa xx
Cuppacocoa xx
Cuppacocoa
wants the sunshine back!
Laughing well I'm back, a lil soggier but my thumping head has cleared so that's good! 2.3miles eh? Well done you! I think my walk is less than that, next time I will drive it instead to check.
Cuppacocoa xx
Ps Ordered some books from Amazon, I was hoping they would come today but alas no post. I've ordered Weightloss Surgery for Dummies, a calorie counting book and a post op cookbook. You never know these may be the first ever diet books I have purchased that actually get read!!
Cuppacocoa xx
Ps Ordered some books from Amazon, I was hoping they would come today but alas no post. I've ordered Weightloss Surgery for Dummies, a calorie counting book and a post op cookbook. You never know these may be the first ever diet books I have purchased that actually get read!!
Fashionably Late
is a skinny size XS & 6!
Can you share the name of the post op cookbook?
gillabean
Really living now!
Oh not me, I have a whole library of slimming books/magazines. I am firmly of the belief that just the owning of those books makes me slimmer. In a similar vein, I have joined gyms on about five occasions and it just felt that having that little card in my purse made me slimmer and fitter. And I wonder how I got to this size!! In a little world of my own, about five planets past Pluto.
Cuppacocoa
wants the sunshine back!
Laughing, Gillabean, what are you like?!!!
FL, hmmmm, I can't remember the name of it off hand, hang on I'll check my Amazon account....brb
FL, hmmmm, I can't remember the name of it off hand, hang on I'll check my Amazon account....brb
Cuppacocoa
wants the sunshine back!
It's called 'Eating Well After Weightloss Surgery - Over 140 Low Fat High Protein Recipes To Enjoy In The Weeks, Months and Years After Surgery. Priced at £10.79.
Others may have it on here and know whether it is any good or not, I thought it looked worth a try.
Others may have it on here and know whether it is any good or not, I thought it looked worth a try.
Cuppacocoa
wants the sunshine back!
There you go I got brave and posted a pic!
Cuppacocoa xx
Cuppacocoa xx
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