Tuesday 16 February 2010

First appointment at the aftercare clinic

Good Evening,

Keping you updated on my first appointment with the bariatric nurse who will be in charge of my aftercare for 3 years.

I got to the clinic, it is situated on a very nice street. The receptionnist directed me to the waiting area. A nice room with big sofas, plants, relaxing music, a big flat screen describing all the services this clinic can offer. I felt really at ease I soon as I got in that room. I have a fear of medical places. But in this one there was no funny smell, It reminded me of the waiting room of a very fancy psychiatrist that you see in some movies.

The Nurse, Wendy opened the door and out came a lady with a big smile on her face, she gave Wendy a hug and said hello to me. I came in the room, there was the equipment to do an ultrasound, a nice comfortable armchair. I filled in some papers, did a few tests and the I met a Band. for some reason I thought it was not that flexible. I felt like I was holding a new friend in my hand. my surgeon uses 3 types of bands and will decide which one to give me during the operation.

Because I am getting married in July, Wendy explained they had a program you could follow for a quicker weight loss so I can be down quite a bit of weight before the wedding, I decided I would go for that it is basically low fat no carbs high protein. After this I will move on to eatig small quantities of all kind of healthy food.

Wendy asked if I was planning to have children, she said my chances to get pregnant will increase as I lose weight. I explained how much I wanted to have children. Not just yet but I wouldnt like to wat too long. Have any of you been pregnant with the band?
Wendy explained that if I was to get pregnant in the next 3 years my pregnancy would be followed by her as welland it was included in the price of my package.

I am extremely pleased with the whole team following me I wasnt expecting for everything to go that well to be honnest. I am so pleased. I hope the team in Belgium will be as good.

I left the clinic and decided not to get a taxi home but walk to the bus stop (20 mins) stopped by Boots to buy some more slim fast shakes.

I have done 30 mins on the wii fit tonight and I am going to go to bed soon.

just 6 days left to the operation, the nerves are starting to kick in but the excitement is still the biggest feeling there.

Good Night everybody.

9 comments:

  1. i wish you the best of luck
    it sounds like a great place
    you are going to do amazing

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  2. I had surgery 5 days ago and I am feeling pretty good already :) I was scared to death of the surgery cause I am a big baby. It wasnt bad at all! Hope your recovery is just as easy :D

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  3. YAY! Countdown time! There's a whole group on Lap Band Talk with women who want to/are pregnant (go to the home page and you'll find it under Groups).

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  4. Woo hoo! That's great. Funny, my post today I mentioned the funny smell of hospitals :)
    6 days for the 3 of us - it's hard to believe!

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  5. Wendy sounds great! It really sounds like you are going to get really great follow up care and that is wonderful. I am really excited for you, the band is a wonderful thing. I am also so jealous that you stopped into Boots, I love love love their lip balm and cannot get them to ship to me or anywhere in the US for that matter.

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  6. What a good start! I'm glad it went well and I'm sure the rest of your experience is going to be as positive.

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  7. I am so pleased for you...it all sounds so nice...not long now

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  8. So excited for you. Hope the next few days fly by.

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  9. I am currently pregnant with the band :-) So far so good - I have only had 2mls of fill taken out.

    The only difficult thing is no longer seeing the scales go down but it is for a very good cause :-)

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