Banded Again

Well I am starting all over!  My band was replaced on Wednesday July, 20th.  My surgeon could not revise the old band - it slipped too far.  He said I had the size of a grapefruit sticking above the band - no wonder I was in pain!  I think the slip was there for quite sometime now that I look back and think about what I was experiencing.  Hubby has not gone through any of the tightness or constant Pbing that I was.  He has done so well with his band.  Anyway, I went into emergency on Monday, and was admitted the next day.  They kept me on fluids all of Tuesday.  I was operated on at 1:15pm Wed. & was out of the O.R. by 3 pm.  Let me tell you, this one hurts way more than the first time.  I am having the shoulder pain this time & a killer headache that won't go away.  I also had a lot of nauseaa. The doc put in a LapBand this time.  He was afraid if he put in another Realize band, it would eventually follow the same pattern as the old band and slip again.  He said he is pretty confident that he positioned it in a good spot and that it should not slip.  He said I should keep the band on the loose side.  He definitely feels I had the slip because my band was too tight.  He told me to go slow with this band.  By the way, he is not my original surgeon, he is his partner, so I only saw this doc two times before.  I like him a lot but he is leaving the practice :(. 

So I am on a clear liquid diet until tomorrow.  The Full Liquid for 10 days, then on to mushies.......  WooHoo I forgot how much fun this was - Not!