Waiting to be banded

Hi HH,

Wow, I wish I didn't have a presurgury diet. Lucy you! To answer your question, Dr. Anderson and Cahn do assist each other. With regard to diet, I am thankful to have Dr. Anderson--Dr. Cahn makes you go on a diet of 3 slimfast a day and vegetables. That diet would have done me in. I do see though that Dr. Cahn's patients usually lose more weight presurgury than Dr. Anderson's.

As for the reason's behind the presurgey diet, yes, I think your understanding about the eliminating the exces fat in the liver is correct. When I went to the LAP-BAND^® Information seminar, they had a slide of a fatty liver and then showed one during the surgery and what a difference.

I think the Doc's said that the liver is more easily damaged when they have to move it to place the band if it is very fatty.

Anyway, good luck with your surgery. Maybe we can compare notes afterward.

Linda

So Hope, are you from Boise? I see you and Linda talking about Dr Anderson. And yup, all of the LAP-BAND^® surgeries are done by Cahn and Anderson together. Dr Cahn is my surgeon but Anderson assisted.

Thank you for the kind words about my progress. I'm glad it inspires others!

The food intake has been difficult I am on the mushies stage and I can only have about 3 tablespoons of food
i am still a bit swollen so ....
Next week i move to solids i will let you know how it goes

Good luck with the preop diet it is a b*tch

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Arlington MA
Banded on 4/11/06 303 pound
10/11/06 218 pounds