Ok, don't fall over in heart failure reggie peeps. Your not seeing things. 3 days in a row! The last 2 not icky. Pretty nifty huh lol.
So today I figured I would be a tad bit smart to do a bit of explaining as to what the gastric bypass actually is. I won't go into too much detail because I actually did a little bit of research to find a couple good sites that show and explain more about the surgery then I can tell. So here are some sites.
http://www.bariatricedge.com/dtcf/pages/gastric_bypass.htm?pgn=6
This is the surgery I am more then likely going to have.
http://www.bariatricedge.com/dtcf/pages/band.htm?pgn=6
This the the lapband surgery.
http://www.bariatricedge.com/dtcf/pages/home_visited.htm
This is the site address, good information.
http://www.clevelandclinic.org/health/health-info/docs/2500/2534.asp?index=9671
Another site with information on surgery.
In general, basically what is done with the gastric bypass is..... your cut in the belly, either railroad style or tiny slices (aka full cut or laproscopic). The top part of your tummy is cut to the size of a small pouch (about thumb size). Then the top part of the inestine is cut away from the bottom of the detached tummy and re-attached to the pouch. Apparently though, they leave the actual tummy in ya even though it won't be used again. Doesn't make sense to me but I'll find out more next time I actually see the surgeon.
So after your made into fillet o' purrson and then sewn back together, you spend a few days in the hospital. Then you go home and begin your new life of eating portions fit for a sparrow.
You loose at least 50% of your excess weight and usually will be settled into your new normal wieght within 2 years. Each purrson looses differently so read the technically stuffs for more accurate details.
But anywhoo, thats the bypass in a nutshell. Now for the lapband in a pinch.
The lapband is usually done laproscopic (small slits then small scope and tools sqeezed into the said small snippets, this way is a lot easier to recover from as your only dealing with a few couple inch booboo's instead of a really long railroad track booboo). So the surgeon scopes your tummy and uses a special balloon to create a small pouch at the top of the tummy. Then the basically special big rubber band is put around the bottom of that pouch and is adjustable via a cord that sticks out of your side or whereever. This one you can consider yourself one of those yoyo things or those noisey kid toys where you pull the string and the toy revovles singing music. This procedure is the safest but with slower results.
I am still having some trouble debating if I want to be cut or turned into a yoyo. Either way is pretty damned scarey.
I'm actually thinking about joining a gym so I can do some water arobics and use the hot tub (being a typical Leo, I always have tension in my upper back and neck, drives me bonkers, not that I have a long drive to get to bonkersville. Tend to get there with the body in neutral, facing uphill.). My step bro's wife, ah hell my step sis, was telling me about the one she joined and I got into thinking, with me having arthris in my spine and knees, excercising in a pool would be best for me.
I used to love to swim before I turned into the beached whale. I was a dolphin dame way back when lol. The thought of the pool and then hot tub treatments is the first thing thats snagged my attention for excercise in a long time. I think its cause I know I won't hurt like I do when I walk or do out of water excercise (not that I do those things anymore other then doing 8 to 10 hours a day on my feet walking around my cell at work, when I can make it to work. Its been bad the last couple months to where I'm missing 1 to 2 days a week due to severe pain. I'm on the family leave act thingy so work won't fire me and they know I am trying to get it taken care of with the surgery so are a tad bit more patient.)
But anywho, enough rambling. I may do another entry very soon. Or I may not. Who knows lol. Its gonna be almost another month till the doctory side of this surgery stuffs goes any further.
Happy Easter to all those that do Easter.
More to be written later.
