Hi all!

[heathyj]

Just wanted to introduce myself. I'm a 42 year old man from Stoke on Trent. I'm having a gastric bypass on Saturday 21st February 2015 all being well. My op date has been changed a few times! Feeling nervous but also excited to hopefully see a big transformation in myself.

 

[Su2ie]

Oooh not long to go now! Hope all goes well for you this time x

 

[heathyj]

Thank you!

 

[nicola1723]

Welcome! Good luck

 

[Ladylou30]

Wow so close exciting x

 

[los in it]

Hello and welcome
All the very best for your WLS

 

[Trish933]

Welcome and wishing you all the best for your surgery - let us know how you are getting along

 

[heathyj]

Thanks everyone. I'm quite calm at the moment. Hoping I stay this way for as long as I can! My surgeon is Miss Rotundo at what's now known as Royal Stoke Hospital. She's really nice and friendly and hopefully a master at her craft lol!!

 

[westiedog]

Welcome and good luck x

 

[ladilindy]

Welcome and good luck for tomorrow

 

[BFB]

Welcome and very best of luck for tomorrow. Looking forward to following your journey. I've got mine mid April!

 

[heathyj]

Well, I'm here waiting to be taken for surgery. Miss Rotundo came to see me and the chap who'll make me go bye byes! Miss Rotundo wrote a nice list of potential problems I could have during or post surgery . Bit of a " what in earth am I doing here" moment!
I'm not going in until midday apparently so just sat here waiting. Thanks again everyone for being so welcoming!

 

[westiedog]

Good luck x

 

[heathyj]

Well everyone I've made it through the surgery and I'm on the ward. Got a very sore throat presumably from the tube in my mouth. Otherwise not too bad. Bit groggy. Will update when I'm more able!

 

[Ladylou30]

Good morning new you

 

[Mollydolly]

Welcome to the losers bench!

Good luck for a speedy recovery,

MD x

 

[heathyj]

Thank you it's nice to be on the losers bench! I've just been given the go ahead to go home! Words carnt describe how happy I am about that!!
I'm sore but apart from that not bad considering. Here's hoping it stays that way!

 

[Lady Di]

Hi. How did it all go?

 

[heathyj]

Hi Lady Di, it went very well actually thank you for asking. I got to the hospital at 7.30am and saw Miss Rotundo at about 8.30. She confirmed with me which procedure I was having and we went through the list of possible complications. Then I signed my life over to her for the next few hours!
She said they would come and get me about 12pm so I had to sit around in my lovely stockings and gowns. It went quite quickly really cause I had my own room so just played on my phone.
At about 11.45am they came for me. I was wheeled down on a bed to the theatres and then into a small room to put my lines in etc!

 

[heathyj]

Everyone was really nice and friendly and kept chatting to me to calm my nerves. After a few false starts finding a vein they wheeled me into theatre. They inflated the bed mattress thingy I was on and slid me onto the operation table! After a few adjustments and Miss Rotundo filling a form confirming my fate the anaesthetist told me i would feel a tingley sensation. Then that was it I was out for the count!
Next thing I remember I was waking up in the recovery ward. It's a very disconcerting feeling coming round afterwards!
One thing that had been stressing me out was the thought of having to have a catheter! Imagine my relief to find that when I woke up there was no catheter!!