Fill’er up

Finally after waiting almost 2 weeks I managed to go and get another band fill this morning; but it wasn’t without some last minute dramas… The damn daylight saving extension stuffed me up and instead of being half an hour early for my appointments; I was actually half an hour late. You see, I put them in the crackberry during the extension; and obviously some patch or whatever they did didn’t work and now were in the normal daylight saving time it actually had them as an hour late… I was not happy; but the only thing I could blame was an inanimate object – the crackberry… It wasn’t a major problem in the end. 10am was the dietician; so I’ve rescheduled that one for Thursday morning; and I still got the band fill and then saw the psychologist.


Chatting with the Doctor before the fill he asked me how I was going and explained how I’d been going over the last couple of weeks. I explained it hasn’t been easy and there was a lot of will power taking place. He asked about my portion control and I admitted they had been gradually getting bigger; so it said it was definitely time for a fill.


The band fill was a little tricker than first time for some reason… The doctor found the port on the outside; but once he put the needle in; couldn’t find it… he poked around a bit until I couldn’t stand it any more… He put some local anaesthetic in and tried again, still with no luck. This started getting me a little worries; because the first fill was in and out quickly. I mentioned to him the discomfort I was having last Thursday and Friday; but he didn’t seem to think that had anything to do with it. On the third go; he put a new needle on and presto; found it immediately and added another 0.5ml so I now have 5ml in total in the band.


After the fill; I had my first psychologist consultation; and it was different! I’ve never seen a psychologist before; so it’s a little confronting having to talk about things that you don’t even say aloud to yourself; let alone tell anyone else. That said; as we spoke I started to feel more comfortable about talking about the reasons behind why I chose to go down the lapband path. I mean I have been very open in my blogging; but that because I don’t know who’s reading it and when; but when they started asking about family history and my history; why you’re doing it; how your coping; and what your looking forward to at the end; it was some things I hadn’t really even thought about. It was a very worthwhile session and I came away with things to think about…. (more soon on this one)


After the appointments it was back to work; and back into the city (via a couple of other errands) to start getting us sorted for the back end of the year; with Sydney V8’s; Sydney Hobart; Tennis; the move from Epping and other things that keep popping up – not to mention the next issue of AC magazine; the new ACS website and my own stuff… and in between all that I have to find time for myself and my exercise; as well as all the usual Christmas “must do” all in the next 6 weeks before Christmas. Oh it will be fun…


Anyway must get onto some of that now… Internet is still dead; but thank heavens for my work datacard… I hop them get it sorted tomorrow as I can’t update the TiVo at the moment…


Until next time