Oh no...

[tnm75]

...I am three weeks away from my surgery date. And, I'm getting sickly. Pneumonia is going around. I'm so scared that I'm getting it. It's taking people two months to get over it and feel better. I just can't get sick right now. I don't want to have to postpone my surgery date... I already purchased my airline ticket.

Ugh, Kristy

[mona-camille]

...I am three weeks away from my surgery date. And, I'm getting sickly. Pneumonia is going around. I'm so scared that I'm getting it. It's taking people two months to get over it and feel better. I just can't get sick right now. I don't want to have to postpone my surgery date... I already purchased my airline ticket.

Ugh, Kristy

Repeat after me....."I will not get sick" "I will not get sick" "I WILL NOT get sick" "I will be well and healthy for my surgery"

"I will be well and healthy for my surgery" "I will be well and healthy for my sugery"

[jms462001]

That sucks. Just think positive (healthy) The nurse I had Fri for the scope test was sick with a resp infection and I woke the following day all congested and scared as well. I almost called the hospital to get his phone number to chew him out!! My date is 11/24. Thankfully I am well now. Today I got epidural injections for my back and have a horrible headache partly due to the pre-op diet I imagine. I am drinking caffine now as instructed by my Dr. I like that instruction better than these yucky shakes. I am on sample number 3 and still to find a palatable one! I tried to cancel todays epidural but it was not recommended!! Now my appetite has shot up from the cortisone steroid too!! Yikes! I get the 2nd in 5 weeks and another in 7 weeks which will be about the time of what I read people call Bandster hell so I am not looking forward to that. You should maybe see the Dr now for an exam and see whether he wants to give you any meds since you have been exposed to all that. In the meantime stay inside, rest, take lots of vitamins, and extra C, echinecha, and whatever else is recommended to ward off those type of infections. Also drink lots of water and think positive!!!!! Good luck to you!!

[Kittycat]

Think positive, take B12, Echinachia and Vit C and D and you can fight this off, wash you hands like a freak and hopefully you can avoid whatever is going around.

Best of luck!!!

[salena]

I hear ya!!! Everyone at work has been getting sick. My surgery is scheduled for November 20th. Good luck to ya!!!

[Taz]

...I am three weeks away from my surgery date. And, I'm getting sickly. Pneumonia is going around. I'm so scared that I'm getting it. It's taking people two months to get over it and feel better. I just can't get sick right now. I don't want to have to postpone my surgery date... I already purchased my airline ticket.

Ugh, Kristy

Get healthy. When I went in for my surgery, I just got over a cold. I thought I was done coughing, but after they made me do some deep breathing tests I started hacking up a lung. Worse yet, for almost a week after the surgery it was insane as everytime I coughed it HURT around the port and the main incision really bad. I was so scared I may have damaged the band. But I have been assured the coughing has not caused problems.

Everything seems fine now, but boy how I wished I didn't have tha cough after surgery.

Taz

[fat2nrml]

...I am three weeks away from my surgery date. And, I'm getting sickly. Pneumonia is going around. I'm so scared that I'm getting it. It's taking people two months to get over it and feel better. I just can't get sick right now. I don't want to have to postpone my surgery date... I already purchased my airline ticket.

Ugh, Kristy

Hello Kristy,

Alot of people don't beleive that Echinacea works, [i see some fellow bandsters do!] but I truely beleive it DOES! I swear by it!! I try to remember to take it for one week every-other-month. I was told that you don't want to over stimulate your immune system by taking it every day.

Anyways, if I feel something coming on or, like right now my daughter's getting a cold, I start popping it! It knocks back whatever's getting starting and I don't get really, really sick. It's not expensive and you can get it at Walmart in the vitamin isle. Hope you feel better!! Darlene

[tnm75]

I'm taking Echinacea and Vitamin C... thanks for the suggestions. I also have an appointment tomorrow with my doctor. Hopefully I can get rid of whatever I have within three weeks. I guess this will help with my pre-op diet, because I don't have much of an appetite.

Thanks, Kristy

[KatyG]

Cold Eeze. We swear by them...

[ackovach]

Drink lots of Kefir. It is in the health dairy food section or organic section in my store. It tastes a little like drinkable yogurt. It has ton of natural probiotics. It will also help recovery after the surgery. I still drink it everyday.