I'm still alive, nothing drastic has happened!

But I did spend a buttload of time on the phone with the bariatric coordinator at Dr K's in Denver (original surgeon -plane ride away) and Dr T's nurse in Lincoln (doc I picked for a local fill).

Here's what I think the bottom line is:

Dr K did my surgery his way, and when it didn't look familiar to Dr T he was caught off gaurd, and couldn't figure out what he was looking at. He started rambling, and scared me unncessarily.

I called Dr K's office first, and spoke with Natalie, who is a total sweetheart. She said what most of you said - that if I was slipped, I wouldn't be guessing about it. I'd sure as hell know something was wrong. She said I should call back to Dr T and see if I can get my pictures from the barium swallow sent to Dr K so he could evaluate them.

So I call Dr T's office, and speak to the nurse that was in the room during this wacky barium swallow. I say, "can I have my pictures sent over to Dr K so he can look at them?" She goes, "No." So my heart starts racing, and I realize I'm gonna have to lay down the law with these people. I ask, nicely, "And why the hell not?" She tells me that the machine they use for barium fills is an old school machine, and doesn't record to a CD like Natalie at Dr K's office thought it should. I asked if I could have the physical pictures that I saw them print out, and she says something along the lines that the machine is so old and the pics are grainy and we know what we're looking at, but another surgeon might not and yadda yadda. She sums it up by telling me that if I want decent pics to send Dr K, I'm gonna have to come back in and go for a proper barim swallow at the radiology clinic - which of course I can't afford. I mean, the crappy barium swallow cost me $367, what would a proper one cost? I didn't even ask. So I talk with the nurse for a while, cause she can tell that I'm sort of panicked. She tells me that Dr T looked over my op note more thouroughly after I left, and saw all the stitches that Dr K put in to keep my band from slipping, and he doesn't do that, so it looked weird to him. And that may cause this puddling right after the band. She says that she's absolutely certain that Dr T would not have sent me out of that office with a fill if he had even the slightest inkling that I have a slip or am starting to slip.

So I called Natalie back at Dr K's and told her all about it. She thought it was ridiculous that I paid $367 for a crappy ass barium swallow that I couldn't even get pics from. She said they do the full blown, modern technology barium swallows for $200.

So I talked to Natalie for a while, and we determined that I'm best to just hang out and see what happens. It's looking more and more likely that I actually have no issues, but just a band placement that didn't look familiar to the local doc that I picked - and he didn't know what to make of it.

So, needless to say, I'm feeling significantly better about my situation. Plus, I'm losing, so that's way exciting. I lost 3 lbs the day of my fill, and another 2 lbs yesterday. I know that's a whole lot, but I just put on about 3 or 4 lbs while I was on vacay a week ago, so I'm thinking this crazy weight that I'm losing now isn't actually "real" weight. You know what I mean?

And yesterday (my first full day after my fill) I felt like I really had restriction. I couldn't finish my half a slice of pizza yesterday afternoon, which was my first solid. It seems pretty good, let's just hope it sticks around.

So that sums it up. I still don't know what to make of all of this, but the only thing I can do is wait and see.

Thanks for all of your support!