Hold the phone. She has a gastric band???I have had a gastric band and was back at work within a week, the recovery is incredibly quick. Also almost needed surgery to have it removed (didn’t in the end) but they said that would’ve been a day surgery and home that evening and also a quick recovery time so I don’t think she’s had hers removed just because it’s only keyhole surgery and is not a major surgery at all. If hers is unclipped, it won’t be able to be tightening now as that part of its feature is disabled by the unclipping of it