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A Whole Lot Of Nothing

I am so excited!!! I found a friend that started her lap band journey last month!!! And we live in the same town and our kids play sports together! I know that sounds crazy but i live in a very small town and i have yet to meet anyone that has lap band. Not only that but we have the same doctor and her first fill and my like seventh is on the same day at almost the same time. Its so nice to know that i don't have to go alone any more. Now i am no longer shy about telling people that i have had lap band and everyone ask me about it but they cant really understand everything until you have had it and are pretty much going through the same thing. My favorite thing about lap band is that people ask me questions but to someone who has never had it done they cant always understand what you go through on a daily basis. Like right now i am having to fight myself to stay way from food, and drink more protein that is just icky. Any what i mean by staying away from food is that i have to stop myself from just snacking on everything like when i cook i want to snack but then when the meal is done im not hungry any more and if i eat well my tummy says NO! so that for me is my biggest problem right now. Every day is something new. I have pretty much everything but snacking under control so far. i have awesome blood pressure, haven't had heart burn in a while, i haven't been sick in a while, And im not feeling sleepy all day long any more. I got all my lab work done and everything was wonderful! That can make anyone day better when you hear that your vitamins are wonderful. I have knowtist that my tast in food has changed. Like i used to love chicken nuggets and french fry's. now not so much. I like more fish now and i like lots of veggies now and just things that before i liked but never really wanted. French fry's are my least favorite food and bread. But i find that i really don't miss them that much any more. I do still eat pasta from time to time and Ramon noodles lol but i found that i can eat them when i cant eat anything else. Chips are becoming a problem and they weren't before my last fill. I can eat them but it hurts and i do the little furby sounds. so i guess maybe i should stay way from all chips, and tacos. Before its all said and done im starting to wonder if there will be anything that i can eat lol. the only veggies that i have found that i just cant do is broccoli, and sometimes asparagus but to be honest i don't really like asparagus that much. I hate when its in a can! And they are not easy to eat when steamed. Oh and raw veggies, they are not good going down. pretty much i have found that anything cold isnt easy to go down and usually wont. But again i don't really seem to mind it so much. Now don't be crazy there are tons of things that i would just LOVE to eat like a burger, or stake, or turkey, and Chicken but i look at all the ways that i used to fix this stuff and i realize that its really wasn't that good for me to start with. Any ways i know this is all scattered and nuts but oh well.
newlife4nekaylyn

newlife4nekaylyn

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12 Sticks Later And Two Blown Veins I Do Live To Tell The Tail!!!

OK so after my scare of yesterday i am feeling better today, They took out 4ccs because of way to much acid in my stomach. I feel more like a pin cushion today then anything. Trust me an unfill by a Dr that hasn't ever done it before not a good things ugh but here i am living to tell the tail and to go on another day right!! OK look im not putting down any kind of a hospital except for the one closest to me that i will never ever in my life go to and wouldn't let anyone i dis liked go to either, but sometimes i wish that nurse and Dr would take in to account that people in an er are sometimes really in pain and placing more pain on the person isn't nice! And don't get me wrong i understand that they have been there a long while and they are sleepy and they are unhappy at times because its so stressful really it is i know because i have worked in the health care world where sometimes you have to take a 20 hour shift and that sucks. But here is the problem that i do have, its not fair that i was stabbed 8 times with a needle about 11 in long and about a sixteen gauge. I mean everyone in the lap band world knows that its long and it quite big but we also know that they numb it before because let me be the one to tell you IT HURTS! and i have had things pierced and it isn't bad im not like the worlds biggest baby but when your already sore and your already hurting getting 8 piercings in one night isn't fun at all in fact its like cruel almost. And here is another thing since i am on it just in case anyone for the health care world is listening. When a person says please can you get the iv in my hand please because the veins in my arm are not easy to get and they blow easy you might want to listen to that person because no matter how much you learned at school that person knows there own body 110% better then you ever will. Hopefully the sweet man RN will know that next time and not blow up half of someones arm. I don't like hospitals but i know that they have a hard job so i try to be as sweet and nice as i can but its my body and i know more about my body then they do. Same with everyone else. MY dr was on vacation which im not mad about they all need a break and the dr on call, called me this morning to check on me and he was very nice but i was so sleepy i dont remember much of the conversation except he told me never to wait four days and be in pain because that isnt what lap band is for that i could call him if i was ever in that much pain again. i just hope next time he is there and not a dr that hasnt ever done anything with lap band. Please understand that i am not a bitchy person i just think that if someone is already hurting hurting them more never helps right??? so what i have learned is acid sucks, i have to drink liquids even if i don't want to and to call the dr if the pain goes on for more then a day. Lesson learned!
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