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just about my life with the band

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Ugg

so i started to have some syomtoms of another UTI last firday just that i was peeing more my thought we just incress my fuild. Then i started to have a funny feeling by sunday afternoon i supepect maybe i have a UTI sunday night i became missable. I called the dr frist thing in the morning and they said you have a uroliglist apointment on wed do you think i could wait at frist i said okay but when i started to vomit and i was not keeping water down i knew i was in trubbble i called the dr back and said no i not sure i can wait and they said the frist they could get me in was a 3:20 pm with the nurse parcton for my PCP. I am still on antibotics for my last UTI and she relly had no idea what to do, She tryed to get hold of my uroligsts to figger out what to do, she mentoned the hospital and i said no i relly rather not she wanted to send me home and wait till the next day to see my uroligist i was dizzy and i knew i was deharated and she agreed I explaned to her how banded pepole should not get behind on fuilds and i was so nausas and was now at dry heavs as there was nothing left to come up as i had stoped drinking and was thowing up what i did drink. She agreed to give me IV fuilds two litters latter i was not better and still in the worst pain every this made my lap band seem like a peice of cake it hurt so bad. Finely around 7 she said I am sorry i can not send you home with a clear mind you relly should be in the hospital they can give you fuilds iv nusness meds and pain meds i am calling an amblenes,   at the hospital they started askiing about my band, They do alot of gastic bi passes not gastic banding at this hosptial. That why i went with the one i knew did the band and did it well. They said with all the vomiting they were woried about a slip and this is why they hate the band and when it comes to this and they started asking about my sugeron and whated to talk to him they said would you be willing to let us do a revison if something is wrong with the band, They even paged the resdent on call for there barartic program to talk to me about a revison,   Well the good news is the band is in pace they did a ct san and saw i had kidney stones and worst a major kideny infection and the dr said you know were admitting you right at this point i was under morphine and did not care about much expect that the morphine was making me feel so much better it was the only way we got though the ct scan other wise i would have never made it,   They admitted me and gave me ton of fuilds to help me pass the stone and also get rid of my kindey infection that was the start of this whole thing. They asked me to eat i keeped explaning i am banded and i have lactose intalonince and need mushy food to them this ment ice cream cut cup pan cakes cut up muffins ground pasta each meal got worst. I said i can not eat this stuff I have a band in pluse i was so nausus that it did not matter, Finely they called in the barticitic nutrionist and looked at what they were giving me and said she can't eat any of that she has a band pluse offering a banded person ice cream and cake is like giveing an alcoholic a drink she said what she needs is protiine she probely very tired form lack of it and asked me how i felt i said whiped out draned and just blah. she got everything startened out and she went down to the kichen he self and explaned she needs less food more times a day we need to offer her a snacks with protine in it we also need to make sure she has two protine shakes a day to try and make up some of the lost protine that i had not had in the last 3 days and she also need to have access to water at all time and crystal light so she can meet her fuild recments all the sudden things changed. And best of al my dr said good new we know what you have do you want to go home he frist gave me scips for pill and i said do you know if these can be crushed then he said i don't know i explaned my dr has made a big deal that everything has to be crushed or lquid. He said why would you do this to your self? did you think about how your life would change? he said i never understood why pepole do not deit and exsizes I said you want to know exsizes i at the gym before my sugery 6 days a week one hour each time sometimes two I said i worked with a nurtionist on a deit and the most i lost was 4 1/2 lbs over 6 mounths only to get my peridod every mouth and gain 5. I said i did think about how my life would change how i would never eat a pizza again how i never have a handbuger on a bun how i would not be able to eat or drink toghter how my tast buds would change i said i thought alot about and I hate that question I lost 27 lbs in 4 weeks were before the sugery i stuggled to lose 4 1/2 and if that means crushing pills and takeing lquid form then so be it he gave me some persctions and i was on my way problem is no one had these percptions I got one that can be order tommorow and they were able to be change to something else.   Then i find out that Cypro lquid form dose not come genric and it 55 dollors for what would be a 3 dollor perction I am not paying 55 dollors for this I going to make some phone calls to my urolgisest and see if it dose come genric mean while i am sitting with an untreated kindeny infection till i get this mess straitgen out
Lauracat

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Scard For Nothing

Well I did it I saw my brother the frist time in a year. Not sure i want to be freinds with him or even like him as a person but I did eat dinner with him. Frist thing is he did not say anything on how i looked. Part of the reson i wanted a band is i was tired of pepole making the fat jokes. Well no fat jokes tonight. He gained the 50lb i lost. He looked awful he had a ripped teashirt on and ripped jeans and looked like he not showed in a week. He smelled funny too. He ate all his dinner then he looked at my left overs about 1/2 of the small plate and said are you going to eat that. I said no i am very full with what i ate. He then ate my plate pluse he got desert and Becuse then my husband order a desert for both of us that i ate one bit and he ate about half then my brother fisehed that and my moms.   My mom was telling him about my zumba stuff and all i do now. I in the end said Roger I had weight loss sugery I was not going to tell you but my Dr. Dr jones is amazing with what he can do I think you need his number.   He said yea we see who gets the last laugh lets see you keep this up
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Doing Something About It

I had my frist fill an i am in what they call bandester hell. I can eat what everi want i never vomit any more and i can get it all down i have no resrtion with my 1 CC fill to make it worst i can't get another fill untill september. So i am going to do something about it. I could wine and complan that i have nothing i went though a sugery for nothing i am hurgery and can eat what ever i want. I guess i just did that Or i could say Okay it time to do something about it you lost 30lb and maybe you can do something with nothing. So i did something drastic i joined weight watchers again. yes I did same again I done weight watchers meny times before i quit each and every time. But this time I need to do it or i be back were i started sugery or no sugery. If the band can only help me a little and at this point nothing then maybe i can do it with extra help
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One New Sweter

So what dose a ralph laren Cable knit swetter have to do with anything. Last year at a size 24 all i wanted was a Ralph Laren cable knit swetter. I tryed it on it was to tight. I cryed thinking i just a fat slob i never fit into anything like this. So i hit my dr goal and I was told to celbratte victororys. Well to me this is a virctory how to celbrate. I already had my zumba party I done my mani pedi ( note to self i need another my toes are a mess) So I knew when i saw it Ralph Laren Cable kint sweeter it was ment for me. I proud to say i did not need the EX Large eather. I love my new swetter. I love my new life I love my new closet full of cloths.. I love the fact that I can do things i never dreamed i could.
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Head Hunger

There nothing worst the getting unfilled on Juily 4 So i thought. Nothing worst then have my dr fellow stick me four times with a neadle and then say i just did not place this port and can't feel the edges so it very hard. I thought have an florcepy to be unbanded was band then haveing endocpepy to be fixed was alsp bad.   But now I am stuck in hunger land. I am back of Lquids for the next week and half but who counting. The worst part of the huger is not the hunger i feel. It the head hunger the hunger to eat something in my head. It became a thought of mine at all times I see food ad on TV and then i want that. I drive by a place and can smell the food and want that. I made a list of all the food i going to eat once i am better enough to not be on lquids.   I know it all in my head and this is the worst part. It like when i did pre opt deit all i would dream about food roast chicken I just wish i had an easyer time. I guess it good that I was able to save my band but God i would kill for an egg roll just one bit. I find that i can't do normal stuff becuse i am just too tempted right now to do the worng thing.
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A Letter To Starbucks

Dear Starbucks,   I want to thank you for sending me the email reminding me that it is Frapconio sesison and that you have a new flavor cookies and cream and that your offering them half price in may. But I no longer need your Frapaconis to help me deal with my feeling I know longer am going to drink a venta one becuse i am sad upset lonely tired ECT. So i hope you do not mind but i have no choice this year but to get rid of your email. I am starting a new life and Starbucks Frapacoino are not in it even if you have a new cookies and cream flavor i must say no.     sincenerly   Laura
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If You Can Dream It You Can Do It

alot of my freinds think i took the easy way out why don't you just deit and excizes why did you need to do something so extream. I have deit and excized i go to the gym 5 to 6 days a week i try and watch what i eat nothing. I know how i got hear but i also konw that nothing else was working. I had hip pain all the time back pain and knee pain it get in the way of what you want to do when it hurts to walk up the stairs becuse you hip and kneese hurt to do it it makes you want to do less. I was one poit away from being debitic i had high blood prusser took meds for it I sleep with a sleep apena michen and i had acid reflex that i could not control.   I also had lost 2 freinds this year to Obsety realted illiness they both had massive heart attacks and they were in there 40's and early 50's. I did not want to be like that I want to live for were i can do things. I dream of camping with my kids but when you bigger it not possble to do these things. I wanted to walk up the stairs with out stopping to catch my breath and thinking about my knees and hips. So yes this is extreamIt not for everyone but it is for me. I need the control I get with my band In a little over 2 weeks i lost 21.5 lbs and just that 20 lbs make my hip not hurt when i walk up the stairs I can walk up a full fight with out stopping to catch my breath.   I know i can get my dreams of being heathy again and reclaming the me I want to be Thats why i did this
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Mile Stones

I had an appointment for a fill yesterday I am 163.7 Not bad i am about 13.7 away from my goal of 150. He commuted on my great ab mussel he said he could feel them the problem was that they were covered up with alot of skin and said it time to talk about plastic. He said normal he waits one full year but in my case since i am so active he did not think he had too. My main probelm is my upper arms the skin rubs every time i move my arms and is very ichy and i have a nice little rash. It gets worst when i sweet so i would relly like to have my arms done.   I am going to Fl for 3 weeks in Jan and I just relized i have no summer cloths my shorts were a 14/16 along with my swim suits and now i am a 8/10/12. I guess i have to go shopping down there and pick up a few pair of shorts.   I have now lost 75% of my exess weight he said the last 25% will be the hardest he said that alot of it is Skin and till that remove it might be hard. I landed up with a fill. I also saw the great fellow who took care of me in July when i got too tight because of kindeny infection and then prolapsed my band. She said I gave her a very interesting first week . She also commited on my port sticking out now so it not hard to find when she last got it she had to go under floro to find my ports she said nope now you so skinny i don't have to even look for it.   I also found my hip bone. This is huge I was laying on my side and i felt the bone I had no idea what it was but then relized it was bone.   I look at how my life has changed I could not walk up my own stairs in April and now I teach Zumba and I work out all the time. I have a new creeer as a personal trainer / group exercise teacher and I would never been able to do any of this with out my band. I love my band and I am very thankful for this chance to live my life.
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Dear Weightloss Fairy

So i been watching that show extrema makeover weightloss addison and I have a few thoughts.   Dear weight loss Fairy.   I would like a trainer to follow me around at all times. I would like you to take my couch in retrun please leave me a treadmill, an arc trainer and a stair climber and a zumba floor so i can partice my dance moves. I promice they will get great uses in my house and i will enjoy them more then my couch   I would like my exsess skin on my back lower stumic and under arms removed and i also like you to make the TATAs perky again as now they are saggy and lost there pep.     Thank you   please great my wishes   Laura
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A Oneserst Party

for every body who ever been over 200 lbs you know what it feels like when you brake the mark and for the fritst time see the big 1 on the scale. Well it happend to me when i was so sick i did not even care. But now that i am feeling alot better i want to do something to cellbrate as this is huge!!!!!!! I gone from a 24 to a 14 I goe form a 44 dobble d to a 40 d or a 38 depending on the bar. ,   So i was told to cellbrate millsotones along the way. At 20 lbs i got a pair of shoes at 30 lbs i got some cloths becuse mine were falling off at 35 i did a mani pettti and now were ready for the big one 45 the oneseter land. I want to thow a party but how dose some one party with out food.   Well after talking it over today with my Zumba teacher we came up with the Idea a zumba party yes no food but plenty of zumba and just a good time. I don't have a date yet as I have to wrok it out but I think this is a great way to cellbrate onester land.
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Ugg

welll it was bound to happen soner or latter. I seem to have hit the Palto i been 209 for now over 2 weeks I was 208.6 then gained and am back to 209. I am eating well expect fot my ice coffiee thing that i need to have with my skim milk and 4 spenda i think coffeee is a fuild or should be count tords it. I guess i going to have to suck it up and make the call asking for another fil. I am hungery at all time it like i can't get enough food. I can eat well over 2 cups and eat snacks though out the day. I am trying to make them heathy snacks.   The big thing for me will be this comming weekend and Juily 4th. The twins brithday. We are having a party for them at a spray park / petting farm they are both so excited about it. I have order the cake and every knows i have a weekness and a foundness for cake once i get one bit before i know it i have eaten the whole cake this is why we can't have it in are house. We are having are anunal Juily 4th BBQ for familty. This dose not worry me as much as the cake thing again I have order a second cake this one going to be a real show stopper so i not sure i going to want to cut into it. along with cake come ice cream i have bought my self some ice cream that it low fat lactose free suger free it okay not the same.   good new i have found i can fit into banna repblic i love there stuff never went in there now that i fit i can get stuff there. I also gone form a 44 DD to a 40 D that four inches off my back wow.
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One Great Nurse One Great Dr One Very Scary Emenencey

So i going to start off with i am sorry about my spelling i can not help it i have dylsixia and i would love to spell better for years when pepole would say things about it i woulld slove it by eating large amountsto make my self feel better abouut it beat my self up call my self names and since i said i was trying to tun over a new leaf about life and i not going to do any of the above any more knowing that it took me to being bigger make poor chocies and feel badly about my self and eat more. So that being said I am going to try just telling the turth about it.   So with that being said I last left off with dr Stupid. Then that night i went to the ER at the er they were going to give me a percrpiton and let me go but we had trubble finding it and since they called around too they could not find it they did IV antibotics and since they were doig IV antibotics and then 500 cc of fuild and some anti nauness medication and some pain meds. This go me though the next day but they also said don;t come back call your PCP if you can not keep anything down.   The next day it was 90 out but i was shivering wereing long sleaves and swetter winter socks and winter shoes.and called the DR they said go back to the hospital that told me not to come back I said no it did not work like that I did not want to just go and be relsed and they did not want me to come back. So i made an apppointment to go there office . After two hours and two diffent floors they saw me. I had a fever of 101.9 and i wight 199 I would have cryed if i was not so dizzy and naunses and felling like i wanted to die. the dr takes one look at me and said you need to be in a hospital I said i would not go back to were i went last night She said were did you have your band done. I said the Great dr jones did it at Beth Israeral in boston, She said well i think you need to go back there. I said okay I had asked my mother for a ride and she gave me a long lecture about how we would wait for ever and ever and i made a mistake and how she was so mad at me. I said look All i want is a ride don't even park or come in I relly don't need you, She said Laurea I am your mother I will wait one hour then i going to leave I said Fine just leave I don't want you. With in 15 min i was taken back with in 15 mins. The frist thing the dr said to me if i can get you feeling better do you want to go home.I said thats what happend yesterday the dr said good point i don't want you to come back tommorow worst I am admitting you. Iv fuild started they gave me a breathing treatment becuse i was weezing and then pain meds and nusness meds and with in a few hours i was taken up to Farr 2. were the dr comes and and said You got quite an infection going were growing it out but we going to give you big gun aantibotics and hope we kill it and tweek it as we need to.   The next day I tell her i am haveing stucknenss in my chest hard to explan stuck to a skinny dr who has no idea about lap band. I we talk about my other symotoms thowing up nunesouss The day was full of test x-ray of my tummy and ekg times two and tons of blood and just feeling bad lots and lots of iv fuilds.   That night my 3-11 nurse was named Kate she comes in around 7 with pepicd for me to chew and some water. We get talking about my band. And why i did it. I explaned i have walking up stairs i was out of breath i had high blood presser and was taken 4 diffent meds for acid reflex was one point away from being debitic had sleep apena. I said it took alot of planing. We talked how it had changed my life and 43 lbs . I tryed to take my pecid and i thow it up. Kate said Laura i want to see somthing she just take a sip of water for me. I said okay I did and up it came. She had been watching me vomit up white stuff all day. She looked at my vomit bucket that had become my best freinnd. She said Do you have anything in that band. I said yes i said stupid dr only gave me one CC i can get what ever i want thought this thing till i got sick. She said Laura I think you band is too tight . No way I don't want to lose my fill. She said talk to your dr about it   The next morning my Dr comes in and I tell her what Kate said and the Dr said I know nothing about lap band. I said of course you don't skinny pepole don't need lap bands. She smiled and said Hay five pound on me is worth then it is you. and she said I hate to brake it to you but you don't look too fat your self. I said I was a tub 43 lbs ago. She then said I going to concelt with the GI i team. with in 30 mins i get a Knock on my door. We start talking about my symotoms. I said you know how when you eat bread and it back up and you get stuck or you eat too much i said it like that but all the time I said i can't evne get water though. This is Juily frist. He the frist one to get what stuck feels like. I said I loved the band we talked about all the things I could get though he lauged and i said but some things there just no way and I said those are the things I know cause pain and I hate that and avoid like the pleag he said hay now this is not see how much you can stuff though this thing. i said it was about expermenting and finding what was going to work for you. In walks Dr Odesky My new hero and one of the best dr and fellow every were. She said I am dr Jones fellow I said Great get out. She said what wrong I said Dr Jones last fellow sucked he yelled at me and He hated me and I was not found of him and now i not going to be found of you, She said aww Laura Dr jones tell us about you. I make you a promice i will not yell at you and If you do not like me then you can kick me out okay. I said okay. We start talking about what i was felling she knew my story all the date and every thing. Then she examns me, She then calls dr Jones this is the 4th of Juily. I said I can't belive you called him on the 4th of Juily he going to yell at me and You. She said Na if he get mad I promice you it will be just at me not you. No one going to yell at you we all just going to help you. We talk about what to do I we going to try to unfill my port right there in my room. She said she was having trubble feeling my prort edges so was nevous about the whole thing. In walks my nurse with this bord thing and said the bed needs to be harder to unfill your port. she tryed to get my port 4 times. I start screaming at the fouth time the other fellow is makeing me laugh he looks at him and said Stop makeing her laugh when i am sticking large neadles in her. So we gave up she said look I could get it under florocepy no problem but it the fouth i not sure there do it. We could just wait for dr jones tommrow. I said yea She said well i need an xray any ways so i talk to them . I down to xray and I get a chest x-ray everything looks okay but hard to tell if there prolaps but it looks okay. so then I see her in this x-ray apron thing she said Okay were going to unfill that port this time. I said you promice me you can do it. I never done one under floro before but yes i done loss of port it not a problem. Not as meny as dr jones he dose 100 's a week but yes I done more than one you be fine I promice you I know just what to do we get it done trust me okay. I said Okay.   we then do Floro that is complated by i can not lay flat on my back due to kidney pain and she gets it from the side and get out all the fuild I sit up and the frist thing i notice is i can sollow my own sliva again and that all what was sitting on top of my band gone then. She said lets give it about 2 hours and then you can have water again she said just get used to being able to sollow your own stuff again. 2 hours latter she comes up to my room lets go for stage one she said how do you feel i said it like my presser is gone completly thank you and i not thown up my anything in two hours I have no problem with stage one expect i not a big water fan I like it flavored. Next morning they said Okay lets go for stage two problem is my reflex is back it start buruping up stuff. They said stop stage two and lets go back to one just long enough so we get a sollow study.   A few hours latter i get my sollow study the radigigist said nothing to me and said your hear soon. I thought it was funny since before they just said looks good. With in a half hour dr Odskey comes not walking but running into my room i drinking my water that she said I had to stop right then. i was like no you said i can have stage one I am okay. She said No not any more your back on 0. Just make sure your on fuild and we need to make up your mind about something i going to give you 10 mins to make up your mnd okay . You have prolaps thats when the stumic moves up into the band she like we already emptey your band so thats good but I need to know how you want to preceed so i can make the argements right now. Option 1 do an endpepocey and try and save the band and we try and get it to move out. Opoin two lose the band I call the dr on call about loseing it and we can get you into an or tonight but till then Nothing more by mouth nothing not even water. . We talk about it we desied endoscpey was the way to go.. The nurse comes in and ups my fuilds too 150 an hour from 75 since i am now NPO.   we start talking At this time it kate it 3- pm and it is again I told her i was nevous about eveything and that my ephoousss was so sore. She said Yea she under stood everything would be fine in a few hours eveything would be done i be back to stage 2 before i knew   All day my roommate was nuts too she was an old rushin lady who they had this alrm on every time she get up and it happend all day but she became better as the day went on but my god it was annying. She truned out to be like a little grandma.   With in 2 hours i was taken down to endopopey and sadated and prolaps fixed. Dr Odesky held my hand the whole way up to the floor she also made sure that i was postioned on my left side she said rember side becuse she rembered that i had back pain. She also waited till i was less doped up by my bed side she said i fixed it nothing by mouth till latter then stage 1 for a few hours then 2 again till morning okay.   I guess my roomate was worried she said she going to be okay. She like yes she had sugery she needs to rest you need to be quite okay so she can rest.   with in a few hours i was ready to go up and walking drinking till i got lose bowl movents from hell spent most of the night in pain and cramping but dr odseky came up and made sure i be okay   By the next day Dr jones came back to cheek one me he said Laura I alway love you play by all the rules and you still buck the systum. He said how much have you lost now i said about 43 lbs. He said well your on lquid for the next 3 week i expect to see 20 more off he said you be skinny by then. I laughed and said and tryed to play lets make a deal for 1 and 1/2 weeks He said no 3 weeks I said i give you two her said I give you 3. I said your mean he said look your ephougous is very sollown and enfalmed it going to take some time for the pain to go away anyways as well as the swelling and i want to make sure you relly need that fill and were going slowly He like you have no idea how lucky you are.   I said by the way Dr odeskey she a much better felllow then the last guy. He laughed and said yea she pretty found of you too now get back to being better will you He like your going to have to tell Dr odseky about the thing you do body what ever that you keep trying to drag me to, I said Body pump and your just scard i kick your butt at it and I can lift more then you can. He laughed he said you can also tell her how at two weeks you con me into letting you do it again I said yea by 3 weeks i was at abs class i just did not tell you I figered since you gave me the okay for body pump why not. He like i see you in 3 full weeks be good stay out of trobble and get better for god sake no more kidney infections and vomiting so hard.   my nutty room mate truned out to be a sweet old lady once they got her meds readjusted. She keeped trying to feed me and i had to say no alot. I had my nurse tell her i can't eat and showed her my protine drink and said this is her food. I so wanted the french frises she was eating too. It was funny i said to her CNA i want food so baddy I would kill to be able to chew. She said how long are you going to go with out eating I said i am on a full lquid deit for 3 weeks then i can go get a fill have 2 more days of lquid 3 days of Mushy and then real food.   So lquid it is I just have to live with it and be thankful that all my vomiting did not to more damage then it did. Things i am thankful for my family my the great nurse and fellow my own bed good antibotics and the fact i can sollow my own spit and good pain meds.     So 3 weeks of the lquid deit is is. then i can be refilled lucky i still have my band and i am very sore in my kidneys and my ephougous but plan to be better so
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Why ??

i have a freind who has watched my success and she has desised to have a band. But a band is not an easy way out the way she thinks it is. It is hard work. She is refuseing to give up soada she said i hate protine shakes and will not drink them. Why would any body get this done like that, She said becuse you were so successful yes i have been but i work hard at it i watch what i eat i work out like crazy. This is not a quick fix I do uses protine shakes I also do not drink soda. This is sugery i mean real sugery why on earth would you do this to fool your band I did this to be heathy and recalm my life. If that means no soda so be it I live find othre things you like to drink deit snapple crysltal light tthere are other things. Please do not put your self though sugery if your not ready to change you life. As this is a LIFESTYLE CHANGE not and easy way out
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7 Weeks

7 weeks ago today i had Zoey ( my band) put in. Zoey can be a princess when she wants if i glup to fast I have nothing in zoey so Tomrow zoey gets her frist adjement ( fill) I hit a little palto with weight so i am hopeing that a fill might help.   Things i am having trobble with are still the same not eating when i am stressed So far i have only cheeted tiwce one on week two i was able to eat some bread then on week 5 i had one pringle chip but it got stuck so i had to thow the rest of my prized chips in the transh.   I am excited about tommorow and getting my fill
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I Am Starving

OMG i never been this hungry . I had my frist fill one cc in my 10 cc band he said see you in September do 3 days of lquids 3 days of mushies yesterday i did notice that i could not drink my whole protine shake but then by this afternoon i was so hurgy. I thought my pre opt diet was bad the only way i can stop my self is by brushing my teeth but i am starving everything going down the same as before only thing is i am back on the liquid diet. Will this get better i fell like there is nothing in my band well there is only one cc I think i may have to start the mushies a day early as i just can't live like this, I have a head acke and it not dehydration as i have had all my fuilds no problem i had 3 litters of fuild it something else like lack of food I think i need more fill would it be too soon for me to say that this fill is not enough this can't be what the green feels like.
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Love Of Blended Ice Drinks

Yes every year i look foward to those blended ice drinks frapacoino , strawbery lemonaid aid slusshy i just love them. so I can stil have them just in a diffent way i thought i share some of my cool summer idea to help me with my love of ice blended drinks     This one is called Elivis Has Left the building   1/4 a cup of greek youget ( i uses trader joes becuse it has the least suger around and less callors .   1. Table spoon of peanunut butter ( Trader joes make a Ruduced Gilt one that tast like a reecee peanutbutter cup that is on 100 calloris per 2 table spoon when i mentoned it to my nurtionist she said That she hears about this peanutbutter All the time and how every seems to love it)   8 oz of milk ( I uses soy I like earh blance soy the best 0   1/2 a bannna   and Ice Blend well sip slowly     other of my favorits is Carmel Curch   8 oz of milk ( again i like soy)   1 scoop of vanilla protione powder ( i like Unjury or Iopure )   1 Table spoon of butter scoch suger free pudding   1 table spoon of carmmel syrupr ( suger free ) I like a little more   Ice   Other of my favorits is   Starbery Cheese cake smoothy   1 soop of vaniila protine powder 1 table spoon of cheese cake suger free pudding 8 oz of milk ( I use soy again 1/2 cup of starberrys Ice blend     Craving a Frapaconio   Hazlenut Mocchcion   8 0z of soy milk 1 scoop of Cholet protine powder 1 tea spoon of decfae instent cofffee 1 pacakge of splend 1 tea spoon of halznut suger free sypryp   Frozen starberry lemonaid   1 cup of crysltal light lemmonid   i like the alll teady to go packs   i scoop of UNjenery strabbbery sherbert powder   Ice Blened well   As a kid how meny of you enjoy snow cones. Guess what you can still have them just make them useing suger free sypup I have 13 diffent flavover     If any one wants more i have a ton more of these yummmy frozen ice treats I have one each morning
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What I Can Do Now

I lost about 27 lbs since i started i was working out with my tainer today and we were doing some things we have not done in along time and they were so much easyer he said you relly changed in the last mouth. He said right before sugery you could not do these things and now look at you. I said yea 25 lbs off my kneese hurt so much less. I said my hip pain is so much less. I used to feel my kneese going up the stairs. I can walk up stairs with out stopping to need to catch my breat. I can go shopping in store other than layne brayntt aloth i still go there. I can do lots of things i never did before. Thats why i must live this life becuse there a life out there that i was not living 27 lbs ago.
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Eating Out

today i went out with my mom for mothers day. Frist i asked for a kids menu the guy told me he would not give me one i explaned i had a lap band and he looked at me like i had five head i explaned it like a gastic bi pass i can only eat an oz of soft food. He said this is are menu share with some else. I looked at the menu there was nothing i could eat everything was bread shrimp crab cakes a salda and best of all i asked about the soup it had pasta in it. I explaned again i can not eat these food I explaned if i eat too much i thow up all over your table. At that point the manger came in I explaned again i have a lap band he looked at me like i had five heads and I said a Gastic Bipass and he said OH okay so. I explaned i could not eat that much food and i needed it to be soft becuse i could not drink and eat. we came up with scambled eggs unsted of the 3 course meal I ate about 1 oz eggs are so hard for me by the end there always too hard no matter how much i chew, I could have had sammon but a fellow bander gaver me a great pice of adivce never ever try something for the frist time in public and i have not had samon yet so i was not going to try it out, The manger was very nice he did not even charge for my eggs I think he felt bad about the way i was treated I have to rember to get a card that said i can eat off the childern menu
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Yes

it seems to be the question evey ones asking if i only knew how hard it would be would i do it all over again ?The answer is yes i would I have been strugling with my weight watching it creap up and i felt out of control i did not know what to do. The band is control even with the complations i had i stil do it all over again. Knowintg how much my life would have to change i still do it all over again, Life is about living it hard to live when you spend so much time on the side lines becuse you just can't.   I stil need to work out some things like slowing down when i eat or drink I put an egg timmer on for 20 mins thats how long it should take me to eat,   I still need to work out copeing ways as now the eating thing that i cused to cope is not going to work.   But Yes I would do it all over again even knowing all i know now I do not regreat my getting banded I am very thankful to Dr Jones for doing my band and being my chearleader when i coulld not.   I lost about 27 lbs almost 30 in the 5 weeks i have had my band, I work at it evey day thats how i succced I write evey thing down all the info in a speical joual and it makes me set a goal for the next day so i know just what i did an i can be honset with my self. This was not a quick fix it very hard and i would do it all over again
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There Is No I In Team

Being form boston area i am huge base ball fan and i love the red sox even when they stink like this year. But in 2004 when the redsox were down they pulled them self toghter and they landed up not only winning the play off agaist the Yankees but the worlld sezies. Huge as they had not won in over 50 years,   So what dose this have to do with my Lapband. Well more then you think. You see my lap band is the red soxs some times you get down and you need to work with your team to pull you back up. It knowing you can trust that team when things look bad is what matters     So who is my team   Well I am the Leader of the team - Jason Vertic of the red sox ( he was the team caption)   Then there are my support members   My surgon - Dr Jones and his fellow who is my new favorit dr Dr Odsky - they call the shots there there like the pitcher thow thow the balls ect in this case fill and unfill the port)   Nurtionisht - Michelle and Kate - they are like Big pappi the teach us how to eat so we can hit the home run   My Traine Dave r and My exsizese teachers Roberta, Michelle, and Evelynn - they like the out feilder they porovie do the feilding and make me move   My family and Freinds- There my fan the root for me for thick and thin   Now why am i scard to uses my team like meany of you I was scard to email nurtion with my long winnyey email about lquids for 3 weeks becuse i was embrassed that i was unfilled and did not succed but then i rember something michelle she my nurtionist Laura win lose or draw we be here for you all you need to do is email we can't help if we do not know whats going on.   So i will be writeing that long winney email as i know they will be there for me beucse there part of my team and when i uses the team i can win the world sezies just like the 2004 boston red sox
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If I Cound Just Jeans

about a year ago i bought a pair of jean that were too tight ii could were them if i had a pair of spanks under them and did not want to breath. Today i pulled them out not thinking about it I not warn them since i bought them expet to a party when i wanted to not be a pig and they keeked saying if you eat that you burst out of your jeans. Today I pulled them out of the draw looking for paints and they fit not to tight not too lose just fit.I know most pepole would be thinking you celbrating over a size 20 jean but heck yes i am.   I feel very lucky alot of pepole at this point say there starving i am day 12 passed sugery I am not. I do get hungery eat about 4 times a day 3 protine shakes and somthing else like a suger free fat free rice pudding or some suger free jello maybe some soup and i not starving. I guess i have a good fit I still do get heart burn / reflex over my band if i am not carful .   I can not wait till the mushy food stage on wed i have my follow up
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This Is The Way I Plan To Live Becuse I Have To

So my order of suger free syrops came and my father was over visting and he draged the box in and he said good god why would you need these how long do you plan to stay on this deit. to my answer the rest of my life you don't go and do a band so i can go back to eating cheese bugers and frise i said i did this becuse it was my last chance i done deits and i can't do them they never work. This is they way i need to live for the rest of my life do you think i would go though sugery to have a band inplanted just so i could go back to doing what i was doing. I said this is not a magic bullit this is my tool it give me some control that i need. To wich my dad repled so you never going to eat five guys again becuse i went in and they have your faviorts the bacon dubble cheese buger and your cherry coke and there firse you know how much you love those firse..   Other freind said this is just one more crazy deit your always doing crazy deits. She said rember the blood type on the Grapefuit one or how about jenny craig or nutrosymtims she said you never succed with crazy deit no way you can succed now     This is my life and you have to get mad to want to change it. One of my freinds who was larger like me we used to joke around about food and make jokes about her weight one day she droped dead of a massive heart attack leaving 4 kids she was just 40 years old. I don't want my family to live with out me I vowed to my self at her furnral that i would do something so my family would not be standing there. I keeped that promice and plan to. So yes i do plan to live like this my whole life   It make me think about the relationships i have it maybe time to change the ones that are not going to work for me now. I know longer can be made to feel better with food. I know that it will not slove any of my problems. Some pepole in my life need to be cut out of my life becuse they liked me better and want to keep me fat this will not work any more
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If At Frist You Do Not Succed Try Again

so after my frist stuck eposed were i ate too big a bit of ground beef from a sloppy joe I was a bit nevous about toccos. This is one of my kids favort they ask for it all the time. I knew i could eat the meat and it was just chewing it well last time i was suck it was becuse i ate with out thinking about it so i gave in and made taccos No way was i eatting it plan so mashed it up in some avoccdo and i chewed it when i thought i had chewed it enought i chew some more and took very very small bits I am happy to report i got down my whole one oz protion and did not have a stuck eposed i was so exicted
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Another Fill

Well it been 3 weeks since my unfill so it time to get my fuild back. While i not gained i not relly lost i gone up and down about 2 lbs. I also talked to my nurtionist kate. When ever i am not feeling great nurtionly she the one to go to. we talked alot about diffent types of hunger and what to do for them. I talked about how i get dizzy when i do not eat enough and work out hard she said thats real hunger thats your body telling you need more. She said think of it like this when you eat if you were to place a plate of brorcklie in front of you would you eat that if the answer is yes then thats hungery nunger you body sending you the message. If the answer is no then thats head hunger. We also talked about things to do for head hunger such as keep busy keep hands busy and mind busy.   My Dr Fellow who saved the band Dr Odokey she I look great. She said it nice to she you move and be happy and prerky. We talked alot about trying to keep kidney infections away so this dose not happen again. I talked to another Dr about it that day too so everyone on the same page as far as my kidney go.   I get another fill in september. So far i not relly felt anything with this fill he put two cc in my band I thinking it could take some more time. The best part was he found my port on the frist shot no Flor need for him to find my port. His fellow and I laughed. He also hides the nedale so i have no idea how huge it is I told her thats makes it easyer on me. I saw her in the elvator going to the pre-op meeting and she said Hay did Dr jones ask you to speak you should. I said no I going to support group she like yea come down after and tell your story. I feel it too soon to do that pluse i don't want to scar everyone with my story.
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The Big Brup

so last night i was sipping my protine shake and got this heart burtn my frist thought gas so i start walking trying to move it and take my gas ex walk some mote still nothing just this pain in the middle of my brest bone area nothing was moving this thing so i did something i knew i should not i went out to move it and burp i knew i could burp and rhow up if i drank just a little too fast so i did this and had the most relfie. I find i have heart burn/ reflex every night i am on lquid zantic so i know i should not be able to but evey night i have this heart burn but and fell it coming up it just water as i drink right up till i go to bed.
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