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I bought some cute "Lucky" undies for St. Patty's day, then completely forgot. I guess I was so focused on making sure to drink water to be able to do a urinalysis (I was drinking water from the moment I woke up.. didn't want a repeat of what happened at the dermatologist). So Happy P's Day! And I'll wear yellow undies tomorrow for Spongebob day lololol. Suzie- Somethin' you said surprised me.. are you ever able to finish a lunch (From a restaurant)? Since I guess Sept. when I got filled, I've never once been able to finish a restaurant meal.. b'fast lunch or dinner. And Haydee.. I didn't comment on what you posted, because I don't have anything insightful to say and figured you just needed to vent! So, I'm not ignoring it, and I hope you figure out what you need to do for you.

I have 2 'most emberassing'.. one at TGIF's. It's one of the very very rare times I actually got nauseated from it. I ate some of the sicilian quesadilla.. something got stuck, I went to the bathroom, pb'd.. came back.. still hurt, so I ordered a coffee hoping the warm liquid would open me up.. just made it worse.. went back to the bathroom, pb'd... back to table, sat there bouncing (I bounce a lot when I eat now, it drives my mom nuts if I go out with her).. and out of nowhere, I get nauseated. I started drooling, that drool of nausea! Now everyone working at TGIF thinks I'm a nutcase because I kept running past their station to the bathroom. Then I threw up, not just PB'd, and it was a huge air bubble. It was the size of the ENTIRE toilet once it got out of my body. It was very crazy, I wished I had a camera. All that slime and air I guess, and it grew when it was coming out. 2nd one, I was eating a chocolate turtle at work, and I had my hands full, and was being rushed, so I just put half of it in my mouth and swallowed way too quick. I knew it was bad, immediately. And pecans do NOT melt. I PB'd at the gas station on the way to a hockey game, PB'd several times in the bushes outside of the arena (for all to see.. it was lovely). The lines for bathroom were WAY too long. That was my longest 'episode' ever, the pecans were brutal.

I am tall.. their shirts have always been way too short, and pants have been way too short...and they always had 'built in hips' in their pants.. a plus-size phenomenon I don't quite get. If anyone wants a discount code she mentioned up there ($75 off 150, 50$ off 125.. or whatever it was) let me know, I got one in the mail. I held onto it, but I'm not going to use it. And FWIW.. I don't find LB's clothes to be of good quality. Every single shirt I've ever bought shrank like nuts on the first wash, threads always pulled out of them, and buttons rarely stayed (and it's not cause I wore the wrong size in denial :biggrin: )

I'm not even going to think about even saving up for it till post-goal post-kids. And that's forever away!! But uh yeah, I showed DH what they do to lift the belly, that whole.. slit across your front (I always imagine someone standing up and their guts fall out..eek). I still can't fathom the healing pain. I read everyone who blogs about it, no one says how miserable they are, but I would just be so freaked by being cut all the way across that I'd imagine I was in more pain than I was hah hah. If any of you guys do it, you gotta share everything!

If it really tastes like cake batter, I could handle that! I am going to go try.. and hey, I didn't know they did the samples for just anyone, last time I was there the lady working there had a thermos, she said it was her lunch but insisted I try it (I complained about how I've never liked a protein shake). I didn't like it either, but I felt special hah hah.

Haydee- Glad you're back!! We missed you!! I am finally out of clinics. Took 2 hour wait for labwork, had to go to a clinic and wait another 3 hours to see a doctor. I don't know what she thinks, clinics around here never tell you anything anymore.. they just write rx's. So I have an inhaler, steroids, and antibiotics. I guess asthma? Thank you all for the info! I just needed to bounce it off of some women who have been there! I am going to do those quizzes terry hehe. And we're not looking to have them soon, and I plan to be done on the wacky meds in September, and not going to 'start trying' till well into next year. So, not worried about the wacky meds. DH offered up without my instigation months ago, that when we have kids he's not going to play those video games anymore. Of course, that made me happy, and I heard someone mention his video games (or maybe 2 of you!). He is adament about how nasty babies are, covered in blood and gunk, yadda yadda. I told him I would be devastated if he wasn't in the room when I had kids, and I told him how he doesn't have to watch, just be up at the top (like you guys brought up), and he agreed to that, but he's still disgusted by the whole process. He says he doesn't understand why a woman would ever want to be pregnant. And I don't know how he can't understand that. He mentioned adoption years ago, the world has enough kids, and child birth is nasty, etc. Men!!

Ok random question, I 'plan' to start 'trying' to have kids next year. I know that's something you're not suppose to say cause it jinxes you? Hah hah oh well.. I've just been noticing all kinds of baby stuff lately, and something came to mind.. so figured I'd ask you V's enough of you have kids (and grand kids!). Did you ever worry that DH wouldn't be daddy like? I saw it first hand when drug addict brother had a kid, for about 6 months he was so fatherly.. then baby & mom moved to NJ.. and when she visited us for the first time in 6 years last summer, my brother was a LOUSY dad, he didn't want anything to do with her, he didn't talk to her like a kid, it was really akward. In general DH doesn't like kids, always complains about them in public (but to be fair, I do too). Whenever he's been in a situation with other people's kids, he's WONDERFUL with them, it's like night and day. But I have never seen him around babies, and I worry he won't bond with a baby. I don't know why. I guess because he's said on many occasions he doesn't want to be there when it's born cause it's nasty & disgusting... How can he even think that?! Does something snap in them? Anyone else's DH throw a fit about havin to be there for the birth of their kid? I'm goin to bed early, so I'll see ya'll tomorrow morning! I have the blood work tomorrow morning and can't eat after 9pm.. instead of worrying about it I'm just going to sleep! And one more thing, COVER YOUR EYES MICHELLE!!!!! It may be TMI, but if I can't tell you guys, who can I tell hah! Me & DH never use condoms, but for this whacky drug we gotta start (or I get an IUD.. eek.. mom says she doesn't know why I don't, but that's one of those things I've always thought looked extremely scary). So, instead of gettin boring condoms, I looked up the fancy schmancy 'fun' ones on the internet and found the best reviews.. bought boxes of all kindsa goofy looking ones lol.

Yes, I am TOM and weighed myself and got in a funk about it. Friggin scale.. and TOM. This drug better fix my skin issues, I don't have TOM for just anything.. last time I suffered through the motions was for banding. Mom came over, DH is visiting his parents today, so I downloaded from Amazon's unbox.. Joshua. UGH. The preview looks good & scary, but it was like watching a horrible independent film. The first 90 minutes is boring and slow and stupid.. last 10 minutes just makes you go "Huh?" and then they end it without explaining. Mom was falling asleep during the whole thing. I made my slow cooked chili, haven't been hungry yet today. Had an OJ for b'fast.. and tried a bite of mom's shrimp scampi. JENNIFER!! You look great!! I love the hair too, it's like mine And I've told ya'll, my secondlife store specializes in stripper & clubwear.. hehe.. so most everything I make is slutty and skanky. It sells better than normal clothes.. I do both, but for something like patty's day, the dancers & strippers are out looking for dancing costumes. Works like a charm, sold over 10 of both today.

Was it deli turkey? I had such a horrible PB incident on deli turkey, I haven't touched it again yet. I figured it was too 'light' to slide down, so it stuck to the pouch or something. Just speculations. Normal turkey is fine for me though. Logan's Steakhouse, no matter what I get there (if it's solid), I always have a public PB. I've learned to just get soup from them, or get something to go.

Doh I forgot mine Friday. I'll make this coming Friday a good one to make up for it!

Last night I was bad!!! I've had several days of getting back into the swing of thing, made the mistake of weighing myself.. NOT MOVING. I contribute this to my "I don't care" attitude last night. Argh. I ate a strawberry ice chiller, 2 oreos, salsa & chips, green beans from the can, hot chocolate, 90c quaker bites, popcorn rice cake, whip cream, cheese sticks, and I was still looking at things to eat. This was all around the same time, while watching movie with DH. I also contribute it to, I didn't like dinner last night. I bought one of those boxed meals, where you just add meat & roast it.. I've never liked them before but though maybe they make them taste good now.. wrong. So I was hungry, but obviously I wasn't eating food to fill me up Bad bad La.

My port incisions dent in as well. And my first port sight, there's a 2"x2" piece of skin that is still numb (I am almost 1 year out), that I am guessing is from severed nerves. I heard that they can grow back eventually.

If your doctor can get to your port despite being flipped, it's not a problem. But it's likely at some point it'll flip more and you'll need surgery to replace its position. You mentioned the band being against your skin, I assume you mean the port. If it flipped and now it's protruding, that wouldn't be unusual. It wouldn't cause you to get a virus though

You can do it!

Lunasa- I'm glad you went and got your fill and your doctor reassured you. A lot of people are emberassed to go back to their docs feeling like failures, but without that doc's needle & saline the band doesn't work!! Hang in there, and don't be afraid to come back in here, like Pam said we're a SUPPORT group!! And yeah SL stuff is crazy, Swedish 'leader' (I don't remember how they run sweden now) has a council set up there for meetings, and China did political stuff there too. I just made some new irish outfits for patty's day-- Finally.. I CAN'T BREATHE!! This sickness is gettin worse, I'm wondering if I have pnemonia. I have to breathe really shallow, and it's so gunky and I start having coughing fits. I start feeling panicky that I can't take a breath. I go tomorrow to the clinic to get bloodwork for the scary drug, I am going to have them check out my lungs while I'm there. I had seasonal asthma as a kid, I wonder if that's what it is.

And Tracy I meant to say it earlier, but forgot. CONGRATS NON-SMOKER YOU!! )

That's cute Terry! I like stacking rings. I am about to go watch a movie with DH.. we made Sat. night a movie night.. with Amazon.com's unbox, we can download movies right to our tivo.. yaaay. Anyway, first I wanted to tell ya'll a recipe I tried last night. It is my fav. food EVER now.. oh nom nom nom. I found the recipe online, it's suppose to be for mushroom ravioli. 8oz of Mascarpone cheese (I had to ask the deli where to find it, it's in a little tub in the deli area) 8oz of fresh chopped mushrooms 1tbsp of olive oil 2 large shallots minced (i just chopped) S&P to taste ....... The rest of the recipe is to make the ravioli.. I ended up flunking making ravioli's, so I turned the dish into something else. Saute the shallots in EVOO, until turning brown. Then add the mushrooms. Cook for about 10-15m, until most the water from the mushrooms evaporates. Remove from heat, put the mascorpone cheese into a bowl, add the mushroom mixture. Mix.. the cheese melts, it reminds me of butter actually. So it turns into this rich, absolutely fantastic, I been cravin' all day.. sauce. Since my ravioli's failed, I served it with pasta noodles for dh. I just ate about 1/4c of the sauce. NOM NOM NOM.

Morning V's.. yeah it's 3 in the afternoon!! I was up till about 6am.. fell asleep, at 7:30am mom calls. Those phone calls are always bad. So as I say hello my mind is racing. She says.. one of her pugs (who is old and blind and deaf), was in the middle of the yard.. and we're havin bad storms all night.. cowered and crying. She gets lost if she gets off of the porch sometimes.. so she got stuck in the yard. So mom in her PJ's, goes out there to rescue her.. and these new doors on her back porch are self-locking. She did not want that, and threw a hissy about one day she's gonna lock herself out. Well today was that day.. and my dad is out of town of course. So she said she sat outside over an hour, but she couldn't wait any longer and had to wake me up. DH had a key to their house, but said he gave it back a few months ago. I didn't think I had a key anymore.. sister said she didn't have one either. So I told her if sister didn't have one, call me back and I'll come pick her up. So that's what I had to do.. then she said (she's a smoker) that she hasn't had a smoke all morning and if I could pick her up a pack on the way.. I had to pull on clothes for public.. didn't brush my hair or put on bra tho! I go in, lady cards me, and while on a normal day this would get me excited, I was tired as hell, it's stormy and flooded, im in Pjs.. she says "This doesn't look like you". I just sighed and was cursing in my head. I said It IS me. So I get to my moms house, we're talking about the new windows on her house, they have weird screens you can't get off. Well I figured out how to get one off, so we go to the back porch where an unlocked window is. Oh, before this.. I did have a house key of hers, but with all the new windows & doors, it only worked on the garage door's 2nd lock. The deadbolt is another key. So it didn't do anything. Anywho, I mention (they have 2 main back doors, one to kitchen, one to her bedroom.. then there's another backdoor on the porch down a hall thing that goes to their living room..they have a massive house), the living room door. She goes "I forgot about that one".. sure enough, it's UNLOCKED!!!!!!!!! So I go home, go back to bed.. 3 hours later she calls me to tell me a joke. I go back to sleep, 2 hours later she calls to tell me it's hailing. She must be really bored & lonely with dad out of town. So I finally get up, DH said we should ask if she wants us to get lunch and bring it over. She hmm'd and said no.. sheesh. So DH is gone to get us Arby's.. I'm going to try their chicken club salad, the picture on the website looked good.. and they put egg in it! I miss egg in salads, no one does that anymore. Have fun Terry on the dress!! And Tracy, for gettin banded in Mexico, I know they've started good threads on it, but Wasabubblebutt has a lot of good info if you have specific questions.

Well, tell your wife to take her meds as prescribed. I didn't take my pain meds initially because I didn't like being 'loopy' (same reason!).. I ended up pulling a muscle from holding my body in odd ways and going to the ER thinking I had a blood clot. If they think she is malnourished (was she in the office, or was this a phone call?) you need to get her to doctor. Make sure she is drinking a lot of water, and doesn't get dehydrated.

Due to going off b/c for surgery, I was bleeding heavy.. and I mean HEAVY. They said no tampons, so I wore a pad to the hospital, then when they told me to strip, I was emberassed and she put down towels and said don't worry about it. I was so much more freaking out about the cathetar at the time, so I let go of the emberassment.. then found out no cathetar hooray.. when I woke up they had taped a pad to me and put more towels done.. and the first thing I did when I could walk was go put a normal pad and underwear on. Don't worry about it :thumbup:

It's funny how you said you haven't really lost that much. Uh.. 100lbs!! Go look at how much 100lbs is of beef. That's a LOT. That being said, I'm like Kat. I'm at 99lbs and it doesn't look like 'that much'. I still have a HUGE gut that hangs over my sides (spills grossly out) when I'm sitting. I hate it. My legs look like a normal girls legs, and then I have this gut that is horrible. Oh well, I am only uncomfortable when I'm next to skinny people lol.

I was just like you! I have been on B/C since I was 14 to regulate my periods. If I am NOT on b/c I will bleed MASSIVE amounts, never ending. I went 6 months once (before they put me on b/c). I was told to stop taking it for surgery, 1 month pre-op. They knew why I was on it. So 2 days later, it began. Bled like nuts. Day of surgery I was still bleeding bad, asked them what to do (since I was having to be naked), they said don't worry about it. When I woke up from surgery they had taped a huge pad to me and put towels under me. It took about 2 months to get re-regulated on the b/c, but it happened. Mine is dibilitating in the sense that, a tampon & overnight pad would not contain me for more than an hour. But, it is important, due to what was mentioned above.. Blood clots are serious. So you need to talk to your doc, but it sounds just like me and I had to do it.

The boss wondered why one of his most valued employees had not phoned in sick one day. Having an urgent problem with one of the main computers, he dialed the employee's home phone number and was greeted with a child's whisper. " Hello ? " "Is your daddy home?" he asked. " Yes ," whispered the small voice. May I talk with him?" The child whispered, " No ." Surprised and wanting to talk with an adult, the boss asked, "Is your Mommy there?" "Yes" "May I talk with her?" Again the small voice whispered, " No Hoping there was somebody with whom he could leave a message, the boss asked, "Is anybody else there?" " Yes ," whispered the child, " a policeman ". Wondering what a cop would be doing at his employee's home, the boss asked, "May I speak with the policeman?" " No, he's busy ,whispered the child. "Busy doing what?" " Talking to Daddy and Mommy and the fireman ," came the whispered answer. Growing more worried as he heard a loud noise in the background through the earpiece on the phone, the boss asked, "What is that noise?" " A helicopter " answered the whispering voice. "What is going on there?" demanded the boss, now truly apprehensive. Again, whispering, the child answered, " The search team just landed a helicopter ." Alarmed, concerned and a little frustrated the boss asked, "What are they searching for?" Still whispering, the young voice replied with a muffled giggle... " ME ." (sorry formatting is bad, I didn't want to fix it.. still funny!!)

Hm.. mine hasn't changed at all.. I just notice how much he eats now.. in disbelief.

I don't know if it actually does anything, I take "High Potency Biotin 5000MCG". My surgeon said they recommend it to RNY patients and told me it couldn't hurt. It's also suppose to help fingernails. I stopped for a long time, but my nails have been unusually brittle lately, so I started taking it again.