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Pam have you never seen Fried Green Tomatoes? Shame on you if you haven't (and I command you to go get it!), if you have..remember when Evelyn got the trampoline? I always think of that when people mention trampoline exercises. DH is worried, sayin he gonna come home and take me to the clinic. I told him I was going to go, but 1. I can't drive in this state 2. I am in tears just thinking about how horrible the wait will be.. so he insists on comin home early to take me. And so I called all the clinics, no one is takin appt's today because they are 'so backed up'. On a good day, it takes at least 3 hours.. I just can't do it. I told him to bring me home ice cream and I'm going to continue to ride it out. My fever is finally breaking (first time in days!) tylenol some reason hasn't been workin till now. I'm sweating and burning up and it's 65 in the house. I've got chicken soup cooking right now, I ran out of chicken & stars last week (doh).. so I'm making homemade. I threw it all in the pot and letting it do its thing. I still haven't done my homework, and since we have a week to do homework, no late assignments are acceptable. It's due tomorrow, so if I don't manage to get to it today, fingers crossed I feel better tomorrow. Jen I got the coat today, thank you so much! I haven't tried it on (as I mentioned, I'm really hot right now!!). It's very nice, but did I mention I have 3 long-haired white cats? Hah hah, I had a coat similar to this one, was my fav. coat. It currently is on the floor in my office at work just disgustingly covered in cat hair. I try my best, but black doesn't work in my house.. especially black wool or black velvet.

Mornin V's! I hope you get it Jenn! Sending you as much good vibe as I can muster right now!! I have barely gotten out of bed in the past 2-3 days.. I forget how long it's been now. My head is so congested, I can't breathe.. nose is completed clogged, I wheeze with every breath and I have had sneezing fits so long and so hard that I feel like I dislocated my shoulders on several occasions. I can't taste food, so that's a big bummer to me. I feel so crappy, I want my happy tastes :smile: I've been trying to sleep, but I wake up coughing and running nose.. every inch of my body aches. DH got me musenex, someone at work told him to get it for me. Well, it was the ultimate horsepill. I took it.. I mean literally bigger than any huge vitamin I've ever had. I didn't feel it get stuck, but it's a 12-hour time release, and it did not go through my hole. So every few hours I felt it bouncing around, and when I tried to drink or eat, I got the stuffed/stuck feeling. Nothing is helping!! I've been hopped up on all different meds, and not a thing is helping. And I'm too sick to sit for hours in the clinic, I don't think I could handle it. I am greatful for my big tub in the bathroom, I've taken many hot baths to try to clear me up.. never helped, but made my body stop aching for a minute. Luckily I did most of my homework on Monday & Tuesday, but I still have 1 class left.. trying to muster the will to get it done so I can go back to bed. I'll find a tip of the day for my V's too. Hope everyone does excitin stuff this weekend, I'll pop back on if I'm feeling better.

Lauren wasn't lying! This stuff is GOOD!!! I got my lightly salted bags in the mail today, and I love it. It tastes just like pistachio's IMO. And I'm not a huge fan of pistachio's, but these are good. The texture is a lot nicer. Num num!

SFeiner summed up my thoughts on this. Being snide is one thing, but for people to be cordial to people they don't like.. is just decency, it's not to be underhanded. I guess in my line of work, when I don't like someone, I still have to smile at them. And I always bitch to co-workers when it's over. But it's not because I'm being passive aggressive, it's just being civil... or a good business person :frown:

Change docs, and they should be able to take your records from your hometown doc. Call around and find a doc who is 1. supportive of wls 2. can take records from previous docs. Good luck!

Congrats Andy!! My BCBS Policy doesn't cover it..but my doctor required me to do the psych eval. Was kind of cheesy, and akward. He asked me what me now would say to 13 y/o me.. and if I would hug me... mmhm. I put on my cheeriest "I'm sane, surgery me!" face. And Hey Rocket City, I'm in Huntsville too :tongue:

Yay, good for you :tongue: Not to burst your bubble, but just to keep in mind, so you don't crash and burn.. post-op when you're able to eat again, it's not unusual to gain some weight back from your pre/post op diets. It doesn't always happen (it didn't to me), but it can.. so if it does, just remember you'll keep losing soon :biggrin:

You're all lucky we have time, I am in such a rotten mood between being sick & taking Chantix!

I have no regrets about the band specifically, but in all honesty "I should have just had RNY" has crossed my mind on several occasions, especially the long period of time I had when fills weren't 'working'. 95% of the time I am glad I chose the band. 100% of the time I am glad I had some sort of WLS.

Whats his thoughts on it? Just curious, since he did that one Dr Phil diet thing, had a friend that tried it.. he told me it was basically.. think you're thin and you will be thin! And he didn't lose any weight.. I had a good laugh. :tongue:

Woot, gratz :tongue:

Huntsville, Alabama Sounds like we're all over the place!

I love Lost, but I'm honestly tired of it. They need to quit dragging it out! I'm ready for the end, so we know what the hell it's all about. They keep getting away from that, and making it more complicated.

It ended with she's been clean since Oct 07, she's still a lesbian (imagine that!), and she's thinking about getting back into shot putting. I thought it was sad, she asked her dad "If I got clean, but still was with Kelly, would I still be bad?" and he said "Yes" BAH! GIMME A BREAK! She just needs his approval, if he'd just suck it up and say yes, get clean, and I'll be proud. But noo. A lot of times, I can tell by the family dynamics why they are drug addicts :/

How bizarre, how did you get a married man as a stalker?! Kick em out of your happy bubble, as my mom likes to say :tongue: I was askin DH about lunch, forgot he's going to get Chantix today instead of us goin to lunch. I just ordered a ham chef salad from steak out. I haven't had one of those in a while, they're sooo good. I hope it goes down alright. Can't find nutrition info on it, their sirloin chef salad is about 500 calories. I'm gonna go with that, and if it goes down alright, I'll only eat about 1/2. Pre-band I couldn't ever finish it.

I wanna ride shotgun with whoever I ride with! I'll claim long leg disability!!

Only bananas I have anymore are the bananas & cream oatmeal. Num num! Whole bananas do present a problem because I don't like little bites of bananas! I am the same way with bread tho, for months I know-without a doubt, it will get stuck and I'll spit it up. But it has not stopped me from trying every once in a while. I say.. maybe I'm looser at this time of day, maybe this bread is hard enough/soft enough/coated enough, etc.. that it'll go down this time. It never does. And I never learn a lesson.

Well before surgery, I had to quit bowling for 2 years due to the back pains I had from being overweight. I had surgery in April, back problems had stopped around July.. and I started the fall league in August. I think 6 weeks is how long you're suppose to wait? I would ask your doc! I live in Alabama.

I am NOT a model bandster when it comes to exercise. I reluctantly admit time to time, that I can not get my lazy self into the gym. I work somewhere that has a full company gym.. like 20ft from my office. Yet, the only exercise I do.. is walk my dog around the block when I take her out now, and I always park far away, take stairs, etc. The minimal things. I am not bragging, I wish I had the commitment, motivation, etc. everyone that is out there and DOING it has!! But, I am on a bowling league. We bowl once a week. And I have been losing steadily since they fixed my port. Without my exercising :tongue: I had to take 2 weeks off for whatever reason, and my weight loss has stalled. HMMMMM. I have tried to calculate exercise-ness of bowling, but it's varied all over the place. I use a 16lb ball, 3 games, and it seems to be helping me! Just that one time a week. So my point was, for anyone else in my boat, who can't seem to motivate yourself.. join a bowling league (OR TWO.. I'm going to join 2 next season)! It's a lot of fun, and apparently a good way to get exercise!

Mine hurt before they fixed the port. He would push down on my port and make me tense up, and it was pretty painful.. felt like he was shoving something into my muscles. This had nothing to do with the needle, he had to poke a lot and that didn't bother me, but the pushing did. Once they realized my port had flipped and they fixed it, when he pushes on it, I feel no pain! So that was just a symptom of my port being in bad position. The needles don't hurt IMO, they're small enough and it's quick.

Take it for what it is. Be excited you are paid for! Forget about why ya got there to begin with, and just think about how you'll be in a year :tongue:

My fills weren't doing anything for me for months, the docs were confused and did it under fluero. It looked like my saline goes in and then SPLOOSHES all over in my insides. So they did operation to fix a tube or port leak (they couldn't tell which). Once they were inside to fix it, they realized my port flipped a complete 180, and under the xray looked normal. But my first fill was about 6 weeks post-op, and they couldn't fill it, so my port flipped early on.

Terri- My granny got me some nice plates from (I think) Hallmark store. They're salad plates? They're a perfect size for meals for me. I also bought at Kroger, these 1 cup bowls. Pack of 4, they look like what cooks on TV use to hold ingredients. Whenever I want something that would go in a bowl I use those. I notice a huge difference when I remember to use these things. I have (especially lately- I don't know why) gotten too much food on a normal size plate, and I am at a point where I am STUFFED, but my brain goes 'There's only a couple bites left', and I pick and pick, and I feel sick from it, but some reason I don't stop. Then I eventually give up with some still left over. If I hadn't had that to begin with, I'd be alright!!

Anyone else catch it? I watch Intervention quite a bit, this is the first time I saw them do one on someone addicted to food. The guy was 546lbs, 22 years old. So we follow him and his addiction to food, then they have an intervention. At some point in the show, they said he is too overweight to be considered for bariatric surgery. That's BS, he is not! I've seen people larger than him get it. And, they put you on a diet, so he'd lose some first. In any event, if you didn't see it.. they sent him somewhere. And he lost 74lbs in 4 months. I'd say now he most definitely qualifies for surgery. Anyway, thought it was weird to see an Intervention on food.

If you have Tivo, just search for Intervention. From the main TiVo screen, find programs (or something similar, I'm at work so don't have it in front of me), search for program, all catagories, all whatever, then type in intervention, search.. ta-da :tongue: