Daisalana

That's weird, I still haven't seen them.

Haydee- Oh jeez I hope not!! LOL Terry- I been a mod for over a month lol. I voted this morning! The line was about 2 hours long. Hot, hard floor.. toward the last 30m, I started getting dizzy & light headed. My back was hurting, and nothing to lean on (they wound us back and forth 5 times in the lobby of a church--line started way out in the parking lot). I started seeing spots, ears were ringing and I was getting clammy. I thought ah damn, I'm gonna be in the news, the pregnant woman who passes out from her dedication to vote lol. I kept having to squat (and draw attention) to try to center myself. An hour into it a woman comes out to announce, if you vote here for (something) you may not vote here for this, if you live south of (some road I never heard of) you are in the right area. So I said Uh.. where is that! So she looked at my card and said I was in the right spot. Thank goodness. Now get this, I locked my purse in my car last night. Around 11pm my mom goes 'Do you have your license to vote?' DARN! No.. so she said what about SS card.. nope, in my car! So I tried to find my passport, took almost an hour to find it.. I couldn't remember where we put them and sure enough it was in my important papers folder--which I thought I had looked in. Then I couldn't find my voter card and someone on tv was saying you HAD to have it, so killed myself to find that too. Ironically, they didn't ask for ID. Finally made it out alive, but geez.. was not fun. My mom was texting me, their voting place only took 30 minutes.. she kept texting 'THIS IS A PRIVELEGE, BUCK IT UP!'.. heh!!!!!!! Now I'm at work, trying to get over the queasyness..

So I have to know, are you having a boy??

What are you talking about? I haven't seen any banners about the No. 8.. (Gay marriage thing, right?)

Banded at 23, and would have done it when I was 12 if they had it.

I got really tight right out of the gate, which all went away. Head changes though, wow. The ounce of will power I use to be able to muster.. it's gone.. gone gone gone.

Yeah but.. I'm more offended by a man (Obama) that thinks it's ok to kill innocent babies in the womb.. and you're pointing fingers at the guy who cusses? Cussing never killed innocent babies.

My doctor was much more into Rny than Band (He himself had RnY) but as a doctor in knowledge and bed-side manners I fell in love with him. He respected my decision to go with the band, but he did his fair share of saying why he prefers RnY & thought I would benefit more going that road. I was very optimistic about the band regardless, and his nurse said she thinks I made a good candidate with that attitude. I lost 120lbs in 1.5 years, and now I'm pregnant and have gained back 17lbs so far (argh), but the band has made my weight loss pretty effortless as long as I got my fills & didn't eat slider foods. I am still optimistic once I have my baby, I will be able to take the weight off I am gaining, and finish getting to goal. I was 30lbs from goal when I found out I was pregnant. That being said, it's not for everyone. I know of another girl I've run into at his office during appointments, she's around my age.. banded 2 months before me and when I had lost 70lbs, she was gushing about having lost 10lbs (I guess this was somewhere around 8 months post op for me, 10 months post op for her). I don't know what she was doing different, but it's true that it can.. "not work" for some.

Risks of having it before are pretty standard.. gestational diabetes, pre-eclampsia, etc.. all the risks that come with an overweight pregnancy. Not really sure how to answer you, that's a personal decision. I personally wanted to wait till I lost weight-- I was crippled with back pain due to being overweight, and that was no way to be pregnant! I also was lucky not to have diabetes already and was pretty scared I would get the gestational diabetes. My doc said for RnY it is dangerous for babies early on due to malnutrition, and he has experienced many women having miscarriages due to this. Banders don't have this risk, but we have a lot of mental adjusting to do with the band. Re-learning how to eat healthy and conquer our demons. This also is not the best time to be pregnant. My doc said for banders, he prefers 1 year out. Some people's docs say no time, some say 2 years.. it varies. My opinion, because it's what I did, is to wait till post-band, post-decent weight loss, and when you've come to understand how the band is working in your body before introducing something new like.. a baby. Risks of pregnancy & band.. I think slippage, from being too tight or morning sickness. These are important things for you to ask your band doc, and obgyn. Then make the best decision for you.

Just got back from chic-fil-a, stayin at work till 7pm to go to a movie.. Decided to go get a salad, I love their salads w/honey mustard. So I go, almost get in a wreck cause traffic is ridiculous and this old lady (I cursed her out) wouldn't move her damn car so I could finish my u-turn into the turn lane.. Then I order my salad, she repeats it back.. I ask if the dressing is in there, guy said yup. I get back to work, LOCK MY KEYS IN MY CAR (for crying out loud) and then realize he gave me RANCH. I am just livid. LIVID. Really, I am flipping out. If I hadn't locked my keys in the car, I'd go back over there to cuss the kid out. Hormonal, or I just love my food? :/ Buttermilk ranch, gross. Now what? I was really craving their salad. Heard a wreck on the radio on the exit we take home, so I called Russell to make sure he wasn't in that wreck.. he wasn't, and at that moment I realized the dressing fiasco and was flipping out so he goes "Uhm.. ok, well, I'm ok..so I'm going to go now" heh. Going to have to get a ride with my parents and have Russ unlock my car tomorrow. Bummer, means I have to drive in rush hour tomorrow. I haaaaaate driving in rush hour, I don't do it anymore since I ride to work with Russell. If I have to bring my car for some reason (like doc today) I find ways not to have to drive home during it.. like staying at work till I go to the movie. Wah. Mom said it's the bovine syndrome (that I think she made up about pregnant women).

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Our zones are small luckily, the county line road we we live on, half of us vote at the fire house on our road, other half at a church on the same road.. so shouldn't be that many people. Russ & I are voting tomorrow. YAY! [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxhYampIl7A]YouTube - BTW I'm Voting For Mccain / Palin[/ame]

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We just got back from lunch and I am SO READY for a nap... Cedar-planked salmon & glass of milk

Congrats! Indeed, must avoid that LBT Water or else..

((Tracy)) keep us posted!! Hopefully it's just cysts or something! Haydee you looked super cute. I never did find my pirate costume, and about 15 minutes after handing out candy I changed into jeans & pumpkin t-shirt. Just got back from the gyno, took them a while to find the heartbeat, so I was getting nervous.. guess the nurse could tell cause she was going 'it's a little heart, it can be hard to find sometimes, don't worry!'. When she finds it, she always gives me this big sly smile that makes me feel akward--like I'm suppose to cry tears of joy, and my smile isn't adequate enough.. anyway. Normally it's been 150-160 bmp, which according to an old wives tale means it's a girl. Today it was 140 bmp, which according to old wives tale is a boy. My next appt (Dec. 8) they do the anatomy thing, and tell me if it's a boy or girl!! So excited. I told them DH doesn't want to know the sex, but he wants to be there for that ultrasound, so she was saying there's a slight chance he would be able to tell from the picture.. but I've looked up pictures of how they tell and it took me a lot of effort to figure out what I was looking at. Even little girls have 3 ball looking area, so I am fairly confident Russell will have no idea what he is seeing. Regardless, I will just tell the technician when to tell him to look away. Their parking is so bad, it's 2 small parking lots, that always fill up. I drove around 15m with no luck, so I finally illegally parked on a curb. I crossed my fingers I didn't get towed.. luckily I started a trend, a lot of people were parked on the curb when I came out, whew. They also looked at the rash on my back, she didn't want to touch it, she thinks it's ringworm. My GP thought it was ringworm and put me on meds, I did it for 2 weeks with no change so I stopped. She told me to try another cream.. Lotrimin I think. Doesn't both me though! She made a comment about my weight gain that made me want to melt into a puddle and hide. I know I'm gaining too much, I told her how I feel and I'm so hungry all the time. She said it's the progesterone, and asked if I should see a nutritionist.. no not really, it's not like I don't know how to eat.. she asked if the banding folks told me how to eat well-- yes, yes they did. It's not ignorance, it's.. will power. So whatever. Today Russ goes back on Atkins, I'm going to make a point to cut out sugars that aren't naturla (re: fruit). No more candy, cookies.. blah blah. Brought all my leftover halloween candy to work today, they betta eat it! Ok have a good one ya'll!

Make an appt. with your band doc and tell them what you're experiencing..

Just popping in real quick to say Terry the pepperocini roast was AWESOME!! I put a bag of instant rice in the juice the last 10 minutes, and served it together.. Russell loved it, one of a very few recipes he actually said he wants me to make again lol.

Haydee, I never know what my costumes are 'suppose' to be, they are really all soooo generic. This year is some medusa/athenian something or another. I just painted my face to look like cleopatra, but way too tired (I am having record number of yawns today) to do my hair so it's just in a messy uhm.. athenian bun, yeah that's it. You reminded me tho I had a sexy pirate costume, wonder how hard that would be to find. This athenian toga thing is itchy. I tasted the pepperocini roast, meat is very good.. the peppers holy cow, are so hot just touching one and licking it off my finger has had my mouth burning for 10 minutes now. Russell said some peppers get hotter when cooked, I'm wondering if that's it?? Trying to decide how to serve it, on a bun or over mashed potatoes or what.. ((((JANE))))

Bingo.. we're a small business also, and there's already been talk about what is going to happen if he is elected. Due to increased taxes, there will be layoffs. They are voting for Obama because they hear that they are going to receive run-off money like a gift (heh), yet what they don't realize is.. that money comes with loss of jobs, their jobs.

I took Terry's advice, had bacon & cheese snack for b'fast. I haven't wanted candy all morning, so I guess that's a good start! Went to lunch and I'm tight today, so I nibbled at some french fries. This morning I started the pepperoncini roast.. I just put it in, poured the jar on top and set it on low. Fingers crossed! I hope my house smells like pepperoncini tonight!!!

I never had this, so my initial reaction is go to your doc and see if you have an infection. Only smell I notice is when I eat onions, it smells like onions down yonder.. heh.

Preface is..There's nothing to judge in your story, you're not out to cause a fear-mongering based off of random (questionable) information that lacks specific details. I'm sorry the band didn't work out for you, and unfortunately it just doesn't work for all. Good luck with your surgery today and I hope you get relief!

Woohoo they look great!!

I am wearing a pumpkin shirt too!! And the nose flashes lol. I keep going around tapping the nose so it blinks. No one else wore anything halloween-y, then all of a sudden batman walks up.. good costume, I can't figure out who it is! I am working on our Christmas card this year, going to print it here. So far, I like it! Can't figure out what to put on the inside though.