Laurie Daniel-Heck Huckeba

I had the flu in March and I'm thinking I slipped. I am in Alaska too - Anchorage and unfortunately my surgery was many years ago in CA so I have to wait 6 weeks to see the bariatric doc here - he's gone the entire month of July. I'm going to have a miserable 6 weeks. VERY frustrating. I want my band removed. It's been crooked for 5 year and I've limped along and now this is just the final straw for me. Time for it to go. I too am about 40 lbs from goal and I've been here forever since eating "good" food is really hard and I resort to stuff that isn't necessarily great for weight loss or health.

Oh yeah...you're allergic to the steri strips. I'm super allergic to them and within a couple hours have blisters. I had back surgery and they apparently didn't listen to me about the steri strips and by the next morning, I was a mess! I just tore them off and took an antihistimine for a few days to help with the crazy itching.