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OMG Kathy she looks just like you, you have a mini me. She's beautiful!!!! Your kitchen looks great. Once again, I am jealous. We STILL can't get a plumber to start our job. We got one to give us a price, 7000.00 to put in one bathroom, fixtures not included. That's highway robbery!!!! Lynette - I was thinking the same thing. Somebody just pulled a Felicia on us. BTW were is Felicia????

Hello everyone, Jeanie mentioned this thread is her new obession. Mine too. I don't post a lot, but I have to check a minimum of 4 times a day. I kept checking yesterday waiting for Aunty Phyl to come back. Aunty Phyl, when you posted yesterday I was so happy!! Aunty Phly's back the same day. YEAH.!!!!! :clap2:Thanks so much, I'm am still getting scared sometimes, but I can do this. When I went to my pre-op at the surgery center everyone was soooo nice, I know I'll be fine. Sunny - My Mom is also with me, for the past 5 months now. All I can say is it ain't easy. In the words of one of our school psychologists I come from a FUFF. F......ed Up Family. Jackie - Your pre-op diet sounds like a nightmare. Thank God I didn't have to do that. My is like: 4 optifast drinks per day, dinner 3oz lean meat, and 1/2 cup veg. and thats only the worst day.

Wrangler - Glad all went well, congrats. Ms. Pris - I'm so sorry, but I also believe things happen for a reason. This mishap could have saved you from something. God only knows.

Thanks Lynette!!!!!!!!

Lynette - Thanks! Chim - About the rude GNC dude. If he ask you why you have to have this and you can't use that, Look him straight in the eye, expressionless and say, "Because it makes me invisible."

Hello Everyone, I'm back from my pre-op appointment. I met the anestheiologist at the surgical center. He was nice and the place was very clean and nice looking. Then I had an appointment with my surgeon. He was really running behind on appointments. Like 2hrs. So this morning thing took all day long. However, after today I am much calmer about everything. About the DaVinci Syrups if ya'll have "World Market" in your area they have a large selection. I asked my surgeon if the lapband he uses has two sizes, cause I wanted to know how he decides the size. He said he uses a new one that only comes in one size. He said he has been using it for 6mths. I saw this new band when I was searching the web Tues. I saw it on a Dr.s website that was on Obesityhelp.com. On his site he said he was the only Dr. using it. I guess he ain't. Anybody know about this new band, anybody have it?

Good luck to everyone having surgery tomorrow!!!!!!! I have my pre-op appointment tomorrow, so I have to be up really early. Nighty Night everyone.

I love it when someone has surgery and comes back to post the same day. Thanks TINK! It really encourages me, cause I'm kinda scared sh......less. In at 7, home by 12. WOW I can do this.

Congratulations Holly Sue :clap2: Lainy and everyone else there's a great thread started by people who have already been banded for awhile, it list what they love so far. It great motivation and very uplifting. Check it out, and start working on your list. http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f17/share-us-what-has-improved-you-37441/

Gosh, so many people having bad luck today. Dini - OMG, glad you didn't hurt yourself bad. Lynette - Hope you feel better. My doctor also said bread should be dry, like toasted or crackers, but it's like one of the last things you should add to your new diet Patti - Hope you feel better too Lainy - Every seen the movie ELF with the guy from Sat. night live? It puts me in a good mood. He's just so child like and happy you have to laugh. I can't recommend it enough, I love it. Hope you feel better too! Now I'm gonna sing a song, cause I don't won't no Gris Gris on me. The sun will come out tomorrow, bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow They'll be Sun. :) :) Dini and Auntie Phyl loved your pictures!!!

WOW this thread is awesome. I have six days left until surgery, and everyday I get more afraid. All I have to do is read these posts and I calm down.

Phyl - Your pictures didn't come through on my computer.

Kathy - Where I live we only had minor damage. Thank God, but many people are still living in Fema trailors around here. I also think I am going home after surgery without spending the night.

Kathybad - You are such a great person!! I'm a disciplinarian at my school so I see the hell many of students come from. You are so lucky you get to remodel. I want to build a garage with a bathroom, and we can't get a freakin plumber to start the job. I'm down here in Katrina land, you would think after two years we could get contractors but it looks like it's impossible. Renee - Scroll to the top of the page, click on new post, read the list, and you will see the polls, there is 2.

When I was typing my previous post my DH was looking so I had to explain to him what this was. I told him he will have to post ya'll a message if something happens to me. So he says, "I can't do that, you type up a letter in case you die, and I'll post it." I tell you that man loves me!!!! Is that sweet or what? Question - I have a 2 story house with my bed upstairs. How long do you think it will be before I can make it up the stairs after surgery? Wrangler - I also have Panic Attacks, been on med. for 16yrs. My major fear is the anesthesia, I am praying I don't flip out.

Good Morning All, Yes it's noon, and I'm finally up. It's summer, and I'm a night owl. I only have two or three more weeks till I have to get up at 5:30 everyday. dmtjet - Ann Wilson from Heart also has a Lap band. Cazulay - I think you asked about the scale I bought. It is a Health O Meter from Walmart. You can program up to 4 people in it. Starting weight and height and it calculates losses or gains. It also does body fat, but the number is wrong cause it also does something with how hydrated you are. I like it so far. dieka32 - OMG Wow! Glad your feeling better. ReneeMarie- I'm also nesting. I actually mopped the whole downstairs yesterday, and I don't mop!!!!! tnavarro5 - Welcome, and your doing great. About telling - So far I have told my family and the people who I work with at school. About my camping buddies, their not fat so that's a different story. The last time we went camping some chick comes sit by our fire and proceeds to tell us how she's now eating protien at every meal and counting carbs. I'm like I stave, and I can't lose weight. And their like you have to eat. And I'm like, I've 44, been fat forever, tried everything and I NEVER FREAKIN THOUGHT OF THAT!!! I am so glad you told what I need to do. She speaks for about 30mins. about what her skinny ass does to keep off her extra 15lbs she put on. So I have decided to tell camping buddies. I am counting carbs, I eat protien at every meal, and about 800 calories a day. I know they sure and the hell couldn't live like that so let them wonder. :biggrin1:

MsPris - You can do it!!!!!!! Good Luck Everyday I tell myself. This is the last July 12th I will put these big pants on. This is the last July 13th I will be embarrassed to walk in Wal-Mart cause I'm so fat. This is the last July 14th I will be this fat cause next July I will be HOT, and I do not mean hot as in it's 100 degrees outside.

Hi Peaches, I'm not a nurse but Imodium is one of the things my doctor said to have for after the surgery. So it should be O.K.

Hi Everyone, I just got back for Wal-mart. I bought a fancy new scale that can track your weightloss. And what a freakin coincidence I weigh exactly the same thing as my 6 foot 1 husband. If I wasn't gettin my band I think I might be suicidal. :angry Welcome KC1228 your gonna get the band on the same day as me. Yippee!

Hi Everyone, This will be quick cause the family's waiting for me to go to the Wal-Mart with them. I live on the Westbank of the Mississippi River from New Orleans. I'm about 10 miles from the now world famous Super Dome. I'm 44, been married for 23 years, and have two children and a Westie. My daughter is 22, and my son is 15. I taught school for 16yrs. and now work in administration. The lap band is what I'm buying with my raise. This is my 4th day on the pre-op diet, and I'm a little hungry. People eating food on the TV are ticking me off. We also like to go RVing, but my elderly Mom is living with us now so it's hard to leave. I have to go the family is complaining about leaving for Wal-Mart. I don't think they understand that they should not be threatening a hungry fat woman.

Hey Lynette, My doctor said no grits because they expand in your stomach. My neice had the gastric bypass about a year ago, and she just had grits. She said they made her sick. So go slow on the grits.

Hello Everyone, Lynette- your son is adorable, I'm jealous, I haven't had a baby around in 15 years. I always used to make my son say he'd never stop giving me kisses. Now I only get a kiss when he wants something. The only thing I get to snuggle is the dog. Icy - No pain meds. :omg:OMG, my doctor wouldn't get away with that crap. Ask him if he could take a vasectomy with a tylenol, the schmuck.:angry This is my second day on my pre-op diet, so far so good. I haven't beaten anyone up yet.

Welcome Holly Sue, I thought I had to start my pre-op diet tomorrow. However, I recounted and I am free to eat for one more day. I hope I can tolerate the protien shakes my doctor told me to buy. 235.00! worth of Optifast.

My first visit was 175.00 and the band will be 13,500.00. Cash.

Chimboree- I was just wondering did you have to take antibiotics for H-pylori? In May, I had my first appointment with the clinic. They tested me for H-Pylori, said I was positive and gave me antibiotics. Major antibiotics for 2 weeks. I finish them, and 2 weeks later I get a bladder infection. What's up with that? So then I have to go on antibiotics again. I finished those about two weeks ago.