TrishS

Welcome to LBT, and congrats on your Lap Band surgery. I personally do not know of anyone who got the LB over the bypass, but I have heard of it being done. Maybe someone on here knows more about it.

wow very touching, thanks for sharing

Like Vines said everyone goes through "is this the right thing?" But you know only YOU can make that choice. I am one of the "infection" people and I will tell you I would still get the band knowing what I know now, in fact I am getting my band replaced... so that shows YES I would do it again. There are so many people that have the band.. if you look at the big picture there are only a small handful of people that have problems. and A lot of them are getting rebanded. But like I said before It is YOUR choice. About your Dr. maybe they just dont really know what to do until you can actually go in and see him, maybe they will be more intrested when your actually a paitent. Or someone there could of been having a bad day. I dont know... just throwing ideas out. Good luck with everything!

This is a GREAT sites... I even printed out some stuff. I watch that show Knitty Gritty... but dang that some hard stuff for me, and they so fast I cant even see what they are doing, plus I dont know all the knitting lingo yet. I also bought be a beginners crochet book its a really small sone and shows you 30 diffrent stitches... I cant wait to get started on that.

Yeah mine is healing up a bit... I am not in much pain. Here are my before and afters,

Penni... remember the pictures I showed you before... It looks 100% better then that. That picture above looks bad because we have not cleaned it yet.. there is a lot blood around there... I will email you what the hole looks like cleaned. and I will email the old one too so you can compare it. But you know I do feel pretty good about it, I am just fustrated with the long time.... its hasnt been that long but ugh!! you know?..... I will email you now..

Yeah thats what my Dr says too. But sometimes it just freaks me out seeing it that green... and its a pretty green LOL the hole is still deep and it seems like its taking forever to heal. I cant wait so i can get my new band!

I am seeing a Wound Specialist once a week... She knows about the green color and says it is a good sign. She called it Filiment or something I am not sure. It has no odor.

You want to see gross? BEWARE!!!!! This is with the old packing still in... from yesterday..... But its still green very green.... I guess thats good.

Picture might be gross to some.. look at your own risk!!! I dont think it is that gross it is just showing the Green color of the gauze.

Welcome to LBT! It will be nice to have a bariatric Dr. to help answer questions. Nice to meet you too!

I posted this link a month ago or so... I ordered mine then but it has not arrived yet. Good cause too!

Vicki, Yeah I hear ya on the keeping hands away from the food and just full of yarn..... and I am sure the yarn does not taste good.. LOL Jill - I have wanted to try looming... it seems fun. Is it hard to learn? maybe I will get me a looking kit for my birthday... I love buying myself stuff for my birthday LOL

cashley I have this really neat CD showing the diffrent stitches... just the simple ones I have not see it but it seems pretty good. I have an extra one if you want it.

I dont have a job to play hooky from... but when my hubby plays hooky we either go shopping (window shopping) or rent a movie and relax and grill... nice!

Awwwwwww just to cute!!!! You want to pinch thier cheeks!!!

Wow, doesnt sound pleasant at all. Last time I had numbing before a fill I got an infection and now I have no port just a big hole!

I am 29, will be 30 in 8 days.. AHHHHH I wanted to be down 100 pounds by my 30th birthday but that doesnt look like it will happen. I am married with no children. I just borrow everyone elses..... I am down 50pounds since my surgery in April 2005. I know I have a leak in my band right now. But I an still fighting to get it replaced and for me to start over!

That is very exciting! Congrats!

I guess I am a failure too, or a mechanical failure. I dont think people use thier words correctly. That person was probably not trying to be mean, but they just didnt say it right what they wanted to know I guess... just my thought.

KIm glad to see you are doing good. (((((((((((BIG HUGS))))))))))

OMG That was so funny! Thanks for sharing it. I cant wait for my hubby to see tonight he is going to pee his pants LOL

:confused: I am going crazy! I still have a lot of pus coming out my wound, I really thought I was getting better. Maybe I still am getting better but with the wound pussing like it is, I am sure it slows down the healing time. But I really dont know. I go in to the Wound Specialist on Thursday so maybe she will see if there is anything that I should be doing diffrently. All this scares me, because I need to get a job. I am worried about being around 100 or more people in the same building with a wound like mine. But then it so hard with some of the money problems we are having. Then over all once I do heal, I want to have surgery again.. and that time I will need off to recover. Will a new job even let me take time off like that. There is so much to think about I am going crazy! :girl_hug: or just feel like I am, everything is so over whelming. I did take up Knitting Oh what a wonderful thing to do to get my mind off of things. It is so relaxing. All I can do is make scarfs for now but hopefully I will be able to make a lot more then just that. But for now I am really enjoying myself. So between my ceramics and now my knitting, it is helping me keep my mind off of all the bad things in my life. To bad I cant knit my problems away as fast as the yarn goes down. I have not weighed myself, because one day I was so excited I saw 283 and then I was back up to 287.. Hmmmmm I guess I will just have to wait and see what happens when I get my new band. I still have my hopes up about getting my new band. I cant wait!!!!

:cool: I am going crazy! I still have a lot of pus coming out my wound, I really thought I was getting better. Maybe I still am getting better but with the wound pussing like it is, I am sure it slows down the healing time. But I really dont know. I go in to the Wound Specialist on Thursday so maybe she will see if there is anything that I should be doing diffrently. All this scares me, because I need to get a job. I am worried about being around 100 or more people in the same building with a wound like mine. But then it so hard with some of the money problems we are having. Then over all once I do heal, I want to have surgery again.. and that time I will need off to recover. Will a new job even let me take time off like that. There is so much to think about I am going crazy! or just feel like I am, everything is so over whelming. I did take up Knitting Oh what a wonderful thing to do to get my mind off of things. It is so relaxing. All I can do is make scarfs for now but hopefully I will be able to make a lot more then just that. But for now I am really enjoying myself. So between my ceramics and now my knitting, it is helping me keep my mind off of all the bad things in my life. To bad I cant knit my problems away as fast as the yarn goes down. I have not weighed myself, because one day I was so excited I saw 283 and then I was back up to 287.. Hmmmmm I guess I will just have to wait and see what happens when I get my new band. I still have my hopes up about getting my new band. I cant wait!!!!

I know I have not wrote on here for a while. But not much has changed until now. I have been so excited about my wound closing up it seems to get better everyday....until last night. I was watching a movie and I just couldnt keep my eyes open.. I started to get really cold and I went outside (80 degrees) and I started shivering. I knew this meant I had an infection brewing up. I went to take a warm bath (water does not touch my covered wound area) and when I looked at the gauze over my wound I noticed it looked green. So when my husband came home he repacked my wound and the packing that was in there was covered in pus.. (it had normally be really red blood throughout) there was a little pink but it was mostly greenish white pus. I didnt say anything I just laied there with tears in my eyes. Sometimes I just want to bang my head on the wall out of fustration I just want to be normal again. Who knows when I will get my band replaced and who knows if its not even messed up now. I am so scared that I will go get my new band and I will wake up to nothing. I guess I just have to see what happens. I am going to have to look for a job soon. My husband pay check was just about cut in half and we are barely living. He is having to work overtime just so we can pay rent. He wants me to work at T Mobile call center, but I am scared about being around so many people with this open wound. Oh well I guess I dont have a choice. I will be applying there Tuesday. Wish me luck! I am praying for a better day today!!!