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Janet, Tears did the trick!! They fit me in to their schedule for Monday!! They are only doing fills every other Monday.... TWICE a monthh!! I think I will be making my next appointment on Monday!!

Mmmmmmmmmm, yeah!! Starbucks!!

Yuma.. we spent a couple of days there two winters ago. Love going to Mexico. We both got new glasses. Will you be going to Quatzsite?? Always have to spend a day there!!

[quote name='nicnaknut;559400 :hungry:I will be about one and a half months post surgery at Thanksgiving and am worried about what I will be able to eat... Is anyone else stressing out about this or is it just me?? :help: Yes' date=' I've thought about it and decided I will be happy with a taste of everything! We will be spending that weekend with friends in SO CA and I am looking forward to that![/b'] Phyllser.... That's awful that you are having such a hard time getting your first fill... I agree with Foxygramma that I would check with my Dr to see if you can get on the cancellation list or try another Dr... Also you might want to check out Fill Centers USA to see if they have a place close to you to get a fill.... When I called back this morning, after shedding a few tears, the gal said she would make one more attempt and call me back.. She was able to get me in on MONDAY!! :whoo: Where do you and DH go in the winter? My DH and I live full time and travel in our motorhome. We have spent the summer here in northern California and will leave the 1st of October for Colorado for surgery and then travel to Arizona for the winter... We go to Desert Hot Springs, near Palm Springs, to a place called Sky Valley. We LOVE it there!! Where in Arizona do you go??

Kathy, Thanks for all you shared regarding your first fill. Very good information. Many of the things you wrote about were new to me. Its interesting how different each doctor, dietician, etc. can be regarding pre-oop and post-op guidelines. The "First Bite Syndrome" was interesting, and I REALLY liked that once a week TREAT suggestion! I had to smile when you mentioned TIM HORTON'S. I'm in the Seattle area, the supposed "Coffee Capital"!! I laughingly "don't get" the Tim Horton frenzy because I'm hooked on lattes! But, I'm a native Buffalonian and every time we go back for a visit I watch my sisters and nieces make runs to Tim Horton's coming back with trays full of coffee! They're all crazy about Tim Horton's. We're going to be in Buffalo later this month, in fact. I am very glad to be getting my fill before we go because it'll be easier for me to survive if I have some more restriction!! I love the Friday night fish fry tradition and I'm sure we'll be going with the family the first day we are there!! I'll be getting a child's portion, hopefully, and taking home leftovers! And then there's Ted's Hot Dogs!! No foot long for me this trip!! Maybe a few bites of someone else's!! That reminds me... every Wednesday we go to "Primetimers" at our church. There are various activities going on in the morning and then "free lunch" at noon. Its always a very nice home cooked hot meal, always good, and always desert is served! I am very careful about what I eat... everyone I normally sit with knows about my surgery and they're very supportive. But this one special friend always gives me the first bite of her desert! So each week I get a nibble of cake, or maybe ice cream, etc. It is a nice treat and usually the only time I have sweets every week! And now I better be quiet for a while!! Sorry!! :blabla:

Thanks, Chris. So I AM going to beat you, but not by too many days!

:update: First, thank you all for your concern, for sharing my frustration and anger over the postponement of my fill appointment. You are all such great Band Buddies! I appreciate each and every one of you!! I called this morning to speak with the person who schedules the fills. She was very sympathetic with my plight and when I reminded her that my surgery date was July 20th she said, "I know! I talked to the doctor about that." She went on to tell me that the first opening was Oct. 8th if I couldn't make the 9/24 appt. I guess at that point I lost it and started crying! I don't control my emotions very well and this is a very emotional issue, as you all know! She was feeling my pain and said she'd try again to see if she could get me in sooner and would call me back. Well, she did call me back, like in 10 minutes or less, and said she persuaded them to fit me in on Monday afternoon!! I think I will have to take her something Monday to show my appreciation.. a rose, or something! I am so grateful!! Breadlady, we are SO GLAD to have you back! Ruby, your thoughts were very sweet and I know touched all of us. I agree whole heartedly! Being on the west coast, I very often get "lonely" late at night when most of you have already gone to bed! My last resort is always the Chat Room! My motivating factors... I think I got to a point of desparation. I was so tired of being so fat! When we started going to RV parks for the winter I saw so many folks 10-20-even 30 years older than me who were in much better shape and I realized how badly I wanted to be more active, and how much I want to enjoy as many more retirement years as I possibly can!

Did you go to CPUser and try to edit your signature? I did a copy/paste of the bbc code and it worked.

C'mon over to this thread: http://www.lapbandtalk.com/f15/place-bandsters-their-60s-40106/

Chris45: I don't think you OR Chim will be the last July Bandsters to get a fill!! My dr's office left me a message today that they rescheduled my fill for Sept 24!! I as so mad I didn't even write down the time. It doesn't matter because I will be in New York state visiting my mother and sisters from the 20th-29th. The message went on to say that if that date didn't work for me their next available is OCT 8!! :faint: I CRIED AGAIN!! My surgery date was July 20.... Oct 8 is like 11 1/2 weeks past that!! Give me a break!! :help: So, I've been freaking out mad all evening! I got the message like ONE MINUTE too late to call them back. Their phones shut down at 5 pm! So I have to wait until morning to call back and throw my fit! And I WILL!! :mad: Turns out this research study nurse left a message, too, and wants me to call back and let her know how I'm doing! Boy! Is she going to get an earful!!?? I'm going to call her first before I call back the fill scheduling ladies! Maybe she can persuade them Oct 8 is WRONG!! And, that gives me less than a month for any more tweaking before we leave for the winter! I agree that under fluroscopy is a GOOD thing and maybe they'll get it right the first time, but I think its unreasonable for them to expect me to wait 2 1/2 months for my first fill!! Another bitch of mine... sorry... I am sooo angry!! I have had four appointments at that clinic... three with the doctor and one with his physicians assistant. ALL THREE appointments with the doctor were cancelled BY THEM and rescheduled!! And I had to call and call and call and BEG for my surgery date!! So my DH thinks we should fly up for Christmas and schedule an appointment for another fill. Yeah, right!! So they can call me and cancel it after we spent $$$$ to fly up here!! Anyway, Janet, you are doing GREAT!! I'm so proud of you for all that walking you're doing! I am so hoping I can start to do some walking before too long. I am trying very hard to walk more, but my left knee hurts pretty bad. I am thinking maybe a recumbent bike would be a good way to exercise. But I am so ready to be at Sky Valley and doing my water aerobics every day!! I can't wait!!l I could go for some pizza!! if they don't treat me right tomorrow I might need another TREAT!! :hungry: I'm so bad!! Marcy, I LOVED your proposed dialogue!! That was a kick! My DH probably couldn't pull it off, but it was sure funny. Oh.. and you know what.. that Mongolian Grill.. their lunch time spread did NOT include the prawns and crab... that's only for dinner! So I got to have their puny little strips of meat that cook away to nothing! I am a seafood NUT! I could live in Alaska just for the seafood!

I had this uncontrollable desire to put something over on them! I figured out who it was that sent me those emails just by looking at them! One was older and bitchy looking... it had to be her. and it was SO FUN to wait until she was in the back room and the other girl was occupied somewhere else... i think she ducked in to the rest room!! Then I looked at my DH & said, okay... NOW!! And he pulled out the container and I dumped my food in to it!! It was really GREAT FUN!! I probably wont' go back, though, for the reasons you stated. I just had this compulsion to do it to them ONCE!!

I don't know Denise. I did a search quite a few times over several days before I finally found the right thread today. Hello, all! I am enjoying reading all of your posts. I will be 64 in Nov and was banded July 20. I was supposed to have my first fill today, but much to my disappointment, my dr's office cancelled my appointment stating they are changing their procedures and doing fills only on Mondays and only under fluoroscopy. When they called me back today it was to give me an appointment date of Sept. 24!! I will be out of state visiting family then. The message stated that if that date didn't work for me the next available was Oct. 8!! I am really upset because that will be 2 1/2 mos after my surgery with no fill!! Also, we leave for the winter around Nov. 1st so that leaves very little window for additional fills if necessary. Sorry!! I need to stop whining and complaining. I just want to get on with this! I have very little restriction with no fill. I'm hungry, i can't lose any weight. I can so much relate to all of you.. the joint problems, high blood pressure, etc. No diabetes.... yet. I can't walk long distances. I use a handicap scooter around the neighborhood and when we go shopping, etc. And, yes, my DH does EVERYTHING... cooking, cleaning, etc. I sometimes do the laundry and he helps with the lifting. But I'm ready to get back to living! I got the nickname, Auntie Phyl, from some gals on one of the other threads.... they're all younger!

Okay, so I "deserved" a treat because my fill appointment got cancelled, so it seemed an appropriate day to go to the Mongolian grill for lunch.. the "no doggie bags, no sharing" place. We took a Tupperware container inside a grocery bag and put it in my scooter basket under my purse. My DH filled his bowl to overflowing, mine was about 3/4 full... we saw a big guy almost 7 ft tall fill TWO bowls to overflowing!! The meat is frozen, shaved so thin you can see through it and those rolls look like a lot more meat than they cook down to so I didn't take enough meat but I had a lot of great veggies... cabbage, broccoli, onions, carrots, celery, etc. and a few noodles... which swell up a LOT when they cook them. My DH took our bowls over to the grill to be stir fried. When its done, they servie it on plastic trays. I ate until I could tell it was time to stop.... maybe 1/2 of what I had.. probably about a cup or cup and a half. Then when both of the waitresses were otherwise occupied with their backs to us, we whipped out the Tupperware and slid the rest of my lunch into the container,snapped the lid shut and put it back in the basket under my purse!! SUCCESS!! I successfully ripped off MY food which I paid for but which I was specifically told I COULD NOT TAKE HOME!! TA DA!! :whoo::whoo::whoo::whoo::whoo::whoo::whoo: I called my surgeon's office to reschedule my fill appointment this morning. Yesterday it was "the girls" who do the scheduling were gone for the day. Today I was told that Steve, the Dr's right hand man, RN who manages his patients, had to make the appointment and he was "BUSY" working on that. He's supposed to call me back later today. Every time they tell me Steve will call me later in the day its more like three days later before he calls me!! Hope everyone is having a GREAT day!!

Thanks, Janet. I should've figured that out. I'm already subscribed to that thread!! Duh!! Glad your fill went fairly well today. Can't wait for mine!

Hi, Can you post the link for the over 60 thread? I've tried doing a search, but can't find it. I never can find anything with that search tool!!

Hi, All, Kathy.... yes, three days IS a BIG DEAL!! I had a frustrating development today. :update: Late this afternoon I discovered a message on my phone telling me to call my dr's office. When I did, I was told NOT to come in for my fill appt tomorrow!! Seems they've been having some "problems" with fills and have decided on a new policy... all fills done under fluoroscopy! AND... they are no longer doing them on Thursdays and Fridays but ONLY on Mondays. AND... the "girls" that do the scheduling for fills were gone for the day by the time I called in so I'm supposed to wait for a phone call regarding a new appointment! I cried!!:think :hurt I am hoping its not too late to get in on Monday. On Friday it will be seven weeks since my surgery and I am more than READY for this fill!! A friend directed me to another lapband site and I found some GREAT recipes to try. Here is the URL: http://lapbandtransformation.com/threstaurant.htm Now.... who was it that posted that question for the day?? Chim?? Eating Triggers: boredom, for sure. How about just plain food addiction? If I know something is available.... say, chocolate, it will "talk" to me until I go get some. Also, when I need some comforting. Like when all that happened this afternoon about my fill, my DH didn't understand why I was crying. Like, no big deal, they can probably get you in Monday. What's THREE MORE DAYS?? Yeah, three days in the WRONG direction... not like Kathy's THREE MORE DAYS!! So, I got on my Blue Bomb... my handicap scooter, and took off for the shopping center across the street where I got myself a latte... sugar free, fat free milk, probably 100 cal, but I "needed" a treat! (And I could scoff at the HOT IRON MONGOLIAN GRILL as I went by!!) Oh, that reminds me... I asked the young gal making my latte if she had eaten at the new restaurant yet... the afore mentioned GRILL!! She said she had and it wasn't that great. So I told her I was pissed off at them and of course she wanted to know why. So I told her my sordid story, that they refused (by email) to allow me to order a child's portion AND told me I couldn't have a take home box. SO this gal says, "I can't believe that! I took my leftovers home when I ate there!!" How about that!!?? So now here's my plan: we're going to go eat lunch there one day :hungry: and we're going to take our own plastic container (which I can hide nicely in my scooter basket). Then when I've eaten what I can, I will ask for a take out box. If they don't have any, I'll use the container I brought with me... when no one is looking, and put it back in the bottom of my basket!! Sound like a plan?? :biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1::biggrin1: Well, I guess that's enough of my rambling for now!! I enjoy each and every post and thank you all for your willingness to share!!

Ha Ha!! That's what my DH said, too!! Bring our own container!! I might try that. What can they do?? Arrest me?? Tell me I can't come back?? Boo Hoo!!

My first fill is Thursday. I'm very anxious. I'm ready!

Janet, I am SOOO ready for my fill, also!! Mine is this week, Thursday & I can't wait!! I have very little restriction (other than my DH!! HA! He's relaxed quite a bit on that! ) I'm getting pretty hungry between "feedings"!! Some days are worse than others. And I am fighting "head hunger" a lot!! I did pretty good so far today. We had to get up very early to pick up our daughter & SIL from the airport (returned from Hawaii on a "red eye"), so we went out to breakfast on the way home. I ordered a Sr. Citizen (2 egg) omelet with hash browns & english muffin. I could only eat half. I ate the other half about three hours later. Then I lasted 4 hrs and had a shrimp cocktail. I do okay with lettuce, and no problem with shrimp. I LOVE my seafood!! I found a local support group last week. It was nice to have a face to face with other lap band folks. They told me about this "flat iron steak" that the Fred Meyer stores here sell. We bought one the other day and it was nice and tender. My brain is bouncing all over the place... things popping in and out... So here's another issue... There is a Mongolian Grill that opened up across the street from us. Their policy as stated online says "no sharing, no doggie bags". So I emailed them asking them to explain their no doggie bag policy and asking if I could order a child's portion. I've had two emails today from the manager and she refuses to give an inch. They have NO senior citizen's price and won't let me order a child's portion. She's adamant about the no doggie bag rule because they are an all-you-can-eat buffet. So now I understand that, but I explained the lap band surgery to her and she refuses to make any concession. Says she can't grant special privileges to certain customers. So I guess we just won't go eat there! We have eaten out quite a bit since my surgery and I have had no problem ordereing off the children's menu anywhere else! Janet, my DH is happy about the PS area gas price you quoted!! It's very close to what we are paying here in the Seattle area. Two more months and we'll be heading south! I can't wait!!

CONGRATS, Band Buddy!!! :clap2::whoo::clap2::whoo::clap2::whoo::clap2::whoo::clap2::whoo::clap2::whoo::clap2:

Oh, Boy, CC!! I can so much relate to what you are saying!! Same frustrations. My first fill is this Thursday and I'm hoping things will turn around!

Yes, been there several times. Visited them twice, I think, while they were living in Coquille and once or twice since they moved to Myrtle Point. May stop again in Nov for a few days on our way south.

Thanks, Chim! I guess I KNOW that in my head, but still scares me that I can't seem to lose anything right now. I've been stalled pretty much this whole month!!

I hear ya, Baby!! I'm there, too. One more week until my 1st fill. I' hungry 1 1/2 - 2 hrs after eating. Gained back a couple of pounds and can't get rid of them!! :faint: :help: :faint: :help: :faint: :help: :faint:

Hi, My brother-in-law is Coquille hospital administrator. He & my sister live in the next town over... Myrtle Point... or Myrtle Creek... I get them mixed up!!