Telecia

to much of a change in your diet to suddenly cant cause it also. Its best to talk to your doctor since he/she might want to run tests.

There are several rescues in my area that use petfinder.com if the ones in your area don't use petfinder. you can also call the local humane society or pound etc. And ask. Most times they have a good idea of any rescues in your area because alot of times they will work together. And since most depend largely on volunteers you will be amazed at what they can help you with in order to get a a pet a good home. :huh2: And I have been considering getting a dog also After Surgery. I couldn't have one now because I would have to depend on my kids for walking one. And I'd much rather have a reason for walking in our apartment complex then just getting the mail. Plus our cat just don't much. I like to have a pet to play fetch/ball etc with. that doesn't sleep 95% of the time. I've always been more of a dog person

The same kind of parent that watches his/her kids vandilize/bully/disrespect everyone/thing around them to start with. And didn't bother teaching them any better.

I used to use a product called magic shave for years to remove the hair there. But once I became diabetic now it breaks me out badly. So now the DH does the trimming for me using a electric trimmer. And I return the favor as we neither can stand it when it turns into a major forest. lol

You also might wanna call your medicaid caseworker and explain the whole thing to them. I don't know if they can do allot. But I do know that if he has insurance that will cover her they will do what they can to shift costs to his insurance. And I know here you have to contact them first to get through legal aid anyhow. Next time I go in for my quarterly review I'm sending them after my deadbeat ex. Which they will do so gladly at no cost to me since my kids get medicad.

Mine has been a slow buildup of things but I think the real kickers -losing 2 people one aunt and one uncle this last year. My uncle was on full time oxygen had to use a scooter full time and had had 3 different WLS in his life all which failed for him. My aunt who is and has always been my favorite person in the family also passed away this year she was only 10 years older then me and we were roughly the same weight. This devistated me and depressed me at the same time. Then a month or so later Doc said I had high blood pressure. Put me on meds. Another month after that put me on a second blood pressure medicine.. I looked down one morning at the 15 pills, I have to take each morning and realized I HAD to do something. And something drastic since nothing had worked in the past. The tv show on A&E probably helped also. I am tired of being a hermit, restricted on where I can go and what I can do. I've had it with that part of my life and ready to change it.

When dieting i used to do jewelry, get hair/nails/pedicure or a new purse, shoes, or just set myself a price limit and go browse your favorite store and look at things you wouldn't normally buy for yourself. I haven't even had surgery yet and I know what I am going to do for the first goal I reach. I have been wanting a breadmaker for YEARS. but every time I look at them I can't justify the cost of it. But my other half pointed something out to me. If I have one I will be more likely to make healthier breads. hehe he is getting a bit tired of me griping about the costs of whole grain breads I suppose. They can get costly and my kids hoover through bread like mad.

Ive been working on slowing down taking smaller bites and not drinking while I await my approval. And the hardest one is the drinking with meals. Can't seem to get that one yet. resorted to only keeping a 4 oz glass and taking tiny sips while eating. I've also noticed that if I make a effort to make sure the meal isn't real dry its easier not to drink. But I'm still trying to kick that habit and its hard cause I drink allot. My step mom when my brothers were little always made them wait till AFTER the meal to drink which always puzzled me till recently. Because now they are both in the upper 20's and still don't drink with a meal but they don't have weight problems either. Go figure.

the liaqid/mushy stage is for healing. Since they stitch the band around your stomach, scar tissue has to build up to hold the band firmly in place. To avoid slipping. As you digest your stomach churns (moves) Since liquids need no churning and mushys very little it allows that layer of scar tissue to build up over the band.

its your body protesting the drastic change in diet is all. It takes time to get used to it. But it never hurts to call the doctor and ask.

definatly sounds like time for another sleep test. Being a CPAP user for 12 years I know what your going through. once when i lost around 100 lbs My cpap started getting uncomfortable waking up with a stomach full of air. Which promptly came up as soon as I sat up. My other half still jokes about the burps that had teeth. Or that took 2 minutes to finish. lol. If your still drying out with a passive humidifier then you might not be getting enough fluids daily, the humidity in your home is to low (common in winter) If the humidity in the house drops below 65 for me my skin dries out and so does my nose bad. Or you need a heated humidifier. Allot of times you really have to fight to get heated ones cause insurance companys don't like to cover them but its worth it. The 6 or so degrees that the air drops in temp because its moving can really wreck havoc on your sinuses which have to work twice as hard to heat/moisturize the air as It passes through. If you have allot of weight to lose expect for more sleep tests. I know they aren't pleasant but you shouldn't have to suffer with poor sleep.

AMEN to that!! Guess thats why I don't have many female friends outside family I CAN'T STAND drama and BS. Most guys don't bother. And thankfully I know a couple other females who don't wanna live soap opera lives. lol But my ex was an expert people manipulator. So I have an extra deep hatred for that kind of behavior.

Its like any other complicated process sometimes you gotta learn the simplest parts of the process first in order to understand more to figure out the harder parts. I mean heck you don't just hand a intern the scalpel and say perform brain surgery now. The have to start with the basics then once mastered move on to the more complex.

Call the police make a report. Ask the neighbors if they saw anything.. Do you have a webcam? Or video camera you can put in the window and let run?? One house we lived in years ago we had this problem.. After the 3rd holiday in a year our yard got trashed I *Borrowed/babysat* A friends greatdane and put him right in the front yard on a runline complete with doghouse. And we installed motion senser floodlights. And replaced the decorations. The next 3 years living there we had no more troubles. It was worth the cost to reseed the grass where the dog ran it dead in the month I kept him.

More then likely it was explained to them since most surgeons require you go to seminars then personally talk to the patient about everything all over again. And then send home documentation. But allot of times I think people don't listen, or don't quite understand an are afraid/embarrased for whatever reason to speak up and say "I don't get it can you explain this to me more?" You will also have people that only hear what they want to hear and ignore everything else. Or take their *friends/relatives* experiences/opinions to heart as fact and then don't listen to the staff/surgeon. Then there are the type who their personal doctors recommends the surgery and they just do it without really truly being informed or doing research past their own doctors words.

kids that young are easy to fill their stockings with, some of my favorites, flavored lip balms, matchbox cars (unwrapped) Jewelry for the girls. hit the dollar store or the party aisle at walmart/target/kmart for squirt guns, bubbles, balloons, crayons, the little girls washable makeup items, pocket puzzles, plastic army men or dinosaurs etc, BATTERIES for their other toys(I always do rechargables). SF candy would be great, fruit roll ups indivdually wrapped, nuts, I love to go walmart or someplace and get each kid a personalized christmas ornament engraved, walmart has them for like 1.98 or ones that hold photos kids LOVE having their own ornaments to add to the tree each year. My SIL usually makes them handmade ones with their names and year on it, out of simple things like popsicle sticks and pipe cleaners etc. I always took the stocking items off the big cardboard backing and just droped them in the stocking. Wrapping specially selected items. And only adding a small amount of candy.

egads where to begin. Embroidery, kneedlepoint, sewing, plastic canvas, woodcrafts, painting, refinish & stencil furniture. flower arranging, painting figurines. website creation & graphics, jewlerymaking. Things I have done but haven't in years, weaving, ceramics, drawing, knitting, latch hook, dollmaking, stuffed animal creating, home demolition & remodeling, interior design, writing, theatre set design, woodcarving. Guess I'm a jack of all trades, I am REALLY bad about going through walmart or hobbyloby and spotting a item that sends me on a spurt of creating something. I drove my exnuts thankfully my mate now is very patient and supportive of my habits. Then 98% of the time giving it away to family or friends as gifts. lol. My son is a junk collector and often brings in odd bits of furniture that just needs a bit of TLC to make it useable. I'm the only person I know who has dark purple bookshelves with gold moon/stars motif. lol. And years ago when my stepmom got pregnant I just had to make my baby sis a whole set of items for her nursery from the embroidered quilt, matching sheets, bumperpad, matching doll. embroidered height chart, bibs, and even the crib mobile all done in clowns. When my MIL was still active before alzheimers took her memories, we used to bake/crafts sales often. For her church/clubs. she would mostly make pies and crochet doilies and I would do tons of others things depending on what things I was working with at the time. And we used to have great fun.

snowblower, or pay one of the neighbor kids to do it for you. lol. I am sooo glad we are in a apartment this year and they do the shoveling. My only complaint is they don't start till 8am and often many (my kids are in school by 7am) have to go out before that.. The guys at my apartment complex use snow blowers, salt spreaders and a Bobcat on the parking lots. But man it's nice not to have to do more then clean off the van.

As someone who has had sleep apnea for 15 years now and been on many a forum and BB for it. The UPPP surgery doesn't have a very good success rate at all. And can be a tremendiously painfull surgery to recover from. Allot of surgeons wont even recomend it.. Getting the band and getting your weight under control will probably help WAY more then the UPPP surgery. But you should consult a doctor that specificly treats sleep apnea and other sleep disorders. Because there are many family doctors that don't truely understand sleep apnea.

I have gotten to the point that I just delete anything with FW: in the title because both my SIL's despite asking then telling them several times NOT to send me all their religious junk or the chain letters refuse to stop sending them to me. I have even pointed out the hundreds of email address I could have gathered because they can't seem to understand what BCC: is for.. o.O Now I will send them an occasional link to a website or a joke or important *REAL* News but the FW: Spam is really annoying. Especially when you have to scroll down 8 pages of forwarded email header junk. Ive been know to spam them back with the address of the snopes.com page telling that their warning was fake but I somehow doubt they pass it on to all their other friends.

I know for a fact that some people are *gifted* I have a couple of friends who are. But I have serious trouble believing in any of the famous ones for a couple of reasons. One you just can't turn on the gift like a light switch. Some times it may be days/weeks/months in between experiences. So doing it for a living or making money from it is something I cannot believe in much. Secondly the 2 people I know that have these unusual talents don't like to advertise that they have them. Because of the large volume of negativity that people throw at them. They only tell close friends or family or someone that has a real *Need* to know and refuse to do silly parlor tricks for others amusement. Or just to earn a few bucks. One has taken money from people in the past because they offered it afterwards. But she refuses to charge anyone, she feels it would be a taint on her gift. Its not consistent and doesn't always perform the same way so trying to make a living out of it by charging $$ would be rather pointless.

my kids school system started *uniforms* this year. And boy was my daughter pissed. I personally think the kids look MUCH better. But I went to a catholic school where you HAD to buy your uniforms from a specific company and you got *Fitted* for them over the summer break so they were tailored to you personally. The school system has a very lax uniform policy compared to that IMHO. But they had to impliment it because of gang stuff and because kids were wearing horrid stuff to school. This is one rule I don't think is overboard. Because current trends in teen clothing have gotten really stupid. I mean geeze wearing your crotch to your knees is something I would have never done cause that meant you were wearing someone elses hand me downs that didn't fit or something. LOL.. Now its fashion. Cant say I understand it at all. now my kids have to wear Slacks kinds of pants in khaki, dark blue, black or brown.. SOLID color polo or oxford type shirts. All Shirts must have a collar unless its a sweater/vest. Solid color socks in white black or brown. Belts. And all shirts MUST be tucked in unless its a sweater with a 2in band at the waist. Skirts/shorts/skorts must be 2in below the knees, And there can be NO LOGOS at all on any of the clothes. But back on rediculious rules. A couple I think are stupid. Kids can no longer carry purses/backpacks to class. But yet if they don't have the proper materials for the class they get wrote up. They can no longer get permission to leave the class to go to the bathroom. This really sucks for girls who need to carry tampons/pads and may need to change often. And since most girls slacks don't have pockets I told my daughter to carry her pads and lay em on her desk and if the teacher complained to tell them she had NO pockets and can't carry a purse so what else could she do. lol. Dunno If she did it or not. They get a 5 min passing period in jr high and HS. Now kids are expected not only to go to their lockers but to use the bathroom, go to the fountain etc. all in 5 min and get to class on time. as HUGE as the schools are these days thats close to impossible. They are not allowed to have hard plastic binders of any kind. And technically they aren't allowed trapper keepers either. But both my kids have them and have not gotten in trouble. Maybe because they are soft ones.

4 years ago we had to go a week without power due to a ice storm. Sure wasn't fun but we managed at the time we had a gas stove which we used for heat plus a borrowed kerosene heater from a neighbor who didnt lose their power. biggest trouble for us was my cpap machine. My son was able to rig it to work off a car battery thankfully. I learned a few things though. One Dont expect to be able to buy lamp oil, candles or anykind of emergency lighting AFTER the power goes out. LOL.. now I keep plenty of lampoil/batterys on hand. but if we lose power now in a all electric apartment cooking and heat will be a major issue. We do have a emergency backup on the heat but the apartment management couldnt tell me if it would work in case of power outages or not. If it don't its of to my SIL's house where they have gas heat that will work even if the powers out. or my other SIL's who has fireplaces in her house.

man I love google!! Here is something close to what I had. except this one actually holds the pills also. 37 Daily Alarm Pill Timer Pillbox PLUS and heres a list of all they offer. MULTI-ALARM * Here is the one I had Multi Alarm Pocket EasyToSet Pilltimer now next payday I am gonna get another one.

I still have problems with developing a schedual to take my meds. its easiest in the mornings for me. That I can handle fine. I Just take my meds with my coffee each morning. But evening doses or If I'm on anything that is more then once a day I fail to do terribly. I look forward to getting my band and being able to reduce my meds since I have to take 15 pills each morning and 5 each evening. I found that buying a couple of pill keepers I keep one at the computer where i sit down every morning. and one on my bedside table so its in sight and keeps me better on track that way. But my biggest problem is my 2 insulin shots since it has to be kept in the fridge its out of sight out of mind. years ago when my oldest son started taking meds for his adhd I had a electronic pill reminder. It was a small thing that could be set in hour increments that helped me get in the grove on giving him his meds. That thing was IMENSELY Helpfull but somehow it got lost and I have never found another one. Hrmm now i think its time to do a google search to find another one.