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Kat thank yu so much for the beautiful Christmas card. It made me cry and you sure said everything so perfect. We are quite a team. Anne, I'm praying for your dad and you and family. Hello everyone else. I can't keep my eyes open so I'm going to bed night ngiht

Welcome Sheila, Dr Voellinger is in Charlotte. He has a fantastic success rate of his patients. He has a wonderful staff. I can not say enough good things about him Let me know if you'd like more info on him I can help you get into a seminar if your interested.

Sherry your toes look great! Betty so does your hair. I do terrible at work with candy! It's always around, and sometimes I even bring it in! I am setting a goal right now that for the rest of the day I will not have anymore! That's it and it's in writting!

For the food, the gifts the entertaining! Wow I'm not ready at all. We don't even have our tree up yet. The food, well I'm always ready for food! The calories, yikes no I'm not ready for them, but I will try to keep them in control, or shall I say I'm going to keep my thinking incontrol of the high calorie items.

Wonderful congratulations Sherry!!! That is such a great feeling! Do take a picture! I try to take a picture every month so that I can look back and say yay for me! So yay for you!!

I love my Zune it really is easy to use even for me!! Kat I'm sorry but I had to laugh at your story! First of all only you! and I can just invision the whole thing! OH I'm sure you'll laugh about it sometime. Well I got to get back to work. Have a good day, don't eat to much, I started off my day with peanut m&m's Happy HOLIDYS!

WOW Pincham, I am so sorry to hear that Dr Dr is not supportive to you and the band. I have found that the main reason for that is that the Dr's just don't understand what the band is! They think they do, they think there so smart but they really don't know! My PCP thought that a fill ment another surgery! And he is a respected interest! He admitted to me that Dr's and the medical community just don't know what it really is! It is hard to see from a picture or on the web. I am thrilled I have the band. I would do it again in a heartbeat. I did have trouble with it in the beging, I had a leak, but ever since then everything is 100% perfect. Please feel free to aks me anything you'd like, you can PM me or post it on here. Just like the media, we tend to hear the horrible stuff not the good stuff. There is so much good with the band.

What a fun day. Thanks Kim.

LOL Thanks for the birthday wishes! I had a really nice day. Kelly went with me to our monthly band support meeting. If was fun we had food and presents! Garry got me a Zune..Ipodish thing....So here it is 1:45 in the morning and I'm loading music! I hope I can figure out how to use it though! I think it will be fun. Anyway I think I'd better go get some beauty sleep. Night night

HI I'm alive! I miss you guys too! Work is great. I had my vien surgery and it went well, for surgery! I'll have my next one in January most likely. I hope to be back soon...

I'll be there! Who else?

Happy November. My FIL fell last week so it's been crazy around here. In and out of the hospital. It sure has been a crazy year! I got some awesome news at work today which I will share with you all as soon as I can. Well I'm going to bed. Welcome to bandland signgirl

Kat sorry about all your going through. I'm prayng for you.

wow were HUGE can someone shrink us please! night night gang

Wow Kat hang in there! Prayers are with you. Thanks for your band story! Hello everyone, I went to a conference Thurs-Saturday for Bariatric nurses. It was neat. Richard Simons gave me a kiss! WOW, he is so funny and has such a passion. He seems to have a very Strong faith which made the time with him even more special.

Oh Kat I've been thinking of you all day and praying for you. Major hugs, and thanks for the welcome back! As far as the site goes, I think that it would be fine to talk about how great your band is. Did you have trouble finding a fill Dr in the US? Patty it was wondrful talking to you today! We are definitly looking for more staff in LA. Not just nurses so if you know of anyone, A bandster would be awesome! I'm going to Charleston on Thurday-Saturday for a Bariatric Nurses convention. I'm there to talk to potential employees. I can't wait what a great place to go too. To bad I don't know any bandsters there to hang out with. Patty I asked for Jack first!!!! OK I have to go to bed I was up so much last night thinking of all of you. I need sleep....night night

OH KAT I had no idea you have been going through all of this. I am so so sorry. I am praying for you. What a year you have had. Patty I didn't know you lost your job. I'm so sorry. Hello everyone else. I pretty much caught up with everyone. So much going on. I am trying to get my forum up at running for work. If anyone can and wants to help me out on there once in a while I'd love you forever. NewHopeTalk.com :: Index I am Lovemylpband. We only have a few on there but it takes a while to get things going. I promise I'm not leaving here or asking you to leave here. Just some fresh bandsters once in a while would help the support of our surgery centers. We just opened one in KC, so now we have 2. I have to go to bed. I was just going to swing by for a second and I read just about every post. By the way Mandy, I love JACK are you sharing him? Have a good night. I promise I will be on more.

My step mother got drunk the end of May, she jumped out of her window. Her window was on the 30th floor of an apartment building. She did what she wanted to do. She enjoyed her alcohol and she went flying, flying like a butterfly out her window. She didn't care about anyone else but herself. Oh yes she enjoyed her alcohol and I know that she enjoyed her flight! She only cared about her alcohol not her daughter that she would leave devestated behind, or her friends and other family members. Just like you she did what she wanted to do and she enjoyed it. So go ahead and have the band and drink as much as you want. I've gotten drunk a few times in the past to years, and I've enjoyed it. I'm more sensitive now about alcolhol because I see how it hurts others so much. I am also more sensitive how weight effects others. So you need to make this desision for yourself. I am sure you are already affecting other peoples lives by your weight and your drinking. You are aviously going to do just what you want to do. Just like my step mother did what she wanted to do. The only thing that I can ask is that you think about how you are affecting other people who care about you. It does effect them even if you think it doesn't

None of the surgerys are 100% effective. Rny shows that after the initial WL 3-5 years later PT start to gain weight back. There new stomach pouch has gotten bigger. Vertical banding patients most likely will end up with the and later one. Many RNY PT have to have surgery again or are now getting the LB. I work with someone who had RNY 6 years ago she wishes that she had the band now. Her biggest complaint is that she doesn't have restriction any longer.

I think what you need to do is relax and except your self right now. Your going through an out of control stage. Accept that and give your self permission to have it! I have found that when I give my self permission to have my days or weeks of junk that I tend to not overdue it as much as when I think Oh I'm doing horrible I can't believe I'm going to sabatosh everything I've done since I got the band, I'm a failure, holy crap I've got to get a hold of myself! Take a deep breath. Accept what your doing say to yourself ok today I am going to eat crap. Then pat your port and say thanks for being here! Thanks for helping me get back on tract when I need to. A kick in the pants doesn't really help help me. I think I have found that accepting where I'm at does better. This is easy to say and easy to type, and I know I feel the same way that you do often. You have done FANTASTIC! The beauty we have with the band is that we can have times like this. And we can monitor ourselves and we can get a fill!! Try to keep a record in your head of how much your eating. Even on those chocolate days or ice cream days, stick to the band rules and get your protien in and your Water. I think it is much harder when you are so close to goal becuase it is easier to say well I deserve this. Just make a goal for yourself that your going to stick to you protien goals and water goals, and be kind to yourself. And remind me of this when I'm ready to beat myself up!

I had my first band on September 26th 2005. 4 months to the day I found out that I had a leak in my port and band. I was devestated to say the least. 1 month later I had my second band and port. The recovery was harder. But would I do it a 3rd or 4th time, without hesitation!

Hi gang, I went to the walk off obesity today in Charlotte. I bet we had 60 people there. It could not have been a nicer day. Sorry I haven't been around. I've been sick, working a lot, and just a bunch of stuff happening around here. Hope your all doing good. I'll try to keep up in Oct.

I only have had .1cc and it does take it a few weeks fr mine to kick in.

Hi I am sorry I haven't been on here. Hope you all are fine.

I think that this is something that we will have to work on for the rest of our lives. I go to my theripst everyonce in a while. She is fantastic because she knows where I'm coming from. She has her stomach stapeled in 97. The thing that works best for me is the reminder of my port and that the band is here to help me get back on the wagon. I accept the choices I have made. I do get frustrated with myself at times but it is so much easier to get back on the bandwagon now. Good luck, hang in there and don't be to hard on yourself.