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I think I'm in love. :biggrin:

You're correct, ma'am! Bounce, bounce, bounce....um, I need to be excused. Yay! Congrats FF!!! I'm assuming then, that the goats are female? :crying: Are you saying you're built like an 11 yr old girl? Sexy....:biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin::biggrin: Weirdly enough, it is kind of a "non-issue" for me. I'm usually extremely careful in public.......but I can tell when something is coming back up waaaaay in advance. Guess I better knock on wood, eh?

But....how is that any difference from what you pay in income taxes anyway? If you normally pay 10% to the government, and Bill pays 10% to the government, then the only "unfair" part of that is that you think he should pay more.

Lellow, Your husband and I are obviously cut from the same cloth, lol. I just wanted to interrupt the powder room with some chauvinistic humor. It's what they pay me to do.

Ladies, I just wanted to interject this: All this talk of shrinking boobies makes the saints cry. Carry on.

*holds fingers about 12 inches apart in a crude sexual innuendo*

Eh, I can see not paying tax in Mac's situation (um....by that I mean legally not qualifying), because start up and small business are so vital for our economy. The thing that's hard for me to swallow is "generational welfare", ie 4 generations of a family being on welfare (like that which was discovered in the wake of Katrina). That's where the system is flawed.

Well....I'm not a doc, or even a nurse. Heck, I don't even play one on TV, so any other "medical" person wanna jump in? My $.02? If you were bleeding any significant amount, you'd probably know. The symptoms would vary, depending from what area the bleed is located in. I'd think it is absolutely normal for you to be sore and swollen from all the trauma that you went through taking them damn pills!!

Actually, the percentage of sleep apnea that will be cured, or even greatly reduced with weight loss is minimal. Most sleep apnea is genetic, that is to say, depends on the shape and size of the airway your parents gave ya. As to why the band would be better than the RnY.....I have no idea. It might be one of those weird tertiary reasons, like with the dental plaque / heart disease study.

Snob! But to be fair....I'm one o' them guys that eats cupcakes in my wifebeater in Wal-Mart while my barefoot kids run amok.

Hello Just Banded. It is my understanding that our stomach's don't really "shrink", per se...they are kind of "sectioned off" with our band, but the part below the band remains a constant size. I could be wrong about this, but I believe that's what my doctor told somebody on his website.

Hi Savannah. There's a section on the home page that's called "local support" or something like that. That section breaks down people by location....so I think you might get more answers to your question if you look there. Good luck!

Hey Albert, welcome to lapbandtalk. Sounds like you are doing great so far! Stay focused and keep kicking ass!!

Hey Tim, welcome to lapbandtalk. If you're looking for info about specific doctors, there's a section on the main page where people post thoughts and opinions about their different docs. That would probably be a good place to start. I think you're absolutely correct in being concerned about the violence, so please be careful. Good luck!

Hi lady, welcome to lapbandtalk. Most of us had some post op diet that slowly progresses us towards eating real food. I After my surgery, I had a week on clear liquids, then a week on full (thicker) liquids, then a week on mushies. I was eating real food by week four. Good luck!

Hello Grazia, welcome to lapbandtalk. Good luck!!

Like Big mama said.....Eating more substantial food causes peristaltic movements when your stomach digests. It's this movement that the docs want to avoid while the band "scars in" and the sutures heal up. So......No more real food until the doc says it's ok!

Most likely it's blood. Hopefully it's from a raw esophagus (with all the vomiting), but I would bet a dolla she's bleeding somewhere along her GI.

....Der.....I'm an idiot!! HIGH pro times = SLOWER clots. Maybe next time, I'll think a bit before I try to respond, lol. Once upon a time, I was much less rusty on all this stuff. Many moons have passed since then (obviously).

Ya know, there're a lot of porn movies that have that same plot - Bow-chicak -wah - wah Sexual innuendo and jerkish comments by yours truly!! I do it for you, C!!

I think that's what soooo many don't get. They want to make this into a republican vs. democrat thing. It ain't!! This is something different....something both parties have been guilty of. BJean, those people end up in jail. NOBODY gets a free ride on the taxes, conservative or liberal. Ain't that the truth? I heard on TV the current tax code is 3.5 million words long. It literally changes faster than anybody can keep up with it. During the Bush administration alone, the tax code averaged more than 1 change / day.

To keep track of others and let them keep track of you, in a more concise manner than facebook. It's like a very, very short mini-blog (I think all you get per entry is something like 150 characters).

Can't they just start you on a course of anti-coagulants?