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I think it's the lube that your stomach creates to move along whatever's stuck... I think. I wouldn't say it hurts.... kinda like: BURP - out slides a crazy big or small blob... usually clear. (that's me, personally)

Hey Emmily, Are you wanting to get banded in Canada? It would probably be cheaper than having it done in the US, assuming your insurance (because I guess you have american insurance, which may cover it.) wouldn't cover it. How much are you lookin to lose? Or how much do you need to lose?

When I've sold things, I've gone and found how much it could cost to send it the furthest distance away... say to Florida (assuming I'll only send to Canada and the US), and how much it would cost to send to Vancouver. I've only sold a couple things, so it's never been a pain in the ass to get to the PO. What are you sellin'?

Good luck, Yoda! Should be fun :huggie: (Cloe: HOW can I possibly look like some 100lb chick in spandex?! Maybe the long, darkish hair... but... anyways, I'd never be goin' that hard on an elliptical!)

yoda : :huggie: Cloe : fairly quick. I don't email them much though! Should do it every month, but I don't. I'll email them tonight, and let you know

You know, I started it, got side tracked, went back to it a couple times, but never finished it :huggie: I thought it was worth a try, and I wish I had...I know I'll regret it forever. Kinda screwed me up that I moved out of province a few months later, so I'd be in for even more of a hard time, trying to hassle them from here. All I really said was my story, about trying to better my life, trying to keep/get myself healthy to live out my life (in beautiful SK... haha, had to get that in to try to make them think they need to keep the youngins in SK), that it was unfair to make people wait 5-7 years, and only offer one option (bypass), and not even have a surgeon in the province (anymore), so in turn, relying on the few bypass surgeons in the west to handle the entire flow of overweight people in BC, AB, SK, ans MB. Luckily AB is covering it now (to an extent) and that takes some of the weight off (haha, pun!), but the Lapband in AB is just going to turn into how the RNY/bypass is... a several year wait! Ok... that turned into a rant. I think you should just state your case, tell how certain provinces cover it, why you're doing it, how you'll be less of a drain on healthcare with ____ lbs less that you'd be if you continued to inevitably gain, an get more and more unhealthy. Sorry I can't be more help. :phanvan

you guys are nuts

wow, bandiva... is that $475 a one time, first fill deal, or would you have to pay that each time!? (awesome deal, btw... I'd go back to MX too!)

by the way... if you were to go the Mexican route, I'm sure you'd be able to get fills in Calgary or Edmonton. (of course you'd want to call and make sure they're ok with doing fills on Mexico-banded folk).

same here. lemonlulu, I think I might be talking to you via email? Glad you joined!

haha, I wish!

I should be able to claim my cross Canada drive, shouldn't I? I did it for work, afterall. (I do my taxes online with www.ufile.ca ... love it!)

Congrats! That's awesome!

I'll be declaring it too... not sure what'll happen. I would probably get all the income tax I paid last year back, because of my student loans, so I don't think it'll benefit me at all. I wonder if my parents could use it.

Knew it !!!!

Have fun, Becca!

Whew! That's good, neenagh! You'll feel so much better. Do you already feel better?

Congrats, Yoda!! You're hardcore already! You want to work up to an HOUR!??! DUDE, I can't do FIVE minutes on the elliptical!!! It KILLS ME!!! Here's hoping you're not in any pain tomorrow!

haha, where did you get LITTLE fat guy in a WHITE coat?! In the movie Tommy Boy, Chris Farley (big) puts on David Spade's (little) jacket, and twirls around, singin' about being a fat man in a little jacket. That's about it. Mookie is neither a fat man, nor did she wear a little jacket. She just likes confusing us.

Lila, Lila... you haven't written more later! Tell us what's happening? Any better? And, WHY you couldn't get a defill! :hug:

Good luck, Mookie!!!! We'll be cheerin' for ya!

maybe it WAS in the ladies room!!! :omg: LOL Astrotoes - the way I thought of it, is that when you drink a mouth ful of pop or whatever, it stops in your 'pouch' for a sec before it funnels down to yer belly. *I* think it feels bad cause the fizz kind of expands in your 'pouch' before it goes down... you know, like when you pour a glass of coke, it foams over... maybe that happening in your 'pouch' causes the discomfort? And it didn't hurt before, cause our stomachs being so huge, there's lots of area to expand in, and we don't notice. I dunno... it's just what I tell myself. It gets me through the day. haha and I say 'pouch', with these thingys : ' ', cause I don't like calling it a 'pouch'

Good deal, Yoda! I'm sure you'll have a good ol' time with the parents. heh... I know I did. LOL

Oh, I thought about that too. I'm sure they'll let you come down. There's gotta be someone there at all times who can do a fill/defill. Do you have the emerg. # for Dr. Mumford? I'm sure you could have called that this weekend... too late now, you might as well wait til the morning. I'd leave early and be there WHEN they open!!