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Clarity... I'm still having the major runs. When I need to pass gas I have to find the bathroom right away because I get some extra with it. Ick! My incisions are itching like CRAZY!!!! For dinner I unfroze some homemade squash soup I made over a week ago and put some broth in a cup with some of the veggies and put it through the blender till it was smoother then applesauce and ate that. It was SOOOOO good!

still having a lot of pain? My incisions are just itching like crazy. I'm keeping my hands off though. Are you taking the liquid vicodin?

she must have thought you said something else... like "do you have venison bake?" hahahahahaha. That's only in the fall during deer season! Ok I'm laughing like an idiot over here. I don't even know what venison bake is. hahaha. Venison bake with ice cream. EWWWWWW! ok... I'm done now. hahahaha On to the chocolate CAKE!

So I was banded on Thursday morning at 8:30am. I'm feeling pretty good. I got my band and was in recovery an hour or so, then I got sent up to my room where I walked to my bed from the door. After napping for a while I got up and walked a few laps. Napped some more. Walked a bunch. The worst part was the gas pain. I could feel it in my chest really tight so they did an ekg and blood work and all was fine. I walked a whole lot and on a scale of 0 to 10 with pain being excruciating at 10 I think the highest I ever got was a 4 and that was right after surgery. I spent the night there and then on the next morning I had to go down to radiology and swallow the worst tasting stuff on the planet. All went through just fine so then I got back to my room and got a yummy popcicle. After that went down ok then I got a lunch tray with more popcicles, skim milk, broth (ick), and jello. I ate a cube of the jello and drank about half the milk, which took over an hour to do. I wasn't hungry at all. THe doctor came in to check my incisions and said "eat a little more, then you can go home" AHHH! hahaha. So I ate another cube and drank more skim milk. I left at 2pm. I've been doing really well. Took a long walk with hubby last night. The worst part has been these gas pains. I can hardly wait till they are gone! Otherwise I feel really good and I still havn't been too hungry. sipping my yogurt and milk and lots of water. If anybody has any questions, feel free to ask! I'm so glad I'm finally to this point! :clap2:

welcome home Courtney! I don't know how much I'm down yet because I don't have a scale but I'm sure it's a few pounds at least. I am really wanting the two weeks of liquids over with already. I can't eat broth. Something about the smell makes me nausous. I could go for some cream of wheat though, but I'm trying to follow my dr's orders. Me and DH went for a nice walk tonight. That helped some. I'm so glad to be at this point now. It's all downhill from here.... in a good way! I love being a loser!

I'm on liquids for 2 weeks so no mushies for me yet. I'm not really hungry either but I think that might be from the gas pains. Man I hate gas pains. I'm just sipping water, hot tea, propel, yogurt and popcicles. But not all at once. Oh and skim milk.

I'm home all! I got banded yesterday morning at 8:30am. It wasn't as bad as I thought it'd be. I am tired and my midsection is very sore. I'll write more later. Just wanted to check in. I'm home now and finally banded. YAY!

I almost spit my propel out and burst out laughing while on the phone with a suspended driver crying about wanting his license back.

I'm eating broth right now. YUMMY! hahaha

Yoda... I feel your pain. I'm in Michigan which might as well be Ontario. It's HOT as heck here too! I think my flip flops were starting to melt in to the new blacktop in our parkinglot here at work yesterday. Someone took a little temp gage dodad outside yesterday and the temp of the blacktop was 146 degrees. YIKES! The hood of a black car was 145 and the leather seat inside was 142.

surgery is in less then 24 hours. Yikes!!! I'll be a bandster tomorrow at this time.

oh my gosh! That sounds crazy. I'm sorry you had to go through that. Glad you're still with us.

uh... What fire??? What happened. OUCH!!!

Probably 8 years ago I had my nipples pierced and it just felt like a pinch and then a really really hot sensation. They were sore for about a week and then just really sensitive. I enjoyed having them pierced but wish I had went to someone that would have done it better. He pierced them wrong and the one nipple started shedding the skin and pushing the ring out. I had to take it out and I had the other one in for several years. Not sure why I decided to take it out. Just did. I still miss it to this day though. hehehe.

Dancing... Dancing... DANCING!!! We're a Dancing MACHINEEEEEE! :Banane52: :bananapartyhat: :not_ripe: :bananapartyhat: :Banane47: :Banane57: :bananapartyhat: :D :bananapartyhat: :Banane23: :Banane32: :bananapartyhat: :bananapartyhat:

Shake it like a polaroid pictureeeeeeeeee!!! After surgery I'll make my husband do it for me for a few days. hahaha. You're doing amazing Teresita!!!

Really???? hehehehe. I can hardly wait. *doin the happy dance*

Good luck to us August bandsters who're having the surgery today!!!!

Thought I'd let you know, my husband is a manager at a parts supplier for Ford and he took a copy of that to work last night and had the place roaring with laughter!

that happens to me when I have it too strong. I just ad more water.

I'm dying here! I love your sense of humor!!!!

You got it! Good luck and update us as soon as you can on how it went!

My father is just like your husband Paula. Exactly alike! He embarrassed my mother over and over again and us kids by the way he'd react to even the smallest things. He did that even at hospice while my mom was dying. He has no coping skills at all no matter what the situation. After mom died he went to his doctor and got put on Lexapro and I don't know if it's the Lexapro or the loss of my mother (who did EVERYthing for him) but he's a completely changed man. I know it's been less then a year but I'm beyond proud of him and the way he reacts to things now. I think it might be a combo of things that changed him. He's being forced to step up to the plate and do things on his own and the medication. One of my best friends husband acts like that too. They tried antidepressants and they helped a little. They finally found out 2 years ago he was bipolar and they put him on wellbutrin and he's a new man! The medication even made him quit smoking. There is hope out there Paula. I'd follow the suggestion of seeing a psychiatrist. I'm sending my husband to one because he suffers from severe anxiety and AADD. The psychiatrists know the meds and how they work better then your family doctor. Good luck!

I had chinese food the other night. YUM! I'll be sad if I never get to eat it again. We'll see what my stomach allows though.

Kate, what hospital is that? I'm in Lansing area and being banded on August 3rd in Port Huron!