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HP~ I hope your back feels better soon...That has to be one of the most uncomfortable aches and pains we can get. Keep resting it, dont overdo it until you feel like it is healed otherwise you will keep aggravating it and it will take longer to recover. Soak in a nice warm tub and use your heating pad! This is what happens when you go on vacation with your hubby and no kids!!! :thumbup: Take it easy girl! P.S. why do you have a frowny face behind your weight stats?? You need to make that a smiley face...you are doing awesome!

2B~ I have always been a jokster...it got me through may rough times....however, I met my match this weekend...my friends uncle and I cracked on each other all weekend...I think I got 20 hours of ab crunches from laughing so hard! Have fun camping! Send pics of TN, I think that state is sooooo beautiful!:w00t:

OKay my friends!! So I bolted town after work on friday and went to see my friends in Georgia! They were shocked to see how I looked which of course made me feel gooooood! We were so busy working our jabber jaws that we didnt get a lot of exercise in....a few people turned into about 14 people....so breaking away to run or bike was pretty hard! But I did run up and down their stairs (all 4 different sets of them) about 50 times! And I did awesome with watching what I ate! You can imagine all of the sweets and bad stuff that was there and I am so proud of my self and was complimented on my self control! Anywaysssssssss. I hope all of you are having a fun and awesome weekend! Be safe!!!!!

HP~ I am glad you were able to get back on your bike, even though you were in pain :w00t: I know you probably felt soo good to ride again! How in the world did you drop 8 lbs in 2 days.....you need to bottle that magic and sell it! I will buy it! Good job on tackling those hills...we don't have those here..but boy can I tell when we hit a little elevation in the road..haha I may be running but it is not much at all...only .4 of a mile...my hubby goes with me and stays at my pace to encourage me. We saw a report on Nightly News tonight showing that people who run typically hold off all of the aches and pains that are associated with old age an additional 16 years. So, that was enough to motivate me to try it again tonight.

I rode harder and faster on my bike ride tonight, when we finished riding we did the jog again....my legs felt sooo heavy but I pushed through it! D~did you legs feel heavy when you ran the second day?

BG~ Good job on the gym, I am the same way as for getting started. I throw a temper tantrum, kick, scream, you name it I do it....but once my hubby gets me out the door and started I am fine and enjoying it! It is one of my big hurdles to overcome with working out, we are lucky to have men who make us!

Thanks for the encouragement D! I recovered better than what I thought I would with my breathing...took me less than a minute to be at normal rate. Today, my legs dont feel too bad, we will se how they are tonight! 2B~ Awesome job on the weight loss!! I kind of sorta miss my scale, but not horribly, I just try to preoccupy my brain with other things, and now that school is back, that will be easier to do!

D- Good job on biking to school!! I wish I was close enough to somewhere that I had to go to be able to bike to it.. My job is a good 40 minute drive...so I can't imagine biking that..I already wake up at 430 am to get there I would have to wake up at 2 am if I biked there! Keep up the good work!

Ok girls.. So I am back on the work out wagon. Tonight...I even surprised my hubby. We rode 2.5 miles around the neighborhood, then when we pulled into the garage I told him I wanted to try jogging. Now keep in mind I have not done any running what so ever (Unless it was to catch the ice cream truck) Since I was in 10th grade, which was 17 years ago. So we ran .4 miles and let me tell you, I was huffing and puffing...wheeeeeew Then when we got back we did the free weights. So..we will see how my legs feel tomorrow! I can't believe we are all taking classes also! We will be able to support each other in more ways than one..thats for sure!

Okay....so my scale missed me terribly... It said I lost 2 lbs this week.... I need to pick my working out back up this week since I am all healed and the rains are gone...boy are they gone it's 180 degree's out today! So, I am going to do some homework and then start exercising! Hope everyone is doing well!

Don't beat yourself up over it Traci. Life happens. I am just glad you had a good outcome to the Dr. stress. You are back home now..so you can start to get back to your routine as much as possible. I know the added stress of school is here for a lot of us. I looked at my classes tonight and already the amount of work that is due on Thursday is overwhelming. But, as always, we are strong women and will push through this time as well! We all need to remember to make and take time for ourselves. Do good things for ourselves and good things will happen. So exercise! I could never be disappointed, you have accomplished soooo much with many things. You are a huge role model to myself with your weight loss, your exercising, everything!

Good job whos...congrats on a great job! How long did you train before you decided to start doing triathlons? I bet you get such a great sense of accomplishment when you finish these.

2BH~ Things are much better after they removed .2 cc of the fill that night. Today, I started back on solid foods again, and it has given me more restriction then what I had before. I hope to never experience that again! It was miserable! Thanks for checking on me!

Oh yeah...I am also not wanting monday to be here fast because school starts for me again....blah One day I will no longer be a career student! I miss it like crazy when I am not in a class and cant wait for it to be finished when I am in classes!

Okay...so I am coping without my scale! As much as I want monday to be here so I can stand on my scale I dont want monday to be here because it has been a long long week and I need my weekend! I am sooo sleeping in tomorrow! Have a groovy weekend my friends!

J~ I dont veto...TL is fine...good luck on the running.. I think I need to get some more weight off before I punish my knee's like that! BG~ you go girl..dont hold back! We dont have unions in the South. A few came into the hospital I work at but nothing really came of it..I have lived down here for 25 years and have never heard of unions in the south. D~Glad to see you haven't had an attack lately..Keepin' my fingers crossed you dont have to go through that again! HP~ Glad you are having fun in Fl. hopefully Fay will leave so you can enjoy some of our sunshine! SB~Good luck on finding a bike! I am just using my old one I got from walmart years ago for now...nothing special but it is doing the job for now 2BH~ I like your red bike! Does that seat hurt your bum. My tailbone still isn't getting use to any seat I try....ouchie

Hey...I am not far from Dade City darn it! Actually that was where the ER i went to the other night was! The test that L2BT was talking about is a Hida scan...it measures the ejection fraction of your gallbladder. It is a nuclear med test that takes a couple of hours but they will be able to tell if it is bad or not! I hope you dont have anymore pain. I am going to take a quick cat nap...this waking up at 0430 sucks...I know I have said that before but hey...it hasn't changed, it still sucks!

Okay...today was a much better day.. still on Clear liquids from getting my adjustment though. I have kind of slacked this week with my exercise, we have had so much going on and then the lovely weather. I will pick back up tomorrow...I promise! Plus I am kind of concerned about not really getting calories being on clear liquids and working out so it is probably for the best. HP~Sorry your trip is being consumed by this tropical storm...it came across the state and now its going to make a u-turn and come right back across us. Hopefully when you come back down in October you will see nicer weather! October is really a pretty time down here, especially in the evenings! How much alcohol can you handle now compared to pre-band? My friends aunt who had bypass said she can barely drink without getting intoxicated. Jamaica is in 47 days!! So I hope to of lost the remaining 15 lbs before I go! Is it almost Monday yet?? I miss the scale!

D~ YOU ARE ONE SMOKING HOT MAMMA!!! You loooook awesome!

HI, I got my second fill today...he only added .5 cc to me. When I left his office I was fine, half way home we had to pull to the side of the road because I had to slime. Now I have this pain in my chest like I have something stuck...I have not had anything since I left my dr. So it has to be my own saliva. I know that you experience some swelling for the first day when you get a fill but is it suppose to be this uncomfortable? Thanks for your input in advance.

Hi..Thank you both for responding...I ended up calling my dr and he met me at the ER. they removed .2 cc and I couldn't believe the difference! Things are much better now! Thanks again

So...it has been an interesting night. It came to a point where I was to uncomfortable to bear through the night so I called the Dr. He said it sounded like I was too tight and was concerned about me sleeping tonight with risk of aspiration. So off to the ER I went. He told me the Dr.'s at the ER he sent me too were trained to do the fills on my band but if I felt uncomfortable then have them call him and he would come in. So..I gave it an all out shot. The first thing the ER DR said to me was...I have never done this but I hear it is like a mediport. He brought in a huber needle and an insulin syringe. I looked at him...and said, sir, no offense, the port itself maybe like a mediport but accessing it is not...it is deep into my abdomen that you have to be able to feel and access it..you can't see it from the surface. If you dont mind I would like for you to call my surgeon, they told me time and time again, never let an untrained person access my port, so I hope you understand. He called my surgeon, came back in and asked if he could just feel it...so I let him, his eyes got huge and said..yeah, I would not be able to do that. My surgeon came, and asked for the proper supplies, unfortunately, the huber needle they have is not the type they use in the office to access ports...so..he numbed me up and 3 bent needles later he removed .2 cc and I was no longer in pain, I could swallow! I am just tender from 4 attempts of being accessed today..and my throat from having 13 hours of not being able to keep anything down. Sorry for the long post..bottom line is...I'm better! And still without my scale.

Okay....so since this is all still new to me I need some help. I was fine when I left my dr office today after my fill.. half way home I started feeling like I needed to slime...so we pulled over and I did. I have not had anything after I left his office and I am having the feeling like there is something stuck...It has got to be my saliva. I have the pain in my sternum and my back area. I dont even want to swallow. I know he said I would experience swelling and thats why he has me do the Clear liquids for the first few days...has anyone else experienced this and how long does it take to go away?