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No kidding. I'm actually racking my brain trying to figure out how/where I can find some extra cash to put IN the market now. I even briefly toyed with the idea of getting a 1-year 0% credit card to come up with the funds to invest but decided that was just a little too foolish. The people I really feel for are those like my mother who just retired this year and is dealing with the fact that for every dollar she pulls out now it was worth around 1.40 at the beginning of the year. She has no choice but to take money out to pay her bills and there is no way she will get that money back when the economy eventually recovers. She realizes it will eventually rebound and is trying her best to take out as little as possible now but is rebelling against the though she ought to see if she could temporarily come out of retirement. But it may come to that.

Nope still not looking. Denial is so bliss.

Great job girl! I knew you could do it!!!!

Just thought I'd bump this thread. Hope you reach your goals.

BBK That's terrible. They aren't going to count any of the votes from Bravenet? Grrr... I hope you win anyways. You definitely deserve it!

Let's all help BooBooKitty (The Face of LBT) BooBooKitty for those of you who may not know is also the woman pictured at the top of Lapbandtalk. She is currently competing in a pin-up photoshoot contest. Yes I did say Pin-Up. Can you believe it? Who would have thought any of us would ever lose so much weight and gain so much self confidence to do something like a pin-up photoshoot? She has been a total inspiration to me. I've even started looking for a good photographer. Though I can't imagine them turning out as well as hers. Her Pin-Up name is Ginger Rayne and here is the link. www.bravenet.com - A Bravenet.com Vote You can vote once per day / per computer. Lets blow her competition out of the Water.

Done! It is an honor to help you on this. You will never know how much your open honesty on this board has helped others like myself. I am not going through the same issues with my DH. But things have been progressively getting worse at home. Honestly to the point I've been worried it would be me in your DH's shoes. But your thread has helped me face my own husband and have some heart to heart discussions on how we need to take the necessary steps to keep us from getting to a place that can't be recovered from. I still don't know how things will work out but I do know if it hadn't been for your thread I would have continued to suffer in silence until the problems were so bad they couldn't be fixed.

Naked Chick's lead is down to 20 lets keep pushing this we can't let that woman beat our BBK!

OUCHH!! is right I suppose I understand if you get a larger portion of the "estate" then you would "owe" him more but it still doesn't make much sense that if you keep a property that is going to cost you more in upkeep than if you sold it that you then have to turn around and pay him more as well. What if you "bought" him out of his share of the house with a one-time payment would that bring the alimony down?

Myspace.com Blogs - Girl of the Month For OCTOBER - sickgirl Creations MySpace Blog I am not a myspace person but this seems to be the link for voting on the myspace page. From what it reads you can only vote there once but then you can vote on the bravenet site multiple times (once per day)

I've voted on 3 computers so far today. Hoping to vote on 6 by the end of the day. I've got one at home and access to up to 7 more at work!

BooBooKitty for those of you who may not know is also the woman pictured at the top of Lapbandtalk. She is currently competing in a pin-up photoshoot contest. Yes I did say Pin-Up. Can you believe it? Her Pin-Up name is Ginger Rayne and here is the link. www.bravenet.com - A Bravenet.com Vote You can vote once per day / per computer. Lets blow her competition out of the Water.

Julie, I am happy things are going so smoothly for the two of you during this transition. Divorce is never the easy choice even when it is the best choice. Stay strong, and good luck with his job situation.

Yes you lapband guys. Stick together and help our own BooBoo or I'll be forced to visit you guys with my whip and teach you to behave.

Oops, I'd cut paste it wrong somehow. www.bravenet.com - A Bravenet.com Vote thanks for letting me know.

I voted for you as well. And I have access to around 6 or more computers each day at work. I'll vote on each of them if I catch their users off the computer for a moment.

The Band CAN be done over a bypass. I have 2 friends here in town I know personally that have done it and are being successfull with it. I also have seen a dozen or so here on LBT that have discussed they were banded over the RNY. This site is so large it is sometimes difficult to find a small subset of people as you are discussing. If you don't get responses from enough people that have done this send me a PM and I'll ask my local friends if they would be willing to log on and respond. Good Luck no matter what path you choose!

Then I would suggest going to www.cats.com to research both breeds at one site or I'd suggest going to www.persians.com to research persians and www.siamese.com to research the siameses cats. I would never advise someone to go to www.siamese.com to research persian cats. :thumbup: That said I'm a very firm believer that there should be forums for those that converted to different WLS' after the band on this site. I don't think losing the band should get you kicked off the site any more than I think that people considering RNY, the Sleeve or DS should come to a site titled Lapbandtalk looking for any non-biased advice or research on those surgeries. My opinion has nothing to do with any lack of respect for the other surgeries. Its just like your analogy, If you are looking for info on two different breeds of cats. The only benefit for looking up info on one breed at the other breeds site would be specifically to look for the negative hype out there and then to take it with MANY grains of salt.

Heartfire. Great Post! I think many of us could use this advice.

I am so happy for you!

I second Luluc's comment. Though I do take some extra care with overly fibrous fruits and veggies such as pinapple & asparagus. I still eat them I just try to cut them cross grain so they don't end up as a mass of strings in my mouth that I can't chew up well enough to swallow.

As I'm fond of saying I am no medical professional nor do I wish to play one on LBT. That said I would personally discourage it. Only as I've heard that too much sun (or Tanning Bed) exposure can lead to increased discoloration in the healing of scars such as those from our surgery. Now if you were to cover the few small incisions with a towel or something while tanning to protect them I don't see why it would be a problem.

Shoot, I knew you'd ask. I have it at home and can't remember the name. I found it at CVS (or maybe Walgreens) it was in a small tub like containger maybe 4-5" diameter and 3-4" tall. The doc had said there should be minimum of 2,000 i.u. of vitamin E in the lotion. Which posed the biggest problem as it was hard to find any lotions that listed its Vitamin E content. The lotion I found came in two versions one was a 2,000 i.u. and the other was 5,000 i.u. I'd had some lotion at home that claimed to have vitamin E but didn't state the quantity so to save money and stretch the lotion out I bought the 5,000 i.u. tub and mixed it 50/50 with the lotion at home. As far as why lotion over oil, and he did seem adamant about that. The best reason his nurse could give me was that the oil would work into the skin to quickly which might tempt you to not massage long or hard enough. She seemed to thing the massaging aspect was almost more important than the vitamin E, and by using the lotion you would naturally end up rubbing longer than with the oil to get it worked into the skin. Whatever the reason it really did work for me I can even tell a difference in the internal scar tissue from my C-section 5 years ago. It definitely took a commitment to do twice a day for 3-4 months but it was definitely worth the effort.

When I had my tummy tuck last fall the plastic surgeon had me rub vitamin E lotion (not oil) twice a day for a minute in a circular pattern. I had to do this for several MONTHS but now my scar line is perfectly smooth. It's still a bit discolored and looks a bit like a stretch mark but if your eyes are closed you can't feel a thing.

I would like to add the liquid and even the mushie stage like Leslie said is for healing purposes not for torture. But it is also worth making it clear that the damage you can do to yourself by not following the doctors post-op diet may can sometime not be found for months or even years later. These stages are vital to helping the stomach heal with the band in an optimal position to reduce the risk of complications such as slippage or erosion. Yes the risks of these complications may be relatively small and I know of no stats that can say how much those risks are elevated by not following the post-op diet but the fact is it does increase those risks. If you have "cheated" STOP NOW! Even if you feel fine and are losing weight you may be setting yourself up for complications down the road. NONE of us here wish that on anyone and we ALL wish nothing but the best for everyone here. I am not trying to beat any of you up for what you may have ate. Whatever it was its done and over with and any of us on LBT that appear to have a problem with it need to get over it and move forward with being there to support you on the rest of your journey. But understand part of that support is writing posts like this one in the hopes we can help stop you from taking any additional risks as well as the hope of stopping someone else reading this thread before they fall off their post-op diet.