BethFromVA

How lame. I see your bet and raise you a tall stack of IHOP harvest grain and nut pancakes with gobs of butter, a monte christo, and fried ice cream.

Try the chicken strips. Better yet, if you can find a double-double cheeseburger somewhere, wolf it down.

Never fear. You'll get yours.

Really? I'm just getting started. Hey, I just hike my fleshy apron up and HELLO, BOYS!

Oh no, dear! Not everybody! Some only despise you. Chin up!

Ooooh, got any juicy PMs you can share here too???

Yes. Yes, I'm afraid she did.

It's VD, dear. >tsk tsk<

Okay, wait. Monkey's passing boards?? Isn't that a sign of not enough Fiber?? :cursing: Congrats, dear.

Like, What's the difference between sexy and kinky? Sexy is when you use a feather. Kinky is when you use the whole chicken.

Meeh, the chlorine will be fine for the sores. But if you're not sure, maybe rub a mud pack on them first.

Why am I SO not surprised that Plain knows this??

Oh, Tina, I'm SOOO sorry! I've been away for about a week and just read your updates. I don't know what's going on with your family, which sounds bad enough, but now your dog? :drool:

How many e-mail addresses can I give ya? :confused:

Taking notes. For hubby. Just cuz. No reason... :confused:

That's hawt. No, really.

Mine's a rubberBAND. Does that count? :confused:

Bullchit, Plain. You wanna get right on that donkey. Don't ask how I know.

So... you've finally come over to the dark side? Might as well... we've got the chocolate. :confused:

Certainly I can take care of myself. And certainly some respond better to the head patting than others. However, some understand tough love better. It all depends. Just like some do better delivering tough love, still others react better to the reality of what they're doing. And Wasa has it right -- been there, done that. Most of us have been through pretty rigid pre- and post-op diets. My thought is, if you can't even handle yourself for just a few short weeks, maybe you should have been weeded out PRIOR to surgery. Tough? Maybe... but no less true. If some are looking for validation and head patting, maybe you should go talk to your moms. :confused:

Type A, A-, yeah... lol :thumbup: It was so weird... guy was a total jerk. Kicked me out of the class for being late. Was like a gestapo warden or something. And my dog was in the dream. Very weird. PJTP: Getting ready to go to Crosby, Stills & Nash tonight at an outdoor concert! Pasta salads, deviled eggs, cucumber salad, MOJITOS, good friends... it's gonna be nice.

Heck, I already know what less than 70 pounds lost has done for ME! Before, I was on Singulair and Advair EVERY day for asthma. If I went as little as 2-3 days without either one of these, I was coughing and hacking and it would always work itself into an upper respiatory infection. I can't tell you how many times I had to get breathing treatments and actually considered getting a script to get my own breathing machine. For months now since my weight loss, I haven't been on ANY asthma meds. Every once in a blue moon I get into a slight coughing fit and keep an albuterol inhaler for that purpose, but I have had to pull it out maybe once every 3-4 months. So yes, I know what 70 pounds (50 to 60 pounds in my case) can mean to somebody. And that's before I get into the fact that I no longer have tremendous aching in my hips and knees from the weight.

Lucky, maybe. Let's just hope it is enough to shrink your liver appropriately. Three days (though yours is not the first I've heard of) is kinda strange to me.

What kind of guys you hangin' around? And where will you be tomorrow? :thumbup:

YAAY, glad to see you! I'll be somewhat unavailable for a while as I'm driving to see the folks tomorrow. Right now I have no plan for how long I'm staying. The only things I have to plan for is a therapy session on the 27th and obviously school on the 31st.