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I wasn't mean!!!! Just lost from there! Normal state I realize! Kat

Jane--if you want any of those margaritas --or any other mixed drink once we return to our room---it better be pre mixed----I don't know how to make for REAL drinks!!!!! I am bartender challenged!!! Kat

I too remember you---welcome back to LBT! Yep there have lots of changes---look wise----to the site! Did you think you got lost??? Congrats on your WL success!! Kat

Thanks so much BJean. Made my day!!! The title of this thread is "When the truth is inconvenient"....well right now greens truth---just sucks! But I am SO glad to see everyone put differences aside and pull together to support her! Check in and update us as you can green----we are here thinking about you--sending good vibes! Kat

Morning girls~ I have had no less than 40 spiders on my foot this morning! Scary huh? That was the example my DD used to explain April Fools to Kinsey, so she repeats it every little bit---ya gotta act scared!!! Dingbat! Feeling a bit better today--not nearly as congested, thinking that is helping my stomach feel better too---not having all that drainage into it all night. Gross! Going to strip beds, and do laundry today. Feel like it or not! Pamela---I can so relate to your scare with Susanne! The other night, Rick had gone to bed, and I was still up, the wind was blowing something fierce....and I heard things blowing around out back, so I went into the garage, and hit the patio light switch--just about that time a big old tumbleweed blew across---scared the hell outta me! My heart was pounding from that, but I was kinda laughing to myself, so I walk back in to the house, turning off the light as I come in, and walked smack dab into Ricks chest! I couldn't even scream! He had been in bed! He heard the door, and gets all pissy when I go exploring noises on my own! He had his arms around me, I froze----it took a couple seconds to register it was him! I so know how frightening that would have been. You know what they say about revenge...... Well I will check in off and on between loads of laundry. Michelle---do you ever read any Jonathon Kellerman? Kat

Awwwww kwitchercomplainin'!!!! Don't ya know the OP doesn't like that???!!!:puke: Kat

I'm here!!!! And I am so glad you are back Mandy!!! Kat

One of the girls on a thread I participate in regularly cannot type the word PAIR----as in pair of pants. Everytime she does it comes up with some strange set of words, I don't remember what they are! But the rest of us can type pair without issue, so I figured it was her issue........this feels like that!!! Kat

The OP concerning the show Cops---made me think of one I saw years ago, at least I think it was Cops, my DH and I still laugh about it and make inside jokes. They get a call to go to a local park, there is a man way up in a tree throwing things and cursing at passersby. They get there, and sure enough there is a man up in the tree---he wings a Tequila bottle down at the cops. They try to talk him down, and are asking him his name. This is in El Paso I believe it was.... The cops says "What's your name? Juan?" The guy in the tree says "I don theeeenk so!" So the cop tries another name "Is your name Miguel?" Again he comes back with "I don theeeeenk so!" They repeat this with several names and each time he comes back with the same sing song response of "I don theeeeenk so!" They try to talk him into coming down....and yep he says the same "I don theeeeenk so!" Eventually, one of the cops hops up, and is going to scale the tree to try to get him down. Well not wanting to be caught, the drunk tries to climb higher, and loses his footing, and falls! Crashing through limbs, and hitting the pavement hard! The cop that was in the tree drops a few feet and goes running towards the other cop, and asks "Is he ok?" The cop tells him "I don theeeeenk so!" It was HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now when DH or I get hurt or whatever causes one of us to ask the other "Are you ok?" Well you know the answer to that!!! Kat

What is the advantage of this feature? It feels like someone else gets to decide what I want to say.... Kat

I disliked when my links sometimes changed themselves....makes me feel like someone else gets to decide what I want to say.... hmmm maybe that's the problem, reminds me of my ex!!! Kat

productive burp Body Mass Index Hmmmmmm We can no longer use just the letters, it types it for us...interesting.... Kat

Tracy---glad some of them could work....if you want to bring the rest and let everyone sort through them in May, you can....if you want to clear them out before then....I understand!! Just do NOT send them back to me!!! LOL! Pamela----you may end up with more Violets than you know what to do with!!! Manda and I are talking about a Disneyland trip at some point this summer, then off to the beach---Kinsey is more interested in the beach than she is Disneyland....of course she knows what playing in the sand is....she has nothing to compare to Disneyland!!! We just have to figure time and $$$....always the evil $$$ rearing its ugly head isn't it??? If we had all been born rich instead of so doggone beautiful, we could just take Violet trips all the time!!! Well off to finish dinner, Rick is on his way home. I actually felt crummy earlier, and made myself get up and clean up the house--I feel better. Thinking maybe moving helps!!! What a concept! Kat

Anyone had or remember Spudnuts? Donuts made from a potato batter???? Kat

I have a question...... Is there anything you know of besides alcohol you can put into liquids to keep them from freezing to an ice hard state? When I was unsure and was trying the cold, Rick put some of my Crystal light in to freeze, but I didn't want it solid--so he added like just a bit of Amaretto. Well I was trying some of it today, and Kinsey wanted mine, not her popsicle. When you freeze it in a cup, it is just too hard for her to manage....I would like it to remain slushy......any ideas??? Well my sick stomach saved my fat stomach today! I had to run to the store, and they had bags of left over Easter candy---some of them the HUGE bags of assorted candy....M&M's, Cadbury Egg Minis, Reeces eggs, Hershey Kisses--plain vanilla Cream, and Coconut (which are great)......all for .50 a bag! Plus all the hollow chocolate bunnies. I bought Kinsey a hollow chocolate egg, that had a Peep chick in it when you broke it open!! I bought a bag of individual M&M's to have here to treat her with, and a bag of the coconut Kisses to send home with them, but my stomach kind of turned just thinking about it.....so I bought none! I wish the scale would appreciate it! LOL Gonna go put away the rest of my groceries, BBL~~ Kat

I used to find this thread humerous.....THEN came all the donut talk!!! The worst---most horrible slime inducing, pain causing, head throbbing, heart racing--PBFH (Productive Burp from Hell) I ever had was caused by 2-3 bites of a donut!!!!! I ate those bites, and it began to grow....inside my little banded pouch those crazed (not glazed) donut bites multiplied until they were bigger than the pouch, and the evil PB occurred....I have never even been tempted by another donut...they are evil! Wonder what the OP would have my fat a$$ do since I refuse to eat donuts????? Hmmmmmmm I bet I can guess of several suggestions she would have!!! :thumbup: Kat

Good morning Violets! Feel much better this morning, have sipped some water, have not attempted anything else. Kinsey come in and has been sleeping ever since, so I napped, and am taking it very easy this morning. I have a medical alert bracelet. I seldom wear it! It is so UGLY! Mine is one that my Uncle sent me. It has a phone # and an identification # on it is all. That is because he feels I need more instruction than a single bracelet can hold!!! Along with my band, I have several drug allergies---including pennicillen, codeine, morphine, corticosteroids......and more! I also have the active tumor issues I told you about before I think. I have a tumor in my leg, in the right fibula, and another in my right mastoid. They are active....but not growing. The name for them is a mile long---but he thinks it is important info. So with my bracelet, the emergency personel calls, or there is a website, enters my ID# and my entire medical history is available, as I have entered it on the form/website. Been thinking about talking to this really cool lady I know who makes AMAZING jewelry and seeing if we could make some sort of bracelet part that I would actually like, but leave of course the medic alert emblem prominent enough to be noticed. You are getting the hints here......aren't ya Terry????? LOL!!!! It is wierd but I really was going to ask her about it in TX!! I also have the card in my wallet, and my cell phone has ICE #'s in it......I need to wear the bracelet....but.....yuck! Haven't had any port pain----lots of stomach pain recently....but my port only causes pain, if pressure is put on it. Mine is low profile, and buried deep.....and I still have a healthy layer over it!! Dangit anyway! TracyK---glad it went to the right address!! Whew! Well I need to get ready---when Kinsey wakes up, I need to go out and move some cows. They are calving....we have new babies! Mine (yes my own---I lay claim to her---as well as her calf from 2 years ago) dropped a little bull yesterday.....I would have preferred a heifer! I lay claim to her, because, Tim usually is around to help when one of them has a problem, but he was gone---and I had to help pull this calf all by myself! So she is mine! Last year she didn't seem to apparantly attract the bull, she did not have a calf. Then we missed a run when Rick was down with heart problems---so now both she and her first calf are/were calving. The first calf should give birth today....you could tell yesterday it was iminent, she may have already. Kinsey will love being around the babies. I tool a picture of her last year with one of the babies! I'd show ya---but we all know I can't do the picture thing!!! So I better get up and around, I don't wanna do anything....still no energy. Should hear from my band Dr. sometime today. Kat

If you scroll to the bottom of the page, it shows who is currently using this particular thread. Several times when I have been here reading this comedy---especially in the beginning---following the original 'I'm Leaving' post----she was here...... Bet she didn't know that feature was there either!!! Kat

Sounds like your nurse might have confused the banded patients with a bypass patient. I was told that since our intestines are still in one piece, and all food must travel through it all, dumping is not an issue. It IS very common to have diarrhea following the surgery---it is referred to around here as liquid in=Liquid out. When your body has something to work with....it will! For now it shows you are doing the right thing, and not giving your stomach a work out while it heals! It is not any fun, and many, many have admitted to times of not making it to the bathroom in time---it does go away after you progress to taking in more solid food. You just have to wait for your stomach to heal for that. Nothing to worry about. Sorry it is making you miserable though! Kat

Just this last week I got terribly sick---some sort of virus kicked my butt! I ended up super sick to my stomach from some medication, swelled my band almost totally closed---and had a fever of 103.6 for hours....with no way to take much of anything. I tried the liquid Tylenol---up it come. Go Tabs are pretty nasty---and I hadn't seen them available around here in awhile. My DD brought me over some store brand equivalent of Junior Tylenol Rapid Melts. They are much better tasting that Go Tabs--to my tongue! You do have to melt 4 of them, but it is not too bad! No Water needed, and tasted better---they saved me! With lots of hot tea, and the kiddie meds---I survived! I will buy them to have around all the time now!! Kat

I took a 4 hour nap---got up, took a shower, talked to Rick for a few minutes, and am checking in here, then I plan to go to bed!!! This virus is knocking me on my butt! I think I am having a harder time recovering, because my nutrition was so empty for the 2 days, and is still less than usual. Rick went and got Chinese carry out, he thought the egg drop soup would be good Protein and yet easy on my stomach, sure tasted good!!! The wind is blowing horribly here! Our backyard trashcan is blowing around....and it can, I am not going out after it! Tracy, I didn't want to put your address on the open board so I PM'd you about where I sent the box....man I am hoping it was right. It was the same address from the birthday card----was it right??? Jenn--I wish I would lose some weight, but....it isn't happening, so I refuse to let it get me down. Today I was getting dressed, had just put my bra on, and was applying deodorant, when I caught sight of myself in an antique mirror hanging over my dresser, and I was shocked---my ribcage actually curves in!!! My side boobs are soooooooo much less! And all of me fit in the bra!!! I could not see my stomach in that mirror, and it actually allowed me to see a good thing. I always focus on my stomach---never stopping to look at the rest. So I tried to pay attention to that. I come to the conclusion from my knees down----ladies, I am SKINNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rick put his hand on my knee in the car and I realized how bony it was!!! LOL Ok---I am ready for bed! Michelle---enjoy your big ol bed tonight. Talk to y'all tomorrow! Kat

Jane---since those spoons are so cheap, why doncha spring to have each of our names engraved on them!???!!! LOL I don't use baby spoons, but if it is something I have to cut, I tend to cut a bunch up at once. Like steak or chops, I will cut a thin strip the entire width of the steak, then cross cut it into teeny bites---if any of them look too big, I cut some more!!! Then I can't forget, and just pop a big bite in my mouth---which I know myself well enough to know I would do!!! I am still eating---mushie foods---and a couple of tortilla chips!!! But by the time I swallowed them, they were mushies! I have some pain with digestion but nothing too bad. Going to play it by feel and speak with my Dr. again this week. If I feel it would be best, or he does, I will go ahead and go for an unfill. I plan on unfilling for my PS anyway, so hopefully it will be approved....I have no time to get it done now before our trip----it is going to have to be following it---dangit! I really wanted it done so I would not be in compression garments during 100+ degree weather. But guess I will take it when I can get it. Then will see how I do, and then maybe fill a small amount again if necessary. As I read of those at goal, some have unfilled and some have not.....will have to see. I went to Farmington with Rick, to fuel his car, and we made a couple of stops---and I had to come home! I was exhausted---I told him on a scale of 1-10....my energy level was a minus 4! Becky & Gary wanted us to go to dinner.....nope....gonna be another can of Soup for me! You'd think I'd really lose weight, but I am only down half a pound! Go figure!! Kinsey called earlier to tell me she went to the zoo---they took her to see Nemo on Ice, and then to the zoo today. She said she saw monkeys, bears, and a rhinocerous, and a rhinocerous, and a rhinocerous......I ask her 3 of them? She said yes there was with horny noses! I thought Rick would laugh out loud at her on the phone! Such fun! Well, I am going to go drink something---my intake is sooooooo far down, Suzanne would be ashamed. But overfilling my pouch even with Water is not something I can do-----ooooh pain! So small amounts, give it time to pass, and sip some more. Will try to check in later, if not see ya tomorrow. I say that, because even though it is only 4:30----the thought of going to bed, is HIGHLY appealling! Hugs girls! Kat

Is that through a Fill Center USA? If it is, the first visit is $349 including the fill, then each fill or adjustment is like $165, and a visit with the Dr. is $85 without a fill. I understand the first visit includes all the history, and junk----but only the first visit is that expensive. Then if you are new they do offer a yearly package. They contract with Dr.'s willing to do followup care but that do not do the surgery itself. I spent a loooooot of time on the phone with a patient coordinator with Fill Centers USA the last couple of days!!!! Some of the centers are in more obscure places, since they simply want Dr.'s or radiologists and Dr.'s who do not actually do the surgery, but will follow up ANY patient, not dependent upon where the surgery was done. I had a Dr. call me as well as a Supervisor, both offering helpful ideas....they seemed anxious to help me, especially considering I had not been a patient prior to the call for help. I was impressed by the girl I spoke with off and on all day. We had a shootout between gang members and cops at our Chilis Restaurant!!! And my son and DIL, and DD and SIL were all there having dinner---the cops involved sat behind them, and one of the cops was playing with his flashlight beam on the floor with my grandson! They left, went to Home Depot, son went in---grabbed what he needed, and DIL and Connor stayed in the truck, then when they drove back by there were cops, and ambulances, and all kinds of chaos!!! SCARY!!!!! Suzanne, I like your Bewitched thingie too!!! You may have to fly both colors!!! LOL Laura----I STAY frumpy! Nothing fits right----it sucks! Well I am off to bed....... See you tomorrow!! Kat

I on the other hand, lost just as severely on Atkins as I did post band----I think it is my personal experience that when I drastically change my diet in any manner I lose it! Now that being said, I did start Atkins about 5 months post op from a major surgery....so it is still possible that it is a combination of dietary changes along with surgical issues such as the anesthesia. My protein level remained high--through this as well as Atkins of course and I easily lost over half my hair. Around 11 months out, it just stopped, and the hair regrew, and all is fine again!! Mine fell out....follicle and all.........but, I may be VERY wierd----wouldn't be the first time!!!! I have also lost all my hair before as I said to chemo, so I may be predisposed to it, not sure if it makes a difference or not. I know it made a difference, in the fact, I knew there were more important things than hair! Kat

A good attorney would be wonderful---if that is not something you can swing, look into legal aid. In some places an actual attorney will be appointed for you, in others, an attorney will be at your service---for directing you what to file, how to answer papers from his attorney etc. While you are still married, if the Rx issues are actually being prescribed by a Dr. get a print out from your pharmacy of what your family has obtained over the last year---if he uses multiple Dr.'s or multiple pharmacies, it will raise a red flag. I get one of the print outs each year to use with our medical flex account. If he is buying pharmacueticals off the street or internet, then you have no paper trail. Go to the bank---get a copy of how much is in your joint account, and if necessary, move half of it---document what you use your new account for....household bills, Maizie to the Dr. etc. I wouldn't quit seeing the therapist, even if you have to go on your own....show you are trying to find the best way to handle this for your child. In everything you do....try to imagine how you will explain those actions not only to a judge, but to your daughter when she is 16. Do your best to protect yourself and yet to be fair. The desire for revenge and those type of feelings is going to be so strong! But maintain your integrity---your DD deserves to make her own opinion of her father. You can discuss with the therapist how to handle the visitation with his drug addictions----and you yourself can call her as a witness. ANYTHING you can use----former rehabs anything of the sort---can be used to require drug testing----and offer to submit to the same, they see it as willingness to work together, as opposed to seeing it as the usual divorce accusations. While she is 2.....they usually will allow a staggered, stepped arrangement for visitation. My DD divorced not long ago, and her DD was under 2, so they had her seeing her Dad one evening a week, for 2 hours, and one day every other weekend, through the age of 5, then it will begin with 1 overnight visit. And go on up from there. If he does not get his life together, and the 2 of you are not there to hold him together, he may spiral down, and visitation will end up a moot point. Most states require some form of mediation prior to the actual court hearings, so you, your DH, and a court appointed mediator will sit down as many times as necessary to sort out holidays, visitation times, claims for income tax, all kinds of things involving kids, as well as community property. What it boils down to is that you figure out your divorce settlement prior to appearing in court----then if the judge feels it is fair, or there is a reason for it being a one sided agreement---they grant it---but they avoid getting into the division of property and custody. They like that settled prior---by the parties involved. Most Child support is a simple formula, it varies a bit by state. His income, any insurance costs he incurs for the child, your income, and then it computes. Some states use a simple percentage of income, others limit CS to be paid on a 40 hour work week, meaning you cannot get CS paid on overtime worked---or a second job he might take----or you if the situation reversed. Begin documenting EVERYTHING!!!!! If you have a discussion about his addiction, as soon as you can write down every word exchanged, the time, everything you can remember---make a copy, drop it in an envelope and mail it to yourself, or a trusted family member. When it arrives, leave it sealed---it is dated, documentation then. Hang in there-----and do what you need to to keep you and your child safe...Both you and Maizie deserve it Kimberly Kat