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When I cooked during mushies, I just cooked normally, and made sure there was some part of the meal I could eat. You could do Chicken & dumplings---and puree yours same with beef stew---you could make her some fresh homemade bread for hers Enchiladas (mexican is my favorite!) and you could have the insides mushed up. Add a side of refried beans...mmmmm Grill her a steak, make some mashed potatoes & gravy---I think you know which part YOU get!!!! Bake some salmon, with some sort of sauce---also with potaotes, you could make a decent meal for yourself Make a nice lasagna, and bake yourself a small dish of ricotta cheese, and the sauce, it is better than it sounds! What is her favorite meal---maybe we can brainstorm a way to do it for both of you.... Tracy---boys are adorable! Kat

Ok, but it sure makes it hard to type!!!! Kat

My DH says I am aptly named---he laughs at me because I love to lay on the sofa or the bed, when the sun is coming in the window and take a nap.....mmmmm......or should I say puuuurrrrrrrr? Kat

WoooHooo---time to return the ankle weights, you will be over here in banland soon!!! Should say sorry about the apnea, but if you never knew you had it, maybe weight loss alone will help it!!! And it helped you!!! So happy for you! Kat

Yeah, I know, it is just more navigation---that as I admitted, is not that much more difficult, just something I likely won't mess with!!! Maybe I need a new username---Lazeeeeeeeeee!!!! Kat

I am in awe that you can actually do all this changing, and keep things up and going!!! Right in the middle of your update, the junk ads, and porn junk that I reported, were done away with almost instantly---even amid all the work you were doing!! Great job! I can deal with and understand the ads---I also have no problem with a financial contribution. Having skin options is a cool feature, I look forward to seeing what you have planned. At this point the only thing that has really disappointed me, is the new posts list at the top of the home page being eliminated---it brought me into contact with members I may not have ever met without a thread title jumping out at me. This way I pretty much stay in my little corner of the subscribed threads. I'll miss the interaction. Like Laurend said, you can bounce around with the New Post option at the top, if you want though, so it is not gone, just hidden! Good Luck on the remaining upgrades and changes! Kat

I'm in for no fricken, flippen chocolate----I think I have lost my ever lovin' mind!!!! Why am I eating this????? Kat

My DH's gastro Dr. has him takig a Prilosec OTC in the morning, and a Protonix in the evening. The reason for the 2 different meds as opposed to both the same, just twice a day, is insurance will only pay for one a day, and the Prilosec is as the name states---OTC (over the counter). He has a badly damaged esophagus due to a major GI bleed he had back in October. They actually had a balloon inflated in his esophagus for several days to try to stop the bleeding, and it damaged the esophagus. The Dr. said if it took doubling the meds to stop the acids from irritating it---then that's what we had to do. You might talk to your Dr. and see what he/she has to say. Kat

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Hi all---Betty I am sorry to hear of Alans problem, but they can take care of it---I'm just glad they caught it now! Keep up posted! I have very mixed feelings regarding the whole issue of pressing charges. I feel like I just finished this with the whole fence thing! But also I don't know if I want to make known "enemies" out of several teens. It feels like I might be making more of a problem for myself, and maybe my property by doing it. I don't know. I did speak to the chief of police here today, and he said it might be difficult to locate more than the driver of the car, and that if the car is registered to say his parents---then unless he confesses, there is no way to prove it, the officer did not see it. It sucks---but I just wonder if I am not going to set myself up if I follow up with it. Today I went to lunch with a friend, and after we ate, we were sitting and visiting, and I said I was miserably full, I should be up walking instead of sitting. We kinda looked at each other, and off we went...we went to the college, and hit the track, we walked and talked for the next hour and a half!!! We watched people, and talked about everything under the sun. The track runs around the upper perimeter of the gym, so you look down on the machines, and weight room---it give us a good supply of people watching! And I got my time in as well!!! Well it is kinda wierd around here with all the changes, but I suppose it was a necessary evil, the ads I mean. We will adjust I am sure! Y'all take care, and will check in with ya soon!!! Kat

Oh Sherry---I am so sorry about your sons accident. I have had a couple of those accident calls myself. My DD was rear ended and slammed into the car in front of her the 2nd day she was licensed! She refused to drive to school because of the chaos in the parking lot, but had to drive to track practice and was hit! It caused a separation (in laymans terms) of bone and muscle in her neck, put her in a neck collar for 8 weeks! She has never been released concerning her neck, and that was almost 10 years ago! Then my son was with a crew coming in from work, and the truck they were in rolled, and he broke both legs, below the knee...barely missed killing him, he was not buckled in the crew truck, was thrown out, and it rolled over his legs. Could have been his whole body, or his head. I too was on my knees!!! Hope he recovers quickly. You too----the fear never leaves! You had a feeling about this though---you were extremely worried about him driving---Moms instinct maybe! Dianne---I am sorry you too are having a hard time. I wish we were close enough to do you some good. Use my phone # anytime. I can't drive right over, but I can listen, and share ideas. I had 2 moody daughters (a year apart) and a SUPER moody son!!! He is still the one who will mope about more than the girls!! They were good kids, but the teenage years got tough at times~there were all the my kid/your kid issues, and then to have them all separated by only a year!!! Oh there were days I thought I would lose my ever loving mind! Son is the oldest by 14 months, so many of the guys the girls (separated by 13 months) were interested in were classmates of the son, or oldest DD---and never good enough, or one thing or another....son would try to date girls friends, and that never ended pretty! It is nice now, they are all close---but there were times, I would not have give you a plug nickel for any of them! The girls are as different as night and day. Oldest is overachiever, graduated with honors, a year early, cheerleader etc. Demanded perfection from herself, and everyone around her---which is impossible! Youngest is a little bohemian who marches to her own beat altogether!!! An artist through and through! Would prefer to re-arrange the numbers in her algebra problem to a more aesthetic arrangement, than find the answer! Surprisingly they are very close now! And oldest DD and son are very close----youngest DD and son (who are actual blood siblings) clash to this day! Dianne, when my daughter started Kindergarten, I cried the first day because my baby grew up, and was going to school. I cried the second day because they only kept her half a day. It never changed. When she was ready to graduate, I cried because she was grown and was going to leave home---I would cry the next day because she was not gone yet! I feel for your situation...big hugs to you and Sherry both. Teens are amazing and fun....and horrid and scary. And you love them to pieces, and worry over them with every breath! Hang in there girls---you raised them well, and you too will end up with amazing adults!!! That some days you want to strangle anyway!!! Kat

Yeah Cindy--I have had posting problems too---but they will get it all worked out soon I hope! Colt it fine...quite comfy with us at this point. She doesn't flinch at the bridle, or even the blow dryer anymore...so she is becoming pretty accustomed to being messed with by us humans!!! Hope it stays the course, and is as good as it started out being. Beannie---I too am having the eating issues. Which isn't good today, I am off to lunch with a friend....an unbanded friend. She would like to be, but her DH's insurance doesn't cover, and she says they can't afford it. I figure she doesn't want it bad enough yet!!! I know how they live, and if it were priority at this point, she could---if it is for her, she will come to a point it IS priority, and will find a way. I really think her problem is more DH, he is quite big, and fine with it, very demanding, and set in his ways. He is of a different race, and in his view he IS the king of the castle! She seems happy with it, so I figure to each their own. I am just very spoiled dining out with my friend Michele, she is banded too, and we share!!! Glad to here our Eileenie is fine and settling in to the new job, sure do hope it is something she likes and enjoys. Same with you Beannie, hope you find something to be happy at until you make your change. Your job has been quite a roller coaster ride this last year, the climb, then a swift decline.... I am waiting for my former son in law to pick up Kinsey---he was supposd to be here 45 minutes ago---now I will be late. Oh the temptation to call him bad names is so strong! I try to be so good around the girl, I want her to love her Daddy---but I want him to be worth it! Right now I am a bit past irritated Well I am going to go and call my DD and see what she expects me to do---this is not working! Hope the site gets back to its new normal soon---seem so strange, all the changes at once!!! Oh well as long as they fix it enough for me to find my friends, I will cope with the ads! Take care all, will be back later!!! Kat

We are all kinda swimming around out here without life vests----but the rescue boats are out I understand-----so hopefully soon we will all be back to normal here. Hope your journal surfaces soon!!! Kat

Also the little blue arrows don't work for me either---it says I am not connected to the internet....and I know I am!!! I have to actually click the thread title, and cruise through all the pages---I cannot go to first unread. Glitches not corrected yet in my little corner---sorry! I would be interested in a "paid" membership as Faith mentioned before as well, especially if it simplified it for EVERYONE---meaning Alex as well as us! Kat

I am still unable to access through my email either. And to post, it says page is unavailable, then a few minutes later, I see my post actually did make it. Is everyone fixed but me???? Surely it can't be ME----it has to be something else!!!!!!LOL Kat

In my opinion no. I realize there are many types of love, and therefore this could be taken in many ways....but I beleive in all cases, your feelings do not necessarily hinge upon theirs. I loved my child before it was born. My DH once told me he loved me before he even knew it---that he loved the kind of person I was, and wanted the kind of relationship we had, before we ever had it. If you read posts, or talk to a friend who has had a relationship go bad, you can see the love they still have....or it wouldn't hurt so badly. Even if they aren't still loved in return. So in my opinion No, if you love, you can love without the feeling being returned. Kat

Hey asking questions is how we learn-- A PB, is an acronym for Productive Burp. It is a nice way of saying throw up. It differs from the throwing up we do pre band because there are no stomach acids involved. Just mucus (slime) and the chewed food. Sliming....usually precedes a PB. When your body senses something is not going to pass easily, or you overeat, and there is nowhere for the food to go, your body begins producing huge amounts of slime---a very thick, very gooey mucus, to try to help slide the offending food through. The problem arises in the fact that your pouch is already full, and there is too much to swallow, so spitting is about the only hope to avoid the slime causing a full blown PB. If you are still confused---just ask! Kat

Well my exercise today come from yard work---and lots of it! Ok, not as much as needs done, but the lawn is mowed, and my blooming bulbs look so nice now!!! I have tulips of all colors blooming, and daffodils, and hyacinths. It is quite pretty out there now. I have to tell you how furious I was, that I managed to get all this done in one swoop. I decided I would get things ready so when Rick got in we could mow it. I live in town....not at the farm. But we have 3 full city lots, and all but the house and the garage and sheds is grass. So I went to fill the gas can so we would be ready. I am at a local station, and have the plastic gas can on the ground and I'm bent over filling it, and I hear this car very close, so I look up, because Kinsey is in the car, and it is a carload of teenage boys---who flicked a cigarette at me! While I have a gas pump in my hand! I about flipped! I couldn't let go of the pump handle, it was in a small plastic can thing, not the car. So I shut it off, and hung it up, and went and stomped the cigarette. This woman come over and handed me slip of paper with a license # on it, she thought they were up to no good because they were pointing and laughing, and generally being sneaky---so she wrote it down! I called the cops, they tried laughing it off, saying the cigarette would have had to of landed just right to cause a fire. BS they were not the ones who would have been in the boom! And I had a 2 year old strapped in the car! The cop ask me if I intended to file charges, I told him I want to talk to the kids, he said I couldn't! What I would really like to see is the kids forced to pick up cigarette butts from a parking lot, or forced to DO something. Frustrating as hell! In my opinion it was an attempted assault at the very least. It is kids doing crap like this and getting away with it, that lets worse things like the recent shooting take place. Anyway, I come home and worked off some of the anger! Yesterday, I did weights and a 30 minute program on the elliptical trainer. I haven't changed my signature yet. I have managed to get my morning walks in. I love walking in the morning through the Spring, Summer and Fall. I am contemplating another fill. Totally unsure. I can eat more than I used to. But not sure that is bad. Wondering if I can increase activity enough to shed some more, or if not. I am afraid of being too tight.....so will have to think about it some more. Glad to see everyone still working to move in some manner each day!! Kat

If I have the time, I cook a sausage patty, scramble an egg, stack it, and melt a slice of cheese over the top, and split it---more of a 2/3 & 1/3 split, giving my 2 yr old granddaughter the bigger half! If I don't do that I will have part of a container of yogurt with granola. Or some cereal, with milk. I have also been known to eat leftovers for breakfast. My favorite used to be spaghetti---now I must eat a small amount at dinner, and for breakfast, just can't do it!!! I will eat a left over piece of steak, or a burger or something like that though. I too find myself thinking less about food through the day, if I start it out by eating. Kat

I picked my goal weight by looking at my DD. We are the same height, pretty much the same build and bone structure underneath all my weight. She weighs between 150 and 160 as a general rule. I believe my 165 will be too thin possibly for me, but if I get to 175 or 180 and feel good, I will be thrilled. I will need some work on my stomach---but I have needed that for awhile, I have a torn muscle, so when I get to a point the Dr. will do the TT, I will consider myself finished! Ready to maintain. I am 5'9" and right at the 200 pound mark now. I am wearing a size 14 pants, and an XL top---so I consider the band a success, I do however know it can be a few more pounds successful yet!!! At 165 it would put me at the high end of normal on the BMI chart. I am "overweight" now. It is the first time in well over a decade, more like 2 than I have been anything less than obese----let alone the morbidly obese, I began this with. I too look at spots, and wish, they were what they used to be!! But very little is as it used to be when I was in my teens and 20's. And dang near nothing is in the same place!!!! It all succumbed to gravity! Kat

You are hurting where there is no incision? Is that what I am understanding? Did you let your Dr. know it is in a different area than you expected pain? I have never felt my band in that way. When I over eat, I feel food try to move through, that is the only manner in which I have ever felt the band itself. Can you elaborate on what type of pain---shooting, dull ache, throbbing? And exactly where it is you are hurting at? If so maybe someone can relate to what is happening with you, and share some ideas while you wait to talk to your Dr. Hang in there! Kat

Dianne----AMAZING-----I am SOOOOOO impressed!!!! I cannot say enough!!!! WOW!!!! Kat

Morning everyone! Patty I am so glad you have found your window!!! Now as Beannie (I think it was) said, maybe the door will open---and insurance will walk through! Mr Pat---awesome weight loss!!! Keep up the great work. Sherry--so glad y'all made it home safe! Weather like that is scary! Deb---hope your weather clears soon too! Beannie--I have nieces and they are headed to the 5th grade range, and I know they are smarter than I am!!! Math was never my strong point. Eileenie---you will do awesome on your new job---congrats you deserve it! Betty---you will get on that bike again, I know it! I'll bring some pics of our ride to the 4 corners monument the other day, when I come to TX. Darcy---have you cruised estate sales, or yard sales in your area for things for the cabin? I have a sled similar to the one your sister had at the cabin. The main board was split out---so I actually turned it into a tree stand for my Christmas tree. I love it, it no longer looks empty when the gifts are all gone. I kept it out for awhile, and used an antique lap quilt draped over the center, and an old watering jug sat in front of it. I just don't keep much down like that now, for lack of space! Mandy--how is Abi doing back in school, now that everything is settling back down? Dianne---I know it seems like it is taking forever---but soon your boobie will be normal, and it will all be worthwhile. It seems like not too long ago, you were wondering if you could manage having surgery while everything was going on with your inlaws. And now you are well past that! Cindy---yes we too included the VT families in our prayers last night. Our prayer chain did a round as well. We also had a tragedy hit very close to home. A couple of kids my oldest DD and DS went to school with, and were friends with, married right out of HS, had a son, and then a daughter. The kids were 3 and 17 months. They both work, she works at the mexican restaurant down the road we go to all the time, and she works late. She and the DH met after she got off and went out with friends, leaving the kids with the usual nighttime sitter, which was a HS girl from the neighborhood where they live. Well the babysitter allowed her boyfriend to come over, and he was drinking and drugged up, and they began fighting. In the process of the fight, I guess the little 17 month old "Teagan" got her foot/leg stepped on and was crying. He claims he then began jumping over her---but missed, and jumped on her. She of course really cried then. They claim they cleaned her up, and put her to bed, where she went to sleep, and 6 hours later they realized her eyes were half open and she wasn't breathing. He had killed her. Her Mama is in the hospital, she is of course beside herself. The last time I saw the kids, she was such a cutie, I just cannot imagine, what the poor little darling went through. I look at Kinsey, and they are close in age---and it just makes my blood run cold. There are times, that after babysitting all day, that when DD has her class in the evening, I think, "she needs to find a babysitter for these things"--now I am so glad she didn't, and I will use that to remind myself, that as tiring as 2 year olds are, she is here and safe. It has just broke my heart. We have been working with the colt, my cousin is "the expert" he is a blacksmith/farrier by trade, so he has the knowledge too!!! It has been fun, tiring, but an amazing experience. She just nuzzles in to you now, she has no fear of us. And Doo (the Mama----somehow Serendipity---turned to Dippity Do----and I call her Doo) she has decided we are not going to hurt her baby, I think I even see this glint of relief in her when we "entertain" the little one! Took my Dad out to see the colt, and he was shocked at how acclimated she already is. I hope it works as well as it is supposed to----because I do not know a horse whisperer!!! Well I am off to watch "It's a BIG world" and to read who knows how many books!!! Hugs to all, sorry if I missed you, will try next time!! Kat

During my first fill I ended up being poked several times, even with the fluoro---but he finally got it, and it wasn't that traumatic!!! I was given 1.25 cc. and although I did not achieve optimum restriction, it did assure me that there was a working band in there!!! I was forced to slow down and chew small bites well. I was allowed a second fill a month later, and acheived good restriction with it. The first fill was successful, it started me on the road, that is what it is for. Every journey begins with a first step-----that one step is likely not going to get you to your destination, but it brings you closer! Kat

Well TOM....HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!! I know you will spend the day worrying---but try to find some time to celebrate the new healthier you! Sorry you are having a tough time with the meds. Have you spoke with the Dr.? My great Grandma died the day I got married the first time (I shoulda seen it as a sign?)---I understand that is not the same. I hope you do not have another death associated with your special day. I know it is hard not to remember these things. My DH actually proposed to me on the worst day of the year to me---unknown to him. I lost twin sons to a placental abruption situation in my first marriage, I lost them 2 weeks to the day before we had the c section scheduled. That has been well over 20 years ago, and as the day approaches later this month, my heart still pounds, and I feel an acute sense of loss, and panic, not knowing how to deal with the feelings. When he made plans to propose, he picked the Saturday evening to set things up, and was so busy in his plans, he missed what it was. My first marriage was extremely abusive. I tell myself now as a way to cope I suppose, that Rick proposing on that day was my little boys giving the OK sign. As hard as it will be on Tina, and on you as well (especially if it is on your day) she will then be able to begin healing, and the 2 of you can move on without the dark cloud of doom hanging overhead. I will think of you today and wish you happiness, and good health, both today and in the coming year. ((((HUGS)))) Kat