Kat817

I have had a few long surgeries in my time. My hysterectomy was almost 9 hours!!! I had endometrial cancer, and all the tissue had to be removed that had migrated all over....so it just went on forever. I did not have issue with blod clots, I had the air boots on until I began moving regularly on my own. And respiratory therapists were there with my breathing and coughing exercises very soon after surgery. They of course left the spirometer thing there for me to breath with every hour! I totally understand your Dads fear, we always worry about those we love----but I also would imagine if you were to go talk to your friends in the hospital that work the surgical floor, they are probably quite used to dealing with patients who have had extended time surgeries---and they work with them accordingly. I cannot imagine your Dr. would agree to do the exteded work if she was not comfortable with the time it will take. My TT was over in a couple of hours.....but I just 2 weeks ago had surgery for a twisted intestine that he told my DH could take upward of 6 hours if it did not resolve easily---lucky for me it did, and 3.5 hours later it was done! As you say, you are in excellent health----and you will LOVE the flat tummy----I am still in awe of it. I lie in bed in the morning and stretch, and I feel so different! I LOVE the results!!! Good Luck---will be following your progress!! Kat

I do not know a lot about slips, but thought I might have one a few weeks ago. Unlike your situation, I had never had issue with the 2 fills I had through the 2+ years. I had been totally unfilled in April, for a TT. So I had no fill, ended up with a stomach virus, and threw up seriously for a day....took a long time for the anti nausea meds to take effect. So I too went to liquids, but everything I drank come right back up. It was like I had a full button, and no matter how slowly I sipped, when it become full----up it come. So I give it a day....doing the ice melt thing, letting as much absorb through the mouth as possible. Next day same thing---by then it was a weekend so I ended up in the ER for IV's. I was super dehydrated, and my band Dr. is 6 hours away! So he made me stay here for further hydration so I could make the trip safely---and I did. I got there, and found out, I did not have a slip---I had a twisted intestine!!! Being banded, I automatically thought it would be band related! He sent me straight to surgery---and while in there, he sutured by stomach into a better position following the drastic weight loss----but my band was fine. Do not delay for too long, they (multiple Dr.'s were in on this by the time I was done!!!) said I would not have made it much longer, I almost killed myself waiting for stomach swelling to go down, when that was not the issue at all!!! I hope yours is an easy unfill and fix----but please do not delay!! I will not ever wait again! Better safe than sorry!!! Good Luck!!! Kat

Mariposa, I think you possibly nailed it in your first post....when you referred to your migraines and the hormones. Fat cells horde estrogen, and when you lose weight quickly as you have up til now, that excess hormone gets dumped into your system---causing the hormone induced migraines, PLUS causing a multitude of PMS like issues---including bloat, and Water retention---which both result in weight gain. You might also notice mood swings, and libido changes, acne breakouts etc. Your body actually adjusts quickly and they will pass. I would not recommend going any lower in calories, and in fact, maybe instead of counting calories for a few days just concentrate on eating as healthy as you can...fresh nutrtious food, avoid the processed often high sodium foods---which will just make the water retention worse. Years ago I had hormone induced migraines, and they went away when I had a hysterectomy (had it for other reasons---not the migraines), never had another one until I got banded!!! Then I had a few during the first month following it, and they went away.....never to return I hope!!! Good Luck to you----I bet it eases up soon, and the weight loss continues! Kat

Yeah he said the same thing, and he only gave me 15 with no refills!!! Can't stay addicted too long I guess!! LOL, thanks for the heads up though!!! Kat

Yep 19 o clock found me at the Dr. See I told you I was tired last night!!! 19???? I went at 10---he says it looks like the rash is clearing as it is scabbing in spots I scratched it raw. Hope so. He thinks it was a combo of the adhesive, and stress. He wants me to take the Zyrtec for 2 weeks, faithfully, and he also gave me Xanax so if I feel especially stressed such as the day I found out about the bank issue, I can take it----and see if the rash does not clear up. So I might be itchy, but I'll be such a Zombie from the meds, I won't know it!!! I am off to fix some fish for supper----trying to eat good---so far so good today, and I watched my granddaughter eat a mini ice cream sandwich at the Tollhouse Cookie place in the mall----good thing I love her or I might have mauled her for it!!! Check in later!!! Kat

First of all let me apologize for my mini font earlier, I had no idea Alex had changed us back to the small size---people were complaining they had to scroll the screen so he went back small--dammit! Guess it is back to advance post to fix it, and it was SOOOO nice to be able to see it easy!! TracyK---I too wish you had come to us!!! I DO know how hard it is to get that kind of info---and truth be told, I was prepared to get it this time, with the PS, but if you were to see my B&A's you would be able to see the lypoma issue they found, that along with the detached muscle qualified my insurance. I remember the feeling from when BCBS told me my 10.5 months of medically supervised weight control appointments were washed down the drain, and I was going to have to start over! I was totally devastated....then they tell me they will not pay for another sleep study, or swallow study, or my psych evaluation for 2 years unless medically deemed necessary. So I was looking at being banded about now probably! No, since then they have reduced it to 6 months---but I remember how I felt, that I could be dead with the weight before then! It was awful, and I am so sorry you girls are dealing with those feelings----it breaks my heart. I want us all to be happy! They are going to recut Rick's check and overnight it on Monday. So I might not starve to death before then.....but I might not be shopping before then either----and I think I swapped my food addiction for a shopping addiction, and knowing someone took my money, and that we should have had another paycheck, and don't is really making me pissy~! Making fish for supper----I have done well today, going to keep it up. I weighed in at the Dr.'s today at 161. Which is up from my scale, but they made me keep my clothes on, since the scale is in the hallway!!! The nurse (which is a nursing school trainee--and assisting the usual MA he has that took my DD's place) says Oh my gosh that is a gain of 13 pounds, and we just saw you, you must be retaining too much water! The Dr. tells her that I was completely dehydrated before, and am very well hydrated now. She made some sort of comment about how she would have had to try to maintain the loss, she loses her mind when the scale starts upward--my Dr. tells her well if she hadn't had the surgery the loss would have continued, and she looked soooooo interested, and then he adds, decomposing works that way----I don't think she ever got it. He just slightly, very slightly shook his head......don't think she will last!!! So what is on everyones agenda for the weekend? I am staying home!! LOL I have no money!! LOL Actually going to just have to try to get around to both Dads and DD tomorrow for their birthdays. Too bad I can't go see TracyKS for hers too!!! Take care all!!! Kat

It is small again for my old eyes.....danggit! Guess it is back to advance post!!! That's life! Kat

I just tried editing this to the correct size I had chosen and it will not change----aaarrgghh!!! Kat

Tracy, Hon I SOOOOOO understand where you are. But as you said, it is not over, it WILL happen, but at a pace you are comfortable with and not being pushed to do it by a certain time and date or the price changes....that seemed kinda hinkey to me to be honest. The price is similar to what I was quoted if insurance was not accepting. He told me in the neighborhood of $8K. But for them to be pushing so hard, and calling people as opposed to offering the financing when people showed up there------sounds an awful lot like the bait and switch Laura mentioned. They give you an awesome deal then when you show up....they either switch the whole deal or begin adding things on, hoping for people to be so dead set on it, that they do not have the intelligence you did to put a stop to it then and there. I congratulate you for being smart enough to say no! If insurance had turned me away, I sure as heck would have had to say no--I have been working for the last 4 years to become debt free, I would NOT add another payment!! Keep looking, watch for a great credit card deal, or maybe when the election is over, rates will drop enough you can refi or something will give. In the meantime, if this did nothing else----it put you and Charles on the same side, and that is a BIG deal! Big Hugs to you, and no matter what you are feeling today----we know you are beautiful, and you DO fit (in a WAAAAY smaller size than 2 years ago!!!) and you are BEYOND good enough. Love Ya!!!! My Dr. did squat for me too! He said it looks as though the rash is easing, because it is beginning to scab over where I scratched it raw. So for 2 weeks I am supposed to do the Zyrtec daily (and zombie out), he also gave me---y'all will laugh because we just discussed this-------Zanax, thinking maybe the stress of the surgery and all that has gone on, has made my body begin producing too much histamines----or something so if I have an especially stressful day, or am in discomfort as opposed to pain, I am to take one---see if I can relax and get past this point so that the rash goes away. He looked over my report from the surgeon and he said he was surprised to see me up and about and looking so good already. Made me feel better since I felt like it had been much too long for recovery. I have never taken 2 weeks to bounce back before. And NO cracks about me not ever being this old before--I done thought of that!! LOL Laura, I must have been a text book pregnancy! One of my very first signs of being pregnant, was that I wanted a nap! I never sleep during the day----unless I was pregnant!! Then about the 3rd day I wanted a nap, my boobs would be too sore to even think about rolling over on! No need for a PG test!!! But it only lasted the first trimester, then I was going strong! Not tired, not miserable, just pregnant! Hope you get as lucky!!! Gotta unload the DW and reload. Then Kinsey is going to dance class, and I have a couple of errands to run. BBL~~ Kat

All I am going to say about it is that when it happen, it was not pretty, and I sure as hell was not looking forward to the OH crap being brought over here to settle again. I have not got a crystal ball to tell whether it is a real newbie or another alternate ID for someone else. I reacted the way it made me feel-----with dread! I have since explained my point, and since I do not go to OH ever, and this is apparantly going to be yet another thread concerning them I will just unsubscribe, and allow you all to decide who is real and concerned and who is just messing with us. Good Luck. Kat

LOL Jane! I could not have told you her name---but I DO remember Romper Room. We did not get it at home, we were literally in the boonies---but I watched it at my Grandma's. And every now and then, she would say Hi to Kathy, and I remember telling her back, "They call me Kat"!!! I had not thought of that in years!! Last mention I made of Romper Room was to tell a manager at Yellowstone Nat'l. Park, his employees must have all been Romper Room Rejects!!! We had rented a cabin in the park and 3 different times they gave us keys to inhabited cabins. We opened the door---with the key---and there was other peoples things! We could have stolen them blind! So the 2nd time we knocked, sure enough a man answered the door.....when we explained, he too drove back to the office! So everytime we left the cabin we had to load EVERYTHING up because we didn't trust them not to give out OUR key!!! Rotten time!!! It snowed on us, and was the end of June, we took shorts!!! LOL Sitting here letting my hair dry----go to the Dr. this morning to find out about my itching. Woke up less sore this morning tho. Last night I could not even let Kinsey lay on my lap during the debate I was so fricken sore....this morning, with a night of being drugged, and no scratching (well much less) I am better. Eating a piece of peanut butter toast. I am where I want to be weight wise again, and finding it a bit difficult to NOT eat like I did for the week after being put back on food. Since I KNOW I can..... I know peanut butter toast is not the best for me, but it was cold, cereal or yogurt just sounded even colder!!! Terry the dog is a beauty!!! And I can vouch that human thyroid meds are cheap, so I assume dog is the same thing.....dosed accordingly. Mine is in the neighborhood of $3.00 a month. One of my friends on the New Jersey thread (Sherryboberry) has 2 goldens, and she loves them to pieces. They have an older one, then got a fairly young pup---she said the pup was a handful, but has now settled into her routine. She always includes them in her pictures---they are so pretty. Comet needs you!!! TracyKS---will be thinking of you while you are at your Dr. and I am at mine. Of course I might be thinking, I am sure glad I don't have to take my clothes off!!! LOL----good Luck girl!!! Pamela---you a failure? You who has everything going on at once??? When everything is going great, and you have nothing outside of your multiple JOBS to do----it would be difficult to get to your diss and get your chapters finished as quickly as you would like. Now when you add in a relationship, and friends, and lifes ups and downs----and it would seem impossible------but you are doing it! Maybe not as fast as you originally planned, but it IS getting done. Other than the fact we have to call you Dr........is much going to change if it takes a little longer than you hoped? You will still get there---and you won't have ignored yourself, your partner, or your family and friends to the point of alienation. Especially the VIOLETS!!!! LOL You will get there girl, you just have SOOOOO much life going on! You are NOT a failure! Michelle.....quiet? How will you ever take votes if you cannot talk my friend??? Hope you are speaking up soon!!! I get laryngitis like that, feel fine, just have no voice! I feel for ya!! Judy, Haydee, Jane, Suzanne, Laura, TracyK, Jenn, Gina, Denise--------I am thinking about you, but must get ready for the Dr. Kinsey is still sleeping so have to allow for time to deal with the grumpies from waking her up!!! Will check back when I get back home. Oh yeah, when it rains it pours---they screwed Ricks check up--so even if it had deposited it would have had to have been fixed. They paid him for a weeks vacation! For no reason, and we do not want to buy out a week! (deeeeeeeeeep sigh inserted here) hopefully it won't take long...... Kat

Nothing new here---posting tonight to keep the link and subscribe---but for now I am heading off to bed. See the Dr. tomorrow at 19---will post when I get back. Thanks so much for all the kind words and support---y'all are the best! Kat

While I can relate to wanting to be in your own bed, the problem with that for me is that when the sink fills with dishes, or something is out of place and needing put away----if I see it I want to fix it and get my house back in order~ this way I did not have anything besides walking and sipping to do. My SIL and I went to be banded together and DH went with us....we all spent hours talking with my nurses, who ask as many questions of where we lived as we did of them! DH too could recouperate without worrying about laundry piling up etc. He might be VERY concerned with what was happening at work without him tho----it is just what we are used to doing every day---and therefore it was better I was out of my element, and seriously taking it easy!!! Kat

I went to MX and was self pay....my Dr. kept me 2 nights, because I had a long flight as well as a long drive ahead of me on day 3. Was wonderful to have someone to take care of me and wait on me as needed those first 2 days!!! Kat

Never tried the "instant" bacon. When I decide it is time to cook bacon I will cook 2 pounds--I bake it in the oven, then it is done! I try to keep some cooked up through the summer for Rick to have BLT's with his fresh tomatoes. Then in the winter if I keep it cooked up we used to do grilled cheese and bacon sandwiches and soup a lot---but have not done that in awhile!!! Terry, you mentioned some serious stress the other night---is everything ok??? Hope so! It was a nice day. Marie and I walked down and had lunch, I had a chile rellano, and a taco. Avoided the chips and salsa for the most part. Then we strolled our way home. Marie is having hip problems from the weight she has put on, so we took it slowly. TracyK---were the areas you drove through the really devastated areas? I bet it made you feel really thankful! Suzanne, you make me feel lazy, the inside of the windows in both my cars and Ricks truck need washed SO badly! No one ever smokes in our cars, but there is always a film of some sort build up. And then he has a radar detector and we use the GPS when we go anywhere so there are suction marks on all the windows and it drives me nuts! Apparantly not nuts enough to do anything about them tho!!! When Manda comes after Kinsey she is just going to hang out, and watch the debate with us. She is Ms. Political I am here to tell you!!! And she and Jason are on opposite sides of the fence. Difference is, Manda will take the time out of her day to go vote, he will not. She said they are going to end up with 2 signs in their yard, and she is going to attach a His and a Hers to them!!! Haydee glad you liked the quiche, we like it too!!! I would hazzard a guess that most of the men who shot the idea down, have never even tried it! Remember the book "Real Men Don't Eat Quiche"? Well I guess I will go through some things together to call dinner. Have things ready to cook. I am soooooo tired. These allergy drugs are killing me. And they moved my appointment to 10:15 in the morning. I guess someone in the office had an accident, and things were all haywire, so they rescheduled me. I just wanna quit itching!!! Will check in with y'all later! Kat

I get the soft stop of a sniffly nose-----like I need to sniff. I need to quit then, if I let it go, I overeat, and am miserable!!! No medical background here.....BUT I think it is all related to the production of mucus our bodies do when we are overfull, or stuck on something. Known around here as sliming. EVERYONE does that, not just banded people, when something is stuck, you produce thick gooey saliva, which is done to try to help slick things through. I think when your nose is sensitive that is where you feel the sensation of mucus formation first. And in your case that sounds like the slightest bit makes you sneeze. If I push past my sniffles, I will get the hiccups, but by then it is usually too late! Kat

Back a few pages there was a post ( I should go back and find it -- but I am lazy!) with a laugh over a typ0-----Plain ended up being Pain....and of course we all know better....BUT, made me remember a goof I made! A couple of years ago, somehow a thread got around to us talking about fireplaces and all the exercise you get with them, hauling wood all the time. I meant to say I needed to get a Dust Buster to clean around ours....I typed that I needed a Bust Duster.....but hey, I got a few offers!!! LOL Kat

Judy just type it and see if it does not post correctly---some have, some haven't, but he will get the kinks worked out!!!! Off to lunch!! There is a chimichanga with my name on it!! Kat

Tquad---I think you should also be thankful you had your eye surgery done first, if you got banded and braced first, you might have never recognized yourself!!! I think it is wonderful that you are taking such charge of your life!!GO YOU!!! Kat

Good morning girls! Good to see you wanting to make positive steps Jenn----the decision to move on forward is sometimes the hardest part of really doing it! We lost our game last night, but it was mainly due to the arguement between our coach and Rick's secretary's family (4 women on the team are from her family, her 2 DD's and her sister). They made a "statement" to the coach by not showing up! Claimed an emergency. He finds out today they were mad so didn't come. Since it is a co-ed team, you are required to play equal # of men and women. And you MUST have 4 each to make a team. The only way we made 4 women was to play Barb who is 7 months pregnant! So it wasn't pretty! Most of the other team (which was the other company team) knew what was going on, and made a game of it, but there were about 4 guys whose sole mission was to pound them into the ground. Glad it is over! I felt horrible, but was not taking any chances and playing! I am going to lunch with my friend Marie today. She is coming over and we are walking down to the Mexican place here in town. It is a nice walk, maybe 1/3 of a mile. Going is nice, but actually getting up and walking AFTER eating makes me feel soooo much better! Swelling is still bad, and I have a horrid rash----all over my torso, grainy and under the skin mostly, except in the places I have scratched it raw. I wake myself up at night scratching, and when I scratch over one of my incisions it brings me out of a deep sleep in a hurry! So will ask him about it this afternoon. I am living on Benadryl and Zyrtec to keep the itching at bay----so I am like a zombie I am always sleepy. YAY it is payday!!! So I can at least put it in the other account and have some money at my disposal. Everyone (ok NOT everyone, but parents, and Becky, even DD and DS) was offering us money to get by!! Would be nice to have our own! Such a crappy thing to happen! Did any of you read that Alex changed the edit options page to include an area to make your font, color and size your own personal choice and default.....just go to your edit options page and it is at the bottom. Yay Alex!!! Fonts we will be able to see with old eyes!!! Rick used to only occasionally question my eating habits. But since surgery he pays waaaay to close of attention!!! He is gradually backing off since he sees I am eating, I have had zero nausea....all that jazz. I know they do it because they care and worry---we would probably do it too!!! Well I need to go get Kinsey and I ready. She is going to Nana's (my Moms) and I am going to lunch. Gotta tell you, yesterday we were in town and I groaned getting in the van (driving it because it is easier to get in and out of with my sore tummy)---and I said something about getting old, and Kinsey pipes up with "you not old Granny, Nana is" There was no not laughing, even Mom was cracking up!!! Out of the mouths of babes she says!!! Check in later!! Kat

Congrats, but it really not nice to scare me like that---I opened this horified, but knowing I would have to say something....you bad-- soon to be skinny man!!! LOL Kat

Sue, please allow me to welcome you to LBT, and apologize if the comments I made upset you. As green pointed out, this person has been discussed at length before, and anyone here that remembers those discussions will readily agree, they began with a question EXACTLY like you ask.....so yes the bitter taste remained in my mouth, and sad to say, were someone to come on and ask the same question again, it would again be the first thing to come to mind. The arguements were ugly and unnecessary, and I was hating the thought that they might be starting again. Please look around and read up on our great site, you will find more trusting souls outside of R&R I would bet! Good luck in your appeal, and please do not let my suspicious nature deter you from the site, it is full of wonderful information and support. Kat

I too would LOVE that option, but figured it was not offered in order to keep size down. There could be limits----but at least a FEW options!!! Kat

I know positively without a doubt that my band has extended my life. I have used it to reach goal----I no longer take a single prescription medication! My blood pressure is normal, my blood sugar is normal, my cholesterol is normal (my Dr. giggled over it---giggled I swear!), my knees do not ache, my feet do not require birkenstocks to walk a block----in fact they were swapped out with cute little flip flops that matched all my clothes!!! I can ride my horse again. I can ride the motorcycle in my leathers and not feel like I am the entire cow on the back! And as good as the band itself has been-------this site is one of the biggest positives in my life, I have made such wonderful friends! Some I have met (my Shrinking Violets) others I have not met yet, but I am thankful for all of them every single day!!! Kat

I know it is not PC----but have to say, I agree with Plain!!! Not something I would see or interpret as sexism. Just a compliment---a complimentary way of acknowledging you were there, and noticed. As for smacking my DH upside the head for saying it.....my DH is not the type who would EVER say that to anyone, he is on the quiet side (and married to me!!!!!!) But if he were to say something like that in my presence I would feel like he obviously did not think it a comment he needed to hide----or would not have said it with me there. I mean I know there are things he talks about and language he uses with his friends that he cleans up for me, so if he were to say or do something with me there, I think he would mean nothing by it. But then again, I am the one pointing out the painted on tops when we hit the bike rallies, he is oblivious!!! Well not oblivious, just not real observant----when pointed out, he definitely looks!!! LOL Enjoy it in the spirit it was given----you deserve it! Kat