anonemouse

I just called my mom and was telling her about the saga I've been going through to try and have my stuff sent from my old surgeon to the new one. You know what she said? "This is getting ridiculous! Just pretend you had surgery and lose the weight that way!" Thanks, Mom. I really hadn't thought of that. I've never been successful at losing weight and keeping if off in the past because I GET HUNGRY and eventually fall off the wagon. That's why I want to have this surgery, so I won't be hungry! If it was so easy to "pretend I had surgery," doesn't she think I would?! You would think that being obese herself, she would know what I am going through. I don't want to wind up like her, with high cholesterol, diabetes, and a double knee replacement. She "doesn't want to worry about what the surgery may do to me later in life". Geez, Mom, it isn't like I am having RNY. This surgery is ENTIRELY REVERSIBLE. If I start having problems, I can have it taken out. It isn't like I am having my intestines rearranged or my stomach chopped into bits. I know she doesn't like the thought of me having surgery, but I would rather risk surgery than risk being obese the rest of my life.

Very true, which is why I'm usually not willing to bump a student's grade more than one or two points. I had a Chinese student the first semester I taught. She studied constantly, always asked questions, always did the extra credit. She just didn't understand English very well, so she would do badly on the quizes and tests. At the end of the semester, she had a 59 average, but needed a 60 average to pass the lab. Usually, if a student didn't pass the lab, they wouldn't pass the lecture, unless they had gotten extraordinarily good lecture grades. I felt really bad for her, so I bumped her grade a half point, so that it would round up to a 60.

I'd prefer not to give it to them, but the lab coordinator says we have to. It's really a waste of time, in my opinion. Half don't do it, and the other half copy off each other. I do admit to being a little lenient on some students, though, if they've shown me that they have actually tried and put effort into the lab. I don't give them an automatic A, though. If they've really tried hard and are still failing by just a point or so, I'll bump their grade up to a 60, which is passing. I've also stayed after lab to help those students with their lecture material and try to answer any questions that they have. The others, well, I really don't have much sympathy for them. I have had a bunch of students that just blow everything off, so when they do that, I don't lift a finger to help them.

That's better than my former roommate. She was married at 22 and they were separated within 6 months. To this day, I think she just didn't want to hurt the guy by saying "no", and she wanted the whole "wedding experience". It REALLY pleased those of us who had spent lots of time, effort, and money on the wedding. In my more pissed off moments, I even thought about asking her for a refund of the money I spent on the damn bridesmaids dress, wedding gifts, shower gifts, etc.

Interesting article. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17465229/

I'm chair-dancing with glee! I just heard from the surgeon's office manager, and she's going to be submitting my info to insurance this afternoon or tomorrow! I can start the count-down!:girl_hug:

Huh. I've always heard of or called that the money pouch or just pouch. I've heard of money purses (mainly in books), but I've never heard someone call it that.

It really is. That's one reason wny I want to go ahead and get banded now, instead of waiting. I don't want to wind up with the same problems she has, and I know it's likely if I don't do something about my weight while I still can. I sincerely think that if she had waited much longer, that would have been her. As it was, she couldn't stand for more than a few minutes without having to sit. She even had an episode where she had to be carted out of a restaurant on one of those things that they move lots of boxes with (the wide, flat carts) because her knees just wouldn't work when she tried to stand up. And that was at least 5-7 years before she had them replaced.

Yeah, I know that it could be a LOT worse than it is, but I still wish she would have had surgery sooner, if only for all the experiences she missed out on over the years. By the time she had surgery, she was in constant extreme pain. After surgery (like, within a day), she had them put her on regular Tylenol because she was not reacting well to the stronger pain killers (mostly emotional side effects). She said that even without pain killers, the pain she was experiencing immediately post-op was less than what she had experienced before surgery.

They'd have to be fast, working in about 10 seconds, because I always watch my car while I'm filling up. The only time I take my eyes off of it is when I am swiping my card. Yup. All those are the same. The wallet is what the credit cards and check book are in.

Those of you waiting to get knee replacements, just make sure you don't wait too long! That's what my mom did. She got both knees replaced at the same time in February of 2005, but she had waited so long to get them done that she's basically never going to have normal knee function. She's much better than she was, but she still doesn't have anywhere close to the same ability as another woman her age with normal knees. Yes, she can use a regular cart in Wal-Mart now instead of having to wait for a wheelchair or motorized cart, but she still has problems being on her feet for longer periods, getting up and down, etc. I think she put it off just because she was in denial that her knees were so bad. She's said to me before that she "didn't want to have surgery and then wonder if she had really needed it", so she waited until she literally had no other choice. I don't understand that logic, to be honest. She'd had deteriorating knees for as long (or longer) as I've been alive, and they weren't getting better. I thought that it would make more sense to have surgery when she still had somewhat normal ligaments, tendons, and musculature, so that post-surgery PT would be easier, instead of waiting until her feet were literally deformed from the way she had to walk and her muscles were so weak that she had a hard time moving. Even two years after surgery, she still gets out of chairs like she never had surgery. You know, the typical "put all weight on your arms and lift yourself out instead of using your legs to help push" behavior. But then again, she's never been a good rolemodel for doing what doctors advise. That's where I get it from, I guess. Heck, she has Type II diabetes, but she hasn't changed her diet one iota. Still eats lots of carbs, full-sugar foods, etc.

I'm guilty of some of these. I only carry a large wallet, though, so no purse to hide the fact that it was stolen. I have gotten into a habit of paying for gas at the pump with my debit card. I very rarely carry cash, in fact, and usually only have a couple of dollar bills for parking that I keep in a compartment in my car. I do generally try to stay with my wallet and cart in a store, though.

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I'll try to find the study abstract I posted a while ago. The gist of it was that both RNY weight loss is superior in the first couple of years, but lap-band catches up after that, with the two procedures having statistically equal weight loss about 3+ years post-op. There wasn't enough follow-up data to make a conclusion about long term weight loss (10+ years post-op), but it looked like lap-band might be superior to RNY, since the lap-band's 8-year average weight loss was statistically equal to the 10-year average weight loss for RNY. Makes you wonder what the results will be when there is enough data to compare the 10-years post-op data. The authors of the study analyzed all previous studies that were published in English-language journals and had at least 3 years follow up and 100 participants.

I am, just SO much.

I was the opposite to you. I was average weight until I hit puberty at 10. The very day of my birthday, in fact. Absolutely wonderful present. I had NO CLUE what was going on. After that, though, I started gaining weight, and by the time I turned 17, I weighed 190. I'm 5'3", btw, so I was a little bowling ball. By the way, it's absolutely WONDERFUL to have boobs when you're 10. Makes the girls love you, and the boys are SO nice. :girl_hug: You're lucky you developed later.

Sweetie, you are the one that brought up the band in the first place. What the hell did it have to do with a conversation about Hillary Clinton? You seem to think that anyone who posts is personally attacking you, when you were the first to attack. Guess what? This is a public message board. Like I said before, you don't get to decide who posts in certain threads. Then why the heck did you bring up education in the first place? You asked us to ask you what your qualifications were. Why get pissed when people actually do ask you? Nice name change, btw, Mysherrijo.

Yes, he did.

Like I said, if they actually are Mexican (or of Mexican descent), that's fine. It's just describing their heritage. But the term "Mexican" should not be used to describe all people of Hispanic origin or ancestry. In many cases, "Mexican" has basically become another word for "Hispanic". I could see where it could become offensive to people, especially with the recent dust-up over illegal aliens. Not to say that all Mexicans are illegal, because they certainly aren't, but a lot of people automatically think "illegal alien from Mexico" whenever they hear a person with a Spanish accent. There is also the assumption in some areas that all Mexicans are illegal. Bigoted assumption, but a lot of people do think that. So, I could see where calling someone a "Mexican", if they weren't, could be a little offensive.

LOVE that song, Carlene!

I'm just a very nonconfrontational person. (Well, in person. As you can probably tell, I loosen up when I'm not talking to a person's face.) Usually, I just get very quiet and internalize everything. Which is basically another legacy of my childhood, because of the way I was harassed by my brother. Fighting it never made a difference, so I've just learned to sit back and take it.

Yeah, my mom was so enthusiastic when we went to the seminar, she was actually considering having it herself.

While I think the teacher went too far with the "racial slur" bit, I can sort of see what she's getting at. A lot of the time, people assume that every Hispanic person they see is "Mexican", and they aren't necessarily. "Mexican" is not a bad word when used to describe things or people that actually are "Mexican", but it shouldn't be used to describe every Hispanic person out there. My case in point: I went to see "Happy Feet" in a theater, and someone behind me said (when the little singing penguins with Hispanic accents came on) that they "hated Mexicans".

This looks like it might be what I'm looking for. I would imagine that the longer you let the slaw sit in the refrigerator with this on it, the better it would be.

I haven't found a recipe yet. I've had it at a BBQ restaurant in Hunstvill, AL, though. I will post one as soon as I can find one that looks right.