Jaffa

I kind of wondered why they don't use muscle relaxers instead of pain pills. Most of the pain is coming from the abdominal muscle being messed with?

I have a band. Just PB'd about 15 minutes ago. Back to fluids for two days. I was under a lot of stress lately and put on a nicotine patch. Good god....nicotine + sweet spot= disaster. You have to be very careful and very aware of everything with the band. Love the weight loss, but I would never suggest it is better then the sleeve.

Well, we get on the airplane tomorrow morning!!! She is very excited. We are on a different schedule then normal for Dr. Aceves. He is doing the surgery on Sunday. I will post from the hospital and such!!!!!! :lol0:

524 and 523 were at the end of the wing. Kathy is doing great, she is getting all of her Water in and she is doing pretty decent on her Protein. We add unflavored whey to a lot of stuff. She gets her water in a lot easier if it is warm.

Rich for this poll is being able to buy and pay for anything you want for the rest of your life. Poor is to have basically nothing but enough to eat and a place to live.

I recommend staying away from the end of the hall, if at all possible. The farther down the wing you get the worse it is. Third leak test today, and were all going home tomorrow morning. I believe ELVIS has left the building. Everyone is doing great!!!!

oops, the last post was not from Jaffa Steve, it was from skinnymommytobe. i forgot to log him off.

Yesterday was agood day. I felt amazingly good. Dr Campos warned me last night that I may not feel as good today an he was right. I am very sore, it is hard to take a deep breath and I am very tired. I have't had the horrible gas everyone taks about, but I have been trying to walk alot. It hurts to burp. I fly home on Wednesday which is a 7 hour flight. I sure hope I feel better by then. Let me know when I should start feeling better. nausea hits me suddenly. i ave to focus very hard to not throw up.

Yes, the cable stations suck!!! Were watching movies, and tomorrow we will be starting the stargate atantis series and watching the entire series. My room doesn't get wireless...so I have to go out in the hallway to post. It gets very quiet around here on this side of the hospital at night. liquids start tomorrow for me and her!!!!

two new sleeves.....angela is doing great, even better then my wife. Heck, you can hardly tell she has been through surgery. My wife has the gas pain in her shoulder. Tomorrow, we hope to walk that out.

They took her right after her post. I'm now waiting for kathy to get out of the recovery room!!!!!!!! Everything well, is the only report I have so far.

The other person is here all by herself. She is a lot tougher then my wife. My wife wouljd have run like the wind. I'm going to spend tomorrow helping them both. Well, actaully today since it is now morning. Surprisingly the hospital was very busy yesterday. The waiting room was full when we first walked in. It took about 15 minutes to get urine, bloood, ekg, an chest exam. Then about an hour on paper work and talking to DR Aceves. I even learned a couple of things I had't ever hear. Dr Aceves, has only two sleeves tomorrow, so it is any easy day for him. Both are fresh nich stomachs.

We just had a last meal!!!! The testing went fast, and we are getting ready for bed. Surgery tomorrow at 9. The Italian Restaurant was a very good. I at too much but, she loved it....I have lefter overs for tomorrow. We also met up with another sleeve patient that is getting sleeved. It is someone who has posted, but I won't say, because they may or may not want it posted. I will error on the cautions side on this one. She is a really nice person. The both get sliced and diced tomorrow. I know, not what people want to hear....LOL

Ok, if you pick rich and fat, you don't get to have any surgery....you have to know that you will stay fat.... Oppps, that changes things? Maybe?

Because they weren't being a moron or a liar?????????

Ok, fat is Morbidly Obese skinny is in the normal range

When I saw the news article about the auction for a lot of his memorbilia, I told my wife he is either seriously in money problems, or something else was going on. Maybe, his health situation wasn't all that unknown to himself? I kind of believe that was probably the case.

Oooops...I'm drilling holes, not hoes!!!!! LOL

Ok, here is my non scale victory. I had to buy a new belt. I kept drilling hoes in the old one, but it got to the point that the tail was flopping around. Bad news is, I lost some more weight, relatively little and have used up 3 holes already. It just now occured to me, that being closer to goal means that my waist size changes much more for every little bit I lose (loose...LOL).

Boy, I think you really hit it on the head. And for the reasons you state, I think way too many people get the band, that won't do well with it. It just isn't the miracle cure, that a lot of people want. I will say, it has helped me a lot, and I don't kid myself, I work for the band, it doesn't do the work for me!!!! It just doesn't work out that way. Too bad it doesn't though!!!

She has had several "last meals" already!!!!!! But, I have enjoyed some of it to....just not very much of it....LOL

I got the last word. By saying I got the last word!!! LOL By the way, the fact that you are or aren't an RN is totally irrelevant to me. But, to the ignorant, it may lead them to believe that you have some extra knowledge or expertise in the area. You very well may, or you very well may not. But, to keep indicating it, only seems to try and give this result, when I feel it really isn't appropriate. But, hey, do as you please. If you can't see by now the error in the way you post and how it could be misleading to someone reading this later, then you probably never will. So someone will probably always have to correct what may be miscostrued and then you will act attacked, and then you will defend and then you will be a victom and so on and so on. And here is where you try to get one more word in, and probably make yourself look less credible rather then more, but it makes no difference. The corrections have been made.

HMMMMM. Just to opposite for me. The second I try to leave a chat window open and open a different window to the forum, it crashes.

We will be there the week before!!!!!! We will keep you posted in a new thread.

I work out in the fat burning zone most of the time. And your right, it takes a lot of time to get the same result. If I stationary bike for an hour, and walk for an hour, and do some weights for about an hour, and do that 4 times a week, I will lose 2+lbs versus just 1lb, if I don't.