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Thanks Joanne! its nice to have an idea of what to expect! I go in on 12/14. i pushed it out a week sicne i didnt want to see the doc on my birthday. Just had a 1/2 cup of melted ricotta cheese, mozzarella cheese and spagheti sauce. YUM! and not i am stuffed on 1/2 a cup. But i wonder if I still eat my mushies too fast. hmmm. off not to walgreens to get something to put over my scars. Or o just go walk since its nice out.

Hi Everyone So in looking at what kind of soup t make for lunch - i noticed I have a can of cream of potato soup and a can of chedder cheese soup. Anyone ever mix the 2 to make a cheesey potato soup? :biggrin1: Figure i should get creative since i dont think i can take cream of chicken soup for another 4 days. I'm ready for the baby food!!

I made the cheese thing for dinner. I couldn't do the soup. I went to Dominicks and picked up some mushie foods. I figure the holidays are coming and they always do food drives at work so i can donate all this left over soup!! So i was massaging (ok my scrathing) my port scar and I thought it was glued like my other scabs. NOPE i managed to pick something and i have this plastic-type stich sticking straight out!!!! i was going to have y husband cut it but if he sees it he'll yell at me for having been picking at it. OOPPS! i'm going to have the nastiest scars since i wont let these heal!

Since i had a few noodles at lunch all I want it is mushies!! I was going to be strong and wait the one more day but I have seriously been obsessing about tacobell's beans and culvers mashed potatoes all afternoon! Maybe I'll go home and make the recipe thats in the mushie section - ricotta cheese, mozeralla and spaghetti sauce. I just can't have any more soup!!!!

Welcome Le2sha! The s/f carnation instant breakfasts arepretty good and I use it with Rice Dream and not milk. I had brought some veggie broth but I just couldnt do it. I went to Culvers for their chicken noodle. I only had a few of the noodles had barely ate 1/2 of it. And I am stuffed. For those of us banded recently - are your scars starting to itch like mad? Do you put anything on them?

does vitamin e help with the itchyness of the new scars?

Good Morning All! I feel even more sore today! I think its all this sitting at work. After work yesterday I had to drive an hour to class, sit there for 3 long boring hours, and then drive the hour home. Today I could use more more sleep. I think its from scrunching and typing. yesterday was a bad food day! First I drop my soup all over the kitchen counter at work. Then on the way to class I open up the emergency SlimFast shake I had and I had grabbed the low carb instead of the high protien and I didn't like it. GRR! So i figrued I could buy soup on campus since its usually chicken noodle with lots of broth. This was the chunkiest soup ever! All noodle and chicken and very little liquid. I ate just a little and chewed it alot. AH it felt good to chew!! I better get back to work. have a great day!

Hi everyone. I'm beginning to think that I should have taken a nother few days or come back for a 1/2 day. I keep trying to stand and type which isn't very comfortable.

Hi All! back at work today. Sitting at my desk is making me a tad achey so i keep standing to type and trying to get comfy. I got in and there was a big box filled with EAS Myoplex protein packs and bag of unflavored protein and all sorts of goodies - baby juices and food, applesauces and jello and crystal lights. I hate my job but the people make it soo worth it!! Now i'm just waiting for my little container of soup to not be so cold so i go nuke it. Have a great day all!

hi everyone. i needed to chew something!i couldnt take it. So i had a peice f string hceese. I dont think its ever taken me so longt o eat a peice of cheese before in my life! but it was sooo nice to chew! I am trying to not do it again til thrusday when i can break into the baby food I bought but we'll see.

I noticed that my nose was running yesterday! Its funny and creapy all at the same time!

Morning! I know i must be feeling better since my appetite is back. I tried to make a smoothie with a protein sample of Mixed Berry I had. Yuck. then the painters were here to fix some cracks and I felt weird in my own kitchen. So once they left i figured I'd try a dannon light & fit smoothie. It was Ok but I got distracted and left it and now its warm and funky. figured I'd have some jello and then just make some soup early. Anyone else dreading going back to work on Monday?? =)

:phanvan Hi my friends So its been a week since bandland. can't believe i've gotten thru another 7 days of liquids! Met with Dr Myer and he says everythings healing the way it should. neat. Sure wish this port scar would stop itching! He wanted me to come in in 5 weeks for my first fill. But i pushed it back a week since i didnt want to spend my birthday there (even tho they are having a xmas gettogether for us bandsters that same evening.) Afterwards I thought I would stop at the store and get a soup, break into my moms to use her microwave and then go to SXU for my makeup exam. Jewels had the Campbells soup to gos for like a buck so i grabbed one and left. IICCKKK!! So i head to class, dump the sopup and eat the jello cup i brought. Bombed the test something horrible. Did you see that flashing red thing in the sky tonight? Was it a comet? Nopers just my GPA crashing to the earth. I came in and tried hard not to bite my DH head off while i made some soup. Then i think I just inhaled a 1/2 cup of cream of chicken soup. Ugh, guess should have taken that a little slower. Oh well.. learning learning learning Now I just want to relax some and go to bed. A coworkers is having a pampered chef party for me tomorrow. It will be hard not eating any of what i make! But while i was at the store i actually said to myself - hmmm 5 layer taco dip... thats a mushy food right? :nervous Last night I got the work emaisl down to 2. Now i logged in and there are 99. I think I'll log off before it reals me in. Thanks for letting me rant!

i have an elliptical that I cant wait to start using again. With regards to sales - the holidays are just around the corner and if you can hold out til the New Years Resolution sales kick off then I'm sure you'll get a good deal!

mine was in my upper abdomen and lower back. i always thought i was about to just up and die. The only way to overcome the pain was to take a bath - I'd call it SoniaSoup - get the water so absolutley hot then laydown in it. the steam would make me lightheaded and i would fall asleep. when my roommate would check on me I'd wake up and the pain would be gone. when i had mine out the doc looked at my foks and asked - which one of u gave your daughter this gift. We had no idea it was hereditary. since then my mom and grandma both had theres out.

i haven't done this yet - but I have been very tempted to put a pringle on my tongue and suck all the salt off of it.

i had my gallbladder removed 5 years ago and good riddance to it!! I was in such pain for years and years and doc after doc didn't help. Til one superbowl party I had an attack and thought i was having a heart attack. the doc said right away - gallstones. And mine was FULL. so out it went.

Happy Halloween everyone! i know i'm only supposed to be on full liquids but i had a couple small spoons of sugarfree applesause. i wanted to pretend i was eating some fruit. =)

I'm thinking CC - short for cupcake or chocolate cake which got me into this mess in the first place =)

good morning everyone! I still have the pain in my shoulder and am having my issues with gas but today I'm going to do lots more walking once I leave moms today. But i am finaly feeling much more normal. I think becuase i woke up to my stomach rumbling and that hasn;t happened for days! I looked in my postop guide and i could have the sugarfree carnation breakfast so i mixed that with some rice dream and am sipping while I pack. enjoy your sunday! good luck to everyone being banded tomorrow and tuesday!

hi my friends! I can't burp!!! I try and end up swalling and screwing it all up. I googled "how to burp" but i keep geting info on burping a baby. Don't think mom's going to heave me on her shoulder anytime soon!! HELP!!! :cry

before I left thursday, they told me to not even get on the scale for the first several weeks. She said, i went from over-eating to a liquid diet to surgery to back to liquids. My body could go into survivial mose until everything is healed and she didn't want me to get discouraged. I lost 12 pounds preop so that felt like a nice jumpstart. I figure I'll hop on the scale maybe @ week 2.

I name everything. My husband thinks I'm a wacko for it but things mean more when they have a name associated with them! I was thinking about this yesterday since a coworker bought me a stufed stomach from her local hospital gift shop. I just have to think of a name for the band... dont know yet. I was thinking there should be a key chain shaped like the band. =)

hi everyone well CVS finally got my liquid meds and my brother dropped it off around 330. i still feel kinda wiped out. The left side of my stomach area is still sore so i haven't done or eaten much. I dont know if i'm getting all my water but i would say i've gotten at least 32 ounces. its just hard. i havent ventureed outside to walk, i'm just doing laps around the living room a few times every few hours. I have a little gas pain but i have realized that spending my life with a pass-gas-in-public-phobia that I'm having a really hard time. I feel like i swallow right as I'm going to burp so it doesnt come out. I'm trying to tell my body its ok - be free! but it doesn't seem to believe me. i hope i start feeling more like me tomorrow.

Ouch Ouch Ouch Really all i can muster to say =) Moms local CVS didnt have the bottle of prescription but would have it tomorrow. Corse didn't occur to me to get some liquid tylenol. Can't sleep so watching the Transporter. Made about a 1/3rd cup of broth cuz I can't tell if i'm sore or hungry. I'll give more of an update tomorrow. To the rest of todays Bandsters - Speedy recovery & Can you belive we did it!! WooHOO