SoccerMomma73

physician assistant, i'm family practice or primary care

God bless him...I'd strangle a patient, I know I would.

as a PA that was once that scared student I'd like to thank your husband for donating his ass to science....we really do appreciate it!!!!!

Good for you!!! I had just typed up this ' Big big difference between stating your opinion or discussing your personal experience and claiming expertise....it gets scary when non-experts claim to know it all and present their personal opinion as fact. Even if there are studies to support your claim, it's still opinion and in my opinion, unfair and dangerous to present it as anything else. Please be cautious when spewing your 'facts'. ' and when I tried to post it, it was locked. Opinion and fact...,are very different creatures.

. They swear I'm the only one that takes off every extra ounce!!!!

Well okay....the mental argument was 'which of the cute outfits weighs the least'. There will be no jewelry tomorrow that's where I'm drawing the line!!!

. Okay, true confessions? I actually did weigh 2 outfits this morning in prep for tomorrow.... I should probably be medicated.

my 9 month post-op is tomorrow and I've 'only' lost about 10 pounds in the last 4 months (I'm good with this as long as it keeps going away!!!) however I've seriously contemplated shorts, a bowel prep, and diuretics this week stupid stupid stupid me

being a failed band I'll say that was not my experience however I got, erm, chastised on LBT previous for stating it was anything other than user error. I don't think we can really measure the % because honestly, how many people are going to admit they kept their band too tight or ate crap to the point of vomiting. I do personally think 5% is a significant underestimation (but I've got no data to back that up)

Reoccurring theme here, why is my surgery best? I'm not trying to start WWIII here but just curious, in a non-hostile, in your face, you suck and I'm right, you're wrong kinda way, why did YOU pick YOUR surgery? They've all got pros and cons, but what tipped the scales for you? I keep hearing 'I don't want a foreign body in me' 'I don't want 85% of my perfectly healthy stomach cut out' 'I don't want my guts rerouted or malabsorption' but what did it for you, what made you comfortable with your choice? Keep in mind I'm a failed band with revision to RNY so you're not trying to sell it to me. I'll start. I started with a band simply because it seemed like an easy and less drastic surgery. It seemed simple. (And really, surgery and recovery were). Had the band and I gotten along it woulda been awesome!!!! But, sadly, we didn't. I had so many complications and so much misery, when it prolapsed I got to choose sleeve or RNY (my doc won't revise a prolapsed band to another band, plus, in the end it had started to erode so repeat band was off the table). The determining factor for me between sleeve and RNY was simply reflux/GERD risk. I had horrible reflux with my band, even when it was empty. Like waking up at night with acid coming out my nose type reflux. It was miserable and the thought that the sleeve might possibly give me any reflux at all was enough to sway me. (And who knows, not everyone has GERD with the sleeve, I might have been fine, but the thought terrified me).

random, but when I threw up with the band (and I mean hurl, not PB) it was much like the horrific sound of a cat vomiting...am I the only one to experience this????

I shall briefly chime in for the RNY.....it actually is reversible but, yeah, being obese since childhood that played no factor in my decision (I'll never NOT need the help) and very very very few RNY patients dump....I, magically, happen to be in that minority. I am pretty carb sensitive...I can't have a few bites of birthday cake but I darn well better have some protein first or it will kick my ass! Also, I can eat any food (as long as it's not carb heavy), I've thrown up twice in 9 months since surgery (once when I was seasick and last Friday when my child gave me his GI cooties (kids are nasty FYI). RNY people can eat normal food and aren't puking all the time.....

Yay! See!!! We can all be friends!!! . Except that weirdo with the hangy down thing.....

I just got to your page!!! Go Rev . Something is not right...there's like a chunk of cerebellum missing or banded or something.

Santa died at our house tonight...the 9 year old has it all figured out. I really want a cookie.

Oh Beelzebub, the beast has awoke....I only read 1 page of that thread and need a drink. GO BUTTER!!!!

No, it doesn't make it okay. It's just one more thing that she'll end up worrying about that she shouldn't even be aware exists at this point. My son is 9 (Santa died tonight at our house, it's been an emotional evening). He's the height of an average 12 year old boy...the kid is huge. We've heard it forever. He was overweight but as he's sprouting up and our eating habits are improving he's now in the 'at risk for overweight' category and about 4 pounds from what would qualify as a healthy BMI for his height....he's always been a little chunk but never just enormously overweight, but from about age 4 or 5 he started dealing with kids calling him fat. And I really think it's easier on boys than it is on girls....people applaud that he's so big...high school football coaches bug us already, they seem to encourage the largeness...EXCEPT he knows that fat isn't healthy. Mommy had surgery when he was 5 to help her lose weight so she'd be healthy so he started obsessing about it. Wouldn't go shirtless in his swim trunks because he didn't want anyone to see his little tummy. We've talked and talked and talk and I THINK are coming to terms with it but dammit people just need to shut up or say 'what a cute kid' or ' what an awesome kid' 'or damn where'd he get his looks' but no 'wow he's enormous' IS NOT OKAY....makes me wanna turn around and say 'yup, kind like you ass'.... Or 'yeah, he gained those inches you lost on your dick when you put on those last 80 pounds' but that would be tacky. Okay, I'm rambling, it's been a long night but this subject lights me on fire....just know that you getting healthy and her learning healthy habits from you are the best things you could possibly do for her. Encourage her brains, her beauty, her amazing self, and try not to let her obsess about the weight. People mean well...mostly...sometimes they just don't think.

dammit(ed?) now I have that song stuck in my head....thanks bunches :(

it's an experiment if it turns out okay I'll share. If it kills us, well...it's been fun!

it's an experiment if it turns out okay I'll share. If it kills us, well...it's been fun!

I could eat bread at 6 weeks.... I've had a tummy bug, yogurt with a bit if granola sprinkled on it....tomorrow real food! Bean soup in the crock pot ready to roll.

ewwwww ewwww ewww. I've done that but trashed it. Bleh.

Fine talked shitted sheesh

It's like 5th grade when you figured out you could talk shit around your friends and your parents would never know....at least til you slipped up and mom beat the living hell out of you.

Ohhh Butter it's soooo big!!! (Don't hear that much huh?). Truly that is AWESOME! Thanks or sharing your hangy downy with the class.