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i'm in the mood for skittles! I keep getting crazy skittles.

great job! can'[t wait to be there with you!

I didn't know about the Protein in cottage cheese either! great tip, i am going to look at teh soup recipes and make some soup tomorrow. I'm sick of the food i do eat. oatmeal and eggs. yuck now, I could go for some yummy soup. steph, haha about the box comment, we were at a store shortly after my experience and there was a worker removing staples with pliars from a platform thing, I was like look honey! That's exactly what they did to me! I feel even better today again. Things are looking up. I put on real pants today, jean, still can't button them, my stomach is so swollen on the port side only, it's hard and heavy like i'm carrying a baby. weird. The jeans are a 20 and were a little baggy before SX. I fit a comfortable 20 and a tight 18.

great tip! water is always aplus!

great! sounds like the odds are in my favor. I'm not a big meat eater, i'll have to work on adding some to a salad. I like most meats, but I would much rather have the salads or pastas or seafood. I like expensive meat, Porterhouse STeaks, fillet mignon, lobster, crab legs. Being a military family, those are not on the menu often! But how I love them!

1 slice of pizza!!!! how many slices would you have eaten preband? i know we went to pizza hut oce a week and i ate two pieces plus 4 chicken wings and a yummy german coke. so you are doing welll anyway, its working

No, I didn't go to a military hospital, as I was a self pay, but I did use a very reputable dr. who does all teh Rny's and GB for the military patients in Germany. they even know the people in the insurance office on my tiny base by name. I'm confident that the band is done right, i guess it's just German Dr.s have no bedside manner. they don't believe in a lot of pain meds. Maybe a littel behind on new procedures like glueing instead of stapling. I've talked to quite a few americans who have used this dr. and they all said wonderful things, however, noone told me about the lack of pain meds! As of today, 1 day staple free, I feel so much better. I can bend without pain. The only slight pains i feel is the port area, feels heavy and a little swollen still. nothing compared to last week. so i go back next monday the 8th, if it still has some pain i'll ask why. I think i may be able to sleep on my tummy again tonight. can't wait. my only problem is lifing, i have a 26 lb almost 2 year old. we live on the second floor and DH is going back to work today. I have a dr. appt. for her that i have to take her to and will have to lift her to put her in her crib tonight and get her dressed. so i guess i will be lifing 26lbs quite a bit from now on. I ahve been lifting her, but very few times. luckily DH only works today and then he has off until next tuesday which is his promotion ceremony, so he's not really working that day either. I just love Airforce work hours around holidays, lots of free leave!

ok, i'm 5 days out. I was banded on monday the 18th. This has been a painful experience but well worth it. I have had a lot of gas pains and I am stapled instead of glued, so I think i have more pain than I expected. Today I finally started to feel better, I could sit down without cringing, get out of a chair without yelling in pain. Gas is much better, but tonight I went to bed in my bed for the first time since SX. I lasted there about 2 hrs. Now I have this weird lump think in my chest, I haven't eaten in hours, I had some water when it started to make it go down but it won't. and about an hour ago I thought maybe I am hungry so i had 1/2 cup of skim milk. Pain still there, hurts all the way to my back. It's hard to explain. Anyone else ever feel this after surgery, should I be concerned. Almost feels like indegestion, which I had a few times when i was preggo, but why would I have indigestion, when i have had nothing to eat but liquids for almost a week now? Wish i had some mylanta to just give it a try. I keep sneezing, could i have slipped my band already?

yeah, i'm so thristy when eating too and after, my mouth gets so dry. I don't wait 30-45mins. before though, i was told to wait 10 mins. because the water goes right through the band, I am still on full liquids and some mushies, i've only had oatmeal and scrambled eggs. I can't believe i am full on one egg!

oh how i would love that meal! i love steak and lobster. both my faves. xcept, steak must be medium RARE!

Kay- we will be here until august of 09' we just got here in august. I am from Rhode Island, but I claim Florida as home. Actually we love germany, but it is confirmed that I will not be bearing anymore children while i am here!

Yeah, my eye is still on size 8!! pain is much better now, almost a memory. I would still do it again. I always said that I would let someone cut off my pinky with a butter knife if they could promise me that I would wake up a size 6. So this is far less painful than that. well I think.

you go girl!!

Carol-I'm so happy your husband is doing well! Ok, so today I go to the mideval times hospital where my surgery was preformed. I had an appointment, I talked to the Dr. on Friday and Saturday, both days he told me to come in at noon. I drive 3 hrs to get there. I arrive, the office is closed!! So I have the front desk call someone and they tell me to go to the floor where I stayed after my surgery. I get up there and they are shocked to see me!1 Where is dr. Matcovich? Noone knows! Why you here? You stay again? um no!! I need these freakin staples removed, the dr. said to come today. So after an hour wait, and an old lady screaming profanities in german at me becuase "you have no Deutche in Deutchland?" Meaning why don't i speak german and I live in Germany?? I have only been here 4 months!! So she yelled stuff at my husbnad and I and 2 toddlers for about 45 mins. Finally a nurse comes to get me with a big cart of stuff, on the cart is a tool that looks like pliers. I'm scared. So i go in the office, not even a hospital room, it's the office with their extra shoes and scrubs. I lay on this makeshift table, it's kind of dark in here, she rubs me with alcohol, and then proceeds to rip out my staples!!!!! Ok, rip them out, literally, it was excruciating, I cried and screamed, i'm sure the entire floor heard me. One got really really stuck, she had to get an extra pair of pliars, put her foot up on a chair and rip. ohhhh my goodness, that hurt. hurt. I said, why am I stapled? Why am I not glued and taped, like everyone else I know who got this surgery. Because you are human, you are not car, we do not tape a human. wow, mideval times for sure. So that was my staple removing experience. I go back next monday for i don't know what to see the dr. I will call ahead of time to make sure they remember that I am coming. How was everyone elses day?? or is your day, since i'm 6 hrs. ahead.

Welcome Jannmack!!

I didn't know eggs have so much Protein. thats good. it's 10:32pm i'm starving, but i'm not going to eat till the morning. I'm just drinking lots of Water. I am feeling so much better, even better than this morning! The only pain i feel is when i get up or if i am moving about, i'm sore. I don't think I need pain meds anymore. I was only allowed them twice a day and they were sucky, but i think i'm even past those. Anyway, i have a fill at 4 weeks, so i'm glad I don't have to wait longer than that. Since i have a giant band, it's 9.75cm, i hope that the dr. will be agressive with the fills. I'm going to look up how to say what my expectations are in German, so there is no misunderstanding here. "I want restriction, before 10 fills!!" "I want it sooner, rather than later!" "I"m not a Trump!, Can't afford tons of fills!" "Stop stapling your patients!" "Give morphene!" "agian, I want restriction now!" verstehst du? or Do you understand??????

yeahh my pov! soon those 28s will be too big.

sad news everyone. I am officially hungry!!! The lost appetite is back. I'm sad. I had a scrambled egg for breakfast, filled me up which is new, but I was hungry again 2 hrs. later. I also had 1 bowl of oatmeal for lunch and half for dinner, and nowI'm starving. I haven't been getting any protein in. Like i said before the thought of a shake makes me want to vomit. One sip and i quiver. I hate the taste and thickness of protein. Until I get to real food , I don'tknow how I will get my protein in. Tomorrow I go to get the staples out. Maybe then I will post a pic. everyone can see why not to have them. I'm sure my scars will look terrible. Thanks to those of you who sent me food guidlines. much appreciated.

my incisions are killing me!! lol!!

karen, yeah, send me your list too. i'm going to get my staples removed tomorrow, so i'm going to show the dr. and ask wich diet would be ok. i had another scrambled egg this morning, i finished the whole egg, but then hiccuped and feel full. except my head, my head wants to have something else. like a creamscheese bagel, or some bacon. Today i feel so much better, hardly any pain at all, i slept like 8 hrs. last night,woke up a few times, but slept good. No gas today again. I'm loving it now.

Oh how I feel you, today is 1 week for me and the first day without that shoulder pain! I took 4 boxes of gas x strips this week, i don't think it helped. i couldn't take deep breaths. The only thing that seemed to help was walking. Ofcourse i was so tired from no sleep, that it was a challenge. Try to get through the next two days. I feel for you, I really do. It sucks. Someone told me to use a FLEET supository, and it works to get the gas out, I didn't try it, I just found out about it today. It's an option.

scrambled eggs went great!

that would have been totally out of hte question for me!! never. Could you go out early ,and do that first? Maybe you'll be up for it, but i'm a week out and still am not up for car rides. the gas pains in the car were too bad.

wow!!! congrats

kay, your family is beautiful. whatchout next year! You're gonna be one hot mama!