IlliterateJedi

You also have to realise that a lot of your weight loss pre-surgery isn't serious fat that's coming off, a lot of it's water weight and muscle from the sudden change in diet you have before you go into your surgery, plus your body has to readjust to eating again and since you've been border line starving youself in the weeks up to the surgery and after the surgery your body is going to start turning a lot of the food you eat into fat. Give it some time and let the band work it's magic.

Well, the port doesn't hurt or feel uncomfortable, I just foresee myself losing enough weight that it will be seen. Right now when I'm not wearing a shirt I can barely make out its shape, so in another 20 lb's I suspect other people will be able to make it out, too.

I had my surgery last December, and since then I've lost nearly 60 pounds (80 pounds from my highest weight). Now that I'm getting to where I am, about 20 pounds off from my goal weight, I've started to notice my port more and more. It doesn't physically show on me, but once I hit my goal weight and start toning up some I can definitely imagine it sticking out of my abdomen. Has anyone had their port replaced with the smaller size? If so, how expensive was it and how much of a difference was it for you?

I had Dr Benavides for my surgery (Last december) and his office was phenomenal. I would recommend them to anyone looking to have the surgery done.

Just ignore the lone nipple. Healing pretty well. No more pain (this being the 6th week, actually) finally. I think it's funny that I saw some one else earlier from Dr. Benavides' office and saw the steri-strips and thought "Hah - I've see nthose steri-strips before" and lo and behold, the person went to Dr. B's for surgery.

A while back some one linked to a fill guide that explained how to eat, drink, etc. before you get your fill. Does anyone have this bookmarked? Thanks

I'm a little over a week post op - I guess a week and a half, but a few inches beneath my port incision and along the right side of my gut I'm feeling a lot of pain. It feels like a burning pain on the inside of my skin and it hurts to the touch. There's no visible signs on the top of my skin. No redness or anything, it's just normal lookin' skin. Has anyone had this after surgery? Could it just be the port making itself a home in the muscle?

Ah yes, there's really nothing like the old, the arrogant, and the stuck-in-their-ways... Always there to talk down to us 'youngsters.' I don't think I said anything that was argumentative or off the wall to really need an essay where I cite all my sources. Is the issue at hand that I don't like blanket statements? It's almost ironic that your comment about what I said was to make a blanket statement about 'youngsters' as you like to call us. And then naturally it wouldn't be commentary about an age group unless you tossed in a really pointless and derisive bit about how we're all just mindless sheep. Of course right now I can't say much because really I don't know what you're commenting on, the statement that I made about the atomic bomb, etc. or about my opinion that you can't judge an entire presidency as 'the worst' because there is too much that happens during any one presidency. There's no credible way to say "Well, this one event happened, thus this entire 8 years is the worst." Even now, if you want to look at President Bush's terms of office you have a very short and slanted viewpoint. That's based on my opinion that you can't judge a president with any real accuracy without looking at the next 25, 50, or 100 years. People were angry when President Polk went to war with Mexico over what was essentially a farce. Today, people wouldn't like what he did either if it happened right now, but the difference is 150 years later people are living and are quite successful in the territory that Polk was able to get away with.Image right now if Bush looked at Mexico and said "I'm going to buy all of this without the legislature's 'ok.'" and then he went ahead and bought it. People would be enraged at this incredible breech of presidential jurisdiction, but it's basically how the Louisiana Purchase happened, and you'd be daft to say that was a terrible idea. Personally, right now, based on my opinion of how history essentially unfolds, saying that Bush is the worst president in American history is wildly inaccurate. Even then, though, you would have to come up with some very general criteria to determine what makes up the 'worst American president in history.' Once you do that I'd pretty much guarantee that everything Bush has done, numerous 'great' presidents have done before him. One specific event and president that comes to mind is Lincoln. He suspended Habeas Corpus and kept journalists in jail throughout the entire war without just cause. People think highly FDR, but he had internment camps. Both of these are considered to be phenomenal presidents who worked America through war times, but both of them held American citizens for unspecified amounts of time for unspecified reasons. There's a lot to judge a president on, and frankly choosing a 'best' and a 'worst' is misguided and extremely subjective to which criteria you're looking at.

So just to be sure, some people were safe eating soft food after a week instead of 10-14 days? I'm just asking because I feel pretty confident that I can go ahead and start eating blended foods, I just want to see if other people have been able to do this.

Mk... Good to know. I'm definitely trying to avoid the 'reopening' of the incision. I'll reconsider my options, then.

Yeah, right now I'm thinking I'll be pulling them off in the shower in a few days. They're starting to come off around the ends, but not all the way off.

No, I'm just not in the mood to really get into it right now. So I changed my original thoughts to something a little more concise and left it at that.

Why do you spell Bush BuSh?

I'll go ahead and say Andrew Jackson. That whole trail of tears thing was just a stellar piece of history... But for the record I dont' think there's a categorically 'worst' president in history. Everyone has their ups and downs. Plus putting a blanket statement like "Worst" on such a complicated job wildly simplifies the presidency.