Dr. Gerald Kirshenbaum - Considering Dr. Kirshenbaum

[nicnaknut 0]

Lap Dancer.... Thank you soooo much for sharing those... It really puts a lot of things in perspective and provides plenty of food for thought...

[DynamoMini 1]

Lap - Thanks for the cheer. To top it all off I got an tax audit notice in the mail today. It's my first one ever. Oh, it is full of sheeeeeet, just like my basement!

I then had to pull my stomach off the ground and realize, no one died, it is just money and I have an accountant that seems to be going through a lot of these, but he'll support me through the process.

Anyway. Thanks for the TP and sympathy. My son thanks you for the BD wishes. He's 20, growing up quickly. He came up from the Colorado Springs for the afternoon and for dinner, then he returned right away, because he can go camping with friends. I miss him, but am happy he is happy.

My remodel is almost done, the rennovation crew left these big heating unit fans, that operate at a high pitch for the next three days. Ugh! Then the adjuster will come. And my remodel crew will be able to fix everything that the Water ruined. All the floor time. the sub floor, the dining room ceiling and my hard wood floors. Thank God we were home!

Hugs to all,

Michelle

[want2bmeagain 0]

Michelle ~ my daughter will be 20 next month and also lives in the Springs...is your son going to school there?

Lap~I have heard (have never tried to be healthy enough to KNOW!) that when we are working on getting physically healthy, sometimes we feel sick as the toxins are being flushed out...I think it is the same with our hearts. As we become healthy and stronger in our bounderies and relationships, and the toxic relationships are removed, each day becomes one to look forward to ! I am glad you are treating yourself each day. I, too, have only one sibling...I don't miss the garbage that came with the relationship at all! Keep strong...

Niknaknut~ we need to meet up sometime ! we are too close to miss that! When do you head to Denver next? Maybe we can become "fill buddies!"

Well girls, I have EIGHT days before my surgery.....:nervous

[want2bmeagain 0]

oh, Lap...I mean I have never tried to be PHYSICALLY healthy enough to know! I expect that will change with lapbandland

[littleroo1 0]

Happy Sunday everyone! We're flying to Colorado tonight! I can't believe it is time already. I'll be in Dr. K's office on Tuesday afternoon.

Gotta go finish packing!

[DynamoMini 1]

wantob - My son is at UCCS (University of Colorado - colorado Springs). It is one of the state's best kept secrets, a CU level university with a small campus and great instructors. I really appreciated what you said to Lap about releasing toxins, waste, realizing boundaries, no longer cocooning in the food dillerium (sp??? but a great word).

All you people that are getting banded or filled - best wishes. Dr. K will do a great job for you.

I wish you well. Keep us posted.

Notice -Our next Red Robin meeting is on the 11th at 7 pm.

[LSzeliga 0]

Getting banded by Dr K Oct. 11,2007, Orlando, Fl here. I work in Operating Room and have looked into Dr K in Co. and I going to him... You can also do seach under his name and you will find lost of people that he has band and very very happy with his work, Where I work 17,500. self pay and I work there... Yet we have people come to our place for Plastic cheaper..

[Lap_dancer 8]

Getting banded by Dr K Oct. 11,2007, Orlando, Fl here. I work in Operating Room and have looked into Dr K in Co. and I going to him... You can also do seach under his name and you will find lost of people that he has band and very very happy with his work, Where I work 17,500. self pay and I work there... Yet we have people come to our place for Plastic cheaper..

Welcome LSzeliga. I checked out Lap Band in Tampa, St. Petersburg, and in Ocala. Price was crazy. In St. Pete, 24,000.

Are you going to Colorado by way of Tampa International Airport ( TIA) or Orlando?

I can tell you a good hotel across from Crown where the Lap Band is done. The Holiday Inn Select in Parker. Tell them you are coming for medical procedure and you get a discount ( I think it is $10 off ).

Best of luck and good wishes to you. I will be in Colorado the same day, Oct. 11. I will see Dr. K for a fill.

Patty

[LSzeliga 0]

Flying out of Orlando, Staying at the Holiday Inn in Parker from the 10/10 til 10/14. Surgery date in 10/11 @ 1:00

[Lap_dancer 8]

Thought for the day

~ ISOLATION ~

:~*~:. .:~*~:. .:~*~:. .:~*~:. .:~*~:. .:~*~:

"A great hope fell, you heard no noise,

The ruin was within.

Oh, cunning wreck that, told no tale

And let no witness in!"

Emily Dickinson

:~*~:. .:~*~:. .:~*~:. .:~*~:. .:~*~:. .:~*~:

When I was young, I was unable to

negotiate situations that were too big

for me to understand. I went within and

hid. I lost hope and was filled with

despair. I soothed myself with food that

was always there for me. In time, I felt

so isolated that I felt completely

separate from the human race.

As I recover, it is important for me to

use the tools of the program which

reconnect me with other people. This

connection tells me that I am okay. I

always have a choice to isolate or

connect. Today I choose to connect.

[ShelbiCallie 0]

Hello Everyone!

Lap Dancer: thanks so much for the dailys thoughts; they are helping me tremendously.

NMsunshine: Good Luck in Mexico.

Littleroo and Want2B: I can't wait to hear all the details!! Good thoughts are going with you!

LSzeliga: Welcome!

Marcy: Wow! You look great. Mama mia, that's a big zuccini your daughter's got there.

Dynamo: I hope you had a good weekend with your son's birthday celebration,,,sorry about the raw sewage and the plumber's fee! Ouch!

Mal: How are you and how does your son like college?

Woofay: I hope you're doing well. Haven't read you in awhile.

Nicanut: Hi and I hope you are doing well.

All other new people: Hello! Welcome and glad to meet you.

If I have left anyone out, I apologize. I am wishing you all a healthy and happy holiday!

[Lap_dancer 8]

Morning ShelbieCallie! You are so positive it is a joy reading your posts.

Glad you like the dailys. I like to read them too.

Woofey where are you? Miss you.

Mal, how's it going?

Dynamo did you get everything back as it should be?

Morning all. I have the day off. Lovely to lounge.

We've had some amazing sunsets. Hurricane Felix is sending up some occasional rain, not like a hurricane close to us, but still with pouring straight down. The clouds are puffy and illuminous.

I love hurricane rains. Our sunsets have been amazing.

Everyone have a great day.

[Lap_dancer 8]

and here's my babies!

Maybelline

Boo

Big Ed

Byron

[NM Sunshine 1]

DynamoMini

I went through a tax audit in 1980. We built a house and I contracted it. There were a lot of write-offs. I knew I had screwed up on one. When you write off the points you pay for a morgage, you are surpose to write them off over the life of the morgage. I wrote the whole of them that year. Nervous that they would catch it,

Anyway, I had every receipt and paperwork in perfect order. I seperated them into classes and from there into envelopes. Each envelope had the balance on it.

Because I had done such a good job of organizing, the auditer quickly glanced through one envelope and then just starting to add the balances I'd entered on envelop without checking the contents.

She came up with the government oweing me $500.! Which I knew was wrong, but I didn't say anything. Yep, I got that $500. in the mail.:eek:

I think the key to an audit is have it well organized.

Good luck.

[NM Sunshine 1]

ShelbiCallie

Thanks, I'm on the liquid pre-op diet now. Woke up in middle of night starving. I'll get use to it.