Don't know why...

[Wendell Edwards 73]

See Wendell, WE Appreciate you!!!!

It's nice to be appreciated

[angiec 0]

Hi Wendell,

I am sitting here cracking up reading some of these posts about OH. Thanks for telling me about LBT. I have met some nice people and it is good to see you out and about again. Yes, still checking the OH site and still have friends there(BUT COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND WHERE MANY HERE ARE COMING FROM>> ROFL AT THE COMMENTS). I looking forward to meeting many new bandsters here!

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

Hi Wendell,

I am sitting here cracking up reading some of these posts about OH. Thanks for telling me about LBT. I have met some nice people and it is good to see you out and about again. Yes, still checking the OH site and still have friends there(BUT COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND WHERE MANY HERE ARE COMING FROM>> ROFL AT THE COMMENTS). I looking forward to meeting many new bandsters here!

Angie...

Welcome to the land of no drama and lots of sanity! We love having Wendell here, we aren't letting him go this time!

[angiec 0]

He is a cool guy and the first one at OH that I chatted with, that helped me out, and I love his Lapband 101 and 102. He told me about this website and I am so glad he did. I LOVE the layout and the fact that it is a group of lapbanders talking about the lapband. The drama here is in a separate place that I can go to if I want to. Some of it is fun to read and some of it reminds me of how thankful I am of the sane and boring little world I live in.

[anonemouse 1]

He is a cool guy and the first one at OH that I chatted with, that helped me out, and I love his Lapband 101 and 102. He told me about this website and I am so glad he did. I LOVE the layout and the fact that it is a group of lapbanders talking about the lapband. The drama here is in a separate place that I can go to if I want to. Some of it is fun to read and some of it reminds me of how thankful I am of the sane and boring little world I live in.

That's really one of the best things about LBT. The drama doesn't take over every single thread. That's mainly because we do have a distinct area for people to bitch and complain their hearts out. To steal a phrase, what happens in Rants and Raves stays in Rants and Raves. At OH, there is no real way to keep people from fighting all over the board. And as fun as it sometimes was to watch, it got old very quickly. If you happened to be friendly in passing to one person that wasn't popular, you became enemy #1 and were suddenly subjected to attacks that came out of the blue. If you tried to get people to act like adults, you might as well have joined ranks with the devil (or at least, that's how you were treated).

The very last straw for me was being attacked from nowhere because I made a comment about something in a thread where the issue had already been mentioned by another member. The nut that attacked me even accused me of having multiple screen names and pretending to be someone else. I decided that I just didn't have the time or patience to deal with that level of insanity and paranoia. What really pissed me off was that I let the [rhymes with witch] get to me. I was almost sobbing at my computer. I had never been subjected to such a vicious, unprovoked attack before, let alone one that was so out in public. Like I told one of the chick's friends who PMed me to apologize for her, I had never been so humiliated in my life. If she had wanted to accuse me of something or attack me, she could have at least done it in private. And of course, I never got an apology from the chick, and she knows where to find me.

Bitter? You bet. And I hold grudges like a pro, too. Just ask my parents about my 7th grade teacher, who I still despise (it's been a good 12-13 years) for making me cry in front of the entire class.

[Wendell Edwards 73]

Hi Wendell,

I am sitting here cracking up reading some of these posts about OH. Thanks for telling me about LBT. I have met some nice people and it is good to see you out and about again. Yes, still checking the OH site and still have friends there(BUT COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND WHERE MANY HERE ARE COMING FROM>> ROFL AT THE COMMENTS). I looking forward to meeting many new bandsters here!

:DGlad to see you like it!:girl_hug:

[Wendell Edwards 73]

Angie...

Welcome to the land of no drama and lots of sanity! :girl_hug: We love having Wendell here, we aren't letting him go this time!

LOL!

I can see the phrase now:

"LAPBANDTALK, NO DRAMA, MORE SANITY!"

:clap2:

[Wendell Edwards 73]

He is a cool guy and the first one at OH that I chatted with, that helped me out, and I love his Lapband 101 and 102. He told me about this website and I am so glad he did. I LOVE the layout and the fact that it is a group of lapbanders talking about the lapband. The drama here is in a separate place that I can go to if I want to. Some of it is fun to read and some of it reminds me of how thankful I am of the sane and boring little world I live in. :girl_hug:

"The drama here is in a separate place that I can go to if I want to."

BINGO!!!

[Wendell Edwards 73]

That's really one of the best things about LBT. The drama doesn't take over every single thread. That's mainly because we do have a distinct area for people to bitch and complain their hearts out. To steal a phrase, what happens in Rants and Raves stays in Rants and Raves. At OH, there is no real way to keep people from fighting all over the board. And as fun as it sometimes was to watch, it got old very quickly. If you happened to be friendly in passing to one person that wasn't popular, you became enemy #1 and were suddenly subjected to attacks that came out of the blue. If you tried to get people to act like adults, you might as well have joined ranks with the devil (or at least, that's how you were treated).

The very last straw for me was being attacked from nowhere because I made a comment about something in a thread where the issue had already been mentioned by another member. The nut that attacked me even accused me of having multiple screen names and pretending to be someone else. I decided that I just didn't have the time or patience to deal with that level of insanity and paranoia. What really pissed me off was that I let the [rhymes with witch] get to me. I was almost sobbing at my computer. I had never been subjected to such a vicious, unprovoked attack before, let alone one that was so out in public. Like I told one of the chick's friends who PMed me to apologize for her, I had never been so humiliated in my life. If she had wanted to accuse me of something or attack me, she could have at least done it in private. And of course, I never got an apology from the chick, and she knows where to find me.

Bitter? You bet. And I hold grudges like a pro, too. Just ask my parents about my 7th grade teacher, who I still despise (it's been a good 12-13 years) for making me cry in front of the entire class.

That's really one of the best things about LBT. The drama doesn't take over every single thread. YES! That's mainly because we do have a distinct area for people to bitch and complain their hearts out. To steal a phrase, what happens in Rants and Raves stays in Rants and Raves. At OH, there is no real way to keep people from fighting all over the board. YES!! And as fun as it sometimes was to watch, it got old very quickly. OH YEAH! If you happened to be friendly in passing to one person that wasn't popular, you became enemy #1 and were suddenly subjected to attacks that came out of the blue. ABSOLUTELY!! If you tried to get people to act like adults, you might as well have joined ranks with the devil (or at least, that's how you were treated). THAT IS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT, THERE IS AN ASTONISHING LACK OF TOLERANCE "OVER THERE".

The very last straw for me was being attacked from nowhere because I made a comment about something in a thread where the issue had already been mentioned by another member. The nut that attacked me even accused me of having multiple screen names and pretending to be someone else. PARANOIA IS A SURE SIGN OF A NUTCASE. I decided that I just didn't have the time or patience to deal with that level of insanity and paranoia. SAME HERE! LIFE'S TOO SHORT TO DEAL WITH PSYCHOPATHS! What really pissed me off was that I let the [rhymes with witch] get to me. I was almost sobbing at my computer. I had never been subjected to such a vicious, unprovoked attack before, let alone one that was so out in public. Like I told one of the chick's friends who PMed me to apologize for her, I had never been so humiliated in my life. If she had wanted to accuse me of something or attack me, she could have at least done it in private. And of course, I never got an apology from the chick, and she knows where to find me. PSYCHOTIC INDIVIDUALS *KNOW* THAT THEY ARE RIGHT, 100% OF THE TIME, SO THEY NEVER, EVER APOLOGIZE. SOCIOPATHIC PERSONALITIES HAVE TOTAL DISREGARD FOR THE FEELINGS OF THEIR VICTIMS, KNOWING THE ABOVE, IT'S SAFE TO SAY THAT PERSON IS A SOCIOPATH, BETTER TO AVOID THEM, BECAUSE THEY ARE GOING TO BE MENTALLY DISTURBED FOREVER!!

Bitter? You bet. And I hold grudges like a pro, too. Just ask my parents about my 7th grade teacher, who I still despise (it's been a good 12-13 years) for making me cry in front of the entire class. I USED TO SEE A BILLBOARD FOR REMY-MARTIN COGNAC ON THE HARBOR FREEWAY, IT PICTURED A GLASS OF COGNAC WITH THEIR SLOGAN:

"LIVING WELL IS THE BEST REVENGE"

DO WHATEVER WORKS FOR YOU. WHAT WORKS FOR ME WHENEVER I FIND OUT SOMEONE IS A PSYCHOPATHIC INDIVIDUAL IS THAT I METAPHORICALLY "KILL THEM". THAT IS, I HAVE ZRO CONTACT WITH THEM FROM THAT MOMENT ON, I DON'T SPEAK ABOUT THEM, I DON'T THINK ABOUT THEM.

I am absolutely RUTHLESS in the elimination of negative people in my life, and that seems to work well for ME.

[Wendell Edwards 73]

I don't know why I keep going to ObesityHelp.com. It is seriously RNY-centered over there. Every time someone posts a question about Lap-bands in the main forum, they get sent off like a leper to the Lap-band forum. It's like they give bandsters their own little corner of OH and then expect them to stay there and never come out. On April 1st, one of the guys from the band board went and posted on the main board. It was meant to be both an April Fools joke and a poke at the RNYers that act like their surgery is the best surgery to have. Of course, it started all sorts of crap. People were flaming each other and the thread got locked. Now the lap-band forum has a stickied post at the top, reminding all who post there that the whole point of OH is acceptance, yadda, yadda, yadda. Of course, there isn't a post like that in the RNY forum or in the main forum. Only the Lap-Band forum deserved to be scolded as a whole, apparently. Pisses me off to no end, especially since a some of the RNY folks who post in the main forum like to make outright mean and misinforming posts about the lap-band and the people who have that surgery.

Well, I went back there for a moment yesterday. I read the posts, and bookmarked where the posts stopped that day.

I went back there this morning and read the posts that were made after the last post that I read yesterday.

Of those dozens of posts, only three posts were actually questions relating to the Lap-Band.

The rest were off-topic, personal issues, social situations or some other non-band-related stuff.

That's why I prefer this board, the threads here are sorted into different topics, which allows me to focus on posts that actually relate to the Lap-Band, as opposed to having to trudge through endless dreck that has nothing at all to do with the Lap-Band.

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

Yay! we are all glad you like LBT. You are so informative and helpful and there are always new people that need you here.I am not brand new, but you were there right away when I was wondering how I lost my restriction.

I got a new fill today, and so far I don't think it's leaking out. I feel really tight. Last time I could tell right away something wasn't right. I hope he just put it in wrong last time, rather than the possibility of a leak.

Please don't ever leave us again!:)

[Wendell Edwards 73]

Yay! we are all glad you like LBT. You are so informative and helpful and there are always new people that need you here.I am not brand new, but you were there right away when I was wondering how I lost my restriction.

I got a new fill today, and so far I don't think it's leaking out. I feel really tight. Last time I could tell right away something wasn't right. I hope he just put it in wrong last time, rather than the possibility of a leak.

Please don't ever leave us again!:)

You may have post-fill stomal swelling, or you could just be closer to effective restriction.

Either way, you need to chew like crazy and take it slow and easy now, as you learn the new limitations that this fill will give you.

I like it here, and spend far less time to read this board because I don't have to sort through all the non-band-related topics over there.

[kacee 3]

GO TO YOUR LAPBAND ROOM AND STAND IN THE CORNER!!!:confused: