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STUCK AND SLIMING AT WORK!!!

OK OK OK OK so it finally happened. I got stuck( not the first time) but the sliming this was new! I'm a therapist and on mon. wed and fri we having staffings with the doctors. Well that means i'm running around to different conference rooms meeting with dotors and writing my documentation and eating lunch. Well today I had some string beans a turkey patty with no bun or anything. I was walking down the hallway and mindlessly eating. Well apparently the piece of turkey patty I bit off was to big and i didnt chew it well enough. Someone noticed I was walking funny and i told her I had some food stuck in my throat. ( i couldnt tell her really why i was stuck cuz only 3 people at work know i had the band and she wasnt one of them.) i've been stuck before but never like this. I was in the bathroom for 10 minutes hanging over the toilet praying i wouldnt throw up. I ended up sliming(yeah pretty gross) It was sooooo painful until it finally went through.

 

What lessons did I learn today!

 

1. no matter what i must cut my food into small pieces...i can no longer trust myself to take small bites if it's not already cut up

 

 

2. i can no longer rush and eat because then i'm not paying attention

 

 

 

Ok these may be lessons I should have learned a while ago, but after today!!!!!!! trust me i have learned them well!:(

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Judyjones

LAP-BAND Patients

Been there, done that and thank the Lord I don't work. I can't imagine having that feeling while working. Yes, lesson learned. You are like me by not telling very many people. Email me at wrxchewie@aol.com and tell me the reason why you have not told anyone. It would be interesting to me because most band people I have talked with told the world. Only if you want to. Good luck on chewing. That is one thing we all must do.

Judy

kelly111

LAP-BAND Patients

Yep, Ive been there too... many times!!!! I prefer just to thow it up. Ive had 2 unfills now and I think I may go for another. If I were losing a ton of wieght I would just stick-it-out until the weight came off. But thats not happening. I would rather be able to eat and not have to worry so much about these stuck episodes.

shonette

LAP-BAND Patients

Trust me- having some fluid taking out was the best choice I have made in a very long time. I don't have the restriction I did, but my food choices were poor due to all of the stuck episodes I was experiencing. Therefore, the weight was not coming off any way. Good luck and I pray you won't experience that anytime soon.

jennifer1

LAP-BAND Patients

thanks for the feedback. i had a salad for lunch today and i had to make my self eat real slow. i did notice that my band seems tighter and food was still getting a little stuck despite all my chewing.

is it possible that a week after getting a fill it could be tighter? i'm not complaining cuz i lost 2 pounds since the fill and i'm still able to eat normal foods and not resorting to slider foods.

so am i crazy or can you band get tighter a week later?:unsure:

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