DeLarla

Awe, thanks for the compliment, Sue, but they certified me years ago. I still can't seem to reach my biggest goal of not eating before I sit down. I find myself near death if I can't get at least one bite of food in my mouth while preparing my plate. And the slowy-downy-chewy-thing. I gotta work on that.

I thought our bands couldn't tolerate carbonation? Does beer make you burp?

When I woke up I changed my bandage and it was somewhat saturated. I put a fresh bandage on this morning and haven't checked it, although I don't see anything seeped through, so I think the leak has slowed. I'm trying to ignore it (reverse psychology.) We will talk one day, as soon as I catch up with life. My husband has been acting like a child lately and needing too much attention. It drives me nuts because he's a hockey, football freak. Then he has to watch the baseball and basketball playoffs and any other championship games. This means that he spends half the year ignoring me, hypnotized by the TV. So I get really independent. Then about this time of year when the sports slow down, he suddenly wants attention and won't stop talking to me! It's like a 5 year old tugging at my skirt, "mamma this" and "mamma that." So every time I pick up the phone to blab and gossip (cuz I'm a girl that loves the phone) he bugs me and calls me Hazel and wants to join in the conversation with his foul mouth comments (that offend me but he thinks are funny.) And that's why we haven't talked ... yet!

But wait a minute... my pouch was empty. All that was in there was a broken potato chip. Just one fraction of one. That's some fancy restriction, eh? And I've never PB'd. Maybe just a tiny bit of slime, but I thought it was allergies. No food has ever come back up. I think I need a real PB to feel like a real bandster.

Silly me posted elsewhere that I'm still waiting for the lump answer. Thank you... this was not my first lump, but my worst lump. I'm feeling very high on life today realizing that I have restriction. And the purple bra is adding more restriction by mushing my fat sides into the cups giving me nice hooters. Thanks Alex, yes, more like a golfball or a hardboiled egg than an actual lump.

We need to start an Annual Awards Ceremony for the best posts. I nominate Donali's "fill the glass with chicken." Teresa, the weirdest thing about the chicken is that I stopped craving it last week. The second I was able to eat after post-op, all I wanted was chicken. If I didn't have one of those pre-cooked grocery store chickens in the fridge, I was just a bitch. Then I got my fill and haven't had chicken yet because you have to liquid fast a few days after your fill. Oddly, I haven't been craving chicken! But a co-worker brought one of those whole chickens for lunch and gave it to me cuz (in whiny skinny chick voice) she only likes "white meat." So today was my first chicken episode, and it didn't go down so well. When they say little bites, they ain't joking. Cuz I took little bites and thought I chewed, but the lump was instant. BOOM, you feel like you'll choke. So naturally I tried swallowing more chicken to get it down. I'm able to drink Water now, but I still feel a tiny lump somewhere. I still don't understand what my pouch has to do with my throat, but I'm sure Donali will fill me in soon.. HINT HINT.

Jeannie, you are not really snacking inbetween meals, now are you? HUH?

First I ate one of Jon's potato chip standing up while waiting for my chicken to warm, then at the first couple bites too fast. I'll do the slow-down thingy. I'm having a lot of love at the moment, thanks babies!

OH MY GOD, I have restriction? Yes, yes, I ate the first couple bites like I was eating last week. So my band slipped and got caught in my throat and is now eroding? And I'm dying? But why the lump in the throat? Lump in throat - good thing.. made me not eat much more. Why the throat? 1,2 cha-cha-cha - DOING THE RESTRICTION DANCE

I don't have pics cuz I haven't been playing with my camera cuz my friendship with Babs is exhausting and time consuming cuz we have to sneak around behind Coco's back (our mutual friend) cuz Coco gets jealous & controlling when Babs & I hang out. Does knowing I plan on taking more goofy pics one day help? And Donali, I had my camera the day we met but YOU didn't remind me to take our pic together! All that said, I'm wearing the famous bra now but I don't have the camera with me. AND, I'm going to the Avenue tonight because I have a 25% off one bra coupon! I could sit on the copy machine since I'm wearing trashy panties if you want.

Donali, did you forget I still have an OPEN INCISION? STOP IT! One more good one like that might get that bird down my throat!

I wish alcohol were a problem... goes down way too easy for me!

From 3 nipples, 2 hooks, and 2 boobs to 2 of each.

And good morning to all! I'm trying to stay off the boards cuz I'm behind in work. Work, schmork. Who needs it? And I'm off to find a 2nd job to pay for my band tonight. Work, work, work!

I've only let my band stop me a couple times since May 5. I could eat a lot more, I think, but I'm trying really hard to stop after eating for 20 minutes. Last night was really hard because my Mexican cleaning lady brought us homemade Tamales - my fave. I put 2 on my plate and could have finshed 3, but I threw away a little of the outside corn because I don't want my band to do all the work. If we can pick up bad habits, can't we pick up good ones?

Cheers everyone... tonight is my last gag-o-matick monster antibiotic... I hope. I really, really hope. Good night my little banded cupcakes!

My hourly anxiety strikes again. My incision is flooding. Not just leaking, but change-the-bandage-every-hour leaking. The pharmacist saw me fretting over the hundreds of bandages and asked if she could help me find something. I showed her my incision and said I needed allergy-free bandages for my weeping wound. She saw the allergic reaction from my old bandages and said I might need to have my dissolvable stitches removed and have the real surgical ones to sew me back up. She said some patients can't heal because they are allergic to dissolvable stitches. And then my dog made me spill BBQ sauce all over my crispy soft Downey-fresh favorite sleepy shirt. PENNI... when you leaked, did you leak across the entire lenght of your wounds? Because when I leaked the first time around, it was only through a little opening. This time it's through several places. I ate over it. Bad band, bad, bad band!

I'm glad you thought it was funny Alex, but I still don't know what a vacation is! Do you? Have you seen one?

Jeanne, good one! Funny stuff! And I agree with the other board, I feel no love... but it's really informative so I'm reading all the stuff and just posting a little. Hey, how are you feeling? I've been so tied up in my own misery that I never get to ask you.

Well yes, hooks. Hasn't he ever seen a bra? Did he actually thing I spun my boobs around? I'll choose my words more wisely. Glad y'all understandy me babbly.

lingering through the atmosphere where your presence once rested.... DORKS

Jeannie, yes, that other band is crazy and hard to follow. My bra comment went way south. Someone posted all the things she can do now that she lost a bunch of weight, like climbing stairs. So I responded that I can now put my bra by reaching around back to clasp it instead of clasping it in front and spinning it around. Soon people were asking if I had 4 boobs, then Dan got all weird cuz he didn't understand it, and I had a heck of a time back paddling. They are too smart for me over there and nobody laughs much. Maybe I need to tell them that Grampa bought a rubber? Donali, once again, I was just talking about bras in general and did NOT share "the" purple bra with anyone there! And where the heck is Shellyj these days?

Insomnia runs deep in my family. I have the CPAP machine, which helps loads. My weird sister sleeps with earplugs every single night. I decided to try the earplugs to drown out all noise, and I slept like a rock. They have these squishy ones now that you roll up in your fingers to squish really small. Then push them in your ear and as they expand they fit the contour of your ear perfectly and drown out all those irritating little noises. You should try them - it's a very comfy deep sleep.

Yes, it's very dangerous at those other boards. Hell, I made one comment about my bra and decided to go braless after all that insanity. And I wasn't even referring to the purple one!

I'm not using any ointment on the actual incision, just dry sterile bandages. I'm using the cream on the surrounding skin that got all blistery from my old bandages (before my doctor told me to switch to cloth.) Wallgreens has 30,000 I.U. E with added A, D, Cocoa Butter & Lanolin for about 5 bucks. That's also what I put on the scars that already healed over. Donali, maybe I leak because I drink so much. What's a gal to do? Gee, can't wait to have my port put back in... probably leak like a 100-year flood!