DeLarla

Holy smoke! That's crazy.

Hi Chris, I don't know any Mich docs but wanted to throw a hello your way since I had the same problem. What is your incision problem? Mine started leaking a week after surgery like a faucet and never stopped. Soon the area became infected. Leaking can be quite normal as long as the area stays infection free. What is your wound doing?

I kinda figured this was a global weirdness because there are too many back-to-back things going on. Today a car flipped in my neighborhood and two children are murderers! Yesterday a little girl stabbed and killed a smaller child with a knife directly into the heart, and today a little boy beat his baby sibling to death with no remorse, toss in a landslide that has houses sliding down hills in Laguna. Michael Jackson better hope for a lot of delays in his trial till this creepy time passes or it could be curtains for him.

That's not Paula. That's her skinny little sister.

So it IS the moon, right? Strange feelings here.

Oh my gosh, I was almost arrested once, too! A group of us was pulled over. They yanked me and one guy away from the crowd and were getting ready to take us in. Just then something came over the radio and they released us. Oops, they found the real liquor store robbers. This world is what makes me want to be numb. Please pass the buffet and booze.

You know you're stressed when going in the hospital for a few days sounds like a relaxing vacation (sounds good to me right now.) Good for you! Pretend it's a weekend-spa deal and try to make the best out of it. Good luck to you & come back soon.

Well the STUPID COP should have given her tickets on both counts. DUH, she admitted that she didn't see the stop sign or my bike! Nice sunny day, clear intersection but the woman can't see a stop sign or a 300 pound woman on an orange Harley? They should have cuffed her & had her car impounded but they sent her driving back into traffic, land of invisible stop signs.

Is there a full moon? Chris just called & told me a looney woman ran into our garage at 4:00 a.m. this morning while he was having his coffee. He grabbed his big buck knife and probably would have stabbed her, but then her boyfriend entered the garage apologizing for her & said she just got out of the looney bin! She was trying to ask my husband if there was glass in her cut foot. What are these people doing wandering our neighborhood barefoot and right out of the bin? Something weird is about to happen... just a prediction.

I've only been riding about 6 months and I'm already turning into Brawling Biker Bitch. It won't be long till I get in a fist fight, so I may as well get some tattos and piercings. We actually got a woman pulled over by cops after she ran a stop sign and cause me to spin out on gravel & almost go down. Guess what the idiot chick told the cops? "SORRY, I DIDN'T SEE THE MOTORCYCLES." The cop said he couldn't ticket her because he didn't see it happen, but her license said she's supposed to wear glasses, which she wasn't wearing... why couldn't she see the bikes? The cop was happy to give her a ticket for not wearing glasses.

This is a tough one because on one hand we want to lie our way through the psyche exam to pass, but on the other hand it's so important that we realize we can't ever fall back on our old ways. I'm a big binge/purger in the past, but I lied cause I knew it would hold me back. You just have to get some more counseling and convince yourself first, then the counselor that you'll never purge again. But I don't know ANYBODY that purges on purpose after being banded. I think we all do anything in our power to never vomit again. This isn't a toy to play with. Good luck. Keep us posted. And no more purging!

Productive Burp. You can do a search and find all sorts of stories and info about this subject. Mine are from eating too fast. I'll never learn. You start eating then suddenly have an awful scary feeling in your throat/chest. My face gets red, my eyes Water, and I march around the house pounding my chest and trying to swallow. Sometimes you spit up wads of slime, then the offending stuck particle will come up. Once you PB, the pain and discomfort instantly go away.

OOPS, sorry but I totally forgot to address the original issue because I'm in a self-serving mode today... forgive me? My best friend of 25 years had the biggest boobs in school - I'm talking freak-of-nature big. She got loads of attention and dates and refused a reduction till last year. She had day bras and sleeping bras. Wearing the sleeping bras never did anything to help or improve her boobs, it just kept the girls in place so she didn't smother her husband at night. I think the only thing that could help is serious weight-lifting (a trainer could give you exercises that would tone up and maybe minimize your breasts some.) Either that or surgical intervention. I'd love to join you on the surgery table if you want to pass some to me.

Can I sit up front on this boat of non-losing folks? I bow down and worship my band for allowing me to shed almost 70 pounds. But I have 70-90 more to lose and can't give up my bad habits. Gloomy day for me.

Is there something in the stars, moon or atmosphere that's giving me the willies? Yesterday a young guy was killed on his motorcycle very close to my home, at an intersection I rode my own motorcycle by the previous day. I wanted to read the news story but it's not in the paper. What's worse is that I stumbed upon a second motorcycle death over the weekend not far from home. This makes me very afraid of my motorcycle - is it an omen or just coincidence? Next I see something that's got me sick and crying. A cop was chasing a high school kid for spraying graffiti. The cop jumped in a back yard to search for the kid and was rushed by two pitbulls, so his partner shot the dogs and killed one. They were in their own home protecting their house. The owner has no kids and considered them his children, just like I consider my Pitbull my little girl. Maybe it's my PMS, but I'm feeling very weepy and creepy today, and I'm not thrilled at all about the world right now.

Hiya Par, and welcome. I've heard a lot of people talk about their moving ports, so I don't think it's too uncommon. Glad to see you here.

Zoe, I'm right with you. I'm wearing a 42C but have to smoosh the girls & scoop up extra back-fat to fill in the cups. I need a 41B. I'll be your first and best customer!

Eat wet food. I use dipping sauces, veggies, stuff like that. There's no way I could eat dry chicken or bread wihtout food-lube.

Hey, I thought I was the resident drunk here?

My left boob stayed perky but my right one went south-ish. Not attractive.

I've taken Elavil before and it knocks me the heck out. I never knew they gave it to animals though. I prefer getting him stoned than to killing the poor guy. I guess you have to believe in the death penalty if you want to put a dog to sleep. I personally could never kill an animal. In your shoes I guess I'd just keep him an outside dog and not let anyone around him. Or cook him up like one of them bunnies with sauce. NO, you know I don't mean that but I don't want you killing the bunnies either!

Stacey, "some" people are back at work in two days, but I personally laugh at that statement because I felt like hell for two whole weeks. Give yourself plenty of time. You shouldn't be taking whole pills right now because that could be horribly painful. Ask your pharmacist if they can be crushed or broken into tiny pieces. A whole pill would have killed me during the recovery period. There were times that I couldn't get enough liquid in, so I would lay down with a sports-bottle and I held it at my lips and let the liquid drip drip drip like an IV into my mouth. Sometimes it took a long time to finish, but it beats going to Urgent Care and having an IV of liquids poked in my arm. I hope you're feeling better soon.

A lot of the band surgeons offer a seminar to discuss the pros and cons of the Band vs. Bypass. Dr. Barry Fisher in Vegas offers them about once a month, so you might try calling your surgeon to see if he knows about a local seminar. If you can't find a seminar, you should be able to find an indepth list of pros & cons on the internet somewhere.

Kelly, they can "detect" erosion in a barium swallow, but you need an endscopy to confirm the diagnosis. You're right, if there's erosion, the barium will flow around the outside of the band instead of through it, which is seen under x-ray. Once the doctor detects it during the barium swallow, he won't give you a fill but instead will schedule the endo. This goes back to the old debate of getting fills with fluro vs. non-fluoro. An occasional non-flouro fill is fine as long as you get your band looked at under x-ray from time to time.

You can call ME any time! Just PM me and I'll give you my number. I mean to collect a list of people from LBT, right here. I've got a whole list of banded friends that I drive nuts when the going gets rough.