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Oh, and the port thing... I've been hyperventilating, got a new heart murmur and grew a whole head of springy grey hair since opening the hospital bill. I can't even bring myself to say the number$$$ - and there are a lot of them. The hole is smaller, and Vera actually met someone just like me when she was having her tube replaced. The lady had the same golfball size hole after a band related procedure, and all that's left is a little dimple for her. My hole is about the size of a kid's high-bounce ball now or nice size cockroach... much smaller than the golfball it once was. Probably several more weeks of packing before it closes. Thanks for asking. Miss you guys.

Who's to say Bigchix is even a chick? I've my own suspicions but like I said, I'll take all the credit because she has some really badly spelled wisdom! (laughing with ya, not at ya.) But I couldn't stand back & watch the mud sling at me. Nothing's changed since I stopped posting, so I'm not back - just visiting this thread. Clever how so many people viewed this thread but none of my accusers apologized... well, one person sent a PM but it wasn't an apology. Last night I was on-line the same time as Chix, lurking around, following, analyzing, sniffing. Yeah, I think I know Chix. Amusing.

For Heaven's sake, people! My phones are ringing and e-mails are flying at me faster than I can answer them. I AM NOT BIGCHIX. But I'm honored to take the credit! I didn't get my fix of American Idol last night cuz my cell phone rang FIVE times over this. Don't nobody mess with my American Idol! I did not leave LBT, I'm simply watching from the sidelines at the flipping insanity that continued long after my last post. And ya'll were still clucking before Chix jumped in the mix. I put my tail between my legs and bowed out. I'm guilty of lurking but I never denied that. I'm still using the PM function and I'm still reading. I've been dying to open my big mouth, but I've got willpower of steel when it comes to my principals. I want to scream "(edited out by request)" across the screen, but it will only get censored. Reminds me of an old Saturday Night Live skit starring Bob Newhart as a shrink. His patient is going crazy, so he says he can help her by giving her some words of wisdom. She frantically grabs for her pen and paper, and he yells at her, "STOP IT!." So people, STOP IT! Leave my name the "heck" alone. Although... I gotta admit, it feels great to be so popular. You people really want my blood, don’t you?

My last post before leaving. Last night the moderators decided that there will be no more public attacks. Yet AFTER the meeting, Moderator Marie publicly attacked me by undeleting ugly things that I didn't want anybody to see. I wrote ugly stuff late last night but then deleted it minutes later before anyone could see it. So if the moderators decided on no more public attacks, why did Marie start the first one?

LET'S ALL GIVE MARIE A STANDING OVATION FOR SINGLE-HANDEDLY CHANGING LBT FOREVER. Now it's just like the rest of the censored boards, so it's not worth my time. I won't be back to LBT till Marie's moderator status has been removed, which won't ever happen. LBT is just like all the other censored boards now. I'll come back & check PM's from time to time, but I WILL NOT allow a deviated and twisted moderator to Fu#k with my words! Last night I responded vehemently to the thread asking us to vote whether Marie should be moderator. It was around 11:00 p.m., and at the bottom of the screen nobody else was in the thread. I wrote some ugly stuff, and then I went to bed. But after 3 minutes I couldn't sleep because I knew my words would piss people off, so I logged back into my computer and deleted everything I said, and wrote a much more stable-minded response, one that I think mostly anyone could appreciate as being non-vindictive. However, the FREAK wants blood! She somehow got my original words back and pasted them into that thread. A MODERATOR PASTED SOMETHING THAT I DELETED AND MADE IT PUBLIC - WHICH IS WHAT SHE SPENT ALL YESTERDAY MORNING DOING TO OTHER THINGS I DELETED. She un-deleted all the nasty stuff I wrote, which was only posted for a few minutes, and then she spread it all over that thread. She wants drama, anger and blood. Then she responded to the entire board that I am stalking and harassing her, which is what I asked her to stop doing to ME in a private message that she did not respond to. Did anyone notice that I didn't even start the voting thread? Yet SIX people feel the same as me. This is not my personal vendetta - lots of people feel the same but now nobody else can express himself or herself because LBT is an oppressed board. My words are my choice, but LBT supports what Marie is doing by digging through my garbage and showing the world what I didn’t want it to see – SHE TOOK AWAY MY CHOIC! I think she may have crossed a legal boundary. You cannot dig through someone’s confidential trash to make it public, yet LBT is letting Marie do just that. I dig tons of you guys, so send me a PM if you want my private e-mail.

Hey now, I've been working on this issue! I didn't want to delete any posts this week, but I was tired of them being manipulated. I'd rather kill myself then let someone else take me down! But I promise that I won't delete any for at least one week... no, one day. One day at a time, okay? (Hiding behind the couch.)

No, no, no, Jonathan, tonight we vote for the boys! You'll get your turn tomorrow. Which guy?

Teresa, sorry for the hijack but neither Karen or Heather (or the other now-bandless friends of mine) had any symptoms of erosion. They were having normal fills when the doctor noticed something wrong with the way the barium flowed. Vera, check your PM box.

I don't know who Dr. Rodriguez is. I've heard amazing things about Dr. Rumbaut, who's also in Monterey. Have you compared the two?

I adore Anwar! Hmm, I love Bo, too! So many boys, so little time!

I'm an American Idol junkie. And I'm a 40-something year old woman in love with CONSTANTINE! Sure, the other guys sing better, but you're a little bit country, and I'm a whole lotta rock 'n roll! What's your vote? Who is the next American Idol? Yummy little rocker boy!

I don't know anything about the business end of his practice, but I'm sad to say Kuri made a surgical error when he removed my first port, and I really liiked him a lot. PM me if you want info.

Geezer, there's a conspiracy to ignore you. Shoot, now you know. Ya know, you could post something about how you're feeling.

What happens to PMs that people send but your box is too full to accept? Does the sender get a message asking them to try again later? I received a few e-mails saying my box was full. If anyone sent me a PM today that I didn't respond to, it's cause they're lost in space.

Lots of people think it's full of Protein, but I recently learned it's all a myth. Sure, there's a little protein, but there's also the dreaded SUGAR (another excuse to tell hubby to get lost.) Here's something from the experts: Dear Experts, I want to know if swallowing sperm makes you fat. I heard that it is 100% protien and 50 calories per squirt, is that true? Anon37 Dear Anon37, No. But before we talk calories, let's clear up the difference between sperm and semen. Semen — also known as ejaculate — is the Fluid containing sperm that is ejaculated during sexual excitement. It is composed of seminal fluid from the seminal vesicles, fluid from the prostate, fluid from the Cowper's gland, and sperm. Sperm move from the testicles to the seminal vesicles through tubes called the vas deferens. In the seminal vesicles, they mix with other fluids to form semen. A tablespoon of semen contains approximately six calories. Semen does contain protein, but it also contains all kinds of chemicals and minerals, including Water, sugar, Calcium, chlorine, magnesium, nitrogen, Vitamin B12, and zinc. But it does not contain enough of any of these things to be considered "nutritious." Hope this information helps!

(Use your best Graham Green/Dances with Wolves voice) But how does it smoke?

GROSS! Step away from the pizza. Three hundred other people are breathing all over it, oogling all over it, and drooling all over it. They've all opened every single box, and half those people used their dirty hands to pull off prime slices of pepperoni (they don't think we saw, but we saw.) Statistics say that as many as 42% of people don't wash their hands after going potty. That's 348 poopy hands spreading their germs. There, have I grossed you out? Pizza, what pizza? Oh, and don't check my math... and don't look for those statistics, either.

Sometimes the perfect thing happens at the perfect time, and this story has great timing. Be really careful with that ring - insert a sizer if you have to. I have a similar story with Gramma's wedding band, but I was whomping through the sand on a quadrunner at the beach years ago, and the ring flew off. I should have KrazyGlue'd it to my hand.

Sorry Kelly! It hasn't been deleted, it's just have some work done, nip here, tuck there!

Ryan is a very intelligent man, and I'd like to think he started this thread to get us to open our eyes to how childish some of us acted. Point well taken. But by saying you're leaving LBT because of conflict, you may as well say you'll never watch TV or open your front door again because there's too much conflict in the world. DeniseG makes a good point about seeing the world through rose colored glasses - if all you want to see is happiness and joy, short of a Christian website, the internet might not be such a safe place. There are eleven forums on LBT that provide information and support. According to the "ugly" posts, only two of the informational forums were affected, and for that I owe a deep apology to the entire board. I am truly sorry that I didn't stick to my original plan of resolving my issues in private. I wish I could take back what I publicly wrote, so I deleted a lot of it. Penni, Betty and I agreed that we wrongly infected "Sabotaging the good work" and we each deleted our arguments so it's a safe and informative thread again. I was wrong, so I personally apologized to the girl who started that thread. I've also deleted my participation in the "How much weight have you lost" thread. As far as the very heated, "LBT Censored" thread, I intentionally placed that away from any informative forums. I put it in the "Suggestions, Feedback & Questions" forum because I wanted moderators to come up with fair guidelines to eliminate any questions of taste and/or censorship in the future. I think only two of the eleven informative forums were splattered with distasteful diatribe, and I humbly apologize to each and every one of you for my participation and lack of good judgment. There will always be disagreements, which is why I started a special thread called, "LBT Disagreements, Spats and Miffs." I put it in the Lounge Forum. In the future, that's where I'll air my grievances, and I invite you all to use that place if you have issues. This way every single post won't go astray. I urge everyone to visit LBT often. Just a warning, the LBT Lounge is usually where a lot of the offensive stuff and silly stuff takes place, so if you are looking for Rated G information that deals directly with the Band itself, the following forums offer a wealth of knowledge: General Lap-Band Discussion Support Insurance Doctors and Hospitals food Fills Fill Doctors Cosmetic and Reconstructive Surgery Again, my sincere apologies for taking my private disagreements public.

Vera, do you mean liquid protein?

I started this whole thread off wrong. I should have explained it better. The entire reason I began this thread is because the bullshi$ was bleeding into too many other innocent threads. I figured if I opened this one up, we could divert the fire here and continue our debates without upsetting other topics. I like this thread. Barbara, that's a great response... I wish I would have written that! From now on, if things get heated elsewhere, I suggest coming here to this thread to duke it out so only the people that are involved have to see what's going on. That's what this thread is for... a big rubber boxing ring with Nerf bats.

PB means productive burp. That's a nice way of explaining a really painful thing that happens to us when we eat too fast, or chew too big of a bite. Suddenly you get this pain in your neck/throat/chest and whatever you are eating or drinking gets stuck. Then slime comes back out of your mouth and then you sort of heave up the thing that was stuck. We all have different ways of explaining it, but we all agree that it's no fun. DH around here usually means Dear Husband, while less loving wives say Di*k Head.

"Wow" is about the only thing one can say. Not sure how to spell "jaw dropped to the floor."

Penni, will you lock this thread on the 1st and start a new list? This way there will always be a month-to-month comparsion. Either that, or you'll have to send each and every person on the list regular reminders to update their numbers. Or something like that?!?