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Holy Moly, Leatha!!! I leave the board for a couple days and look what happens, LOL! I hope you get well very, very soon. You need to go slap your co-worker around for sharing this bug with you!!!

Good Luck!!! Let us know how it went.

Wow, I hope your doing better now! What an awful way to wake up!!!

Wow! He sounds like a keeper to me!

OMG!!!! This morning were getting ready to go to the stock show, so I was trying to decide which jeans to put on when I ran across my size 16 Lee's. I haven't been able to wear them in almost 2 years, but this morning they slid right on with no problems!!! I can't believe I'm finally seeing a result from having this lapband!!!

That IS great, Tammy! Congratulations!!!

Vera, I am proud to have my band. However, I have 3 bosses who have fretted, prayed, and agonized over my surgery and all my dr appts. They don't have a clue what kind of surgery I had and I know they will probably KILL me if they find out it is for weightloss, LOL. I really can't let them find out!!! I found out that my dr will be doing my fills from now on. They have set up a room just for lapbands at the hospital. No more radiology, YIPPEEE!

Pat, I finally found your description of your fill experience, LOL!!! You poor thing! I'm sorry it was so tough on you. I have been deadened with a shot of lidocain before every fill. Its a shot, but very quick and with just an itty bitty bee sting and then I imediately feel nothing. Yes, definitely ask for flouro for this next fill. According to my dr, fills are much harder to do than what they were originally told. Have you seen the pic of the port tubing that has all the holes in it in Dr. Ortiz's book??? Scares the peewaddle outta me!!!

I'm going incognito, LOL!!! I figured I won't be able to remain in the band closet much longer with my pic splashed all over this site, so I took it off. I have a feeling more people from my town will be hitting this site soon. We have a new surgical hospital opening up next month and I have it on good authority that there are at least 2, maybe 3 new drs. planning to do lapbands there.

Jonathan, you better eat your steak now!!! It tends to get stuck after banding. Congrats!

Wow! Been there and done it (or should I say ate it?). But, you know what? We're all in this together (or will be on Jan. 31), and we're gonna beat it!!! BTW, your writing is very good.

Another writer???? OMG! Have you 'met' Ryan (Whippledaddy) yet? You guys have gotta talk!

LOL!!! Marie, your killin me! Pat, I think you should insist on the flouro. The reason my dr and his partner are having fills done in radiology is because fills are not as easily done as they had been led to believe. It's been hell for them and hell for us patients, both. BTW, you never did 'splain the fainting part of your fill! Wha happen???

I think it is sponsored by Bandlandia. I didn't hear the commercial, but heard some talk about it at the support group. Everyone felt that it made the band look gimmicky...

Is it normal to have a bruise after a fill? I had my fill on Tuesday, but I just noticed this big black bruise today. The radiologist jabbed that needle into my port so hard, I felt like I had been punched in the stomach. No wonder I have felt so tender all week! As if my purple incision weren't purty enough!!!

Very cute!!!! I may have to go to Target too!

Aaaawwwwww!!! How sweet! Why would he need a special occassion when he has such a special and wonderful woman??? What a man!

Wow!!! I went to a support group meeting last night and found out I am not the only one with a REDNECK band!!! There was a man there who had a fill and the radiologist who did it missed the port completely. And this was under flouro!!!! Duh!

Congratulations and Welcome to Bandland!!!

Kyleigh, you look great!!!!

Went to a support group meeting last night and one of the 2 local lapband drs showed up. Among other things, he informed us that Cigna is in the process of putting into place a NATIONWIDE policy that excludes lapband surgery. He also said that Aetna will mostly likely do the same. On a local level, Blue Cross/Blue Shield with the Texas Teacher Retirement System (TRS) will continue to pay for the surgery for now, however, all other BC/BS policies in Texas will exclude lapband surgery. He did not say when all of these changes will go into effect. Whats up with all these exclusions, all of a sudden???

Wow, you have every reason to be proud!!!

LOL! I know of Joshua and Snyder, though I've never been to either! I'm a small town girl, too. Grew up in Muenster, now live in Denton. After the house get built, I'll be living in Mountain Springs, I don't think it's even on the map, LOL!!!

Oh, Happy Day!!! Life without coffee just wouldn't be worth living,LOL!!! Hope you got some restriction. You're doing wonderfully!!!

I wanna come!!! But if it's on a holiday weekend, I probably can't get a flight because I have to fly stand-by.