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I leave for class and return to more talk of crotches.
kvlasy......does YOUR Pug smell crotches or butts?

Wow you lost 19 lbs in 9 days that is awesome!!! Good for you. I have lost 8 lbs and I had surgery on Nov 1st!! Maybe you should stick to your liquids a little while longer jk! Sounds like we are doing about the same we are very fortunate. I hate it when I hear that others are having troubles because I know that could have been me!

I don't have any recipes for you but I do have 5 big cans of it. I stocked up before surgery without ever tasting it. It does taste and smell like tuna to me. Yuck! I'll give it away to the first one tha will take it.
I hope you find some good recipes that make it taste good.

I like mine mashed up with ripe avocado and just a little bit of chipotle ranch dressing.

Ahem.....I like your picture!!
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I need a different picture.

I need a different picture.

She's not Queen. She's a princess. Please try to keep up, Your Pugaliciousness.
How do I get to be a princess too?

Everyone picks their nose! It's what you do with the proceeds that ultimately defines who you are a person.

I had morphine and dilaudid (I think, maybe it was demerol) for the first 24 hours then they added toradol which was a God send. The toradol did more for my pain than the other two combined. I had Zofran and Phenergan in the hospital but wasn't sent home with anything for it. The only nausea I had came from the pain meds, not from surgery or my newly small tummy. I was sent home with a PINT of liquid lortab which I took two partial doses of and then didn't need anymore (also I'm a "cheap drunk" and it doesn't take much of that crap to really mess me up). My sister had a sleeve on Monday and had similar pain meds but had oxycodone in the hospital as well. She is doing great and says other than the gas pain she doesn't even feel like she had surgery! Good luck to you, I hope you have as pain free of an experience as possible!

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If you MUST know, Pugs prefer sniffing butts....thank you very much!!!
Your lips are sparkly.

I like you Cheri

I like to think that my nose picking escapades helped in the derailment!

I call bullying! You can't make fun of my long posts, it hurts my feelings.
As if you were the only one to (rightly) take me to task for that? I think I got slammed by several people. Anyway, I was teasing you. But note, I haven't used the word the same way since.
I fully believe I have less likes on this forum than you and Laura because illiterate people skip my posts and you two keep it short, sweet and simple. LOL!
Oh wait, is that bullying? Damn. I'm really no good at this crap.
~Cheri

Nope, not one single person. I'm totally open about having surgery, including posting about it on FB. I have received a ton of encouragement from people in all areas of my life. Sure, there may be some folks who think that I'm vain or that this is the easy way out, but that doesn't really bother me. What somebody else thinks about me is really none of my business. If someone were to say that to me I think my response would just be to say "OK" and then keep on doing my thing.

What are you hoping to "gain" by losing weight with this surgery?
I'm having this surgery so that I can lose weight and have a safer hernia surgery in the Spring. I am a bladder cancer survivor. I had my bladder removed in a long 12 hour surgery in March of 2011. I started developing a hernia a few months after surgery, and it has now grown to be 14 cm in diameter. It could have it's own zip code. The surgeon suggested that I lose weight prior to fixing the hernia, for a less life-threatening procedure and higher success rate.
My real hope and dream is to eventually gain my life back. My husband and I have been foster parents for about 8 years now. We've lost three babies of our own, had four failed adoptions, lost our last baby when they found the tumors in my bladder. I am 45 years old, and would like to one day have a "forever child". We are trying to adopt. I want to be able to take care of and have energy and be able to play with our child, if we ever reach our fundraising goal to afford adoption! I can't do that now, with a 14 cm hernia. It hurts to walk any distance now.
We have numerous fundraisers going on right now. I have different online parties all the time, that my friends hold for us. Our goal, along with having the funds to adopt, is for both of us to be able to successfully parent a child of our own. And my hope is that this surgery is the first step to achieving our goal.

I hope to gain 40+ extra years of life

I volunteer as a CASA for kids in foster care, so huge kudos to you for being a foster parent. I know how hard my foster parents work at giving the kids in their care some stability and security. My biggest "gain" hope after surgery was to regain my mobility. The restrictions in my life due to my mobility had become unacceptable to me. I missed being able to participate in so many activities and fun things I wanted to do. I'm only about halfway through the weight I want to lose, but the difference in how I walk and move is already huge! I feel so much better & have way less pain than I have had in YEARS. I hope that everything you want to gain happens for you!

As we're sitting down to dinner last night, at a restaurant, with two foster sons we had for respite.....the youngest starts digging for gold. I pretend not to notice. But then I notice the table beside us noticing. And disapproving. So me being me, I decide to route for the underdog, and start giggling and ever-so-gently encouraging the treasure hunt.
The moral of this story is.....live and let live. Let people be who they are. And watch out for the really hard, crusty ones.

I have no pre-op liquid diet, just high Protein low carb the week before. And they start me on pureed foods before hospital discharge. Everyone's diets are so different!

Good Morning!!!
How many nose pickers do we have out there on this fine Sunday morning?