Bobalooey

Heh heh, kinda reminds me of the old joke: Two friends, Jack and Bill are talking, Jack: "I bought a monkey over the weekend as a pet." Bill: "Cool, any problems with it?" Jack: "Well, it insists on sleeping in our bed between my wife and I" Bill: "Oh man, what about the smell?" Jack: "Well, I got used to it...so can the monkey!"

Do NOT rule out the fact that you're probably experiencing a very heightened sense of smell right now. I've observed this phenomenon every time I've gone on a serious diet, the first two weeks of being banded has been no exception. It seems that my hearing and eyesight have improved as well, anything to improve the odds of me finding food. I opened a can of dog food two days ago (not for me....for the dog) and although I had always found the smell distasteful, I found myself reeling from the stench. So take heart, you may have stunk all of the time and just now are noticing it!!!

Kathy, They put the Fluid in to make it sure it doesn't leak. Then they back off on the amount of fluid. It is my understanding that there is saline in the tube at all times, just not enough to make it constrict until your first fill. Do you believe otherwise?

I posted the Laporoscopic & Flouroscopic pictures that were given to me post-op. You can find them at the bottom of the following thread: http://www.lapbandtalk.com/showthread.php?p=87581&postcount=22 If anybody finds them distasteful, I can remove them. Oddly enough, this is the first time I've allowed myself to be photographed in years!

Seeing them right after surgery really made me sick, and the smell of the Barium as the first thing I'd tasted since the operation made me wretch. So I hid the pictures and I only pulled them back out today to really examine closely. I'm glad now the SurgiCenter offered them. As you say, what other proof would I have. And knowing how the thing actually works beats letting the imagination run the whole show. Such simple yet amazing technology, makes me grateful to be living in this day and age.

I thought some of you might find the pictures that were given to me in post-op interesting. If you find them distasteful, I will remove them. Picture 1. This is the Lap-Band now firmly around my stomach. Picture 2. If you look closely you can see that the Lap-Band is now filled Picture 3. This is the picture from the Barium/Flouroscope procedure and shows the Lap-Band in action.

I was scared too. Almost backed out three times before getting to the surgery center and once while I was on the gurney getting wheeled into surgery. Fortunately, the anesthesia kicked in and its been one week today. The fear and anxiety were worse than the actual procedure trust me. I felt better afterwards than some times when I've been to the oral surgeon for a tooth extraction. The team of people that will be there for you pre and post op will put you at ease as well. Scarier for me now would be if I hadn't gone through with it and being faced with dealing with the anguish of the weight problem and no incentive to try to defeat it on my own again....and fail.....again. This tool called the Lap-Band kicks ass! It will help you fight off the fat and start living the life you must have wanted or you wouldn't have registered for the procedure. Imagine being full....I mean really really full after a few glugs of Soup and pushing the rest of it away. And when you finally weigh in after a week and see that you've knocked off 10 pounds or more, come back to this message board and tell me if I wasn't right. Be more afraid NOT to do it!

Well........okay then.

Porclndoll, In case you weren't aware, they keep EKG equipment attached to your chest throughout the whole surgical procedure to monitor all of your vital signs. During my pre-op EKG the little suction cup electrodes kept popping off of my chest because of all the hair and it took the nurse 4 attempts to get a good reading. After they popped off the first time and she replaced them all I started laughing which made them pop off again. She got nasty with me while placing the electrodes on the second time and told me to stop laughing. Yeah, like that always worked in the past. I broke out nearly crying with laughter and all the wires popped off a third time. She asked a male attendant to come in and assist for the 4th time and the two of them had to hold all of the suction cups in place until the EKG was complete. She warned me right then and there that if I didn't shave before the surgery, "they" would have to. In my haste to get out the door the morning of the surgery I completely forgot. My guess is she's the one laughing now. Nipple ring indeed! And all of these years I've been bemoaning the fact that my nipples are not sensitive. Aside from a few "nurples" I received in high school, I'd never have imagined that this could hurt so bad. How's about a little sympathy wise ass???

daisydoodle, I just finished telling you I'm not interested in sex right now and you proposition me!!! Pigs I tell you.....every last one of you! And now you refer to us guys as "bandboys"???? A sexist comment if ever I heard one. What am I saying??????

I know this sounds strange coming from a guy, but......sex is the last thing on my mind right now. And believe me it used to consume my thoughts all day. Now I'm too busy watching the clock for when I can have another can of broth or a popsicle. Sheesh....you women......you're all pigs!

I just got out of my first follow-up visit since the surgery last Thursday. Aside from being down 14 pounds, they removed all of my staples. It didn't hurt much until the nurse sprayed some kind of disinfectant on all the incisions. I now have a whole new set of bandages to remove again in two days. The nurse had the nerve to ask me what happened to my right nipple. I think she was the one that "nicked" me during the surgery. I didn't think it was that serious until she sprayed the nipple and put another bandage on that as well and then she wrote something down on my chart. I now have an appointment for my first fill in 3 weeks. Hopefully the nipple will be healed by then!

giveyouthe moon, Liquid Vicoden????? And you think I received more than you during the procedure?

Soonergirl, you refer to your DH in a previous message. My wife calls me this all the time but it s pretty derogatory. Can you tell me what it means in your household?

They gave you hydrocodone???? You haven't lived until you've yakked up one of those little plastic cups of Liquid Tylenol!!!! New improved orange taste indeed. Now you've got me going back through all of the spam I've received telling me how I can order hydrocodone without a Rx.