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K@t, i know being in a foreign country can sometimes make the rules different. As you know what he did here is against the law. Too bad there isn't a union set up. they would have his ass creamed for that. I say write a formal letter to his boss, and the boss above that. Don't demand an apology, just write it as if you feel the need to bring it to their attention, andhow difficult this has made your position. And point out exactly what you have here. From the forewarning of the surgery, to the snide comments, to the cake thing. If you get no response, goto thenext boss. If you reach a ceiling and they are all patting each other on the back, then maybe it isn't a place you really want to work.

wheetsin i think maybe you need a new scale girl!! i am with ya on wanting to see that thing read an actual number, not one that says ERR. I hate that. DH weighs himself everyday, and seems to be losing everyday. he makes me insane. LOL

josette, i have had the same problem. ours only goes up to 335. i had to weigh myself when my daughter was in the hospital. My very first goal is to register on the scale again LOL Then it is to get to 300. oh my god it will be amazing to register on that scale, and not see ERR as my weight lol

I am in the middle of potty training our son as well. We are taking the same appraoch as we did with our daughter. Since I stay at home, these next few days will be spent completely without wearing any underwear or pants. when he puts pants on, or even just underwear, he has accidents. my daughter was like that too. In my opinion, pull ups are a waste of money. They are just like a diaper, and they treat them just like that. Yesterday he started, and ran to the toilet every time he had to go. He doesn't stand, he sits on the toilet and leans forward so it doesn't spray anywhere. He also refuses to use the little potty we got him, he wants to sit on the adult potty. This is great cause he will go even when we are somewhere else, like a grocery store or the mall. My daughter was not like this. but we got through it all. :eek: the important thing to remember as you are wiping up an accident is that eventually, they get the hang of it and can go on their own. my daughter is 4 and doesn't even want me in the stall with her when we are out in public. lol

Ugh, I so need this thread. I was at 335-340 for a while, but over the last month, with my daughter in the hospital and all the stress of moving, I have gone back up to 350. This puts me at a BMI of 60.5. And I no longer have a surgery date, but I do have a time frame...Some time in July I will be going down to Mexico, unless some miracle occurs and I can get the cash back together before then. I actually bought the biggest loser book, and have met my new neighbor who is a personal trainer, and am going to have a completel program setup for me. My first goal is 300. Yes, it does feel yucky to have a mini goal that most people start out at. My end goal is to be 130 someday. I used to weigh 110 when I was fit and trim. I figure with the aging I have done, and the extra muscle from carrying around this weight, 130 is realistic. I am 5ft4 with genetically big boobs, so 130 should look good on me too. lol

headaches are quite often a result of dehydration, esp with bandsters. instead of treating it with drugs, try a few glasses of Water first. it will help to rehydrate you. if that still doesn't work liquid tylenol is good, and so is taking a pill. you can also crush an asprin in some yogurt or sugar free pudding. this is stuff my doctor told me. I was very concerned about needing to take pills once banded.

like i said in the other thread, i had a reduction, and couldnot breastfeed with both kids due to reduced flow. i would leak, and maybe produce enough for a half a bottle all day, but that was it. i gave them that as a supplement, but gave them formula mainly. they still produce milk whem i am on my period though, but only a drop or two. not enough to be noticable.

I had a reduction when i was 19. went from a EEE to a D. And it saved my back. But I lost almost all sensation in the right nipple, and have become oversensitive in the left. I have to be really turned on for dh to get anywhere near it, or else it is painful. I also could not breastfeed the kids due to limited flow, but they got bigger! Now they are DDD and I will def need a lift and fill when i lose all the weight.

seeing as how i can barely move myself around with out a lot of effort, i am gonna owe the staff a huge thanks and apology when i get my surgery done.

66% Dixie, and I was born in California. But I married a southerner and he would be very proud!!!

Thank you all for the prayers and wishes. things are finally starting to slow down around here. i got most of the boxes unpacked, emily is acting as if nothing has happened, and dh and my son are no longer leaking from both ends. my mother still feels pretty awful, but she pushes through it. Prolly cause she is a mom too and knows what it means to tough something out. Pnut, I told Rob that exact thing when he came to bed after spending a half hour in the bathroom. lol he told me to shut it, and then didn't say another word. We have been having emily pray for all the children she saw in the hospital while she was there. I think it is important to teach her that people prayed for her, so she should pray for others in turn. She has it down well now, and when we make a little list of all the people she had praying for her, and prayer lists that she was on, she is amazed. The bit of bad news...I am no longer going to work at nordstrom. I know I just got the job, but all the time away from the store not working, and all the time I will have to take off to see that emily fully recovers is just not fair to expect them to hold my position open without help. I am telling them later today that I am leaving. I know they will be sad to see me go, and i am sad to leave, but emily has to be on some really strong antibiotics for the next month and she can't be in daycare during that time. I feel it is the right thing to do. So I talked with my mother who is a graphics contractor, and got a job working with a contracting company I did some work for many years ago. They have some graphics contracts I can do from here in florida, and I can be at home all day with emily. I think that will be the end of daycare, and her and andy can go to some kids events every week here in town.

i love the idea of a spa day, or a hotel room by myself for 48 hours. in fact, here in town is a resort and spa. I'm gonna go check in there. LOL being the type of mom i am, i would take emily with me so we can go get manny-pedis together. lol

Oh goodness the trials continue. LOL Emily is home, bless her heart, and she has all the energy that a 4 year old that has had to lay on her back for 12 days. But the whole family (my mother, DH, son and daughter) have Rotovirus. Amazingly enough I am not sick. I guess someone up there figured one person needed to stay healthy to take of the rest. Those not familiar with it, rotovirus is a very strong stomach virus that makes you squirt from both ends quite a bit. Everyone is spending their days on the toilet here. I actually had to pee for 4 hours this morning because there was no bathroom available. LOL Everyone is fine, and I have to watch them all for dehydration, but this all seems like it is never going to end. I am so tired. And so ready for a vacation...ALONE! LOL My entire family is grossing me out. On a happy note I have finished sewing my curtains, put them up, put together the BBQ, shampooed the carpets in the new place, and conditioned all the wood furniture in my house. It has been looking a little sad. And I unpacked last night between holding my daughter's hair back and bringing more toilet paper to my DH. yay me!!

I got access to the computer lounge here at the hospital for the employees to check my email. I am sitting here crying reading all of the warm wishes and responses. Thank you all. You have no idea how hard this has been. Today I just wanted to go home because I am so tired and frustrated, but I just don't want to leave her alone. The night I spent away she got really scared and cried most of the night. I feel so guilty, but I know I needed the break. We will just be happy to have her home. The Antibiotics that she is now on seem to be doing some good by this mornings tests, so it looks like part of our prayers have been answered. Thank you all again. The LBT family is a large one, and as I keep telling her, she has so many people praying for her, God is sure to hear about it. She is in high spirits, even with everything going on, and has been officially deemed the Princess of Pediatrics by the nursing staff. They came in this morning and did a mini coronation ceremony for her. No kidding! One of the nurses spent most of last night making her a crown, and another a little sign for the door. She is going to get a big head after all of this. LOL Still staying strong...all of us. Thank you all for the PM's and the posts with prayers and well wishes. You will all get to see a message from the princess herself when we are all done. :eek: Amy

Some of youmight have noticed I have been missing for the past week. Most prolly haven't. I wanted to let you all know so I could get some prayers and thoughts from those willing. Actually they are for my daughter. She has been in the hospital for the past week (since last saturday night) with severe pneumonia. It has been a real struggle. The antibiotics they are giving her are not doing anything, and her fever has been almost uncontrollable. So has her pain. She is in such severe pain that it makes her retch and scream. They have her on morphine, but sometimes the pain gets through. It has been very hard on all of us. My mother flew out from Seattle to help me with my son during this time, and DH and I have spent basically every minute at the hospital. Last night he forced me to come home to switch out the supply of clothes we have and take a real shower, not the spongebaths I had been doing. His turn is tonight. My daughter'sname is Emily. She is only 4 years old and has been healthy all of her life until now. This has been so hardon her little body, but she manages to smile still every day. The nurses are in love with her, and her bright redhair. And whenever she is sent to radiology everyone stops her on the way down to admire and tell her how cute she is. It has def been the highlight of her stay. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers. We need her back at home, and it has been tough on all of us. Thank you. Amy

When I had my daughter i developed a couples of blood clots in my lungs just 3 days after. I was rushed into the ER with shortnessof breath and dizziness. I get in and the triage nurse says "why can't you breathe? did you try running up a flight of stairs?" I tried yelling at her for it, but had to take a breath between each word, so by the time i got through with my tirade i just seemed like a babbling idiot. Then I hadto go in for an angiogram to officially diagnose the clots. they insert a catheter into the artery in the groin, and before doing that they shave and clean that area. Well I had just had a baby, and before the labor I shaved myself. Completely. thenurses and the doctors were all men, except for the prep nurse. She was awesome, and she casually explains to me that she has to shave me again to get me prepped. The doctor looks up and says "again? do you stay shaved often?" what a question!! Then I say ,"no, i am shaved because I just has a baby a few days ago." He replies "oh good, so there is a reason you are this fat. what are your plans to get back into shape?" I was already scared and lightheaded from the whole situation. i just started to cry. which didn't help the breathing situation. the doctor ordered to have me sedated for uncontrolled emotions. I woke up in ICU to spend the next 2 weeks in bed.

that woman needs to stop. i think i saw her on tv and she has been trying to talk her daughter into having surgeries as well.

jill, i understood every character. sad really. i tried so hard to not be a geek. lol I work for Nordstrom in the Tampa Intl Mall. I work in the Encore dept making large women look stylish.

i only know of a doc in tampa that does fills on other surgeons patients. have you looked at thefill center usa site to see if there is one closer to you?

so do i. i have even been described as someone like that. but i am not that much of a dork, thank god. lol

pics!!! i wanna see this plastic man.

One a friend sent me the other day http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7521044027821122670&pr=goog-sl

oh my god!!! he's here in tampa!! I'll have to keep an eye out for peter at the local events.

some are :confused:

FYI I am seeing a lot of people do this. I just wanted to make some sizing issues clear so that maybe some of you are skipping a size and need to make a change that wil make you look better. :confused: The extra large sizing chart actually goes XL, 1XL, 2XL, 3XL and so on. A lot of people think that XL and 1XL are the same, but they are not. In fashion ordering, when clothes are ordered for a store, the buyer actually buys so many 0XL, 1XL, 2XL and so on and so forth. If an XL is too tight, but a 2XL is really baggy, go find a 1XL. Youmight find it to be a more flattering fit and an easier piece of clothing to wear. Also keep in mind, the baggier the clothing, the heavier we look. Lets not wear tarps people. It is unflattering. Sorry folks. My new job has taught me so much, and I really want to share so much. It is amazing how much it has made me look better.