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Not a teacher myself, but I am a Mama and Grandmama, two other teach8ng positions. Just wanted to Gove you all a sbout-out, You are truly wonderful people, no matter what country you may be in You Guide And Train our Future, Our Children and you deserve all praise that can be Given . God Bless and Be With You All!😛

This morning I ask that we lift up in prayer my BARI bud Ellie123. She will be undergoing RnY surgery at 1 PM. CST in Dallas Texas. She is the mama of 2 little ones,,6 and 7 years. Pray for peace for her 7 year son, he is very worried that things won't go well for Mama. She is a beliver trying to live a life of victory daily, her fearbe witness day by day in her life. She is just 40, yeah young enough to be your kid or mine. So Lord Jesus guide her today. Sooth all her fears, let her go to sleep secure in the knowledge she is GODS CHILD, let her surgeon's hands be strong steady and sure as he performs this surgery, may she awake refreshed and calm, may her pain and discomfort be small, may her recovery be smooth, may she be granted a l9nger life to love and serve you daily. I humbly ask this believing in the promise where 2 or more believers are gathered, there YOU also will be. Watch over this Lamb, Gentle Shephard, for she truly is of your Flock. And to you all honor, glory and praise given Amen and Amen.

@SteveT74 do you need an alto to sing with you. I have been a sneaker, a binger and a unrepentant food addict, halfway through my Dietary Purgatory, the infamous Liver-shrink Diet, it would be so easy to say F this is so over. 3 things pop up in my current-time memory: 1, I really really want this surgery, at my age there are no gaurenteed do-overs, no more chances, the easy tricks don't work, and oh I tried! 2. I remember Dr Needlman palpating my upper abdomen, got to the RIGHT subcostal area and says to himself "Un-huh". Now I am medically "smarter than the average bear" as my good Buddy Yogi Bear would say. He's feeling liver margin, didn't have to scream you have NASH, I knew! Looks up at me and says " You are going to follow my diet aren't you?" What could I say? Yes Sir, I will Sir, shall I polish your shoes Sir? I was called to rights there! Can't fool someone who has been in the Bariatrics business as long as him! Not complaining, I wanted the best-I got him. 3 I have lost nearly 13 pounds now since August 1st. Only time in my life I dropped weight faster was when I had just produced a baby. Oh I liked producing babies, but at 72 that's a LONG time ago. If I could with egg and sperm donations produce another baby would I want to? Nope, too much pain, mess and bother for this old girl! But if I can lose weight with a BMR like mine, equal to a tired slug who's on anti-depressive medication, at my age you youngins got nothing to quibble about. Oh it's not fun, goes against most all happiness, contrary to normal nature, but it can be done, Buttercup, yes it can.😛🌻

Am I totally weird ? Neither of these classes of food( using the term loosely) appeal to me. To me it's l8ke having a second degree burn, remember how badly it hurt,how you thought you'd never heal, people might see your scars and ask what happened. All I can see is emotional grief. I cook or fry potatoes for my Tomkitten, he is descended from centuries of potato eaters on his Daddy's side, don't tempt me. I hate to throw away those leftovers, but a moment on the lips forever on the hips and now it almost takes a cold chisel to pry the baked potato residue off of my backside. I want both the mounds of shame and love handles made out of cast iiron gone. I'm tired of folding the side fat up so I can sit in a chair with arms. It would be easier,if I could run a price I of rope through each so I could retract them up like some of those airplanes you see on the news where the tips flip up. The last French fry I filched made my lips feel like too much Chapstick, Hmmn I thought, if it does that to my,lips, what does it do to my gastrointestinal system? Oh I would bear with it if it made #2 slide out easier, Only A&E ointment or Vasaline helps there! So that's my take on things for now?

Good Luck Oryx TODAY and all through your future.

Yeah maybe I should get one while I am still over- bouyant!

Proud of you, you inspire all us immediate pre surgery candidates. Thanks for the story!!

Well my hospital insisted I have my blood work in May for my September RnY, I turned out I had some deficencies. We have addressed Vitamin A , Vitamin D , Iron , Magnesium and Calcium and I have been a very good Bari- Baby, one slip up was I need to get more calcium, missed it for 2 days. Whip me with a noodle, if you want! Anyway between the protein shakes, the calcium and the iron I'm bound up tighter than Cootie Browns Goat, so Miralax and MoM are getting to be my friends. But minor inconvenience for,Great Potential Glory, that's what I say until I reach the Porcelain Throne. Then all bets are off!

I used to tell a joke about famous people on crashing plane and a limited number of parachutes. Each person justifies the reason they should survive and grabs a parachute. At the end there is left a Boy Scout and a Priest. Priest says go ahead and grab the last parachute, I've lived a Good Life, this way I will be with My Lord. Boy Scout says. Father it's okay, come with me . There are 2 parachutes left , that last person that wouldn't believe anyone was more important took my backpack by mistake. So if you're going wait to jump off make sure you have a parachute and not somebody else's luggage.

You can swallow and block things up. Just imagine a dime-sized bypass stoma blocked with Double Bubble. Not a pretty thought, could block things up badly, couldn't it?

My guess This is the only surgery poster is interested, for poster the other kinds don't exist.

Joy and Wisdom shine bright enough to banish Gloom and Despair. I.M. Gladperson

Sort of like It Only Hurts For A Little While?

Yeah it's just a matter of time until mine have embroidery that says. More Money than Good Sense****I Bought This! Now that's Truth in Retail to me.👕👖👗👚👙

And everyday people check in here from YLimes other thread, Summer 2018 Friends check in here I think it's called.

Strain not shrink the veggies out.

Couldn't you use a palatable broth, cook some veggies like carrots, green beans, onion, celery, shrink the veggie out and then try the liquid. Or use vegetable broth, Wal-Mart has one light orange in color, it's pretty good. Have you tried V8 juices?

As many as there are stars in the sky, at least that's what I think!

mine is 1🍌,1🍎1🍊all small size, or 3/4 cup unsweetened berrie as a snack once daily. Good news I have lost nearly 13.pounds on this Verdompt diet,since August1st, so my liver is shrinking. Clothes only a little looser, same size. Bad news still 2 weeks until surgery. I have tried 4 different brands of protein shakes, multiple flavors, some nastier than the rest. The frozen under 300 calorie entrees, some pretty tasty rest mffft. But you guys have done it before me, and had success. I shall slog steadily onward,one foot in front of the,other👣, I will make it yet!

Hmmn I'm too old to be a bone marrow donor, too fat to be a kidney donor, too alive to be a heart donor, too fat to reach my weight goal, too ugly to win Miss USA, too honest to be a Congressman, let alone a politician. Too poor to run for any elective office, too disinclined to become a hooker, too clumsy to be a go-go dancer. Don't have a driving, fishing or hunting license currently. Until after my husband died, I didn't even have a credit rating, Only been in my county courthouse twice in my life, once for a wedding license, once for a copy of same, so that I could apply for widow benefits from Social Security. So obviously never arrested. Dang, why do people even bother with ME, I'm BORING!

I will be what I will I will be.

Dang, finally something is going to turn my way I do use a nebulizer, and do pretty often. Hurray for ME!

BUNCH OF. us that day, including me! Come over to September 2018 Surgeries and Success and meet up with us all. We would love to have you!

And a little more fuel on the 🔥, here I brought a cord of wood myself. Yes it looks like at Wally World the selection is better. Lets look a little closer. Now what is the shade we're highlighting? Nausea green,baby poop yellow, dead calf liver maroon, indiscriminate gray, let's dump them all together, make a shirt in a print that shouts " I'm fat, I grabbed the first thing I could find" Lets make it with 1 sleeve instead of 2, let's cut the bottom at an angle so it looks like she was mauled by an animal at the zoo! Now if we make any slacks , let's make the pockets,decorative only, a half - inch deep sounds good, let her hubby carry keys and things for her, or she can jam things in a purse, and we will make them ugly too , let's make only 2 sizes, big so everyone can watch her for shoplifting or small so she can't ever get a protein bar in let alone money. She already spent $17.99 on a shoddy made shirt, didn't she? She'll spend more, she brought some with her today! Ok back to the slacks, let's make the legs like 2 sausage tubes but make the crotch seam skimpy in the rise and only single stich it with nylon or cheap cotton thread, the nylon will itch, the cotton will break the first time she wears it, time it so it's in an a embarrasing location, like in line at the bank. AND let's taper the legs on the dressier slacks , like 28. inches at the thighs, 8 In at the ankles. Ooh this is fun isn't it? And make them in two basic lengths, one to fit 4ft8in, the other 6ft 3in, that's the only two leg lengths we needed anyway. Fat women only come in one height, short fat blob and excuse me, are you a woman or a transvestite? sizes. Now sizes, let's send in 15 1x(16-18) 5 2X, 2 3X, 1 4X, 1 5X. That way unless she happens to be there when they are unpacked, she's out of luck. And make sure you never use more than a single stitching , those seams will never have much pressure anyway. That will sell like gang busters, Sam Waltons motto. was "if we make it or stock it, they will come." Lets have ours be" Make it shoddy, make it ugly, make it ill-fitting, fat women are gullible and stupid in the first place" . I'm sitting here in a sweatshirt and gym shorts, bought from the skimpy mens department, why? Unbelievable but that's where the pink sweat shirts were, there was enough length in the shorts and they do usually have more 4X in and they have a bigger crotch seam to handle guys," package", no I wasn't granted that package but when I bend over, it doesn't separate my buttocks and finish the job spitting me. where God started. And I'll trade you guys three diagonal cut,shirts, 2 t-shirts in baby poo yellow, and a tube top that the first time I bend over my feminine enhancements fall out for one nondescript grey sweatshirt. You don't want them? Guess what, I don't either! 😳

Hmmn I want to help you lose weight, is it okay if I put you through 2 surgeries, all the pain and recovery from each? Good that way I can double-bill your insurance and take Mrs Surgeon on the Caribbean cruise she' s been nagging me about! Not too concerned about,your pain and suffering, twice the money for a little more of my time ,, Sounds like a win-win for ME, what's a little inconvenience and more time lost for you? Oh you don't think it sounds that good? Well maybe the next patient will! Got to make a financial quota so I can keep my malpractice insurance current and paid-up! Have a good day! See you in surgery!