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artistapril

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  1. That's awesome! You should definitely plan on returning to the pool as a preventative. Sometimes forcing yourself to relax like that is enough to loosen those tight muscles.
  2.    artistapril reacted to a post in a topic: A Big Thankyou To Everyone
  3. Congrats! Happy to hear you are feeling good.. keep us updated!
  4. Happy to hear everything went well and you are recovering nicely! Keep us posted on your progress. I go in the morning for my band to RNY revision so I'll be thinking about your positive experience when I wake up in recovery.. lol
  5. So.. tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 7am I go in for my band to RNY revision. I'm excited/scared/nervous/overall overwhelmed by it. I don't know why. I guess I am worried that I'll have difficulties like I did with the band. I'm trying to think of all the positives though. My hubby is a huge supporter and is 100% on board with helping me... and he is losing weight himself so there wont be any good food/bad food struggles in the house or anything. I guess I'm just afraid of the future. How can someone be happy and afraid at the same time? lol
  6. So.. I'm getting nervous (understandable) and excited to finally have a date. I'm having my Revision from Band to RNY next Thursday June 28th. Wondering what the difference will feel like after the RNY versus when I had the band done. Have felt discouraged for a while now that the lapband did not work out for me but I'm optimistic about the RNY. I'm really looking forward to finally getting the rest of this weight off and looking forward to having baby #3 after hitting my goal. Would love to hear the experience from those who have already had a revision.
  7. My date is June 28th! it's a band to RNY revision. How did your revision go Juniper?
  8.    raquelrdgz reacted to a post in a topic: Approved But.....
  9. It's hard to truely understand what we go through unless you have ever walked a mile in our shoes (or not been able to for that matter!). All you can really do is hope those people will come around one day and try to see things outside of their own perspective and educate themselves and overall be supportive of their loved ones.
  10. Well.. only a month away! Mine is going to be right around that time too. I'm waiting for my daughter to get out of school and her last day is the 20th of June.. but I don't want the surgery on the 21st because it's a Thursday and Friday/Saturday is the weekend here in Kuwait so I don't really want to have the surgery on a Thursday if my doc is going to be gone the next day.. ya know? So my surgery is either June 21st or June 24th.. depending on if the doc is off that Friday or not. (Most people have off on Fridays here)
  11. Just 1 week away.. how exciting! Keep us updated on how you are doing
  12.    artistapril reacted to a post in a topic: Explain Chicken Broth
  13. Good luck! Update us with how easy your hospital visit ends up being
  14. Have you tried ground chicken? I use ground chicken in place of ground beef in my house for nearly everything (chili, tacos, etc). I've had problems with regular chicken breast with my lapband but been ok with ground. Hope I don't have issues after my revision to RNY. I don't always trust the ground chicken in the store so I usually pick out nice chicken breasts, take it to the butcher and have them grind it down so I know what I'm getting. Being in Kuwait, I don't always trust the stickers that say boneless/skinless. Labels out here are terribly inaccurate.
  15. Yeah, definitely check to see if your previous appointments count. Aside from that.. congrats on being approved
  16. Happy to hear everything went well! Hope your recovery goes by fast
  17.    artistapril reacted to a post in a topic: New Tastes
  18. Awesome . And what great motivation to have a little family time!

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