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Tamra, if you want to change simply call and say that you met with Dr. Fisher and do not feel comfortable with him, and would like to meet with another surgeon. You do not have to say any more than that. If they ask just say it's a feeling, nothing particular. They will respect that - lots of folks have changed from him. If they ask if there is a particular surgeon you want, then you have to make a choice! When they asked me who I wanted I said Baggs or Im, they said "we have an appt with Dr. Fisher tomorrow," I said no I'll wait for Dr. Baggs, and they were perfectly fine with that.

Oh goodie lots of my pretty ladies are on now!!! :-) Tina good luck to you hunny - let me know how the budget meeting goes. They are saying NOTHING here, there are recruiting for a new CAO so I suppose they are going to leave it up to him or her . . but it will be months! They have warned us of mid-year layoffs but have not told us of any priorities . . I'm sure my division is NOT a priority

Woo-hoo Tina you are SO close!!! Onederland here you come!!! STAYing in onerderland was my difficulty . . . it kept thinking that I was just visiting! LOL. Heck you may drop another 4 lbs. before Aug 20th and actually need a fill again. My restriction stopped suddenly . . . . restriction, then not on some days, then not on any days. In the last 2 weeks I think I have felt my band on 2 days. I want to feel it every day . . . but only when I overdo it. I'm not feeling it AT ALL right now - it is monring, and I just polished of 2 cups of berries and my stomach is still growling, so food is going right through again. I may want the full .5 on Friday after all!

Reg, zero vegies?!? Yowza . . . I can't live without my vegies!! And my berries . . . . and I think you know where you're breakin' the rules - snacking and pastries - but girlfriend, that is what ALL OF US do when we are starving because we need a fill!!! So Tamra . . yeah I like Dr. Park a lot too, and I think if you are having anxiety about surgery she would make you feel SO much better! But she is bad about giving you a fill when you need it - like, she won't!! Reggie is not the only one to get refused a fill. Dr. Baggs on the other hand, if you think you need one and you have not been PBing, you get one. Even if you HAVE been PBing, apparently you can get a small one, huh Tina! He just told me to email him if I needed a fill before my next sceduled one, I did and he just said OK I'll tell Kelly to get you in. I was very reassured after meeting with him, too. But the person who was the MOST calming and reassuring for me is Liz!!

Tina why did you want Dr. Fisher? I wanted Dr. Im because Pam was so happy with him, then Dr. Zimmerman recommended Dr. Baggs, and once I met him I was like, oh you are SO my surgeon! What made you want Fisher?

Tina LOL, when your band gets tight it gets really chatty too! It has been talking to you a lot, suddenly! Maybe mine will talk to me again after my fill Friday, horay! Got my 6 month lab results back, I am perfect! My total cholesterol dropped a bunch, from like 188 to 146, that is really low!! But my good cholesterol dropped too, from 56 to 44 and that is bad . . . . they want it over 46 . . . how do you raise that again? Isn't it by like eating olive oil and stuff?

I'm here Tamra . . .home from my support group meeting. I have a lot of them, it's like belonging to AA or something! OK Tamra so why do you think you want to switch? What is your gut telling you?

IMHO, it depends on your pre-op diet and how long you are on it . . if it is the 6 month weight loss diet that you have to do for insurance, it's probably OK as long as it's still a while out from surgery. .. but if it's the semi-fast immediate pre-op diet designed to shrink your liver, or if your surgery is coming up real soon, then NO, alcohol is the LAST thing that you need! The liver has to process it, it won't help you at ALL.

Hi Donna hunny! I wish we were closer, too :-( I AM going to be @ Richmond Friday, won't be able to eat (pre- and post-fill clear liquids, yick!) but we are going to walk at Point Isabel & see the Rosie the Riveter Memorial before we head back over the bridge - anyone care to join in? Say yes or I'm goin' to Ikea instead, LOL! I can't afford that place

Hey does anyone have the Curves Toning Sandal that you can get through Avon? They are sandels not flip flops which I like but . . .kinda ugly in white, and $40

Did you notice that NONE of the sheriffs got funds?? It was all city PDs, not a single sheriff's department. What is up with THAT? They must not have been eligible to apply for some reason . . . .

OK I'm at work now . . where ARE you guys? Stayed up too late chattin, LOL . . . I only got 2.67 miles in this morning, hate the dark thing! Went by and had my blood work done this morning, I guess it is my 6 month blood work? Don't know but they took 4 tubes! I figured I would need to have had it done before my appt. this Friday, I will only be 5 1/2 months out from surgery but won't go in again for 2 months after than. I hope I have good blood!! K ladies I am on the main phone line today from 10 - 3 so if it's not ringing I'm going to be typing!!!

WELL good morning, here I sit . . alarm went off, I got up, sweats on ready to go but it's still PITCH BLACK out there, can't go out yet. . . . this is crazy I can't possibly get 4 miles in before work anymore :-(

That's what I mean, it's a big fat load of food!! And when I got home from waiting 2 hours at my local Kaiser for 1 bottle of insulin for my son, I was STARVING again so I ate - of all things - pine nuts!! Ugh. So I am at 1200 calories today . . . but I also got in almost 11 miles, so I burned off plenty. Still - gonna hear about that snack on my log from Robin! In the 6 "perfect" days that I have logged, I have Snacks on 3 of them! Well I guess that is what happens when you need a fill, huh?? Oh well. No more eating now I have to go to bed then miss my coffee in the AM, need to go have my blood work done and it's fasting cause my PCP wants cholesterol . . . .

Reggie, YAY! We were getting worried. . . . glad to c u back! You nkeep posting on here during the bad times too, you hear? We all went through bandster hell! Ye gads, what is THIS all about . . OK so I refrained from snacking all afternoon not even the miso soup - I have to give my log to Robin and I don't want to hear about it! So I am TOTALLY starving when I get home and I wolf down: 1 cup boiled edamane, with 1/2 cup pomodoro sauce , and 1/4 cup of reduced-fat cheddar, and 2 tbspns parmesan cheese. 1/2 cup SF pudding That's 2 1/2 cups!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SO was it better that I did not snack???" I'm not so sure! Jeez. . . got to get my kid to walk with me now!!!

OH boy, I am STARVING now feeling weak growling tummy . . . have been since I wrote that last email saying I was still full, LOL! I got up from my desk and boom, hungry. I am going to have some miso broth, Robin will just say I am feeding my head hunger but what they heck am I supposed to do? Either than or I'm going to go pull the candy bowl out of my secretary's desk drawer!! I did 6 miles so far today and I am definately more hungry when I do more than 4 or 5 miles. Still, I need to get in shape! Santa Rosa Marathon is at the end of this month (I am doing the 1/2 marathon, NO I am not running, jog/walking only!) and Lake Tahoe Marathon is next mointh, so I need to be back up to a 10-mile-day average. I guess I'm gonna eat!

Woo-wee Pam, it's all about the cheap thrills eh?

OHOHOH ladies - I want that, I want that! I SO need restriction to take me back down to 1/4 - 1/2 a cup!! I ate for lunch today uhm, let's see: 1/2 cup lowfat cottage cheese 1 boca burger patty with catsup 2 slices reduced fat jarlsberg swiss cheese 1/2 cup of fiber one cereal (yeah I just crunch it dry!) The bad new is that's almost 2 cups of food, and I am already almost at 700 calories for the day. The good news is that I AM still full . . . . of course it has only been 3 hours.

OOOOhhhhh Pam, I want that kind of restriction! Except for the cherry coming back up . . . tell me, if it was only down for less than 1 minute, do you have to log it?? I guess not or you would have logged 6 cherries!

Yucko Tina! I guess you're done testing your limits for a while, eh?? I would have done that with ice cream too, even before surgery - never a temptation for me - I know how BAD that intestional cramping hurts!!! I can eat anything today. -sigh -

Yes Christine! The fish are evil . . . . .

OH I'm pooped today, only got in 3 or 4 miles today . . .and only 6 yesterday . . .tomorrow I MUST get back to my routine, but it's taking longer & longer in the AM for it to be light enough for me to go out there and walk! Almost an hour later than it was 2 months ago. . . . .I don't want winter, I'm not ready!!! Anyway . . going to do a couple of soduko puzzles, fold some laundry and go to bed! G'night girls :-)

I always get a little lidocaine shot first, and I'm glad to have it! That fill needle is a LOT bigger than the little lidocaine prick, and the way they poke and dig around in there to get into the port straight (mine pops around a bit)- EW. I don't want to feel it! And thankfully I never have :-)

Oh goodness Nicole you know it! Do I, or don't I?? Some days when I have restriction I think I will just wait another month for a fill, then for the next 4 days I will have zero restriction and be able to eat anything! It's crazy and I don't know if I want one or not! Here is what I do know: A week after my last fill, I had perfect restriction, I could eat about 1/4 cup and I was DONE, and stayed full for 4 hours. So much so that I did not even think about food! I had no PB issues or anything, I just went about my life without even thinking about food. Then, almost overnight, I lost that and started eating 2+ cups at a time, and getting hungry again within 2 hours. I emailed Dr, Baggs & told him that, he said yes I needed another fill. Kelly called to make me the appt., and she tried to get me in the next day! I'm glad I didn't go in then. The big weight loss is from having the stomach flu, not from being too tight. Although I have worked hard to not regain that weight this week! Yesterday's PB was from my stupidity - I have not been PBing lately. I can even eat tortillas now, I could probably eat bread if I let myself try! I will go in and talk to him, we can figure it out together. I am thinking about asking for .25cc, if that turns out not to be enough, oh well I still won't be any worse off than I am right now! I do NOT want to be too tight, do not want to be on liquids or anything. But I DO want that sweet spot back!!

Scrapbooking is a sad, sore subject for me . . .when my ex went wacko after his head injury, one of the things he did was take and destroy all of our photos of the 3 kids, from birth pics on through their growing up, with family members who have since passed, everything. You have no idea how deeply that hurts, it did then and it still does now! That was 10 years ago and my heart still hurts. Destroying photos of your children is like destroying the children, the memories . . oh god its awful that he could do that. That's what brain injury does . . . anyways. I have only photos that were hanging on my walls. I've done a bunch of pages for friends but for me . . alas. Probably why I won't break down and buy a digital camera, horrid memories and a big hole in my heart! Still love that Cricut :-) I used to make cards but nothing like you can do with that thing! Just stamping & embossing.