green

Be careful, Wheezy, from what I've read on these boards too much pb-ing is very bad for your esophagus. It will become inflamed. (Pb means productive burp; this describes when your food comes back up the same way it tried to go down.)

I am relieved that you got my PM. I was wondering about that. And I am even more relieved that you are fine. (By the way, my wife-in-law is my ex-husband's wife. She is one of my best friends.):biggrin1:

Yeah, and the site ate some of my final posts before it went down. Oh, and I can't feel my second fill yet.

It would be really cool if Gatorade was fluorescent green, eh.

Green has cats instead. Less work, eh.:heh: Litter box work ain't nice, though.

Nope, it ain't me. This is the only website that I loiter on. I wonder if I know her? Nah, probably not. Bombardier is a big, big company.

Too bad we didn't connect. Did ya see many women with giant feet and big livers?

Hah! Flying overseas in economy these days is always a torment. The seat is narrow and there is no leg room. I am not particularly tall, only 5ft6, and I have trouble stretching my legs. Anyone taller than me, and that means most men, is in for a nasty journey. I'm not allowed to smoke anymore but the cabin air is dirtier than ever and I usually leave the plane with a brand new virus. The best flights that I have had recently have been in third world countries. They have purchased our old planes - the ones with the seat room!

Yah, too bad they're working on my shoulder.... *sigh*

And here I thought that Neenagh was a charming Irish name! LoL This is a good question, Yoda. I find myself always wondering what the stories are behind the user names. Mine is really simple. Green is my surname and it is the colour of growth, you know. It made sense to use it as my nom d'internet.:kiss2:

Holy $hit! What a drag! Well, for starters you have got to make sure that the girl is on the Pill. This is critical. You might want to make friends with the boyfriend, too. Teenagers often lose interest in anything that their parents find acceptable. My wife-in-law's daughter went through a rebellious period. She dropped out of school when she was 16 and got a job at a Roots' store in the Eaton Mall in downtown Toronto. My ex-husband and his wife started charging her rent and she quickly discovered that the fun of earning minimum wage didn't last for very long. When she came to her senses they enrolled her at a different high school. She ended up completing university, got an interesting job at City TV, then got married and now has a couple of kids. She is back in school; this time she is studying landscape architecture. Now I dunno if this story is going to help you at all but it does seem that girls do go through a rebellious stage when they are between 16 and 17. Maybe what you want to do is let them nibble on a reality sandwich without letting them get in too deep - no pregnancies or whatever - and you need to keep the lines of communication open. This is much easier said than done. Perhaps you and your husband can play good cop bad cop? My heart certainly goes out to you. You are in for a rough ride. For what it's worth, I was a wild teenager, too, and yet I eventually turned out okay. The important thing is that you don't want to see her get pregnant.

Thanx for the kind thoughts. By the way Cloe, I notice that you are now advertising that teenagers suck. LOL Want to share?

So shopping therapy was a total bust except that I did pick up a couple of books that look interesting for 2 bucks each. This is good. I read a lot. I had physio in the A.M. by the 2 physio guys, Mr. Pain and Mr. Pleasure. Mr. Pleasure is the guy that runs the nice machines and Mr. Pain is the guy who hauls my arm into weird and excruciatingly painful positions until I whimper. I have a low pain threshhold so this happens fast. Then I spent the next hour and half walking around, doing a little shopping, until my fill appointment. It has been two weeks since the last one but I have lost another two and a half pounds. This is very good and Green is happy. She now has 5cc in her band. I didn't get a chance to talk about my giant liver because the doctor doesn't do the fills. It is a fill tech who does 'em. Hanging out with the other September children was fun. The TLBC makes us stick around and drink water for awhile after our fills; this is to ensure that we are not over filled. There were a number of us who were sipping our water and yapping. Anyhow, I am now down 15 and one half lbs!

As a Canadian I feel I should say a few words about our health system. (Mousecrazy, for one, doesn't seem to understand it.) Canada's universal health care system works just fine if you happen to live in or near a heavily populated metropolitan centre. It is those people who live in thinly populated rural areas who are under-served. Medical centres housing expensive high tech machines and specialists are far away from these individuals. This makes sense on a dollar and cents level and your business driven style of medical care would certainly not alter this situation for this is one of demographics. You may be interested to learn that those countries - all of industrialised Europe and Canada as well as Australia and New Zealand - who practise socialised medicine spend significantly less per capita on health costs that the United States does. Our costs per capita clock in at about $2000 less than yours. This is because we have removed big business from the equation. Moreover, my brother, who now practises medicine in the States, says that he finds his treatment of his patients constrained by his patients' financial situations. He might not be able to order all the tests and procedures that he would like. This was never a concern when he practised medicine back in Canada. For those of you who believe that the American way is better, have you never considered that you have been on the receiving end of a lot of spin? You have big business and big business friendly politcians who have an agenda that they wish to push who are feeding this disinformation to you. These are people who have a lot to lose.

Yes, to both of the above questions though I wish I could answer otherwise.

Today I have two appointments, physio for my shoulder (which still hurts a lot) and my second fill. I am thinking of shopping therapy....

Today I put on a pair of old jeans, size 16W, from Cotton Ginny and I didn't even have to lie down to force the zipper up! And I don't feel like all blood flow is being cut off to the lower part of my body!! Yippee! I'm thinner than I was last Christmas and way thinner than I was before the operation. Green is in a good mood today.

laurend, I am an atheist, too. I have my reasons for finding it impossible to believe in God but this lack of belief hasn't damaged my sense of ethics. In fact the thoughtful person who believes that this life is it feels a strong desire to be kind to those who are having a rough go at it. A lack of belief in God is not a free pass to behave badly.

I don't see what the big deal is. Up here in Canada same sex couples have the right to a civil/state marriage. No church can be forced to marry a same sex couple. There are some rogue churches that will, however. The Prime Minister who spearheaded the movement to enshrine this right to marriage in law is a practising Roman Catholic, by the way. He simply felt that this was the right thing to do given that our Constitution is set up in order to protect the rights of minorities. Of course this will prove awkward if the polygamists set up their own challenge.... As for the legal rights of unmarried heterosexual couples, the government, and businesses, too, have recognized these for decades now. They are on a par with those of married couples. Though my own relationship is long term we have never troubled to get married and likely never will. I guess we're afraid to jinx it.

Oh! What a drag about the spare skin! I hope it goes away. Still, it is a sign that you have lost a lot of weight. It is an NSV, I guess, though not a really neat one.

In our organisation, Bombardier Aerospace, a front line manager was always screaming at his grunts. Management received a lot of complaints about him and he was required to take an Anger Management course.

Bravo, TOM!

I hate wearing bras and pantyhose. At home I wear neither. When I go out I have to wear a bra, otherwise it looks as though I have a pair of deranged hampsters under my sweater. The kind I usually wear are jog bras. They make my chest look like one giant speed hump but that's okay with me.:heh: As for panyhose, I've avoided wearing them for many years now. I wear pants or long skirts with knee high hose and in the summer I go bare-legged.:biggrin1:

Just tell her that you admire her "communication techniques" and hope to study them at your leisure.:heh: Maybe she'll figure it out, maybe she won't....

Yah, once you get high speed you're gonna love it!