Happy New Year bandsters! A new thread start for a new year?

For those struggling, this is a great time to recommit!

Melody

ok so maybe it wasn't the bread. I now have the gurglies. My husband has been home sick for 4 days. I thought maybe it was just something he ate but since I seem to now be coming down with it, maybe not. Interesting that my band has been tight since last night as well.

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I showered, did my hair and makeup, got dressed in my new jeans and sweater, then my plans to go to the bigger city fell apart. I was feeling pretty damn good about the way I looked and decided I should just do a little running around my tiny little town since I had the day off and was dressed. I went to the coffee shop and ordered a skinny latte, then to the little gift shop next door and chatted a bit with some local ladies. All was well and I was feeling great. I went in the little goodwill store and found a cool lamp shade I think I want to paint for $1.99 !Then the dip shit at the register asked me if I wanted the senior discount! Hell no, I don't want the damn senior discount I'm in my 40s beotch! Well, that shot all my good feelings all to hell. I should have told her yes and took the damn discount, but I was just so offended. I was feeling so good about the way I looked before I left the house I had even considered taking an "after" picture. Now I feel like it would be my obituary pic.

OMG HB...I'm so sorry...but I'm really laughing with you <wiping tears from my eyes>. Was she a 'young' person because you know they think anyone over 30 should be put out to pasture.

Incidents like this always bring to mind the scene from 'Fried Green Tomatoes' where she says, "Face it girls, I'm older and have better insurance."

Tawanda!!

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Now I feel like I need to have my husband take a pic to prove I don't look too old.

Hey, maybe the caption under the pic will be " Sexy Senior Citizen."

It's starting out to be a lovely day...not. I definitely am coming down with whatever my husband had. My stomach has been rumbling and gurgling since I woke up...with headache still intact...and my band is still super tight. Fortunately, I'm happy with a protein shake for breakfast.

Shad...I'm assuming you're doing well since I thought I saw a post by you in another thread. How did it go?

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Now I feel like I need to have my husband take a pic to prove I don't look too old.

Hey, maybe the caption under the pic will be " Sexy Senior Citizen."

Yes, please...I would love to have a face to put to the name.

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Hey everyone! Thanks for checking on me. I am doing great! I had to check-in at 8:00am yesterday but didn't go to prep until about 10:00. The surgery was only about 30 minutes if that long according to my husband. I was in recovery longer than that--for 2 hours! The recovery nurse said I was sensitive to pain medicines because I just kept falling back to sleep instead of deep breathing. Every time she would tell me to wake up, as soon as she turned her head, I was out. This cause my stats to drop, so I had to stay back there to the sleepy dwarf inside me got it together. When the sent me back to the room, I still slept. . They gave me a optisource protein shake and some apple juice, I am not sure what caused it, but I became nauseated, so much so i could not get up to urinate so I could fly the coop! They gave me nausea meds before and after surgery, but i guess they did not work. Finally they gave me phenergran, (sp?), tried and true. They knocked me out for about an hour (hey don't judge my dwarf lol) and after that no nausea and went straight to the bathroom. By then it was 8pm! I was home by 3:00pm with the regular surgery! Lol. Anyway they took all my fluid out and is going to put that much back in in 2 weeks at follow up. I guess I am swollen because I am not hungry He said my port was fine, so they just moved the old one right over my belly. Sore, but in no pain. Went back through the original port incision (it's the most sore because he also cleaned out any scar tissue and put a new incision at the new port sight--doesn't hurt at all:)

Denise: congrats on the new size,

HB: poot on that jerk. I work with small children who say I am old everyday and I just turn 38 next week(woo-hoo right on time--I will be off liquids. I am going to find a soupy dessert or purée the heck out of some cake). Strut your stuff!

PFFFFFTT!!!!!

That's my week so far ... But I'm smiling cuz I'm here

So,

I showered, did my hair and makeup, got dressed in my new jeans and sweater, then my plans to go to the bigger city fell apart. I was feeling pretty damn good about the way I looked and decided I should just do a little running around my tiny little town since I had the day off and was dressed. I went to the coffee shop and ordered a skinny latte, then to the little gift shop next door and chatted a bit with some local ladies. All was well and I was feeling great. I went in the little goodwill store and found a cool lamp shade I think I want to paint for $1.99 !Then the dip shit at the register asked me if I wanted the senior discount! Hell no, I don't want the damn senior discount I'm in my 40s beotch! Well, that shot all my good feelings all to hell. I should have told her yes and took the damn discount, but I was just so offended. I was feeling so good about the way I looked before I left the house I had even considered taking an "after" picture. Now I feel like it would be my obituary pic.

HB-- I am laughing my butt off as well, but the reasons would be me imagining you calling someone a beotch and the fact this little twit must have been 18 or 19 to ask such a question. I am sure you looked HOT all dolled up in your new jeans and sweater!

LOL @ Elfie about the Fried Green Tomatoes scene!!! Thanks for the chuckles!!

Shads...wait...they moved the old one over your belly? They didn't take it out so you now have two? I'm sooo confused and have visions of you as a teletubby <running...fast>

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You know, HB, your story is too funny! Sorry, but it made me laugh. Take the discount next time. They offered it, you didn't ask for it! No harm, no foul! My hubby now qualifies for some senior discounts. ARGH! I feel so old. (He is 10 years older than I).

My face deflated like a balloon with the weight loss. I used to love long, thin necks. Like whats-her-name in Pirates of the Caribbean. Now I look at pictures of myself and all is see is this skinny neck and wrinkles around the eyes! Then I try to think oh, I look just like the heroine in Pirates! HA! Yeah, right! 47 years old, I DON'T think so! But hey, I have a long, thin neck anyway!

I'm happy just to have a neck. Swan-like...in my dreams.

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Shads...wait...they moved the old one over your belly? They didn't take it out so you now have two? I'm sooo confused and have visions of you as a teletubby <running...fast>

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LOL. Tele tubby is funny. Let me clarify--still a little drugged. He had mentioned before the surgery that if my current port was looking worn he would go ahead and replace it. It was fine, so he just repositioned my old one. Port revision surgery is misleading. All he was doing was taking the flipped port and moving it to a more accessible spot. It was on my left side, flipped, and right in my belly fat that was hard to get to without very painful fills. Now my fills should go well.

Everyone is so quiet!

It's a bitterly cold morning here in the midwest (below zero) and I so don't want to go out but unless I want to listen to the pitiful cries of two cats, it's off to the grocery store for cat food. Winter didn't usually bother me. I'd run around with no gloves or hat and my coat never buttoned, but since surgery I'm *always* cold. My sweet mother-in-law bought me an electric mattress pad for my bed last winter...which I say 'thank you' for every night when I crawl under the warm sheets and I think it's the reason I've been going to bed at 8 or 9 p.m. I'm thinking battery powered heated socks or long johns are next.

I normally don't eat soup these days but I think it's a good day to make some potato leek soup. Since I'm not eating wheat these days, maybe I'll even make a crusty artisan bread for the troops as a treat. They've been so uncomplaining about my not making homemade bread.

Then I think I'll muck off my dining room table. I haven't seen the top of it since Christmas because it's the 'don't know where to put it so we'll just leave it on the table' drop spot.

Hope you all are doing well!

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Doing good. Hungry! Since I was drugged, my husband and are debating with one another! I know the doctor said something before surgery about drawing my fluids out to see how much I have and putting that much back at my follow-up. I was on the happy medicine but i clearly heard that because he was responding to my question would he fill me during surgery and he said no. My husband said when he came out to talk to him after surgery, he said their is still some fluid in there. I decided I am right because I always am . I know that I am right because these liquids are not doing the trick--I am hungry early in the morning. I have not been hungry in the morning since I got the band! Four more days of liquids, and I can slowly introduce food back! I started pureeing fruit into my shakes--that has helped. Tried yogurt last night--it was like cake! So good, but still sticking mostly to shakes until Tuesday.