Just thought I would let everyone know, A year ago today I was on Life support do to the neglegeince of a surgeon in Mexico. :think I was put in a California Hospital because Mexico did not have the facilities for the complications that went wrong.. They saved my life. I had 2 more weeks to live and they was letting me go. Thank God I did pull through only by a miracle! I have had 6 surgerys since the first Lap-band surgery. It was hell and i hope many reads what I have to say, and if any questions please feel free to contact me. I went to Mexico to have the surgery done because of financial reason. Probably like most of you, It ended up costing me over $500,000 due to stupidity. So please, do much thinking and research before making the decision. Being alive is much better, then being dead and skinny!:clap2:

Actually Aimee..thefirst part of yourpost--the part withmy quotations-is theONLY part that made any sense in jibberish..now go back and get your crayons and coloring book and try again....

jboy, you're just being rude. Don't assume you have the corner on brain cells because of your profession.

Oh, and the space bar is the long bar below the lowest row of keys, in case you couldn't find it.

I hope your health improves Misfortune. That must have been an incredibly difficult ordeal!

Good to see you, Michele. Glad your surgery went well.

Hey Gadgetlady, did you ever look at what time people are posting.... I have a theory, that most people don't really think clearly at this time of night! Hope you are well!!!! Thanks! Sorry to throw this in the middle of this thread.. I'll but out now! Carry on!

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Wow really I come here to learn wannabelean you posted that at 1:11am and by 2 am you have a different attitude toward her problem!!!! We people come here to learn about the band but from the different tones to your posts someone is lying and it is unfair for those of us loooking for the truth!!!!!! And then you said something about people posting in the middle of the night?????? Unbelieveable

That is why these boards cannot be taken seriously when researching a doctor!!!!

I am not saying misfortune is not telling the truth but wow wannabe you have just shot holes in her boat big time!!!!

What to believe what to believe??????????

Cant this be a place for us to do research without so much BS????????:angry

Turn off your conspiracy theory warning bells. There's nothing weird going on here.

hootiebelle, wannabelean for some reason assumed I was Misfortune; I know not why. But she posted personal information about me, my family, my business, my location, etc. And because of that, I asked her to delete/edit her post. She did, but now you've reposted it. Would you please edit yours too? I'd really appreciate it. There's nothing weird going on here except that a member jumped to a very odd and wholly incorrect conclusion that I, a poster/responder in a random thread, was the author of that thread.

Hey Gadget Lady---what do you have to hide by having the post deleted..I just read a forwarded copy to me and it is all starting to make sense. To all of you other posters on here who want to read the post that Gadget Lady doesnt want read by anyone else, send me a private message and I will forward it to you......JBOY

That's just down right mean and spiteful. Grow up.

I'm reporting you to the Moderators Jboy. Geesh.

Go ahead and report me...GEESH...whats the matter..the truth hurt....

Would you please edit yours too? I'd really appreciate it. There's nothing weird going on here except that a member jumped to a very odd and wholly incorrect conclusion that I, a poster/responder in a random thread, was the author of that thread.

Thank you, hootiebelle.

For the record, for anyone else who take a flying leap to an unfounded conclusion, I am gadgetlady, not Misfortune. I was banded in the US in February of 2005. I don't know Misfortune and I have no vested interest in her story (although I do believe her).

wannabelean and I PM'd many times around our surgery date and because of those PM's we got to know each other. She had some personal information about me that she posted to this thread, along with a wild accusation that I was the same person as Misfortune. I asked her to delete her post, but of course neither of us could figure out how to do that. So she edited it and her apology to me, and I edited my post asking her to delete the post.

Then hootiebelle reposted the original post which she had received via email. I asked her to edit hers (at least edit out my personal info) as well, which she did.

There are no "holes in Misfortune's boat" due to this random, unfounded, incomprehensible theory about me.

Misfortune, I am truly sorry about your experiences and I apologize that what's going on here has detracted from your original posts.

CAN THIS PLEASE STOP NOW??? No more conspiracy theorists! Sheesh! Talk about pack mentality . . .

Hey Gadget Lady---what do you have to hide by having the post deleted..I just read a forwarded copy to me and it is all starting to make sense. To all of you other posters on here who want to read the post that Gadget Lady doesnt want read by anyone else, send me a private message and I will forward it to you......JBOY

Well, jboy, for the record, what I had to hide is obviously available to all now. What I have to hide is: I run a gondola business, I live in Orange County, and my father is a doctor. Not that this isn't information you could have gleaned from reading all of my posts throughout the board, but it was quite weird to have them all posted in one place. And the reason it was weird is . . .

drum roll please . . .

I don't know who the hell YOU are and I didn't want to have that information out there for YOU to see. I don't like you, I don't trust you, and I don't know whether or not you're vindictive. So there you go!

Now stop the MUD!

For the record, this is the PM I sent to wannabelean asking her to delete her post:

Please delete your post

I responded to your post confusing me and Misfortune, but I would like you to delete or edit it. I'm sure someone could get all of that information about me (gondola business, father is a doctor, etc.) by looking through all of my postings, but to have it all in one place makes me a little nervous. jboy seems vindictive and I just don't want him to . . . I don't know. It just feels weird. Would you please delete your post?

Also, I don't know where you got the impression that Misfortune and I are the same person. But we're not. I have no idea who she is and whether her story is true or not.

Thank you.

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Pack mentality........yes I deleted it but hey we are just trying to sort out fact from fiction around here............I know no one to " join a pack with" I am here to learn.....gadget lady .you say"Turn off your conspiracy theory warning bells. There's nothing weird going on here."

I say you all create so much BS it is crazy

and photo nut you are late in joining in you did not read the deleted post

did you????

And poor misfortune if it is all true was sick and I hope gets better but you all make it hard to figure out fact from fiction!!!!

Enough of the arguing and putting down of people. If you have problems, take it to pm's.

There is a lot of good information here and it was a good discussion for a while, but we will lock it if we have to.

Please follow the guidelines!