Well, not applicable to all newbies, just those susceptible to weeping at sentimental moments in movies, which I did tonight, 19 days post surgery (?) on 3/20. Our satellite showed "The Lakehouse" for the first time and I settled in to enjoy it on TIVO, while my husband watched another TV (he's a channel flipper). Get to the part where she's waiting all alone in the restaurant, Keanu Reeves doesn't show up, I KNOW he was the one killed by the bus, I start sobbing and my band started squeezing! In a place I never felt pain before (i.e. not my port site)! Yikes! Luckily, Hubby came in and did what usually lands him in the doghouse, tells me the ending and so I am able to stop crying. Actually, as soon as I felt that squeezing, I stopped crying RIGHT AWAY! Sheesh, scared me to death. :omg: It was a REALLY weird feeling, like having something almost alive in there. Boy, too stupid/ridiculous to risk ripping stitches or slipping the band or port flipping or all the disasters you read about on these boards over a movie! No more sentimental movies for me for a while, no comedies either, nothing to upset _______ (no name yet.....maybe I should name her Sandra Bullock?).

I'm taking a week off work when I have my surgery, and plan on watching all sorts of weepy chick flicks that my guy won't watch with me!

maybe I'm weird in that my stomach starts "shaking" when I cry or laugh really hard, but tonight's incident has made me forswear undue emotion as much as possible until I am sure that my band has healed in the right , the port is ok, etc.

BTW, I do love my DH, but he is a zero when it comes to watching chick flicks with me! Nice to work out an arrangement to watching sentimentals versus rock-em sockem, blow em up movies separately.

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