I just found out my surgery will be in July (granted my pre-op testing goes okay) SOOOOOOOOO

Here's a thread for everyone getting banded in July 07!

Does anyone have any good ideas for a neat name we could call ourselves?

I know 5 days its crazy! I ca't wait to get on here and tell you guys every last detail. good back and the dame right nasty!!!! i'm giving you all advanced warning!

we have the sweetest group here!

Lynette i need to make the Irish Mark. there are not very meny of us on this site . i didn't realise you had problems with sleeping? is 4.5 hours a lot for you?

acually has anyone been to ireland or have irish roots . most americans i've talked to know someone somewhere in the family that is irish.

lynettte didn't breadlady say she would try get on to-day at some stange

5'7'' 285 lbs ( I think... throw out the scales a while back) 44.6 BMI

you guys are too quick! i cannot keep up

gosh there is lots of us, i'm sure well get a good turn out for the holiday next year if we keep going as we are!! or maybe it wil only me you and i Lynette!!

Whoops, I missed Chimboree26. I've got you on there now.

Here's the corrected list:

2Bthinagn

Abbey12477

Ashrae84

Blulili's Hubby

Bobbert_Mom

Breadlady

Cherrybomb

ChickB13

Chimboree26

Dakota

Dancing2

Dini

Evilan

Felicia17

Gnlite

IndioGirl55

Isabelle 290

James2539

Laurend

lwesson

Lynette617

Malaura

marcyinak

Mikel909

MrsHorne

Neefan

Nulife2be

PattiC

Phyliser

PurpleGirl

Quinn

Snaggletooth

Sunshine

TanzyCoffeeLady

Trystell

Wannabthin

Wrangler054

Whoops, I missed Chimboree26. I've got you on there now.

Yay! I was gonna say, "How can you forget l'il ol' me???"

Thanks!

See, Dini, thats why I forgot you. It's Lynette's fault... How could I forget my friend from Ireland when I am a good bit Irish myself...tell me, do you really spend as much time in pubs as is rumored...:biggrin1: My Irish side of the family has always liked its liquor. That was one of the first questions I asked my doc...can I drink after this surgery.. Sure thing, he said. btw, I like how you bolded everyones name. I think I am going to steal the idea...

What a long list. Thanks for doing this Laurend. Add my stats - 5'8 and 280. I sure wish more of these folks on the list would join and and post.

BreadLady..how are you doing? Are the drugs good? Can't wait to hear from you.

Lynette, he said most docs undertreat sinus infections and that it usually takes about 3 wks to really get rid of it. Especially with someone like me who get recurrent infections. The bummer is that I cannot have the surgery until I finish the HORSE PILLS. I would think your doc would want to treat now so you would be healthy for surgery. I'm sorry you had trouble. I know how bad you feel. I have been there in the past. But that z pak will start working quickly.

Dini, yes, I see Indigogirl on the calendar.

IndigoGirl, I don't see Dini or Breadlady on your calendar...

Breadlady there -but missed Dini I have fixed..

Sunshine i'm all for blaming Lynette!!!!!

The Irish do like to drink indeed but because both my parents are Italian i gew up the Italian way of thinking and living. Therefore I do enjoy an odd glass of wine but other than that i do not drink, where has Irish people through and though (not all) drink a lot. Particularly younger people teens and twenties have a major problem with there drink. i was brought up being allowed to have a glass of wine at dinner and parties but Irish kids in general are not allowed to drink till there 18 then its like they can't help thereselves. the legal age to drink in Ireland is 18. its 21 in the States isn't it

Was that too much info????

Okay, here's the spreadsheet so far. I saved it to Word to make it easier to post here. Ignore the #DIV/0!, it's just where I went ahead and made the equation for those cells, so that I can just type in the height and weight and get a BMI result. I plan on making columns for every week, if that's okay with everyone, so that we can see how our weights and BMIs change from week to week.

Oops, forgot to attach the file.

Breadlady there -but missed Dini I have fixed..

can you post the correct one up please

laurened thats perfect.. will be great to see how were all doing

Everyone, take a look at this list and make sure that you are on it and that your name is spelled correctly.

IndioGirl55

5'4 - 245 - bmi 43

As far as my height - it keeps changing I was 5'3 & 3/4 in high school so i always said i was 5'4 - got measued again 5'3 and then at my sleep study they measure me again 5'2 - wtf.. i know as you get older you shrink but heck i'm not that old and those are big difference - heck i like the sound of 5'4 so i am keeping that one...:heh:

With the way it's calculating, Indiogirl55, it calculated your BMI as 42.05. If I lower your height to 5'3", your BMI comes out at 43.4

<p><p>OK, people, I going to start taking that ginkoba (sp) stuff that helps with memory loss, because I have been very forgetfull lately, a lot at work too. Really, it's true, just a lot on my mind I think. That or age is catching up to me. I know the gray hairs have tripled in the last year.

Dini, I haven't been sleeping well due to the sinus infection I have. I've used nasal spray to the point where it was making it worse. So I had to stop, thus, having to air passage through the nose for more than a dayI normally get 7 1/2 hours on average a night, but the past few nights I only got 2 to 3, interupted hours of sleep. And the sleep apnea doesn't help

Sunshine, I can actually breath today. I have not got the perscription filled for the z-pak yet. He said to give it a day or two and see if it clears up on it's own. I may get it filled anyway and take it just to make sure it won't come back because I started all of this 2 1/2 weeks ago, it got better for a few days, and then came back, so i think I'm in that reoccuring stage now. Don't want it to rear it heads again next week. It's getting too close to surgery. He told me had I been scheduled for surgery on Monday he would of canceled me

I guess Laurend is going to blame me for forgetting Chimboree on our list. Go ahead, everyone else has been!</p>