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?

Lynette-you are just amazing me. I hope all goes as smooth with my surgery- Hopefully after 4 c-section, gallbladder removal, and hernia repair operations, I am going to just sail through this one.

My screen name is very clear-----I am doing this only for me!!!

Anna

only4me, there's only 1 person we should all be doing this for!!

Love your name.

I had the gall bladder removal also, and I had a tubal pregnancy they had to do the lap surgery on also. I always have had my trouble with the gas,:faint: and then everything else goes great.:clap2:

My screen name is not to original but gets the job done. chickb13- Chick is my last name, b stands for Brandy, and 13 because I was born on the 13th, so was my son, and I was married on the 13th (it's a very lucky number for me :biggrin1:).

Lynette, LOL, I can see that one would puzzle you!!!! dmtjet are my husband and my initials ... He is Doug and I am Jeanie. We have used it for our e-mail for years and then when I joined this site, I never realized exactly how it would be used! Now, it kind of is just there!!!!! LOL

chickB13, too bad you couldn't have your surgery scheduled on the 13 this month!!! Oh, but no, it's a Friday. I don't know if you would of wanted that one!!

OOPS! That wasn't Lynette that asked that one, it was KathyBad. Same response there KathyBad. LOL See surgery date is upon me and I am a bit nervous and frazzled!!!! Got my time, need to be there at 8:30 on Monday, surgery at 10:30. They called at 9 this morning. YIKES, it is real!!!!!

dmtjet, yes, yours was puzzling. I thought you may have been a pilot flying some kind of 'jet' or something. That's why I used yours in my example. I just think it's neat what people come up with on here. I wish I had been more creative, but like you said, I didn't know what it was going to be used for either. Oh well.

Lynette, I love your shake ideas!!!!! Keep 'em coming!!!!!! Have you been hungry at all or feeling pretty full?

I love only4me's screen name!!!! That is soooooo clever!!!!! You are right, that is the only person that you should be doing it for, the rest just BENEFIT!!!!!!! ... by having us around for a LONG time!!!!!!! LOL

Well, hey, I am going to run and do some last minute errands ... some returning and grocery shopping, etc. I will check back in here in a little while, give me some INTERESTING reading!!!!!!! Enjoy your day!

dmtjet, it was me asking, but that's ok. The mind goes out the door when your this close to your date. Happened to me too.

So I need some advice myself from any ladies who have girls, teenage girls. My DH's ex called yesterday. My 12 1/2 yeal old step daughter had her first visit from 'Aunt Flo' yesterday. She's visiting this weekend, as we get his kids every other weekend, and I don't even know what to expect. The moodyness has been there for a while, but now it's going to be different. I'd love to take her out for a girls night, but I can't drive. Any suggestions would be helpful to me as it's an extremely important time in her life!! Don't want to screw this up, you know.

Want her to know that this is a changing day in her life forever, but don't want to scare her either. So how have some of you handled the situation?

dmtjet, I keep having this rumbling in my stomach that I'm not sure if it's gas or hunger pains. I sometimes feel like I can do a 6 oz shake instead of the 4 oz I can have, but I'm afraid to stretch the pouch. So I stick with the 4 oz, and drink lot of water inbetween, about 16 ozs inbetween the meals and snacks.

Nice question Lynette! :eek:

My screen name? :heh: Kind of obvious, but I'll relate the story behind it.

I can't recall how I stumbled over the forum, but I reading over it and hadn't yet registered. Looking for information on my impending surgery. All the paperwork had been sent to the insurance co. a couple of weeks earlier. I'd taken a break and went to check the mail. There was a letter from the insurance co. denying me because it was deemed "not medically necessary"

I called the number on the letter and was given the number for the person who actually made the decision. I was furious at that time and couldn't believe my luck at being able to talk with the ass who didn't know what the hell he was doing.

Apparently I wasn't fat enough. My BMI was 36 and I believed because of my PCOS and insulin resistance, I was on the fast track to diabetes and more if I couldn't stop the pounds from piling on. He said I hadn't had an official diagnosis of diabetes, so I didn't qualify for co-morbidities, plus the fact I was only on one medication for it and they required I be on two. Was he serious?

I was astounded!:omg: I asked right out "So I'm not fat enough or ill enough to qualify and I have to WAIT until I am?" He said, "Yes, pretty much." So then I asked him what I needed to do. He pondered for a while and said "Well if your BMI was 40, you would qualify without the need for co-morbidities." *blink* "So I need to get fatter in order to be able to get thinner?" He responded with "Yes, but there's no way you could gain that weight.*chuckle*" I don't know what bugged me more, the fact that all it would take would be to gain more weight, or the fact that this moron thought I couldn't possibly do it.

I saw it as a challenge! I hung up the phone, had a good cry, complained to my hubby and got him to calm me down. Then I came online and was feeling "Frustrated" by the whole experience. The rest, as they say, is history.

frusterated, I'm still chuckling at that. So how many pounds do you think seperates a BMI of 36 and a BMI of 40??? Or should I ask, how many ice cream sundaes, super sized fries, etc:eek:. Sorry, I forgot some are on pre-op diets, won't do it again.

Someone should write a book about experiences people have had with their insurance companies to get this surgery covered. It would sell millions. I'd buy it.

LOL at gladster's question.

How is my closet organised? Into two very different halves! My husband's site is neat and organised. Everything is hung up on the same type of hanger, all the shirts facing the same way, long sleeves in one section, short next, then the pants. Jeans folded in a pile and on a shelf, sweaters next to them, then t-shirts. Shoes on the floor in pairs.

My half? If it's clothing, it's up. Mostly. Up is good I think. Shoes, on the floor. Somewhere. It's fun to play "where the heck is my other shoe!" :eek: There are probably a number of abandoned craft projects in there somewhere. But rather than embarrass myself with them, I you discovered you can hide them with shoes and clothing.