Finally had my surgery on 5/25, back home and doing good so far. Had one nice chuckle while I was being poked and prodded during my 3 day hospital stay. Had my surgery at OSU (Go BUCKS!). Due to heart problems and a couple of the meds I was on, my stay was in the heart step down unit, instead of the bariatric wing. My surgeon came to see me each day, along with a cardiology team, and nutritionists. This is where it gave me a chuckle...

After seeing a few different "straw topics" get posted in the past few weeks, I had asked my surgeon about it during my pre op. He said that he has no problem with his patients using a straw, and that excess air would not stretch out the sleeve. As I was taking my meds on Fri (using a straw to sip water), my surgeon and the cardiologist came in. A couple of minutes latter the nutritionist and bariatric counselor came in. She saw me sipping Water to take my meds and immediately told me I could not be using a straw. From there it was a rehash of every post I had read on here, between the 4 of them.

FYI, my surgeon and cardiologist won out.

If anyone needs me, I'll be in the padded, white, rubber room...

Let me know if you need some company. I've got nothing going on until Monday.

You must be bypass because sleevers don't have pouches.

My pouch makes me feel so damn special in the midst of all of you cool sleevers!

I hope I'm not stretching it by drinking this Jones Zilch Vanilla Bean soda. From the bottle. With a straw.

My pouch will join yours in feeling " special ". I've always been told I was "special" so why not my pouch too???

What's happening Monday?

The First Annual "Straws are Good" Awareness Benefit. Or the end of a 10 year long vacation. One of the two...

But probably the former!

I'm a charter member of SAGA. My life has been one long one.....

Just woken up, sitting in my pit having my first cuppa and thought I'd dip into this thread. Being in the UK I kinda feel like the little pig in the middle of Aus and USA time wise but it works for me. I really was laughing out loud-very loud and there was a definite snort when the white, preferably padded room was mentioned. Ooooooh.........eeeeerrrrrrrrr........ You don't think all this laughter could damage my sleeve/pouch. I have been gulping in air during my laughing fits and I'm SURE that I must be swallowing most of it. Need to finish this post as I must search the web and failing getting any scary info there will contact my sister-in-law's third cousin twice removed half brother's niece as I heard that she knows what's she's talking about as she thought about having WLS. [emoji6]

Straw question for the straw members ?

Do you prefer a straw with the flexible accordion joint.......or the long thick pipe style straws that come with bucket sized drinks ?

Have you ever tried to work with a little coffee-stirrer sized straw. Did you find it a fun challenge or get frustrated by the effort required vs the tiny reward ?

Do you prefer the straw to fit your vessel or is oversized always better ?

Do you ever chew on your straws ?

These are the things I wonder over this morning's coffee.

Love it minty and Dub have spluttered coffee all over my desk reading this!

Love it minty and Dub have spluttered coffee all over my desk reading this!

Interdasting.......see.....now this brings forth other questions to mind.......for example: how do you approach these sputterings that have occurred........do you stop and wipe them up......or keep on being a trooper until the .....the coffee....is finished.

Personally, I think that spitters are quitters.

I admire and appreciate when the job gets done fully.....when the task at hand is.....well...is no longer at hand but has grown to greater scales and is tackled in other ways.

Okay.....I've gotta get my arse into the shower and get ready for work. Gonna be a long day. Looking forward to the weekend and hoping for some more time to discuss this matter more deeply.

I like my straws with girth.

I have also been into the substantial variety of straws. The are great for iced coffee, now that summer has arrived! I love the ones from Ikea! They are hefty enough, yet still fit in the opening of the hole on the lid of insulated clear plastic tumbler.

I like my straws with girth.

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I like my straws with girth.

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A slight curve does hit "the spot", though.

@@LipstickLady

@@Dub

NOW who needs the padded white rubber room...

@@LipstickLady

@@Dub

NOW who needs the padded white rubber room...

Nope. Still you and @@KindaFamiliar

I've been using the same straw for over 23 years. I've put a lot of work into training it and I am quite sure I don't have the energy or attention span to start over.

Hmmm. All very great questions, @@Dub

I have no use for coffee stirrers, and the bendy straws? While they can be fun to look at as well as conversation starters, as @@LipstickLady mentioned, I too prefer my straws with girth.

I mean what's not to like about them?

Strong, sturdy, and the reward at the end? Not to mention the larger they are, it saves us from getting tiny wrinkles around our mouths as we get older.

Yes, contrary to popular belief the size of the straw does matter, and if I'm going to use one I want to know it's going to stand up to the task at hand.

Geez I love waking up to great straw conversations.

I like the skinny little straws when I drink my rum and coke, otherwise I don't use straws. Ahhh, cocktails, soda, now that's another hot topic all together . . . Let's not go there.

@@Dub

The bigger the better and no chewing just sucking

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