I hate it when people post just to post.....

[gone 4 ever 6]

They last forever - I'm assuming you mean the dried ones. So, like any other dried Beans, they will remain good. Ummm, have your family tried them? DH vetoed lima beans until I made a limabean casserole - yummy!

I love lima beans. I have only recently heard of lima bean casserole. How do you make it?

[Gracey 7]

Alright m'dear veterans, I have a question, pls. In my October bandster thread, someone mentioned that they weren't staying the night to which I was surprised b/c I am. Someone else said they weren't schedule to either. So naturally the question is: is it more the normal to stay the night or not? Thanks!

[plain 12]

Alright m'dear veterans, I have a question, pls. In my October bandster thread, someone mentioned that they weren't staying the night to which I was surprised b/c I am. Someone else said they weren't schedule to either. So naturally the question is: is it more the normal to stay the night or not? Thanks!

Depends on what your insurance wants to do. In my neck of the woods (very cosmopolitan and sophisticated....you might not fit in up here, SNT...) Medicare patients have to stay overnight, almost everybody else gets to be an outpatient (but there is another pretty common insurance that has their pts stay overnight...I can't remember now...maybe tricare? How 'bout it military folks?). Also, I guess it is possible that the doc might specify if they want a particular patient to stay the night (because of complicated medical history, or maybe concurrent procedures?).

[luluc 6]

Alright m'dear veterans, I have a question, pls. In my October bandster thread, someone mentioned that they weren't staying the night to which I was surprised b/c I am. Someone else said they weren't schedule to either. So naturally the question is: is it more the normal to stay the night or not? Thanks!

well SNT - we're october babes, but diff yrs:tongue:

i was out patient - but would have LOVED to have spent the night. on some other thread i wrote that i was also banded the same day as my husband -... we took a limo to get banded; don't ask.

hubby's surgery was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, and did i mention SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much more painful, as a self pay person, i would have paid extra coin to not have heard his moaning - while i justed wanted peace.:w00t:

[Gracey 7]

well SNT - we're october babes, but diff yrs:tongue:

i was out patient - but would have LOVED to have spent the night. on some other thread i wrote that i was also banded the same day as my husband -... we took a limo to get banded; don't ask.

hubby's surgery was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, and did i mention SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much more painful, as a self pay person, i would have paid extra coin to not have heard his moaning - while i justed wanted peace.

Miss Lulu - I shore do hope to be as successful as you have been!!! :w00t:

OK so let me get this straight - your husband's surgery was a wee bit more painful? :redface: I actually think a limo is actually pretty cool!

I'm on United - I wonder why they OK an overnight stay. Things that make you go hmm. Oh and Plain - I have no pre-existing co-morbids other than just being damn big!!! No diabetes or BP probs. I mean, the knees do hurt a little and I do sweat like a whore in church living in the south but nothing "serious"!!!

[Kat817 19]

I went to MX and was self pay....my Dr. kept me 2 nights, because I had a long flight as well as a long drive ahead of me on day 3. Was wonderful to have someone to take care of me and wait on me as needed those first 2 days!!!

Kat

[plain 12]

I went to MX and was self pay....my Dr. kept me 2 nights, because I had a long flight as well as a long drive ahead of me on day 3. Was wonderful to have someone to take care of me and wait on me as needed those first 2 days!!!

Kat

That's cool....Myself, I was happier being in my own bed. Being in the hospital would have been very boring for me. Of course, I know most of the nurses, so I'm sure the "Foley cath" and "Fleet's enema" jokes would have been unbearable.

[MacMadame 81]

I think depends on when in the day you get banded too. If your surgery is in the last afternoon, you are more likely to stay over because no one wants to come to discharge you late at night.

[Gracey 7]

That's cool....Myself, I was happier being in my own bed. Being in the hospital would have been very boring for me. Of course, I know most of the nurses, so I'm sure the "Foley cath" and "Fleet's enema" jokes would have been unbearable.

Can you please translate from health industry to businessperson speak? I know what a cath is and an enema but not what the joke is!

[losingjusme 12]

i was with United as well - first thing in the AM - and was discharged a couple hours after surgery...

i'm an October bandster as well ... 2006.

[Gracey 7]

i was with United as well - first thing in the AM - and was discharged a couple hours after surgery...

i'm an October bandster as well ... 2006.

Maybe it has to do with my company and how they negotiated our coverage? I have no idea! I will definitely ask my surgeon though!

Two successful October bandsters - yippee! I hope to represent you all well as a 2008 bandster! I too am first up at bat. I am to be at the hospital at 6am with surgery at 8am. I so am not a morning person; hopefully Dr. Steinberg is!!!

[Gone4Now 4]

I have United, was banded one year ago. I was given a choice to stay overnight, but wanted to go home.

They encouraged going home because of illnesses picked up after surgery at the hospital. Go figure!

[Oregondaisy 2,021]

I was banded at 8:30 am and home at 11 posting on lap band talk.

[Kat817 19]

While I can relate to wanting to be in your own bed, the problem with that for me is that when the sink fills with dishes, or something is out of place and needing put away----if I see it I want to fix it and get my house back in order~ this way I did not have anything besides walking and sipping to do. My SIL and I went to be banded together and DH went with us....we all spent hours talking with my nurses, who ask as many questions of where we lived as we did of them!

DH too could recouperate without worrying about laundry piling up etc. He might be VERY concerned with what was happening at work without him tho----it is just what we are used to doing every day---and therefore it was better I was out of my element, and seriously taking it easy!!!

Kat

[Gracey 7]

I have United, was banded one year ago. I was given a choice to stay overnight, but wanted to go home.

They encouraged going home because of illnesses picked up after surgery at the hospital. Go figure!

Gah, Glou, don't scare me!!!