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awesomemom

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Dazzle    0

Dazzle
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Whirl winds, Good Morning to you !!! thanks for the coffee info ..i will make me a cup asap.... something warm in my tomach will feel good too.. I wanted to know how did you change your font when typing I cant seem to find it and add smilies in the sentences? Let me know. Hey are you back at work yet? I am suppose to go back tomw. and I dont think I can pull it off..feeling like I have no energy... everyday is getting better though... little by little... today i will smile a little more too..your reply made me smile thansks for replying.. have a great day!!! Dazzle

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Hi there I was also banded on the 23rd. This is my second ay home, I was release the nex day, had to stay overnight. I dont have pain in my shoulder but have bad gas pain. I had a GazX strip and it helped a little, but just that a "Little" I just want to feel normal again. I have been walking around and that seems to work a little bit. Do you work? are u planning to back on soon? Im am scheduled to go back on Tues, but not sure right now. Lets keep this thread going so we can chat back and forth. Feel better

Dazzle,

Thanks for the reply. I haven't checked in in a while. What made you have to stay the night in the hospital? I know I could have gone either way after surgery, but after a while I knew I would be so much more comfy at home.

The gas pains must be a little by now- ? Mine are very managable, but a couple times a day, I will have to sit down and wait a minute. I would love to stay in touch.

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Amy,

Just checking in caught your reply - thanks.

We do sound similar, as well as our husbands - pizza and Cookies - YIKES!! Well, it is just the smells because you know you can't physically do it right now. You must be feeling better now - still air bubbles? My air problems are manageable, and I kind of like to feel them because they remind me it's all working.

Do you or any one actually feel hunger? I noticed the most last night (4 days out). Then, I read some literature they gave me after surgery and it said that the Lap Band System only works with solid food. Obviously, that makes sense for the future. But, for now and another week and a half, we can only quench our hunger through liquid, it's hard! I notice that creamy Soups (Potato/Leek - yum) really fill me up and keeps "the pouch" filled for longer than Protein Drinks. Anyone else feel that hungry feeling? Taylor

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Taylor,

Yesterday was a great day for me, today, not so much. I can't get any liquids down. I feel my heartbeat in my stomach and it feels very bloated. My stomach is distended. I had a couple of sips of a blended whey/banana shake last night and it was down hill ever since. But I'm not so sure that it is entirely the shake. I have to wear a cpap machine and that forces air into my airway all night. And if feels like I am absolutely full of gas! It is so ugly! I hope this goes away soon. I have only had two popcicles today and that is it, I can't seem to stomach anything else. Glad you are doing fine. Let's keep in touch.

amy

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Taylor, I was feeling a little hungry. I went to doc's today and they oked me to have creamy mash pots and next stage of eating so im so excited. Ive been getting headaches, so i think and so soes my doctor that i need more Protein powder, so im off to the tore to get some, the creamy mash potatoes really filled me up i only had 1/4 cup but holy moly they were good. i neeeded a bit of thickness. i had a creamy chicken herb Soup last night and that felt good as well. Keep it up. call ur doctor asap, just to see what they say. Keep me in the loop. Dazzle

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Taylor, I was feeling a little hungry. I went to doc's today and they oked me to have creamy mash pots and next stage of eating so im so excited. Ive been getting headaches, so i think and so does my doctor that i need more Protein Powder, so im off to the store to get some, the creamy mash potatoes really filled me up i only had 1/4 cup but holy moly they were good. i neeeded a bit of thickness. i had a creamy chicken herb Soup last night and that felt good as well. Keep it up. call ur doctor asap, just to see what they say. Keep me in the loop. oh by the way i had to stay because i had my surgery late after 6pm...and had to be observed because i had cpap orders, and i dont have a cpap machine at home so it was for extra precautions.have a better day Dazzle

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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