After reading a few posts by people having issues with the thought of having a "foreign" object in them, and hearing someone name their band, I decided that mine needs a name. After all, I will have to live with it the rest of my life (or a good portion of it) and I'm sensing that everyone has a real relationship with it as well--good and bad.

I must note that I have not been banded yet as I have hoops to jump through, but I'm viewing this waiting period like pregnancy with all the mixed emotions that come with it until that glorious day when it finally arrives and you start your life together, learning all the quirks and personality of your little bundle of joy.

My process of finding a name came from a thesaurus. I put in 'band' and after that 'belt' and from those I decided on Girdy--like a "girdle", then thought of Girty/Girtrude. But I wasn't quite sure if I wanted to have a girdle the rest of my life. So my next step was the "tool", everyone talks about it being a tool so Mr. Thesaurus and I have collaboratively come up with the name...."GIZMO". :w00t: For us older folk when we hear the name Gizmo we think of Gremlins. Isn't that apropeau for that band? Especially when he's acting up.

So Gizmo it is! If you would like to use Girdy/Girty that is fine. It would be neat to know that I'm not the only crazy one here so let us know what you have named yours, or your thought process towards your decision. We would love to help you name it. :eek:

Spud Mama

My band is named Victor, because this time I plan on claiming a victory!

Mine is also named Gizmo because I love Gizmo and we watched Gremlins the night I was in the hospital.

I get banded next week and I think I'll name mine Lucy (lose-e, loosie, however you want to interpret it) and for the obvious reason that it will be anything but loose eventually!

If I named mine after my favorite food it would be Chipster (BBQ chips are my enemy) but I'm afraid I'd be thinking about chips all the time!

Funny, my band name is Looosssiiieee. I was banded May 19, 2008 and the day of post op appointment I decided that was the name I was going to give it! :thumbup:

Port-ia. Get it...Portia. :thumbup:

Mine will be called Felix. For totally random reasons!

I call mine Bandida because she is likes to give me attitude. lol.