Okay, so since joining this Board a couple month ago, I have noticed some interesting things. I'd like to start with the differences in posts:

POST 1 EXAMPLE: "Oh my gosh! I just ate twelve brownies, two bagels, a piece of french bread pizza (but it was whole-wheat ), sixteen orders of french fries and topped it off with two large chocolate milk shakes and I feel sick.... what should I do?? Help me, help me now!!!"

Then there are some like this:

POST 2 EXAMPLE: "I accidently ate 5oz instead of my doctors precribed 4oz meal, what should I do?"

The reactions of some posters are equally as interesting, as "some" posters will answer the first post with:

"Oh heck...its alright, when I was 2 days out of surgery I went to a pig roast and wouldn't you know it, I ate half the pig and still had room for granny's punkin' pie - which she had made more for the rest of the family"

Then of course, to the other side of the coin, you have "some" posters in response to the second post:

"Mother of GOD!! You must call your surgeon immediately.. My band slipped all the way down to my rectum and fell out, got caught on my ankle, made me trip and they had to do sixteen hours of surgery just to disentangle my port tubing from my ass"

The bottom line is: For God's sake people use your common friggin' sense. Some on here overreact, some underreact.... Some people do dumb things... Some are way too paranoid. Then there was a post a week or so ago that the poor lady sayd she had been puking three times a day for the past six month.... Ummmm... I am not a rocket scientist and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night, but I can tell you that if I puked three times IN ONE DAY, let alone for six months, I would call my doctor...

Common damn sense people.

Happy Memorial Day.

You hit it right on the head Steve. I love the way you put it.For some people it will be like a light bulb going off. For others they will keep sweating it because people don't read or listen to their Dr. or use common sence!

amen, what are some people thinking about?

looking forward to your next public service announcement!! Like all PSA say "the more you know...."

What a great post, very comical. Hope it gets lots of reads!

Knowledge is Power!!!

Can you post PSA weekly?????

Common sense in my area code

thank you friend!

You made me laugh out loud! Keep'm coming!

It has the makings of a great afterschool special.

You made me laugh out loud! Keep'm coming!

Thanks everyone! I mean for real though..... I realize that people come here for support, but lets be honest, these boards are a reflection of the world we live in - different opinions... some want to be experts - inbetween TIVO'ing Rachel Ray - some just want emotional support (which is certainly fine) - some are picking a fight (see other post from today where I was blasted)

To borrow a phrase from one of America's greatest poets:

"Can we all just get along?"

Love to all - and yes, I'd love to do a PSA a week.

Common sense in my area code

thank you friend!

Hey Donna - who was your doc?

.. My band slipped all the way down to my rectum and fell out, got caught on my ankle, made me trip and they had to do sixteen hours of surgery just to disentangle my port tubing from my ass".[/QUOTE]

this is probably one of the funniest postings i've read here.

please do a wkly psa..!..

OMG!!! That was funny!! :lol: And you are SOOOOO right! Sometimes I have a hard time not telling people--DUH!!

POST 2 EXAMPLE: "I accidently ate 5oz instead of my doctors precribed 4oz meal, what should I do?"

The reactions of some posters are equally as interesting, as "some" posters will answer the first post with:

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"Mother of GOD!! You must call your surgeon immediately.. My band slipped all the way down to my rectum and fell out, got caught on my ankle, made me trip and they had to do sixteen hours of surgery just to disentangle my port tubing from my ass"

OMG, I had to read that one out loud to my husband. :lol:

I'm also gratuitously stealing that line "and I didn't stay at the Holiday Inn last night..." so thank you for that. LOL

Steve I wish many times I had said something like this to people with all their foolishness.Please keep it coming.This will do so much good even though the ones who will gain the most will also hate you the most.

Thank you so much for that post. It truly made me laugh unitl I had tears.