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BethFromVA

By BethFromVA, in Rants & Raves

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ThePoolGirl    1

ThePoolGirl
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Diet Coke, when consumed with ANYTHING, will cancel out all calories. As for liver, who would even eat that?? Ewww.

Diet Coke is also a great douche but only the kind in the bottle. Cans - oh, no way, baby. Aluminum will destroy your band. I read that in my pre-op instructional booklet that I have laminated and will keep for all of eternity. Or until I am forced to switch to the sleeve.

Edited by ThePoolGirl
computer hates me, too

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BethFromVA    5

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I'm from the ghetto. I don't know what big fancy words like negate means???

It's a short gate, about knee height. It's the shortened version of knee gate. :o

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Carrie_C    9

Carrie_C
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Knee gate? I have to have one of those if I get the band?? Where do I get it? Will my insurance pay for it???

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ThePoolGirl    1

ThePoolGirl
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I'm from the ghetto. I don't know what big fancy words like negate means???

I changed it just for you!

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BethFromVA    5

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Knee gate? I have to have one of those if I get the band?? Where do I get it? Will my insurance pay for it???

Dunno. Depends on how ghetto you are.

I think you can find them at the little people stores. C'mon, can't you do ANYthing yourself?

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Carrie_C    9

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No, I can't do anything for myself. Don't you know that's why I come here, so everyone can tell me exactly what to do??

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ThePoolGirl    1

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Well, I had a fun day. I dropped off a $5000 check at my surgeon's office. Now, I may be a bit sensitive 'cause I'm getting banded soon, but...I swear I heard the receptionist say it was great that I came by. Now they could actually afford to turn the instrument sterilizer thingy on again. Should I be concerned?

Then, I went grocery shopping. With my dad. He rode in one of those motorized carts. We have been asked not to return to that store or any others in their chain. Again, should I be concerned?

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BethFromVA    5

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I'd be more worried if even after your $5,000 they still couldn't turn on the sterilizer thingie.

Your doc is doing it as an outpatient in his back office, right? In a barcalounger?

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ThePoolGirl    1

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I'd be more worried if even after your $5,000 they still couldn't turn on the sterilizer thingie.

Your doc is doing it as an outpatient in his back office, right? In a barcalounger?

Gee, you're one to talk. I heard your doc did your band in a LaZBoy. At least mine has fake leather. Faux suede - ewww, how tacky for you.

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Carrie_C    9

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But I really hurt where my band is. And I want to get pregnant but I'm overweight by 200 pounds and my doctor won't help me get pregnant. Will the band help me?? Someone answer soon.

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BethFromVA    5

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But I really hurt where my band is. And I want to get pregnant but I'm overweight by 200 pounds and my doctor won't help me get pregnant. Will the band help me?? Someone answer soon.

So how do you want your doctor to help you get pregnant? Mount you? They might charge more for that. Just sayin'...

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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.

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