Saturday Whats Happening.

Wow have we had the rain. It has rained as hard as it could from 4 pm Friday afternoon to 11pm Friday night. , Thunder and lighting and sometimes sounded like hail in there too. There was so many tornados right along the northern Arkansas border and we live right on the Missouri side that Im sure we were getting the outskirts of all of those tornados. Lots of wind along with it and when the satellite went out on the TV and the computer then we just went to bed about 9pm. Lay in bed and listened to all the noisy and talked and watched the lightening out the windows. Lol Today is the first day of Fall . I didn't know that until I looked at the calendar. Lol Oh last night during the storms ,the people next door have a big black walnut tree next to their metal carport and it sounded like gun fire from the walnuts falling off and hitting the carport roof. Really loud .we both would jump each time one would hit. Lol Andrew: be really careful about the spinach salads. I know I love them too. I will be so glad when I can have a good salad again. But back to the flu . It really might have been a light case of E.coli. Everyone that gets it doesn't die you know and some don't have it bad enough to even go to hospital. So don't eat anymore of it until it has been cleared. Oh I thought you were moving this week end sorry I have you working hard too fast huh? November will be here before you know it . I know it sometimes seems like a long time and it did to me too but it will get here I promise. Melissa: You and Andrew would have had a good time watching the storms we had. Wowzers. I have a great recipe for a crust less pizza will post it on here Monday . It is fantastic for we wls patients that can no longer eat bread. Really good. Joe liked it just fine too. If anyone has some good recipes of good food that we can eat let us know. Barbara: Yes I love this part of surgery. It is wonderful isn't it. I know what you all mean about the housework but right now I am so busy in the yard and flower gardens and that stuff has to be done now. So I am holding off on the house cleaning until later when the weather gets too bad to be able to do anything outside. Can you tell Im not into house work? But I too have quite a few cabinets and drawers and closets that need a deep cleaning and they will get it soon. Hey I like that idea of writing names in the dust . Saves on the name cards lol. Well I am doing just the opposite this year. I usually do cook thanksgiving and Christmas both but don't think I am going to do either this year. I think we will just go around to everyone's houses on the two separate days lol. Hello Janet glad you joined us . There are those on here that are wanting to get the lap band surgery . So many you can be of help to them. You have a great week end too. Hope you got the letter of necessity from your pcp for your husband. Yesterday. Rachael: think about you a lot and the pain you are having. Have you been checked out for fibromyalgi or for lupus? Those two things are hard to diagnose and cause a lot of pain. Of course you being a nurse too im sure you have thought of those things have you not? Tell your sister congratulations on the date and we are still praying for your mom. Brenda: You looked so good you know it? I havent lost nearly as much as you have . I have lost 31 pounds so far. Dr. H said for my weight to start with and my age that I am doing really good. I wi**** were more but it is what it is. Lol I know what you mean about your hubby helping with the cleaning . If it wasn't for Joe we would have been wading thru lots of stuff I guess. He was so good about cleaning house for me or as he says it was for us. I am taking over more and more of it all the time now. When you get done with your house you can come do mine ok? Lol Colette: That will be good that you can go visit Andrew for all of us when he has surgery. The getting up close and personal with the stealth bomber sounds like a great thing. I would love that. Will they let you see inside it too? They are wicked looking planes that is for sure. Well Dr. H said we could start having fish and chicken and such. I was so excited and stopped on the way home and bought some whiting. Last night I took out a filet and cut it in half about a 2.x2 inch piece . Joe was doing himself a steak on the grill so I put mine in alumin foil and put a little lemon and tiny bit of butter and salt and pepper on it. Made some asparagus and fixed joe a baked sweet potato. My fish looked so good and had about 4 stalks of asparagus on my plate. It tastes wonderful . I chewed and chewed each and every bite until it was all mush. And when I finished I spent the next 30 minutes or so in the bathroom throwing up I will try it again but not tomorrow. So far I can keep down cottage cheese . Have had that with pineapple and with apricots. The canned kind that are either in natural juice or in splenda. Some things I keep down one time and the next them they don't want to stay. Like I said my pouch is sure finicky and picky. I never have been that way about food , maybe that is why I had to have wls but im sure that way now. LOVE AND JOY AND PEACE ABOUNDS JAN

Good Morning All...sounds like everyone is doing good with their losing weight for either pre or post op! I am learning a lot from reading what you all have to say about the stuff your going through with trying to keep down the soft foods, protien drinks and fluids. Man, that's gotta be hard to lose almost everything you eat! I am so proud tho of each of you for sticking with it and losing all the weight you have been losing! Keep up the good work! Hubby got his insurance okay in the mail today for his surgery! ...lol Not wls, he has a cyst on the inside of his nostril. What their gonna do is called something like "intranasal biopsy." It will be on the 5th of Oct. I saw the letter and thought it was my denial letter from Coventry which would mean that my information is now going through Medicare and I would be getting a sugery date soon but, not this time! It will happen soon! At least I'm getting exercise walking out to the mailbox and back! Well, I'm down to 4 dogs, 2 I'm keeping and 2 I'm selling. The fundraiser puppy was picked up yesterday! I hope she brings them a good amount of money! I will be glad to get the last 2 out of my hair....some people want a lot for very little! It's like they want high quality champagne for the price of a cheap beer! I'm not saying my dogs are poor quality...as a matter of fact, they are good quality dogs, farm raised and spoiled. I should be asking a lot more but with the upcoming surgery I'm trying to get them sold so my hubby doesn't have that hassle with everything else he has on his plate! Sheesh, these dogs take a lot of work! It's not like they just pop out and sell! I need to find me something to do in the evenings when hubby gets home. He is a news hound and from 4:30pm until 6:30pm almost every night he is glued to that TV. He admits it and I don't mine it but with all these baby snatchings/their mothers getting killed or hurt during the abductions and babies getting killed in house fires. Kids missing...it's just too much! He wants to spend time with me when he gets home and I want to spend time with him but I just can't sit there and listen to all the tragedies going on over and over again! I usually don't even turn the TV on anymore until he gets home. He gets home at 3:30 and we get an hour before the news starts but after the first 30 minutes I'm looking for something else to do. He knows that stuff depresses me and he says "shut it off" but I know he really wants to watch it. I just don't know how to get my point across to him that spending time with him is great but not while that news is on. I know it's bad out there and getting worse but I don't need it crammed down my throat everyday for two or three hours. He jokingly says "be thankful we don't have cable" and I tell him "that's one of the reasons why we don't!" Man, do I sound grumpy today or what? Just a bad week I guess! The funeral, the stress, the news, the dogs and SOME people! I just don't know how God does it....putting up with all of us and our drama! Praise HIM for doing so!! HE is AWESOME!! Well, it's 1:00am. I think I'm gonna go try to lay down. I have been a little worried over some pain in my chest but it's not my heart. It's in between my ribs on my left side under my left breast...trapped gas, I'd say. Just wi**** would stop! Tomorrow I will probably been over to pick something up and shoot myself plum across the room!...LOL I'm sorry for being a little to graphic!! Look at it this way, at least I'm closing the post on a happy note! Love & Prayers for All...Deb

Good Morning Jan and Everyone else. To all the new people Welcome to the board and you are added in my prayers. It is so good to see all the new people on here, but would be even better to see all the older ones back too. It is great to see some of them that have been MIA coming back, and you all know who you are. LOL And Jan yes I am still doing my morning walks, about 2 miles every morning. Well almost every morning sometimes I skip a morning when I have a lot to do or if I am hurting to bad but it's usually just one morning a week if I do skip one and they said 6 days a week anyway so I don't feel to bad about that. But this last week my youngest DD has been going with me some and has talked me into going in the evening. Yes I walked the 2 miles again in the evening 2 times this week. So 2 days I guess I got in about 4 miles. LOL My legs sure knew it the next morning too. Deb I know what you mean about the pups, and people wanting them for nothing. We have reg. Catahoula's and we have had puppies two times. And it always seemed like someone would want a pup for very little or for free. Well I got the female fixed after the last litter and don't want any more litters of pups. They are a lot of work. And I don't care much for the news on TV either. My DH usually watches the local (for us is Springfield) news and sometimes he watches the national but I usually change the channel. LOL Well I hope you all have a wonderful day. Maybe we will get some of that rain today as it all missed us last night. May God Keep and Bless Each and Every One of You and Your Families Too. Love ya Sky

Hi Everybody! It's raining here here in KC -- nice gentle rain that makes you want to stay snuggled down in bed! Well, this past week was my first week back in the office since my surgery on 8/28 -- although I had worked from home about 32 hours the prior week and 10 hours the week before that. I had a major wake-up call to myself on Tuesday, in that by the time I got home Tuesday evening and had some mashed potatoes for dinner, I was BEAT. I went to be at 7:45 p.m. and didn't get up until 7:15 the next morning! I'd worked about 9 hours Tuesday, so I think my body was reminding me that I had had surgery three weeks ago and perhaps wasn't ready for quite such a long day! One thing Dr. Scott's office suggests is to add one new food at a time to see how your pouch tolerates it -- although, Jan, right now the thought of fresh fish with asparagus on the side sounds like a slice of heaven to me! Thus far I've not thrown up after a meal, although there have been a couple of times when I've eaten something too fast where it felt like it was stuck for a few minutes -- not comfortable. Hula Girl -- got the package -- thanks!!! This week is my one month check-up. I'm feeling really good, and am sooo looking forward to moving on to the next stage of foods allowed for me. Have a great weekend, all!

Good Saturday morning....Well I have been running since my feet hit the floor about an hour ago...my son has a football game at noon and I needed to get his pants cleaned.....Now my little girl is finally waking up and wanting to be fed so I need to take care of her....We have to be at the football field at 1030 am, so I need to try and get a couple more little things taken care of before we have to leave....Jan, I have thought about all the possibilities I just wish my doctor would help me a little more...I have had my blood drawn at work every six weeks since June and now I am noticing a declining trend in my protein level and I am even drinking that protein powder from Food For Less sometime three times a day and it is now helping....So I need to make an appointment and try and get this mess figured out...this has been a really bad week for pain because we have been extremely busy at work...... Well I hope that everyone has a blessed and wonderful weekend.... God bless to everyone and may you all be covered by the grace of God Rachael

Jan, We got quite a bit of that rain...5 in.+ and stil raining I heard. We are in St. Louis to meet the new grandson. He looks like a spider monkey, he is so long and kind of skinny, but he is cute as can be. While I am here I am looking for a cheap outfit to wear to that wedding. Don't know what I'll find in my price bracket. Congrats on your weight loss.!!!!! I can hardly wait to join you.!!!!!!!!! Huera

Huera May I ask what size you are looking for in a dress??? Any certain color ect. I may have something but I need to know what size you are looking for. Please drop me a email unless you find something in St. Louis. Melissa [email protected]

Hey!!! Just thought I'd stop in and say Hello! Listening to some music right about now and working on some 'web page spruce ups', browsing the boards.. nothin' much. Still waiting on my consult/date with the new surgeon, trying to be as patient as I can.. Have a great weekend Treece

Hey Jan and Everyone Just stopping in to say "Hello" everyone and to say congrats on your weight loss again. For some reason I didn't get a B12 shot when I was in Dr. H.'s office for my second post-op visit on Sept. 12th, so now I have to give myself the shot I don't want to have to take the tablets everyday so I guess I have to brave up, but have you all seen the needle? Well I think I can do it because I've had to give myself insulin shots all these years soooooooo when I finish this post I'm going to give myself this shot "ugh" . Well I'm really not doing anything today, and I hear you when you say Joe is very helpfu and always there for you, my husband has been carrying the load for quite some time now and he always says I don't mind doing for you and for us, but I feel sorta guilty because he's got this hernia and has NEVER complained about not feeling well himself. He never let's me know when he's hurting or anything like that but I can tell when he isn't feeling good. He reminds me a lots of my mother (died of cancer) she never complained no matter how much pain she was in. She didn't even tell me she had cancer until six months before she died and her doctor made her bring to a clinic visit with her, I was absolutely floored. Anyway it is nice knowing you have someone in your corner no matter what. I'm so glad God is not a respecter of persons because He has definitely seen me through some really really rough times, my mom, dad, 2 sisters, son, and step-father have all passed on, it's just me and my children, grandchildren, great grands left in our immediate family and of course our in-laws. That' why I'm planing on cooking this year since I feel up to it, the kids have been cooking holiday dinners so I'm gonna treat them. Well I guess I'll go and give myself this shot God bless evryone! Barb T. in KC