I'm disgusted with all of you, the "successful banders"

 
Vacation ( or holiday as we Brits call ot) was beyond description. Bit primitive in places ( think squatting on the ground for the toilet in a leech infested rainforest!)  but it was the very fact we were prepard to do that sort of thing which meant we really saw the country and its people and animals.

Kate

 Maria: I can hate you with the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns, and still love your ass! 

Yeah and I'm quite fond of you even after you called me a ***** on my birthday! ;-)

 And you wouldn't have had it any other way, would you? 

It definitely stood out from the other well wish'ers, lol.

Now remember this is a support site. Be supportive of me damn it!

Like Kate said that post was pulled because of personal insults

And I have never said to a poster it was there fault or anything like that . I do question them if they are eating right, or if they are tight , or other things and if that is being mean then so be it because a doctor will ask the same thing .

The post was a warning. PSA. If I wrote a book on how to prevent diabetes, and advertised: "buy my book and learn to live happily ever after without diabetes" and then I got diabetes..........there would be NO validity in what I was saying.

Pre-ops need to know that it's not as simple as just "folowing the band rules" and then the band works as advertised!!!

I consider myself a successful bandster and I would like someone to look in my history and find where I put down someone for not doing well after surgery...their fault or not.  I think generalizing everyone is just as insulting as what you are complaing about.  I have always treat everyone with the upmost compassion. 

That said if the tables are turned can you cheer our success?? 

Didn't see the original post that was pulled but wanted to respond to what seems to be a stereotype.

Many of us without any major band complications are willing to concede as time goes on and statistics pile up, that maybe the band isn't what it was advertised to be.

But many of us are also stuck with it and trying to make the best of the tool that we have. I hope that most of us aren't attacking or unkind.

As for me, I am a "so called semi-successful bandster" and I really like Bette and Maria and Kate, and find them realistic and supportive. Maria, even with her unhappiness with the band, is careful to temper her disappointment with data and information, not rants and attacks.

Nor would I ever hint that anyone with a band failure (yes, I said band failure) brought it upon themselves or deserved it.

Seriously. There might be a person here or there who labors under the delusion the their band is perfect and will never not work for them, but that hardly describes "all" the successful bandsters. Many of us who consider ourselves successful have actually experienced complications, but consider our surgery a success in spite of that because we realisitcally understand that ALL WLS carry ricks of complications.