Fill 'er Up, Please!

When I was a teenager at LaVega HS, I would swing into the gas station and watch the attendant come out to see what I wanted. Before he reached my window, I'd say, "Fill er up, please!" I seem to recall the price was 19.9 cents a gallon! Ahhh, those were the days!! My daddy used to ask, 'daughter, why don't you self serve once in a while and save your 'ol dad a few dollars?!' I'd laugh and say, 'you'll NEVER CATCH ME FILLING MY OWN TANK!!!' What was I thinking?

As I sat on the end of the exam table in the surgeon's office today, I wondered, "what am I in for right now?" Well, I soon found out! A student doctor came in, sat on the famous black, twirly stool, opened my chart, turned and said, 'what did you weight just now?' I replied with the magic number and .....................when he climbed back on the little twirly stool, he snapped his head again rapidly and said, highly excitedly, 'ARE YOU KIDDING ME?'

I smiled and said, 'no, I'm serious, I'm proud of myself!' His reply, 'WOW, THAT JUST DOESN'T HAPPEN!' So, being the wonderful ME that I perceive myself to be, I added, ' and so, is this good or is this G R E A T???' He instantly said GGG RRR EEE AAA TTT! I commented, 'that's super, 'cause I intend to be ya'll's poster child for LAP BAND!!!' From the first week 'after surgery' visit to today, I had sheared another 20 pounds away for a grand total of the -43 lost to date!

Let's hear a big Texas YEEHAWWW! Thank Ya'll!

Now, before I went to the BCM Center, I visited one of my teacher Interns. I walked around the corner, up the stairs (without hesitation) and knocked on the door! A student opened the door, turned around and gave a huge SHUSH! to the class. I looked for the single chair I had used the first visit. You see, middle school student desks and I haven't gotten along for many, many years.

Uh-oh, there was no SINGLE CHAIR. I usually grab a single chair, turn a student desk around and have a seat!! FAT CHICKS DON'T DO DESKS! But I didididididididididididididididid!
I slid into the seat and smiled to myself while the Spanish was rolling out their mouths!! Oh, my, gosh!!! I had room in that seat as well.

A HUGE VICTORY FOR PATNTXS!!! And, know what? I can't wait to return to Denney's for some scrambled eggs someday and slide in THEIR BOOTH!!

Regular sized adults don't even think about these tiny things in their lives! To a FAT CHICK or A FAT DUDE...it's a challenge, sometimes an embarrassment, sometimes forces one to request a table, and so on! Those days for this girl are OVER!!! That was an exciting thing for me today!

Now, the student doc said, "lay on the table please while I locate your port'. (I thought of a cruise, port, cruise, get it) That sounded simple enough. He felt with pointy needle and his fingers, he had me 'crunch curl', he poked WITH THE DAMN NEEDLE (scuse me) and on the fourth attempt, as the needle slid in my tummy, I said, 'you have one more try, then WE NEED A RELIEF PITCHER, Ok?' He apologized, I said, 'that's okay, we're still friends..."

In walked Dr. Sherman. He located the port and did the job. His assistant then handed me six ounces of water in a styrafoam cup and said, sit and drink this. If it all goes down, we're good. If it doesn't slide down, he'll have to take some out!! And, so, that was an easy enough task. NOTNOTNOTNOTNOTNOTNOT.

The first three sips I did as I've been doing. I had instant pain, too much traffic jam in my esaphogus and terrible pain! Like a bolt of lightening, the thought raced through my brain, "what has he done to me"? They ruined my playhouse, that's what!!! It took me thirty long, slow, boring minutes to drink 5 of that 6 ounce serving! YEOW!

This is supposed to now slow my weight loss. RATS AND RATS AGAIN! I was having fun every other day seeing a lighter number on the scale. He says I should now lose 2-3 pounds a week. Ok, GAME ON!! It will be interesting. I will admit when I got home, I heated some soup and got one of my tiny, collector spoons off the rack. That's how big my bites will be from now on! Dad gummit!!! But, it's ok, just takes time to eat now!!

My port has room for 11 cc's and today I was given 5.5 cc. Oh well, I didn't do this just say I had it done! I did this for a purpose and I'm movin' on down the road. I can't wait for this month to pass. Regardless of the amount lost, it's all okay....I just have to stay focused and avoid ~~~~~

FILLIN' UR UP!!