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March 29th - I got my 6th fill yesterday.   I think most people have that many fill the first year of being banding.
Now that I have a surgeon that can find my port, I am getting my fills more often.  This is my third fill since Dec.   I love the fact that I only pay 150 instead of 600.  That helps me be able to afford to maintain my band like it needs to be.   I weighed 214.5 on the docs scales.   I started out at 270 on another docs scales.  I am assuming they are both accurate.   So that puts me at a grand total of 55.5 pounds.
I feel like I should be at goal right now given how long I have had my band.   Then I realize that I have spent most of the time without proper restriction.   Not to mention the fact that I have not excersised like I should.    I have hopped back on the exercise wagon though!  I have worked out everyday this week!   I really like the way I feel during exercise, its almost like a high.   I just don't understand why I struggle so much to get started.    I really want to to get as fit as I can before getting pregnant.   I plan on continuing to exercise while pregnant too.
Only 16 more days til Cancun!  Ready or not here we come!!!!!!

March 5th 2007 - I was hoping to make it a whole year without having surgery.   I barely made it 3 months.    I had surgery on my BUTT on Valentines day.   Over two years ago I had a peri-rectal abcess (which was as fun as it sounds).   I ended up in the ER to have it drained.
It came back and I had another surgery.  With the second surgery they had to cut me inside and out.  From where they took too much of my rectal lining out it caused some gross side effects.    I was referred to a specialist who kept saying it should heal up on its on.
I went to see him Feb 13th and he told me it wasn't going to heal up and he wouldn't even guarentee that surgery would fix it 100%.
I decided to go ahead and have surgery...give it one last shot.
I hate dreading surgery almost worse than the surgery itself so I took the first available date, which was the very next day.
I was in the hospital for 2 nights and had a pretty rough recovery.
I ended up with sticthes like I had given birth and of course stitches inside my butt too.   Lets just say bowel movements have not been my friend!    It has been almost 3 weeks since surgery and each day I am feeling better.   I hope this solves all the problems I was having, because I don't think I can go through this again.
For some good news........Me and Tom are going to start trying to make a baby in April.   I had my IUD taken out 3 weeks ago and my OB-GYN wants me to wait for 2 months.   So we will be able to try while we are in Mexico on vacation.    I am scared to death, but so excited too!