Hello! Glad to find you!

I am so happy to find this forum. I have read through some of it and alot of the names are familiar from other forums. Glad to see you all. I had my surgery 3/12/04 and despite some complications, do not regret it. Melody, I am trying the recipe you gave with the cool whip. Tomorrow my daughter, Erin and her family, will come over after church to celebrate my birthday and I made some for me to eat while the others have brownies and ice cream. I am looking forward to it. I am looking forward to hearing from others on this board. I love being a member of this church and all that it entails. I am especially interested in genealogy and have been doing that for 36 years. Grins, Kaye

Kaye - Welcome to this forum. I had my surgery on March 8th of this year so my surgery was 4 days ahead of yours. How is the losing going? I'm a slow looser but I have lost 70 pounds so I'm definately not complaining. Hope you enjoy the cool whip idea. It's nice for us to have a little treat all our own. Come to this site often. As you can tell by my posts - I love to chat! Melody

Kaye, I just read your profile. Wow. You've really been through some tough stuff. I've never had a stricture and hope I never do. It doesn't sound fun. Teresa White posted this about hair loss on the main message board a few months ago. I copied it and saved it for further reference. I thought you might be interested in reading it. "Hello family, I see at least 5-6 times a week someone asking about hair loss and help with hair loss. Now I know for a fact my hair was falling out in big handfuls.. I purchased the Andrew Lessmans Healthy Hair Skin and Nails vitamins...Within 2 weeks my hair had stopped falling out at this ungodly rate and with in 4 weeks I had tons of new baby hairs coming in.. I am not one to waste my money and not one to brag on something that I dont believe in. I truly believe that these vitamins and 2 tablespoons of ground flax seed is what helped my hair most.. These vitamins have: Vitamin A 1,000u Vitamin C 100 mg VItamin D 100u Vitamin B2 5 mg Vitamin B1 5 mg Niacin 10 mg Vitamin B6 10 mg Folic Acid 200mcg Vitamin B12 20 mcg Biotin 2 mg Pantothenic acid 50 mg MSM 700 mg Gelatin 188 mg Choline Bitartrate 50 mg Inositol 25 mg PABA 25 mg Silicon 30 mg soluble organic silicon complex 10 mg I can honestly tell you that seeing is believing and I know how much my hair has changed.... I got mine at hsn.com Teresa " Like I said - Teresa White is the one responsible for this post about hair loss. Me personally, I take Biotin. A 1500 mg tablet twice a day. My hair loss is minimal probably at a normal hair loss rate. Congratulations on your 90 pound loss! That's remarkable. Kind of fun to raid your daughters closet. Come chat some more. Hope you're feeling better. Melody

Im glad you found our little church WLSers family too - WELCOME! -Sherrie

Welcome Kaye!!! Glad you found us! You know little bit about me from the OFF board. Glad your birthday went well. Love, Gala