I went off the Codeine entirely on Wednesday the 1st after spending a couple of days cutting down to make sure the pain wasn't bad. So less then a week on that. I took some liquid Tylenol a couple of times after that (mostly after pushing it and eating something a little harder then my throat was re...

Hi everyone, Thanks for the well-wishes. I'm going to talk to my regular doctor about a sleep study down the road once I've recovered completely. The comment was made early on once the decision was made for the surgery that I would be having one. Right now I was told that my Oxygen saturation level ...

Since I was never able to get used to sleeping with a CPAP (after 18 months of trying) I had a UPPP and Septoplasty performed last Thursday. All in all I think the operation went a lot easier then I had anticipated because I've been reading the horror stories here and on other sites. Post-op pain ha...

I'm scheduled to have the Septoplasty and UPPP done at the end of October. Hopefully my surgery goes as well as the original poster's did. I gave CPAP about 15 months and just can't use the machine (I posted early on about the issues I have with it, they never got better). I actually feel much worse...

Hi everyone, I've been off the boards for a few days so haven't had time to get back to everyone's questions. Here we are, My current (old) DME is no longer on the list of approved providers. Like I said before, no great loss. The insurance company doesn't buy the machines outright, they rent for th...

You have the energy of an 18-year-old. Oh how I wish. I was actually thinking on my walk that when I was 18 I could run five miles, do 120 pushups, then walk 20 miles through the woods carrying a full pack and rifle (I was in the Army at that point ). Now I get winded walking a mile. To be in that ...

I don't think it is healthy to lose 17 lbs in one week. When I went to weight watchers I was told it was healthy to lose 1 to 2 lbs a week. They also said that a person who loses 1 to 2 lbs a week are more likely to keep it off longer and has a easier time keeping it off too. My best friend had gas...

No trip to the fitness center this morning because my wife's sister-in-law is in town and is using my wife's car, who's using mine, so no weigh-in. On the plus side, not having a car means that I had to walk in to work this morning (1.2 miles door to door) and will be walking home this afternoon. To...

My wife would love to make wedding cakes like that. She makes a killer cheesecake as well as "normal" cakes but just doesn't have the patience for the decorating part. She had a friend that had been a pastry chef in Chicago for ages and I was trying to get her to apprentice under him or something wh...

My mother-in-law went to the grave without passing it on to any of her daughters, and we spent the next 5 years trying to recreate it! Luckily we had samples of her cake in the deep-freezer for reference for the first few years. That reminds me of a tv episode. Your mother-in-law's name wasn't Nest...

I just got the word yesterday that I have to change DMEs. My insurance company apparently went though all the DMEs that they had contracts with and decided to cut a bunch. The one I've been using didn't make the cut. I can't say that I'm upset because I haven't had any contact with them since the fi...

Hey, that's always been my motto. It was actually a habit I picked up when I was 17 and in Army Basic Training. You always ate the stuff you liked first because it was rare that you actually got to finish a meal. I have a theory about eating......... It is a well publicized one. You see it on cards ...

Well, it's not Friday yet but since people seem to be posting to this thread during the week... I went to the fitness club for the first time in six months this morning. About six months ago I stopped drinking my normal three regular cokes a day (currently drinking caffine free diet coke on my way t...

I also took the "What kind of rocker are you" quiz. The quiz says that I'm a "Chick Rocker".

15 years of playing bass in a heavy metal band playing Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, WASP, etc. and my answers point to chick music? I don't think so.

80% General American English 10% Upper Midwestern 5% Yankee 0% Dixie 0% Midwestern Upper midwestern? I wonder what answer I gave makes me sound like a Yooper... ? Born in Chicago, have spent my life within 40 miles of the city. For the record, when I was a kid I called it "pop". Somewhere along the ...