TO: All
FM: Wayne Smith
SB:  My first Vomit
DT: 13 October, 1999

I had the LAP-BAND installed six days ago.
By Dr. Rumbaut in Monterrey Mexico.
His advice: Take only liquids for the first two weeks then Semisolids for the next two weeks.

For the past six days:
Have drink copious amounts of water, soups, Jell-O almost without limits.
Even begun to wonder if the band had been tightened at all.
That I was not to experience the dreaded Vomit.

Went out to a Chinese restaurant, last night.
I was a good boy and only got 'Egg Drop Soup' and 'Jell-O'
I cautiously removed the egg stuff from the soup.  Consumed about 250 ml of the clear.
Then started on the Jell-O.  Consumed about 2, One inch cubes.
Normally, Jell-O melts in the mouth.  This stuff didn't. It was just a tad short of Gummy Bears.

First came a small pain in the stomach.  Then, Then, Then ...    

Extraordinary Pain

I made it to the bathroom where a series of little, then bigger, finally a gully washing vomit that threatened to empty the whole alimentary channel all the way to the toes.  And what came out, Nothing.  Pain eased, went back to eat no more that night.  Well, I said the pain eased.  Wrong, it came back about 15 minutes.  Went out to the car, laid on my back, massaged my stomach.  Went for a walk, Stretched, Bent Over, Jumped on one foot, Tried everything.   Finally the pain subsided about three hours later at home.  I was starting to think that I had permanently damaged me, the stomach, and the band emplacement.  Maybe true.

WARNING: For all the Liquid Phase People.
Watch out.  If it don't melt in your mouth, don't swallow.
Better yet, If it don't pass through a sieve, It don't and won't pass through the gullet.

--
Wayne Smith
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