{"id":711,"date":"2012-06-21T07:38:49","date_gmt":"2012-06-21T07:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/fill-last-week\/"},"modified":"2012-06-21T07:38:49","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T07:38:49","slug":"fill-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/fill-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Fill Last Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a fill last week.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve lost about 4 pounds but it\u2019s part of the same 5 pounds I keep losing over and over.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s the best fill I\u2019ve had.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>For those who don\u2019t know, I got a lap band in May of 2009.&#160; I lost about 20 pounds, most of it during the surgical process.&#160; The company that managed the surgery and after care has since gone out of business and there was a good reason.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Their first fill tech was horrible.&#160; She did it entirely by guess, and it\u2019s a miracle she didn\u2019t make more mistakes.&#160; As it is, I went around with a band way too tight for a year.<\/p>\n<p>They finally went with a surgeon who charged way too much for me, even on insurance, but got me straightened out, and finally was feeling better about things.<\/p>\n<p>But still have been losing the same 5 pounds.<\/p>\n<p>This time I went to a new place, who does the fills for $50.&#160; Forrest Park Medical, and they were great.&#160; They also do the fills under flouroscope, and are very quick and good.&#160; I was able to follow their instructions through the whole post phase, and am doing well.<\/p>\n<p>See my frustration:&#160; (weight loss graph)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kweaver.us\/.a\/6a00e54eea8ed98834016767bbf535970b-pi\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"6-21-2012 7-50-00 AM\" border=\"0\" alt=\"6-21-2012 7-50-00 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kweaver.us\/.a\/6a00e54eea8ed98834016767bbf53f970b-pi\" width=\"244\" height=\"19\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a fill last week.&#160; I\u2019ve lost about 4 pounds but it\u2019s part of the same 5 pounds I keep losing over and over.&#160; But it\u2019s the best fill I\u2019ve had.&#160; For those who don\u2019t know, I got a lap band in May of 2009.&#160; I lost about 20 pounds, most of it during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}