Here's the whole story, for all the newbies (like me)

 My appointment was for 11:00 AM. Since I was a new patient, I got
 there early, figuring I'd have to do paperwork. Well, it turns out
 that a new policy is in place, and I have to have my doctor's referral
 to get a fill. This policy was put in place after I scheduled my
 appointment. I was not pleased.

 After about 3.5 hours Dr. Kuri got a fax up to the clinic, and they
 took me in the back, asked me to strip from the waist up and put on
 gown, ties in the front. So I did that. I also removed all the metal
 from my person, since I was going under a fluoroscope.

 Gown on, I went into the radiation suite. They had me sit up on the
 table, I showed them where my port was, and ended up pulling my pants
 down to fully expose it (I have an abdominal placement). I was swabbed
 with betadine and alcohol, given a local, and then they put the little
 screen thing above where I said my port was. They turned on the
 radiation, and the monitor showed my port, just like in the
 Bioenterics video (thanks Wayne!). Dr. Cable put the needle above
 where my port was, adjusted the get the right angle, and popped it in.

 I told him I wanted to be as conservative as possible with my fill. He
 put in 2.00 cc's (Chickie - a cc is equivalent to a ml, one of the
 many glories of the metric system). Then they rotated the table up so
 I was standing. That was so cool. Then I did a swallow of some radio
 opaque liquid that tasted like Milk of Magnesia. It went through, but
 not very fast. I asked him to ease me up a little, so he poked me
 again and took out .2cc's, so I supposedly have 1.8cc's in my band.

 And, I puked, barfed, pb'd for the first time today. I just had to
 push it, I could tell I was full, but I only had 2 spoonfulls left. So
 for all my fellow newbies, calling it barfing is just not accurate, at
 least not for me. If you've ever had a really nasty cold and snorted
 up a whole bunch of snot/mucous/lung butter, that's what it was like,
 but not painful at all. I had a plastic cup with a lid handy, so I
 delicately spit into it. It was so much not a big deal.

 The best thing is that Dr. Kuri put on my referral "as needed" so I
 don't have to get one the next time I go in to get cinched up.

 Dang it, I feel like I've become a real bandster now - I'm filled, and
 I've brought something back up.

 Have a great day -

 Tania