Hi, I am hoping to get to know some folks here who might be from the same general area as I am from. I am located in Kittanning in Armstrong County.

I am having my Lapband surgery on this coming Monday the 13th at Butler County Memorial Hospital. Just today started the three day liquid diet that my Doctor requires before my surgery.

I am really excited and looking foward to a whole new life ahead but also suffering from some nervousness and last minute jitters.

Would be great to find some friends here from my area.

Thanks for looking, happy day all...

Hi Tracie! Just wanted to say best wishes for your surgery on Monday! I'm not too far...down in Southern Butler Co. in Cranberry. I'm sure it will all go well...keep us posted! -BG

Hi.........I am from Clarion County - originally from Armstrong County - how are you doing? Have you found anyone else from Armstrong County? I would be glad to meet you - I have my nutrition appt. next week.

Billie Schwab

Hi Billie, no, no one else from our area has gotten in touch with me. Happily though am going to be meeting some other bandsters that have the same surgeon as I do at my first support group meeting this week. So really looking forward to that.

Can I ask, where in Armstrong do you hail from?

And how did your nutrition appointment go?

Will shoot you off a friend request.

I hail from - drum roll please - Eddyville :laugh:. If you have not visited Eddyville before (snicker snickerr - doubtful), it is 11 miles from New Bethlehem via legislative route 839. It is two miles down the mahoning creek from the Mahoning Dam. And where did you say you were from? Where do you go for your support groups? I think my first one will be next week. I had thought of going this week and last but both weeks something came up. I am still several months out till my surgery so I have time to explore all of these things. So, I don't remember if you mentioned if you were from Kittanning proper or if you were in the heights? Tell me a little more about yourself. I live in Venus now (don't remember if I mentioned that or not. Venango county is just across the street from me so Venus is right on the Clarion/Venango County border. I see you are a night owl by the time of your email to me. I am sometimes too. Unfortunately I have two canine friends who like to get me up far too early (like this morning) - but hey I guess when you gotta do your business you gotta go. OK, well, off to the shower I go. Take care and thanks for writing back. I will get used to all of these options on the site so hope to talk to you soon. Billie

Billie, I am just about a three minute drive up the hill from downtown Kittanning.

Am going to Butler Hospital for my support group meetings, my surgeon has his patients organized into one there monthly, although I stressed that I would prefer they be more often and the nurses are trying to take him into doing that. I think it would be good for us all to meet at least twice a month there to share stories and experiences and support. The first meeting went wonderfully, although hubby and I showed up about fifteen minutes late due to doc's office being confused about start times.

So are you near to the Cook Forest area at all? We were just up that way recently and we had such a nice time, hadn't been there in about two years so it was nice to take an afternoon and drive around and because it is off season now, there weren't a whole lot of people around, bonus! I did experience my first bout of some serious post op all day nausea that day, due to my own foolishness with the amount of food I ate but we still had a nice time. It was cold that day though so we did just about all of our wandering around from behind the warmth of the car. We went spotting deer up in the woods, drove along the creek, drove up to the Water Tower and back down. Wish we had left earlier to be able to spend more hours but we will be heading back up that way soon, I'd like to go before the serious snow season sets in.

Isn't a whole lot to tell about myself I suppose. I have been married for over 20 years, no children but we do share our home with our cats Keeley and Kelsey and they get treated like children anyway. I also have two wonderful little nieces who mean the world to me and I shower the attention on them that I would have liked to have given my own children if I had been so blessed. I am into Photography, photo and graphic editing, computer games, Wii, primitive decorating, saltbox houses, wicker baskets, swimming, time with family. :crying: And can you tell me more about yourself? If you would like, you can message me privately and we can carry on our conversation there. :w00t: