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Hi!

I'm getting my surgery on November 19th. I'm excited and would like to find some others who are having surgery with Dr. Ewing.

Corkee

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Hi there - saw your post - I had surgery in March with Dr. Schmidt in the same office. It is the best decision I ever made. I love Nadia the nurse practioner who does my fills and am very happy with the office in general. I go to the monthly support group at Hackensack associated with the group too. Let me know if you have any questions or need any support! Good Luck!!!

Cynthia

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Hi Cynthia,

I'm glad your experience was good. I have a lot of questions that came up just reading the site. Can we speak offline? My email is corkee26 at yahoo.

Corkee

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Hi Corkee,

I'm also getting my Lapband with Dr. Ewing at 11/19/10 as well. Small world!! What time is your surgery? I'm a little bit nervous about getting the surgery done. Are you in any pre diet that I'm reading about in this site?

Hi Cynthia,

Is nice to hear from someone who has gone thru it and has only nice things to say about them. Would you know if you need to pay for the support group in Hackensack?

Thanks guys, I hope to hear from you both.

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Good luck to you both!!!!

No - the support group is free.

Best of luck and contact me if you would like.

Cynthia

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I hope I did this correctly.

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Ok, it didn't work, can someone tell me where to put the code to get my ticker onto my responses? Thanks!

Randee

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Try this.

Click on my ticker and it will take you to the page.

the go to create my own ticker.

The top section that has all those codes - copy it.

go to lapband home page and then click on user CP on the bottom left of the top blue section on the page.

Go down to edit signature

Paste onto the signature box.

let me know if it works or you need more help.

Took me forever to figure it out.

Cynthia

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I got as far as developing a ticker, but can't for the life of me figure out which box to paste it too in the signature page. Is that the big box or one of the two small boxes in the bottom?

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The big box under edit signature.

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I did it! Thanks Cynthia

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Paste it into the big box.

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Skip that, I thought mine worked but it didn't. I feel stupid. lol

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I put it in the signature box and it doesn't work. Now what?! lol Also, once you have it, what do you do to make it change the weight as you lose it?

Thanks again,

Randee

Try this.

Click on my ticker and it will take you to the page.

the go to create my own ticker.

The top section that has all those codes - copy it.

go to LAP-BAND® home page and then click on user CP on the bottom left of the top blue section on the page.

Go down to edit signature

Paste onto the signature box.

let me know if it works or you need more help.

Took me forever to figure it out.

Cynthia

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Tried again...

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