Are you a nurse? I am starting a support group for nurses that are contemplating, undergoing or are now 'old pro's' with their sleeves!

By way of introduction, my name is Jana & I live in the DFW area and am currently undergoing the approval process. I have been a RN for 38 years--18 years in Surgery & 18 years in Case Management & as a Manager for a major health plan carrier.

So feel free to jump on board!

Oh my God!!!! I made it! I freaking made it into the nursing program! I just received an email! I'm crying, overjoyed, and extremely nervous! I didn't think I would be this emotional! Loving life right now!

Oh my God!!!! I made it! I freaking made it into the nursing program! I just received an email! I'm crying' date=' overjoyed, and extremely nervous! I didn't think I would be this emotional! Loving life right now![/quote']

That is awesome! I am so happy for you

You deserve this and I know you will work hard and do great

That is awesome! I am so happy for you

You deserve this and I know you will work hard and do great

Thanks, Laura! I've never cried from being so happy before. You'd think I won the lottery! It's extremely hard to get in here in Houston. I ran and jumped on my poor sleeping husband!

Oh my God!!!! I made it! I freaking made it into the nursing program! I just received an email! I'm crying, overjoyed, and extremely nervous! I didn't think I would be this emotional! Loving life right now!

Congratulations! That's such great news! It is pretty competitive all over these days, so good on you! You've got to be the whole package to get in. So, who is the lucky to school to get you? 2 year or 4 program?

Oh my God!!!! I made it! I freaking made it into the nursing program! I just received an email! I'm crying, overjoyed, and extremely nervous! I didn't think I would be this emotional! Loving life right now!

Congratulations - I applied 3 times before I got in! As others have said, nursing is a great career. There are so many options.

Hi everyone! I have been an RN for 8 years. I currently work from home caring for medically fragile people that actually live with me. We live in Central Texas. I had my sleeve on 5/13 in Reynosa. My doctor was Dr. Felipe Cantu Jr. He and his staff were awesome. No problems from the surgery. I am only down 25lbs since my pre-op weight of 245. I got a viral illness a week out. I have been very weak since. I am trying to do things every day. Walk a little or something. Some days I do too much, and then I'm in pain. I'm trying to do better in that area. I am feeling better over all. I want to go back in to the Hospice field as soon as I can. I guess that will be between 2-4 weeks. I'm excited about the sleeve because I am a type 2 diabetic (insulin dependent; have hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. )I'm hoping to get healthier now. I feel like I've kind of stalled for the last few days. I am hoping that its just because I started my period yesterday. I wish us all luck. I'm glad I found this group. Anybody is welcome to friend me on my FB. I'm listed as Rachelle Bates Johnston, or rach@joyw.com is my Email. We probably need all the support friends we can find! Ill keep everyone posted!!

Congratulations on your recent surgery and subsequent loss! It's still early, but it does get better every day. I remember around 6 or 7 weeks, I started feeling better. I used to be a hospice nurse (actually did PI, intake, was supervisor a while, educator, lol). But I believe that Hospice nursing is some of the best nursing out there...what a way to make an important difference for patients and their famiies. It will be so much easier for you to be in the field when you get your health issues resolved! Welcome to the nurse's thread!

Thanks! I'm doing the two year for now and hopefully when my babies are older, I'll get my BSN.

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Thinking of you tairabird, hoping you are finished with surgery and recovering well!

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Here I am in all my glory;), NG tube in my noseh... NGt will come out around 6pm today after leak test completed.? JP, will need to remain for a couple days.

Having some pain but the nurses are controlling it well. Mouth is so dry I sent DH to get some mouth moisturier called biotene. It has been a lifesaver tonight.

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Here I am in all my glory;), NG tube in my noseh... NGt will come out around 6pm today after leak test completed.? JP, will need to remain for a couple days.[/quote']

You look happy! So excited for all of us being June sleevers!!! Good luck and speedy recovery!

I got my date!!! June 12 so a week from today

You look happy! So excited for all of us being June sleevers!!! Good luck and speedy recovery!

Thank you Amy! I am happy that it is finally done and I am officially going down my path to a healthier me!

I finished up my Pediatric rotation a couple weeks ago, during my post clinical with my preceptor she asked if she could get personal with me for a minute. She proceeded to say "I have struggled with my weight my whole life...... now you know where this is going...." I was mortified, I couldn't believe she was having the "weight" talk with me. She went on to tell me that no matter how great of a nurse I am that I will always be judged by my weight, and how people will question hiring me because I may not be able to do my job and its already hard on nurses and I need to start loosing weight.... now" Needless to say I was mortified, embarrassed, sad..... so sad..... I don't want to be this way, I have struggled so long I don't know how to be any other way. I told her I am in the process of working towards weight loss surgery, but I still have another clinical rotation before surgery, and now I doubt myself, I am smart I know I am smart, I know I do a good job, but now I feel like they will doubt my abilities based on my weight. I am mad at myself for not being smart years ago, I am mad at myself for not doing something 6 weeks, 6 months, 6 years ago..... I want people to look at me for the person I am, not the fat I carry. I had my final Psych visit yesterday and told him about the "talk" he said "you know I have always felt unsolicited advice is no different than criticism" in a way yes, but is she right.... yes, yes she is. Should I be looked over for a job, or in a clinical setting because of my weight? No, but will I be.... probably. Will people question if I can do an effective job, yes I suppose they might. I guess I just needed to vent for a minute.....