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Kasey2014    1

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Would love to serve in Lake county Florida , I am so excited to have the opportunity to help others while I'm helping myself please Alex count me in.

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Kasey1957    1

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Hi Alex,

Once you posted information on classes for CE Credits. It was for group leadership programs. Can you re-post that link as I thought I had kept it, but can't find it.

Thanks

Nancy

Yes please Alex thanks

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Kasey1957    1

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Yes please Alex thanks

I am new and so this is me on my crazy phone trying to introduce myself. I have a date of June 16th in Ocala Florida, I live in Lake County and would love some same date friends, close location friends, know what were going through friends. Email me or ask me for my number, send me a friend request.. done a lot of research so now just got to do it..willing to help anyway I can..Good luck to you all

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Alex Brecher    10,516

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Hi Alex,

Once you posted information on classes for CE Credits. It was for group leadership programs. Can you re-post that link as I thought I had kept it, but can't find it.

Thanks

Nancy

Yes please Alex thanks

It's 23 CE's. Click here for more info on this one day course.

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peggums    10

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Hello! Peggums here...........

I'm post op RNY 5/8/2014... Just getting used to my inner newnesses...I'm also an RN who worked in outpatient surgery setting for many decades...but BEING the one having the surgery is way way different...HA! I learned a lot about the PAIN I didn't expect...I learned I was capable of getting thru it...but it got down to minutes...meaning how long it took for the pain med to help then finally ease up the pain....LOVE the little green button!(PCA)...I had more than one moment of complete anger at myself for not being able to control my weight my whole life and ending up having to have a surgery (which I really really wanted)...and also wondering...WHAT HAVE YOU DONE NOW!! Thankfully, that passed....time passed and I got home to recover without incident...but taking it easy ,too.

I really love the idea of local in-person support group. My Bariatric Facility..OHSU has a support group in Portland as well that I haven't gone to as yet.

I live about an hour north of Portland, in Silverlake,Wa and would love to know about any groups formed in the Southwest Washington area.

Thanks~P

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Brialis    22

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Alex, I would love to start a chapter in the Spokane WA area. I tried to submit a form through the contact us link and kept getting an error message. I don't know how to make contact otherwise a so here I am... Let me know what to do... Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you...

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Alex Brecher    10,516

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Alex, I would love to start a chapter in the Spokane WA area. I tried to submit a form through the contact us link and kept getting an error message. I don't know how to make contact otherwise a so here I am... Let me know what to do... Thank you and I look forward to hearing from you...

Sending you PM.

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Carin Boyer    90

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Alex, I would love to coordinate a chapter in the Park Slope/Cobble Hill/Carroll Gardens/Boerum Hill Area for Bariatric Pal. I have been organizing a similar meeting via MeetUp for about a year. We met in Manhattan. I can tell you there is a demand for face to face contact, and although they have tried, the medical community can't provide enough or the specific type of support that patient organized meetings provide. I am researching the certification you listed. Please let me know if I can help your efforts in any way.

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Alex Brecher    10,516

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Hi Carin,

That would be fantastic! We had our first meeting in Manhattan over the weekend. Wish you would have joined! It would be fantastic to get something started in Park slope etc. There are many many WLS patients in your neighborhood. As group leader it would be up to you to select a time, place and location. We've created flyers you can use to post at your surgeons office or any other groups you attend. Please post to the local support chapter topic and let them know that you'll be leading. I'll also provided you with access to the local chapter leader forums once you confirm you'd like to move forward.

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Alex Brecher    10,516

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Hi! I would love to start a support group in the Baltimore area; however, I'm not sure where to start. Also, I can't see/ find these threads on the app version. :-(

We'd love to have you running a Baltimore based support group. Here's more info on how to get one going:

http://www.bariatricpal.com/topic/303015-were-launching-bariatricpal-local-chapters/#entry3423124

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

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