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Hi I am from Ohio and also had my surgery on 1/30/14 by dr McCloskey. The hospital and her staff are great. I am going for my 6 month appointment tomorrow. Starting weight 254 current weight 167. If you are still having meetings I'd love to join. Would be great to meet with people who share my same experience and get some tips.

Hi Spazdd!

We haven't had a meeting yet. I must admit that I have dropped the ball a bit. If you have any suggestions as to where we might have our first meeting please let me know. Good luck at your appointment today. If you have the chance to tell the staff about our group, please do.

Here is a question to the group....I know we are all spread out, but if you had to pick one of these locations for our first get together, which would you choose...

Oakland

Robinson

Hi. Robinson as I have no idea where the other place is located lol

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I'm looking in to Lap Band with Dr Wilcox.. Has anyone had him?

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I'm looking in to Lap Band with Dr Wilcox.. Has anyone had him?

I had Dr. Wilcox do my RNY. He is absolutely wonderful!!!! Very professional and thorough. I originally wanted lap and but he encouraged me to go with RNY. So glad I took his advice. Down 70 pounds since Feb 27th. Have 30 more to lose.

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Just wondering if there will be a meeting soon?

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I can have a conference room in monroeville.

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Hi Everyone! My name is Carol and I will be leading the Pittsburgh Chapter. I look forward to meeting my fellow Pittsburgers and getting to know all of you!

I had my Sleeve surgery on Dec 19, 2013 and I LOVE it. I am currently down about 57 pounds. My personal goal is to lose between 80 and 100 pounds when all is said and done. I had my Surgery at McGee Womans Hospital by Dr. Carol McCloskey.

I will be working on getting a space for us to meet in the next couple of weeks. If you have any suggestions, please let me know! I want to make myself available to you, so you can email me at cmb73@live.com if you have any questions that you might not want to post here.

So....where is everyone?!

Hi Carol. I met with Dr. McCloskey a couple of weeks ago to begin my journey from lap band to gastric sleeve revision. She did not place the band. Another surgeon did whose practice I left and followed up with Dr. Urbandt who is now either retired or moved.

I would be curious to know how many of those early posters who had the band are now getting them out. Mine was done in 2008.

I would also like to hear of anyone else who had her for their surgical revision.

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Hi I'm from the Pgh area and had my lap band done by Dr McCloskey at Magee 4/16/15. Very happy with my decision so far. In 6 days, down 4 +pounds :)

Looks like this thread died....hoping we can get it going again!!

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It seems like this thread has officially died out. Too bad, as I hoped to have a local chapter to meet with others who have had surgery. I wish I had the time to take over this group. Maybe we could all have an online support group instead or just decide ourselves to get together sometime.

Thoughts?

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It seems like this thread has officially died out. Too bad, as I hoped to have a local chapter to meet with others who have had surgery. I wish I had the time to take over this group. Maybe we could all have an online support group instead or just decide ourselves to get together sometime.

Thoughts?

Yes I think that would be great!!

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I'm in for a get together! I'm almost 8 weeks out and down 20+ lbs. Did have a set back of gall stone pancreatitis and had to have my GB removed yesterday! On the mend and will be back on plan within a day or so.

Let me know where and when....I'm by the airport but have no issue w driving somewhere east.

Kristi

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WOULD LOVE TO HAVE A GET TOGETHER, JUST NEED A PLACE AND TIME! I AM FROM OHIO AND SOMEWHERE AROUND AIRPORT IS NO ISSUE.

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Dr Wilcox from Hope Bariatrics is doing my RNY in Washington on the 27th!

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Dr Wilcox from Hope Bariatrics is doing my RNY in Washington on the 27th!

He did mine in Feburary. I have had a wonderfully easy time of it.

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