Hey there all! I'm a 22 year old mother of a 2 year old special needs/disabled son. My husband is stationed at Fort Lewis. I have no family or friends up here so it would be nice to connect with some other banders in this area...Anyone? lol Hope all is well with eveyone. I also have a whole lot of clothes that I'm getting rid of. Sizes 18-24/26. Shirts, Pants, suits, large bras...lol. All kinds of stuff. Take care!

I'm in Puyallup as well. I would love to get together people in the same area. I moved here in January and don't have too many friends here yet and my family is all back on the East coast.

I've had my band since 4/18/08 and am at goal. Going in for a port reposition and tummy tuck in Sept. 18th.

If anyone is interested in getting together, I'd love to hear from ya.

Hi, I live in Puyallup also. You have done great with your weight loss. What made you decide to move way over here from the East coast?

My husband is in the military and is now stationed at Ft. Lewis. We moved here in January from Kansas, I hated it there. We love it so much here that this is where we are going to stay when he retires in about 5 years. Where in Puyallup are you? I am on 74th Ave. Ct. E, off of 144th.

You have done well with your loss as well. I was thinking of starting a lapband support group in this area. I haven't heard of one around here, so figured it would be easy enough to start one. Let me know if you want to get together for coffee or something.

I live off of 136/meridian up the road from the movie theater. I would love to get together for coffee. I work graveyard shifts, so have a weird scheduale. work 2300-0700 .I know there is a bariatric support group held at vita lady in puyallup, but think it is mostly by-pass folks.

by the way my name is lisa

My husband is in the military and is now stationed at Ft. Lewis. We moved here in January from Kansas, I hated it there. We love it so much here that this is where we are going to stay when he retires in about 5 years. Where in Puyallup are you? I am on 74th Ave. Ct. E, off of 144th QUOTE]

I used to love living here too lol. The first year I loved it...after a while I started hating it. My husband is stationed at Ft. Lewis too. Been there for about 4-5 years so far....cannot wait to move!!! lol Let us know how the surgeries go for ya :biggrin:

what made you start hating living here?

It was a mix of things...the rain, the people, being so far from "home" and the post...I used to love the rain before I moved there.

if you dont like rain a lot this isnt the place to be. This summer is a unusually warm one for us so far. Im surprised folks are not being nice. They usually are. Im not sure about the folks around tacoma. i grew up in west seattle and moved to puyallup 5 years ago. I got lucky that most of my neighbors are very friendly. It has to be so hard to be so far away from your family with all the moving around you have to do in the military. I know i couldnt do it.

Oh no....when I moved there I LOVED the rain....would go for walks in it...sit outside and watch it. I just hate it there lol. A lot of the people (one's you run into at stores and what not) have no sense of humor. Barely anyone knows how to drive in the rain, snow, or even sunshine lol. It's beautiful there though!

lol.. we all should be able to drive in the rain, we learn to drive in it...very few of us can drive in the snow.and we are all to surprised to see the sun to drive properly

how much longer are you guys going to be stationed here?

I learned to drive in Cali and a lot of the people in the Tacoma area are military that aren't from here. My husband is set to deploy again next month and we've already been there for 4/5 years. With this high risk pregnancy I'm going to have to stay in Cali with my parents to care for me and my son

sorry to hear your haveing a diff pregnacy. Glad you are able to stay with family to help you.

I dont like california drivers, they drive crazy to me we went down there once, and it was scary to drive on the freeway there. i let my friend who is from there do all the driving.

I missed Cali It's nice to drive on the freeway going 75 with a cop right next to ya :w00t: lol. Also a lot of our main roads have a speed limit of 50 instead of 35

i wish they would up our speed limit some 60 is way to slow for the freeway with as much traffic as we have.

Yeah. In Oregon it gets even slower!