Moving to Alaska-Questions?

I received a Lap Band on July 5th 2006, my family may be moving to the Anchorage area and was wondering who I would be able to get Lap Band fills from in the area. I want to make sure they do it under fluoroscopy while there doing the fill. I find that this is the safest way to make sure they are not doing damage to the port or creating a leak. A friend of mine went to someone that was not using the correct needle and she now has a leak. Needing to get a list of Dr's in the Anchorage area that do fills. I'm also very excited about moving to Alaska, however I have two children that will probably not be too thrilled. They've never moved before, my daughter is 16 and my son is 14 so this will be quite a shock. We are looking into the following schools; Colony High School near Palmer; Eagle River High School and Chugiak High School. My son has been wrestling for 10 years and we want to make sure they have a good wrestling program and of course they have a good academic program. Any help in this area would be great. We will be working at the ConocoPhillps building in Anchorage so we don't want the drive to be too long, but want the best school for our kids. Thanks!

Welcome to Alaska! You and your children will love it. There is so much beauty and fun things to do that you'll only be sorry you didn't do it sooner. I can't help you with the lapband. I just had lap rny 2 days ago and I live in Fairbanks. Wrestling is very big and he will have a great time. When will you be arriving in Anchorage? Sherry

Were still unsure if we will be moving, my husband just bid on a job there, we both work for ConocoPhillips. Hopefully we will know something in a couple of weeks. If this does happen I would expect us to be there by mid August. So what is the lap rny? Do they do the bypass and install the lap band too? I weighed 206lbs. when I had mine installed last July and I'm now down to 170lbs. I did it for health reasons, my mother was severly diabetic and ended up loosing a leg and going on dialysis. That is where I was heading if I diden't do something.

Hi Misti, Wow I just noticed you wrote this back on the 19th. I live in Fairbanks, but lived in Anchorage for 10 years prior. I loved it. My 3 boys loved it. We are really big into motocross and the boys race for 5 of the 10 years we lived there. Now only my 18 year old races here with this group when he is not up in Prudoe Bay working on the pipeline. It has been the best years of our lives doing that. Regarding your fills. I belive Dr. Micheal Todd dose them. He did my gastric bypass on May 1st. He is a wonderful Doc. So sweet and very good at what he does. lap RNY is the gastric bypass done laperscopicly (sp?) Sounds like you are doing very well. Keep up the good work. I am down 64.5 lbs. and down 3 sizes. I could not be more pleased. Best wishes Lynnie