Support Group????

Yes!  We have meetings the first and third Wed of each month.  Hope to see you there!  :o)

Is this the same suport group that met at Prebytarian on Harper?  I was a member 5 years go,but there was not much for those of us who are post op.......

Well, it started at Pres, but about a year or two ago, it moved to Grace Church.  Most of the members are post op.  Many of us are one, two, or more years out.  We have a really good group.  Come by!

When  I was mega involved, we tried hard to split the large group into a "pre" and up to 6 months post and then have support for those of us past that.  But we got such huge pre groups, it always went back to those pre-op questions.  Most of us old timers ended up leaving out of sheer boredom.  You can only pay it forward so much, at some point even the 1-2 year out folks will develop other issuses such as reactive hypoglycemia and the plastic surgery questions.  Is Janel still leading it?  She had more or less taken it over when I finally gave up.  Great gal her and Jay:-)  Anyways, was just curious, thanks for the reply:-)

Yes.  I guess that happens with groups.  Currently, there are quite a few of us that are 2-4 yrs out.  As always, there are newbies, so we try to meet their needs first.  I don't know Janel or Jay.  I think the person that is the logest out is BarbaraAnn.  She's my hero!!!  Anyway, you should try to make it sometime. 

Mary

Name is not familiar to me where is Grace Church?  Now that  I am 5 years out and still struggling with the reactive hypoglyemia, I would like to know how others are dealing with it.  Thanks for the information.

It's on San Antonio and Louisiana - pretty easy to find.  We're in the northernmost building.  We meet at 6:30 on the first and third Wednesdays.  I think there are a few people that struggle with RA - me being one of them.  I do ok if I eat sensibly (protein first, etc.), but don't do so well if I have carbs or sugar first.  Would love to meet you! 

You are quite a ways out.  How have you done with your weight loss?  I'm only 2 years out and not quite at my own goal.  Would love to lose another 15-20 lbs.  Not sure if that will happen though.  It scares me to death to think about gaining!  I know it happens - I just don't want it to happen to me!  :o)

I will put it on my calendar for the first week of April, will be fun:-) 

 I did well with the weight loss, lost 200 lbs total in almost 2 years.  I had to have the skin removed from my stomach and breasts about 15 months out though, I have fibromyalgia and a MRSA infection history and my girls was trying to talk to my belly button....so my doctor thought I should have it off sooner than later.  I'm currently at 173 lbs, had lost down to 145 but my primary wanted me closer to 170 so I added wheat, corn, starchy veggies into my diet.  That just escalated the blood sugar issue and gave me congestive heart failure with elevated blood pressure again.  So he sent me to an endocrinologist who put me back on the bare bones diet reccomended by the University of Minn.  I did the 5dpt thing last week and immediately dropped 8 lbs.  I can't believe how much better I feel overall already:-)  But it's a struggle to live with blood sugars crashing to the low 40s/high 30s just for eating a piece of bread or potato:-(  At the end of the day though, it's about better overall health I guess:-) 

Yes.  We meet the 1st and 3rd Wed of every month! 

Are there still meetings in 2011 going on?  I would love to attend.