Barix Post-Op Meeting Wednesday Night

Hello Everyone,

We'll get together tomorrow night (Wed.) for our monthly post-op meeting for Lap-Banders and RNYers at Barix in Langhorne in the lobby at 7P. Our attendance has been very "healthy" for over a year now so in the effort to address issues in the most efficient manner please feel free to post your questions or subjects here. Or if you prefer, PM (personal message) me, email me at [email protected] , subject: meeting topics, or you can hand me a note before the meeting.

There will always be more issues than time to handle them at this middle of the work week meeting, but we are working to increase meeting opportunities at Barix so stay tuned. Also please take advantage of any and all support group meetings happening around us. Chris Rivard leads a meeting at the Phoenixville Hospital cafeteria on the first Wednesday of the month. Debi McKinley-Hastings leads a meeting in Aston on the 3rd Monday (I believe). Heather Ward is having a meeting this Saturday 7/19 at her home in Harleysville starting at 1P. Liz Radlbeck leads monthly meetings at Doylestown Hospital, the next one is Thursday at 6P. Susan Burkett has been leading the Barix pre-op meetings on the 2nd Tuesday of the month and I'm sure there are other meetings going on all in the effort to help each other to manage our challenges.

Our WLS patient population is growing every day and our need for long term success tools like frequent support group meetings will need to grow too. The more meeting opportunities we have, the more meetings of a manageable size we will have. In time this will develop naturally because it must. In the meantime don't be hesitant about making a point or opening up a new subject at the meeting Wednesday night. We are all there to hear you, see you and be with you to share the good and the not so good. This is the process that allows us to grow and achieve. Please join us.

I'll see ya there, 

Dennis Belk, Post-Op SG Leader, Langhorne, PA

   

Papa Belk!!  We'll be there pending no pain from miss prissy gallbladder potentially tomorrow after my test.

Actually - my diet is back to regular as well so we might also make dinner - I'm still not sure yet though.

See you tomorrow my friend!

Pam

Just my 2 cents worth here - if you are thinking of adding another meeting to the schedule would a Saturday morning be a possibility? These week nights are just too difficult for me to attend - I work in King of Prussia and live in southern Delaware County (about 5 minutes away from the old Chadds Ford meeting place), but I could get up and do a Saturday morning or afternoon meeting. Just a thought...sorry I'll be missing you guys again...Kathy

Hi Kathy, I appreciate your 2 cents! Yes the thought is to have weekend meetings using the Barix lobby as we do now. In the mornings, afternoons or both. As well as having meetings for different stage groups, early out or veteran/grad groups along with general meetings. It's under discussion and one of the keys will be finding individuals to lead and facilitate these groups.  

I second the Saturday meeting.  I live outside of Scranton and I'm usually too exhausted to drive that far.  (Considering I drive all day with my job)  Saturday would be good.

If I'm somewhere in the Philly area tomorrow, I will be there.  I do ultrasounds at the prison's down there...Norristown...Chester..etc.  I don't like to commit because they could send me to Rockview....  or somewhere out in the State College area.

Dennis,

I will be there for sure.  I hated missing the last meeting, but it was not under my control, as this time last month I was in the hospital.

I do want to throw a subject out there, though, to talk about.  ACCEPTANCE of our new bodies after being transformed.  And that includes trying to deal with our excess skin and not worrying about what other people think, but mainly trying to get ourselves to forget about it.  I know it's a mental thing and I'll eventually get there, but it's not easy.  I will say, though, that I rather have this hanging skin than be almost 400 pounds.  That I know for sure.

See you tomorrow night.

Thanks Karen, I got it down.

I think that it would be nice to have one on a Saturday morning from like 9 to 10/10:30 a.m. if Barix is open to allowing use of their facility for such a thing.  Also, if Pappa Belk can't do it, I'm sure there are others who would be willing to learn what there is to be a group lead, matter of fact OH offers some kind of training for such things and I, for one, would be willing to step up to the plate at some point in the future.  Just an idea, now that it has been brought up. . .

Laureen

Thanks Laureen, I'd be up for it too but I'd like to get more folks involved and you're a prime example of someone who can lend their support experience to others and be very helpful. The more we do, the more we help, the more we are helped. 

Dennis, I am looking forward to seeing everyone tomorrow. Karen's idea of acceptance - especially our skin, sounds like a wonderful subject for discussion. Tammy