Wednesday Support Meeting This Week -- January 16, 2013

Come support each other as we resolve to make this year the best one ever! 

As always, the main focus of this meeting are topics as they relate to post-ops, so please come by and share your WOW moments, as well as whatever else is on your mind.

The Place:  280 Middletown Boulevard, Langhorne, PA 19047 
The time:  7 p.m. until approximately 8:30 p.m.

If you are celebrating a surgiversary, please bring any props (clothes worn prior to WLS, pictures), you will get 5 minutes to share what it was like, what it is like now and what you look forward to.  

We have a nutritionist at every meeting and while all are welcome to attend our support groups, nutritional consults cannot be given to non-Barix patients, but no matter where you had surgery if you feel in need of support we welcome you!

On a last note, while we recognize that there are times when babysitting might be an issue, it would be appreciated if small children were not brought to the meeting, as there are times people have a need to discuss things where having a small child there inhibits their ability to discuss openly talk about what they need to.  Thank you for your understanding.

Jill

 

i will be there!

I really wish I would have came to support groups.. I just didn't think they were for me! I am scheduled this Monday January 21st and I am kind of freaking out. I tried to find other people that were having surgery that day or close.. but not really anyone on the Langhorne site here. I am so nauseous with my pre op diet..ughh this is just horrible. Dr. Marymore is my surgeon.

Sounds like you've got the usual pre-op stuff going on and yes, the pre-op and the early post-op is not fun, but the end result is wonderful.  Living life in a manner that you've probably wished for for some time, will be possible, you will feel like you've turned the clock back to an earlier, more active self. . .

Please come to support groups, it helps to have the perspective of others, who by virtue of having gone through what you are going to experience.   While we may have supportive family and friends (some don't), unless they've gone through this, they really don't get the various things we experience.

I wish you well on your journey, Dr. Marymor is a wonderful surgeon and well skilled and Barix, well the care you get there is the best.

If you need anything just come here and someone will eventually answer you.  If you have any issues post-op that even remotely seem odd, call the number they give you upon discharge, when they give your their number, it's because they care enough to help you get through this.

Laureen

Support groups are great, before AND after surgery.  Don't be a stranger.  Many of us feel we owe the degree of our success to our involvement in receiving and giving support!  Barix has groups the 1st Saturday, 2nd Tuesday, and 3rd Wednesday of every month.  And, I must say, we are a wonderful group of people.  :-)  In the meantime, feel free to post on this forum so you can see that others have been where you are!