Congratulations Jill!

     It does feel good to hear those compliments again and to be able to fit into your "small" jeans.  We know that as we move further from our WLS those compliments are fewer and farther between.  You are working hard to stick to your program of clean eating and exercise.  Wouldn't it be nice if we could "bottle" that feeling for the times when we are discouraged?  Glad that you put this out on the board - we all need to be happy about our continued "successing".  I don't think that you are basing your self esteem on your body size - it's just nice for someone to notice and acknowledge your hard work.  Have a good weekend.

Donna

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

Thanks Ida.

I want to know if they will approve my surgery. I want to know if they require a medically supervised diet and if so for how long? I want to know how long from the first appointment until the time I can have my surgery is. What all do they require to be done in order to approve the surgery. If I know ahead of time I can start getting things in order ahead of time. Thanks in advance.

Good Morning Donna;

thanks for thinking of me!

I am good.  Love the new job, getting acclimated, enjoying the management end of things, I have 16 direct reports.  So my days are quite full, they go by so quickly now.  I'm amazed every day when I look at my watch and it's noon.  I enjoy my senior management, I knew I would, like I said she has been stalking me for years to bring me back to the department.  The company is growing at an amazing rate, not sure how we are doing it but we are!

The house is still the house.  The legal side of it is heating up again, so we'll see what happens in the next few weeks or so.  there are odds and ends that need to be completed in the house - our son-in-law will complete that when he has time, hopefully this summer the court case will be over with so we can put the deck off the back of the house.  We did have to have an engineer and house inspector in the house to make reports on what they found below standards - that will go to the judge - they found stuff is all I can say.

Gene is good.  He's out today to a training with a man that studied under Sal Minuchin - the same program Gene did some of his post graduate work in.  He's really excited about that today.  He'll be teaching a doctoral level course in Addictions starting in May.  We are still muddling through the contracting and credentialing processes with various health insurers.

the kitties are still at odds.  Hider is never going to like Ez.  Ez is so cute and funny there are nights we just sit here and laugh at his antics.  He's so keen and interested in everything always watching to see what we are doing.  The other night he was jumping up to the latch on the basement door to open it to get into the room where Hider was.  It was amazing watching him try to figure out how to open the latch.  He didn't but spent a good 45 minutes trying.  Hider is getting old, we realize we probably have a few good years left with her, it is a shame she will not warm up to Ez, all he wants is someone to hang out with.

Now off to start my long list of stuff I want to accomplish today.  Want to have the kids home for Easter dinner so I have to get the house in a Presentable order, I asked Gene if he wants to invite his family so he's thinking about it.  Not sure if the house if ready to present to his family yet.  I'm looking forward to spending time cooking a nice Easter dinner this year.  I have off Holy Thursday and Good Friday from work, that will give me a few extra days to cook and clean whatever I don't get cleaned this weekend and next.

Happy St. Patty's day to those who celebrate. 

Ida