Hi I normally post on the VA board as I live in VA, but Dr. Kalan is out of DC....he was my surgeon. I would love to meet other patients of his! Kirsten

Aloha Ramona, I actually had a bad experience with Kaiser regarding the insurance and the wait list. Have you started your letter? I have a copy of my letter if you need that? Kema

I am new to this process and I recently began working with Kaiser Permanente. I had to choose their plan but I chose the plan with the most options and flexibility. Does anyone have any experience with Kaiser,or do you know any stories?

Bariatric101 Support Group meets tonight at Providence Hospital (12th and Varnum, Washington DC, NE) in the board room across from Ross Auditorium. All are welcome ! Pre-ops, Post-op and No-ops We meet from 6pm to 8pm. Please ask the nurses at the tables outside the auditorium where the post-ops are meeting and they will direct you to our room. There is an information session held in the auditorium with Dr. Terrence Fullum for those interested in having the surgery or if you just want more info. Valerie Bariatric101.com

Hi Everyone :wave:

Over the weekend Obesityhelp had an Easter egg hunt. Those who missed it or never did find the egg, I'm going to tell you what it led to. We have been working hard to bring a more feature-rich experience to all our dedicated members and are pleased to announce that the BETA version is publicly available for you to browse and use! Keep in mind the site is not 100% complete, which means we are still adding and changing things. This rollout focuses around implementing a new navigation, customizable homepage, bookmarks and a few other neat items that we know you will enjoy; however, our job is not complete. We are also in the process of adding more requested features to the site including: a new profile system, blogs, photo albums, private messaging, and much, much more. Stay tuned for more updates on these specific items.

In the next few days there will be some changes to the message boards. We will be converting the boards to our new system, which you can see in action now in the Emotional Eating and Magazine forum. We are going to start with the main message board and work our way through all the boards. Some features in the new boards include: the ability to edit your own posts, delete a post, have signature lines, and font selections.

Check out the BETA site here:
http://beta.obesityhelp.com

We are anticipating the full launch of the site sometime next week, so one day you will come to the site and it's going to be totally different, so make sure you check out the beta site and familiarize yourself with it now :jump:

Moving forward to better things!

Amy