I just booked my hotel.. (Im being lazy, don't feel like driving back and forth from Dayton)

I can't freakin wait!!!


I'm still soliciting people to go out Dancing Friday night!

 Personal Development     The Donkey In The Well Story     Here's a favorite motivational story. It's been around the Internet for awhile and I don't know the author. There's a good message here . . .   One day a farmer´s donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried piteously for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally he decided the animal was old and the well needed to be covered up anyway, it just wasn´t worth it to retrieve the donkey.   He invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They all grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, the donkey realized what was happening and cried horribly. Then, to everyone´s amazement, he quieted down.   A few shovel loads later, the farmer finally looked down the well and was astonished at what he saw. With every shovel of dirt that hit his back, the donkey was doing something amazing. He would shake it off and take a step up. As the farmer´s neighbors continued to shovel dirt on top of the animal, he would shake it off and take a step up.   Pretty soon, everyone was amazed as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off.   Life is going to shovel dirt on you, all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well, is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest wells just by not stopping, never giving up! Shake it off and take a step upward!

I believe Dr George Kerlakian takes Medicare he is with Group Health Associates in Cincinnati. GHA is a wonderful office. they have an office in Fairfield  but this doctor is in the one in the west side of cinci but we go where we must.
Take care
Mary

Feel free to join is at Dr Rita's next Thursday at 7pm.  We have both men and women in the group... some weeks it's big, some weeks it's small... but it's run by the people in the group so it's flexible enough to accommodate whatever people are dealing with or have questions about at the time.

Lora

Your surgeon's group has a support group (well, they did two years ago, anyway!), the Sycamore/Kettering hospital WLS program has two monthly groups, and Dr. Rita Anderson also has a support group (open to ANYONE who has had any type of WLS... with any surgeon).  Dr Anderson's meets at 7pm the second Thursday of each month in the waiting room of South Dayton Surgeons/New Life Surgery  (which is in the physician's building attached directly to Kettering Hospital).

Lora