I'm in Cannon Beach. 

Thank you for your response Ambelina.  I've come to terms and believe that our doctor is putting us through this class first because we are new patients for him.  We switched our insurance this year to Kaiser to go through their Gastric Bypass program.  This Thursday will be our final call.  I plan to send my doctor an e-mail to find out what he would like for us to do next.  I don't mean to come off as pushy but this isn't something that we've decided to do overnight, we've been researching this for the past several years.  Both my husand and myself have struggled with our weight our entire life.  Being skinny and looking good in clothes will be a plus but we need this for our health.  We've come to terms that we both need this tool to help us lose the weight.  Ok, I'm rambling at this point.  Thank you again for the information!

    Anyone else going to try to go to this one?  I went to the one they did in the fall and got lots of good info and encouragement in this journey.   I made some good friends and am happy this one is coming along.  I think my husband and I are both going to be at this one.
http://doingthedailyapps.com/
 
                                                                                     Angie

Dr. Patterson did mine. She's a very good surgeon and I highly recommend her. Dr. Smith was her assistant at that time and so I actually had them both. Dr. Halpin also worked with them and I've heard nothing but good about her. I think with all the choices you've been given you're golden no matter which you choose.

I just moved from Vancouver over to the Oregon Coast in December. There is a support group at Southwest Wa Med. Center as Kathey mentioned. If you call the hospital they should be able to get you all the info. I never went to it because I worked right up till the time the meetings started and couldn't ever get there in time. Now I wish I had rearranged my work schedule to fit it in since there don't seem to be any support groups in my new area. Let me know if you need any other info on Vancouver, maybe I can help. We were there for about 6 years.