Who's Heading to the Philadelphia Event?

Hey everyone...anyone attending the Philadelphia Event on October 4th... As of right now Lora 13, Baseball Mom and I are planning to come from the Pittsburgh Area together.... I am really excited and hope to meet with some of you gals who I have had conversations with... I am a NJ girl so would love to see some folks from Cenetral Jersey come as well.

I also want to share about my recent bloodwork and prewarn all of you to check into this. I had what they call a CTX screening. This is a screening to see how the osteoclasts ( those cells that breakdown old bone) and osteoblast that build new bone up preventing osteoporosis are in ratio. Of course you want more blasts than clasts. I had mine checked one year ago 3 mos after the gastric bypass and they were 11,000 and that is off the page.They should be 2-3,000. So, at the urging of my gynie ( who I might add looks like Jean Claude Van damm (seriously) ) I went on an estrogen patch after 6 mos they should have fallen to within normal limits. They are just as high as the lst time... This is a serious thing because I am looming with the possibilty of osteopososis and I did not lose all this weight to be healthy to start breaking bones...so what to do. I take my calcium and vitamin d levels which are within normal limits. The next recourse is a med given yearly call reclast and this is an IV...Be tested ladies...Keep those bones healthy...  Patricia...

I hope to attend the event, but we shall see what happens as my weekends are full right up to the beginning of Oct and one of my friends b-day's is that weekend.  The PA board of OH is going to have a Pilmgrimage event the following day to coincide with the OH event, they are still working out the details so stay tuned and let Lora and Mary know as well. . .

Take care, Laureen

What is a pilgrimage event or what would we do?... Patricia

The Pilgrimage event was started a few years ago by a couple of people on the PA board as a support group event, where people who had met on OH could get together and share their various experiences to encourage one another, as well as what they have collectively learned to help others as they progress on this journey. 

The last one, end of May, was attended by over 100 people and held in Lancaster, PA, they had group meetings for the various stages of post-op, as well as a surgeon and his team, who volunteered to come and give us a talk about post-WLS and what we need to do to continue to have successful journeys, also had a pain management chiropractor who gave a wonderful speech on the mind, body connection, the proper nutrition guides and while he had not had WLS, he had struggled with his weight and spoke of his battles and how he overcame them and they also had a plastics surgeon come and give a presentation. 

So keep your eyes on the PA board for more information, they host it 2x a year, in October and then in May.  Because of the Philadelphia OH event they are trying to coordinate it with that this year, as it makes sense to do so, but they will only be doing a one day event, at least that's what I think.

Have a great day, Laureen

Patricia,

Lora and I were just talking about Philly today. Are you staying at the hotel or with your daughter? E-mail me or Lora with info. We will be staying at the hotel and I'm sure you can be our "roomie" if your're not staying with your daughter. Get back to us.

Mary

I think since the girl from Moon Twship is not goping and I am not sure if anyone from my group is going. I will probably stay at my daughter's if that would be ok with you. It will help me conserve some money.Since I have to make my trip to Cleveland and I need rotrs and tires on my vechicle I will be at the Event however by 7 am and will meet you there and hang out with you guys and drive back to my daughter's saturday night and meet up with you sunday ... we can sure do the pilgrimage read the lst entry to my post... I want to meet these people and see how they are doing. I think it is going to be cool beans. Were you guys planning a 2 night stay at the hotel? I want to know your thoughts. I am off Friday also...my thought is if you want we can mosie our way down the turnpike and find some outlets??? There are several or maybe take a side trip to Amish Country whereever that is.... So, let me know your thoguhts. I am pumped up...this should be great fun....Patricia  By the way tell Lora I called her yesterday and LMOM and she did not call me back....

Patricia,

I sent you a PM about Philly. I'll be seeing Lora later this morning and we will talk about it

Mary