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I am a Registered Nurse in Buckhannon who underwent gastric bypass surgery in November 2005. My surgery was a success as evidenced by a 148 pound weight loss. But now I am starting to struggle with those "old habits creeping up on me" and thought a support group would be helpful. The hospital I work at has a Registered Dietician, a co-worker who is an RN with an extensive mental health background and other health care individuals I'm sure would be glad to speak from time to time. If you are interested in a support group located in Buckhannon, please let me know. My email is: [email protected]

I don't mean to intrude on your post, but I live in eastern KY and my friend & I are trying to get a support group started. I know you're too far away to come to us, but I thought I might get some interested readers from your posting. Our support group will probably meet in Pikeville, KY or Inez, KY. These places are only minutes from the KY/WV line and any WV weight loss people are welcome. If anyone in WV near the KY border is interested, send me a shout-out and I'll see what I can get together. Again, sorry to intrude on your post!

No problem. There are enough people out there who have had the surgery, awaiting surgery, or interested in the surgery that would benefit from a support group. Best wishes. :-)

Hey Donna, Heck yeah! I'm in Parsons about 45 min from you. I would so come to the support group meetings. I have a friend here who also had RNY. She is a nurse at DM. I will check with her too. Michelle

Great. Right now the hospital I'm working at wants to check into helping me by providing this support group as one of our community offered groups. They can advertise and do "all the stuff community relations does". If they do that's great, and if not, that's okay too. As an employee I still have the benefits of using our facility and several of my co-workers will help out. Keep checking on this forum. As soon as I find if there are enough of "us" out there that would be interested, I'll provide exact times, dates, locations. Donna