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Congrats Sheila!
That's great to hear with Dr Farries :)
Nothing happened yet, but I think timing of trying to meet right before Christmas was kind of silly on my part :)

Hello Ladies,

I live in Calgary, in Beddington Heights. 

I will be having the Vertical Gastric Sleeve with Dr. Lawrence Farries in Red Deer.  Unsure when my surgery date is, I have gone through my initial appointment, my 2nd appt, my endoscope, and I have my pysch evaluation scheduled for March 2.  I am hoping to have my surgery in June (fingers crossed)

It is a rather complicated to get into his program.  He does only accept referrals one day a year, and only the first 200 referrals at that.  I went to see Dr. Peggy Burke, who is a weight loss doctor here in Calgary.  She does not perform WLS, but she is part of the Toronto weight loss clinic and will do lap band adjustments.  But you have to go to Toronto to get your surgery done and pay for it.  On the day that Dr. Farries is accepting patients, she has a dedicated person sitting on the phone calling over and over until they get in and then refers all the people that need to be referred through her.  I was lucky.  So my referral went in May 2010, and my first consult was November 30, 2010. 

If you have any questions about the system, you can email me if you like, my email is:
[email protected]

Nice to see other WLS people in Calgary.  Do any of you go to a support group here in Calgary?  I would like to attend one, but unsure if there are any available.

Sheila

I'm in NW, too. I would definitely game for coffee in crowfoot. There is a starbucks there in Chapters or one in Dalhousie Station at the Chapter's too.  A bigger starbucks (more seating)  in Brentwood Mall, too. It would be great to just pick a date and see who could come. If not many, that's ok, we could do this say, once a month,  and people could come when they can.

I am pretty flexible in the daytime or weekend hours. Evenings are a lot harder for me because I have kids I have to chauffeur around. Friday evenings are usually open for me but I can certainly be flexible for other times.

Anyone game for  setting something up in the next couple of weeks??

Happy New Year.

Krista

I live in Carstairs but would love to meet with you guys.  When are you going to get together?
Katrina

Anyone else in?
And if there was someone you could catch a ride with, would you still want to come if we got our poop together to meet for coffee, Dawn?

YAAAYYYYYYY +2 today! WOOOO!