Rise -n- Shine!

Good Morning Buddies! I am up super early today to attend a bariatric (wls) seminar today. I am hoping i will learn a lot of new info to bring back and share with you all!
I am looking forward to this!

It will be late evening before I return, so don't be offended by my abscense today.

I hope everyone has a most wonderful day! Filled with peace joy and accomplishment!

Hugs to all!

Good morning to you too. I have been up for a while myself. But have beeen trying to stay quiet so as not to wake mom. Will be more active after she gets up.
Have a good time at meeting, if I dont see you anymore today, see yah tomarrow.  

Bring lots of useful information.  We can all use many, many ideas to be our best.  I started another  monkey business plan on your other thread.  Let's have the best of days.  Enjoy life as it presents itself to you.

Hugs, Kathy

hope u enjoy your retreat bunches.  can't wait for u to share ur knowledge with us. vick

Missed you yesterday Vick... hope you feel better.

thanks linda. appreciate ur support.  hope ur day is great. vick

Hey hey.. I am back. This actually wasn't the retreat, that is in October and I will be gone 6 lovely days! But I enjoyed the seminar today. Have info to share, and made a couple of connections for my soon to be "live" support group. I just wish you all could come to that!

I am a certtified support group leader not only through OH, but also through BSCI (bariatric support centers international). I paid big bucks to get certified through them. ANYHOW the director of BSCI, Colleen Cook was there today, and she has secured some kind of agreement with the centura health (the hospital system) and they are going to use BS****rtified people only, and BSCI programs only with thier patients. Well, the hospital here in Pueblo where I live is also centura health. When I asked them a month or so ago about the use of a meeting room, I was told I could not because of being an "outside group" the insurance wouldn't permit it, but now that BSCI has secured the agreement with centura, it is looking like I may get use of a hospital meeting room yet. They are going to work hard to get it approved for me. If for any reason it does not work out, I still have the library meeting room reserved. Only problem with that is I can only hold one meeting a month at the library. I really want to offer 2 per month. Soooo wish me luck.

It was so odd today, as when I got there and saw Colleen and she told me all of this, other key people in that hospitals support group were like "OHHHH your Patrece!" I felt so odd, being so warmly recognized and appreciated by these people, yet it was so encouraging and felt good too.

I told Colleen that in the not tooooo far off future I will be holding WLS retreats, and she said, ohhhh I'll come to your retreat! I was tickled. She also wants me to come to Utah in November to get certified with them in another wls  program they offer. She said she'd love to have me be a bigger part of thier team.  I also made a couple of good connections for when my live group gets going. bariatric advantage (bariatric vitamin company) said they'd come to do a presentation for my group, and give everyone samples of the product. How kewl huh?

Seems like things are finally coming together a bit for me and my plans and dreams and goals.

I also won a drawing at the seminar. got a little gift basket filled with various bariatric supplements.
All in all it was a most excellent day for me!
Hope you all had a great day as well!

patrece, it sounds like u might have come home a little less stressed.  great!!!!!!!!  it is wonderful that they acknowlege and appreciate u for what u are doing. i know how good that feels. glad ur day went so well.  vick