support group help

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Bob,

<She came up to me several weeks later at a support group meeting (which I

facilitate for Dr. M)>

I am trying to get a support group going for my surgeon. Would you mind

giving me some pointers and such? I am not sure how to get it all started.

Send out letters or make phone calls? Do you serve refreshments? How many

people do you have at yours? Where do you meet? House, restaurant, office?

I am planning on having the first one at my house, on a Saturday afternoon.

I don't think there will be that many people, but I haven't contacted anyone

yet. Doc is very supportive, but his office staff are not the most helpful!

(Medical university, state jobs and are not interested in a support group.

Have been real quick to point out that the nutritionist has tried it before

and it didn't work.) I am being patient with them but it has come down to

me going to the office and pulling all of the files to get the addresses and

phone numbers myself.

If anyone has any thing they would like to offer, please do. Thanks a

bunch!

Blessings!

Renonna )

Re: problems already!

> In a message dated 8/13/00 5:17:56 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

elfeline@...

> writes:

>

> << Was it a painful

> experience to have it suctioned and drained? Office?--or yet another

> revolving door to the OR? >>

>

> Dr. Marcus drained it several times in the office but when he used a

suction

> machine it splattered the entire examining room and all the staff in there

> except my wife who was standing behind me! DR, Marcus had to call 911 and

> they rushed me to the ER from his office and gave me transfusions and

Fresh

> Frozen Plasma and that helped a lot. It took the staff the rest of the day

to

> clean the exam room, which I asked that they now name after me!

>

> Funny story: as the EMS guys were wheeling me out of Dr. Marcus' office

there

> was a new patient filling out her first visit forms. I had the EMS guys

stop

> the stretcher and I leaned over and told the woman to ignore me and that

the

> surgery really worked! She came up to me several weeks later at a support

> group meeting (which I facilitate for Dr. M) and reminded me that she was

the

> woman I had spoken to from the stretcher and that she had had the surgery

and

> was not frightened off by my experience! That was so cool! Now she and I

are

> doing great!

>

> El, I hope that they fix this and that you get and stay healthy. Never

give

> up hope. Some of you recent posts scared a lot of us but I am glad that

> common sense and your real will to survive took hold and will remain in

> control of your decisions. Now if we could just get medical science to

equal

> your will...eureka!

>

> Take care and take better care. You better care because we sure do.

>

> BobA

> Biliopancreatic Diversion (A Very Distal RNY) on 10/8/98

> 220 Pounds Gone Forever, But Not Forgotten!

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