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I just found this message board. This is great to be able to talk WLS with other members of our Navy family. My name is Dana. My wife, Patti, and I are both considering having the WLS. In fact, I have a surgery date of 5 December 2005. I have spent hours and hours on this website reading the wls stories of others and trying to organize myself in preparation. I am interested in hearing from any of our extended military family on their wls experiences. First, a little about my wife and I. I am a retired Master Chief Hospital Corpsman. I retired in 1993 from the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD. I spent 22 years in the Navy. My wife Patti is an Emergency Room Nurse at Sacred Heart Hospital in Destin FL. We are going tjrough this life altering weight loss procedure together. Patti hasn't received a surgery date as yet but we hope she does soon.

WOW!!! Hi Vicki!!!! Thanks for replying.... My dates of service were from 1983 - 1988. I, too, was separated due to a service connected medical disability. I was an Electronics Technician and really enjoyed being in the service, so getting out was a hard adjustment. However, I didn't foresee having a child at the time, so don't know how happy I'd been with a newborn at home and being told that I had to go on a 6-month deployment. Things happen for the best... we just can't see it at the time. I had my son just two years after I got out of the Navy and can't imagine what I'd done if I had still been enlisted. I had my surgery on June 6th, 2005. I had lost 21 lbs just prior to surgery and have lost an additional 89 lbs since. My life has really turned around... I'm off most of my meds - everything that I was taking for my congestive heart failure, COPD, GERD, etc. I'm even off of my CPAP machine at night now!!!! Yippie-kay-aye!!! I do have a full time job... I work for the State of Ohio as a Veterans Intensive Services Coordinator, so, I get to stay connected with veterans - which is what I thought I'd miss most when I moved away from Tidewater. Congratulations on your successes with your surgery!!!! It sounds like you are doing GREAT! Again, thanks for responding.... Karen 320/210/150-ish

Gee, I'd really like to see more activity on this board!!! I am a Navy veteran who served 5 1/2 years in the Tidewater, Virginia area and now live in Ohio. I was active duty but was also a Navy spouse, so have both perspectives to come from. I'd love to connect with some fellow service-members who have either had WLS or are contemplating it!!! Anyone interested??? Thanks, Karen G. 320/212/150

Lenia, My husband is stationed shore duty here in Virginia Beach, but I understand. The last time I was scheduled for this surgery, he was out to sea and not due back for four months, but it was cancelled due to war being declared. (We were stationed at NAS Jax at the time) Feel free to email anytime! Tonya 2 days until surgery 403/373/?/180