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Timeline to May 11, 2012 (pre-op) -     May 11, 2012   Bariatric Surgery / Weight Management   1.   Referral  to Registry – March 2011 2.   Orientation - Ottawa - July 8, 2011 3.   Sleep study - July 1...

I have a consultation with Dr. Wicklum - May 10 - Monica called me this morning.  I'm sick at home with a cold so was here to receive the call.  I've been working on a casual assignment with the government since mid February a...

Nine months and counting - It was nine months on April 8 since my orientation at the Ottawa Civic Hospital.  I called yesterday, April 10,to find out where I am on the waiting list.  Michelle returned my cal...

Yet another reminder of why I need this surgery - I had a folding chair collapse under me last night, sitting with two friends and thirteen strangers playing euchre at a house party.  Thump! No warning from the chair, just me on m...

Thank you, Monica! Your honest and searching dialogue reflects so...

Thank you! You are an inspiration to me, and I'd very much like to...

Miscellaneous musing - January 12, 2010 was the earthquake in Haiti;  I was in Utica, New York, in the waiting room of the hospital.  My son was undergoing RNY surgery with Dr. Fitzer.  My son has to dat...

Another one for CBC's Marketplace - Poor Customer - May I please nominate the Shoppers Drug Mart at Richmond Road and Carling Avenue in Ottawa for this TV show? I know the TV show is over, watched it last night, but it's ironic I...

Wow! Congratulations on all your hard work -- you look (and should...

OT - pre WLS progress - good news - Hi all, I have type II diabetes;  I've been fretting (I'm a *great* fretter), for the past two weeks since my last appointment with my endocrinologist.  My numbers a month ago w...

I love my CPAP machine - I do, I really, really do. It's new to me;  I started using it a week ago and I have had six nights of consistently good sleep.  I have not had good sleep in at least ten years....

Co-morbidities - insulin dependent type II diabetes - ten years plus moderate to severe sleep apnea - on CPAP - November 2011 neuropathy - feet high blood pressure - controlled by medication to ...

Brenda T. in Oshawa - best wishes - Best wishes for your orientation session tomorrow.  It's always a pleasure to read your upbeat, supportive comments to so many people on this board.  You're consistently bright...

So, does anyone actually see you naked? - I thought that subject line was ambiguous, yet provocative, enough to garner some responses.  More specifically, then ... we are referred to the bariatric centres by (generall...

SF Popsicles - a picture, please? - Good evening, all I've been looking for the (alleged :)) Chapman's sugar free Popsicles in west end Ottawa without success.   I've been to Sobey's and Loblaws and WalMart and Co...

Ottawa Timeline - I called the Ottawa WMC today, with a question concerning the package I received at the July 8, 2011 Orientation.  (I wasn't sure when I should book the ECG.)  I know we were told ...