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I am beginning the one for the Ionia area.
My name is Dawn Kramer..my email is [email protected]
I had planned for the first meeting on the 19th of this month, but forgot about my son's spring program that evening and my other son needing to be taken to drivers training *sigh*
So I am planning the first meeting for the first Tuesday of May, from 5-6pm. Will ask what people prefer, but probably will do once a month,especially during summer months.
Thanks for the info. I'm going to add them to my list anyway and just make a special note that it is only open to patients and if they want information they can call the office. Unfortunately I've found that people don't even know the details of their own surgeon's support groups or even that they exist. So just making other HF patients aware there is a group is important I think. I won't publish the details of their meeting schedule, but I can at least put their office number and tell their patients to call.
Pam
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Done! Your Ticker:
IT WAS ME!! Since I joined the group [not a patient] and went to your Awards Ceromony, I caused them to be more selective!!!
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The only one I know of is a closed group
at the Henry Ford Center that meets in the William Clay Ford building located near the Main hospital in Detroit the second and forth Tuesday at 6pm each month. It is only for patients of the HFH main campus in Detroit on West Grand BLVD.
They are a funny bunch when I had a link on my on line group, they told me to remove it cause they wanted to "CONTROL" who joined it. Then I was excommunicated from the group because I participated with the OH.com groups.
I personally felt that they acted like no one was capable of having any knowledge or any thing unless they contributed it. Then treated (flamed) me because of it. So I stopped paticipating in their group. They seem intimidated if God forbid anyone brought new information to the group. Even if it came from the American Bariatric Society report, which, the HFH Bariactric department is an active member just like HFH baraictric program belongs to OH.com site too. Go figure.
Please Understand the Bariatric Surgery Department and Drs. are wonderful. but the support group needs to grow!
So I am very interested in what other groups might be in my area!
"When we stop running away from the situation that is scary - that is the moment we discover how strong we really are. So, acknowledge your strength...rejoice in it...and start breathing in life, as the beautiful, strong soul (being) that you truly are." - Rachna Sirtaj.......Love & Peace
My Recipe Index is packed full of yumminess!
Visit my blog: Journey to a Healthier Me ...or my Website
The scale can measure the weight of my body but never my worth as a woman. ~Lysa TerKeurst author of Made to Crave
Looking for suggestions or recommendations for liquid multivitamins & liquid calcium citrate....
thanks for doing the extra mile. Realy kool
"When we stop running away from the situation that is scary - that is the moment we discover how strong we really are. So, acknowledge your strength...rejoice in it...and start breathing in life, as the beautiful, strong soul (being) that you truly are." - Rachna Sirtaj.......Love & Peace
I also go to the support meetings with the Michigan Bariatric Institute at St. Mary Mercy in Livonia. They have a terrific staff and the support meetings are excellent and open to everyone. The majority of people at the meetings had surgery there and loved the surgeon.
I drove to Madison Hts twice including the day of surgery and it was 58 miles from my house. But to be honest, I would drive 200 miles to have Dr. Kole again. He is absolutely the best in my book. Just look at my results. I couldn't be happier with my sleeve.
Always the best wishes, Sue 
HW: 261 SW: 248.5 CW: 154 GW: 135 5' 2"
Yesterday I had the privilage of meeting with 3 other support group leaders in the mid-Michigan area and I'm excited to start working with them on meetings and projects and maybe a field trip or two in the future. I wanted to share the information on all our meetings in case you weren't aware of them. But then as I was putting together the list of our four groups, I thought it'd be a good idea to make a list of ALL of the groups in Michigan so it will become a resource for us here on this forum.
(Yeah, I know... me and my brilliant ideas.)
So I've gone back through several pages of our messages here and pulled the info I could find on other support groups. But I'm definitely missing some info. Which is where you come in. I need your help.
I've split the lists into two different tables - one for peer-based groups and one for surgical-center groups. Send me the info you might have (either here in this thread or by PM if you prefer). Once I get it all done I'll figure out how to make it something easy to repost here on the forum (or maybe OH will make it a sticky for us?) -- but then also figure out a way to let everyone download a copy of the files too.
Thanks for your help!
This is not a complete list but it's what I have so far.... I have a bunch more websites to comb through but wanted to get this up for your review and input as is.
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