Tri City Support Group (Last Meeting??)

Ok folks here we. Our next regular scheduled meeting is coming next week and perhaps our last one due to lack of interest. I posted after the previous months meeting and got little feed back about changing the day or time or both to help with attendance. I have sent out personal emails as well. So we will try again to meet and if anyone wants to keep this going then I urge them to be there, we can discuss what we need to do about the group time and meeting day and change it accordingly if necessary. If you can please reply to this post to whether you plan on being there or not, this will help with some members that may not want to drive out if no one is attending. BUT, I will be there next week regardless so anyone wanting to attend please do. Thanks. WHEN: THURSDAY JUNE 7TH @ 6:30 PM WHERE: JOHN RANDOLPH HOSPITAL                 CONFERENCE ROOM A/B IN THE BASEMENT WHO:      ANYONE- PRE OP, POST OP, OR EVEN THINKING ABOUT IT All questions can be sent to [email protected]

I will be there..as long as my days don't get confused..I'll send ya a personal email keith so If i'm not there on time you can call and kick my butt..lmao

Love to attend but can't do thursday evenings. If others are in that boat, I'd be glad to help support a group meeting on another night, locations open if that is an issue as well. I miss going to group, as I have given up the ones at St Marys once a month as well, because of my Thursday conflict with church leadership meetings. Let me know if I can do anything to preserve a local group in our Tri-City area. Joe Green (w) 804-734-2137 M-F 9-4 514 Walnut Ave Colonial Heights VA (h) 804-526-1817 [email protected]

Keith,  First let me tell you to please do not give up on this group . Try to have a meeting with everyone like Joe and others at maybe a central place to have lunch and maybe talk over changing the date and times .  It is so needed in this area . Send out an email to everyone . Ask for their input . If you decide to have a lunch to decide on times ... then great . But there are so many people that need this , that are reluctant to go to St. Mary's due to the travel .  I know that was one reason I started the group .. and I miss you all so much ..  Let me know if there is something I can do to rejuvenate the group .  If you do change the dates and time , remember to clear it with the hospital if you are still going to use that area. I had once thought of doing it in my home for a while . Perhaps you know somewhere esle .. I guess I am really pushing it for not giving up .. But I understand if there is no participation.  Take care .. and again .. I am praying for you and the group .  Nat

Thanks for the replies so far. Nat, I feel the same way you do, I hate to give up on this group as well, but the fact is it hasn't had any interest, I think that the biggest part is that folks got tired of coming to the group and no one being there to lead, I have put our group in both the Hopewell News and Progress-Index papers, I have placed flyers in numerous businesses and bulletin boards. And  there are some like Joe that can't make our current set up. I sent out emails to all the folks that I was able to obtain email addresses for, I never could get Kathy to give me hers. I have Joe and Desiree that have issues with the current one, they both sent me emails with other days that would work for them and that just so happened to be opposite days of each other, so one works for each and not the other. So you see that doesn't help the problem either. I have Dyanne and Naomi that are ok with what we have, I am ok with Thursdays and could be willing to change to Tuesdays, but can't do Monday, Wednesday or Fridays.  I am open to any suggestions but we have to have folks show up Thursday to get the input, we can't even get much of a response to this board.