Hi all!

This is your friendly monthly reminder for the Edmonds lapband support group meeting. The date is Tuesday, August 26. The time is 7:00-8:30. The place is Stevens Hospital 2nd floor cafeteria, 21601 76th Ave. W., Edmonds, WA. Please come and get the support we can all offer one another when we share together about our banding experience! As always, I am sending this reminder to our Marysville group as well. It's always nice to have an option in case of conflicting schedules...

GREAT NEWS - SPECIAL SPEAKER!!

The Edmonds group will be hosting a special speaker at our September 23, 2008 meeting. Her name is Bronsa Swint and she is a personal trainer. She will speaking to us about reducing our fears in starting a regular exercise program. From what I have been hearing from the support group members, exercise is an especially difficult aspect of the whole banding experience - difficult to start and hard to stick to for a lot of us. I'm sure Ms. Swint will have some great ideas for success.

Ms. Swint will speak at 7:45 p.m., giving us time from 7:00 to 7:45 to share with one another about joys, victories, problems, etc. This meeting is open to ALL support group members...Marysville, Edmonds, band, gastric, sleeve, etc. Hope to see a really good turnout!

One more thing... Don't forget about the support group picnic coming up on September 13th at Edmonds City Park! By now, you should have all received a flyer with the pertinent information. I will bring extras to the 8/26 meeting.

So that about wraps up this reminder. Hope to see you at the 8/26 Edmonds meeting!!!

Allison Dolan
Support Group Facilitator