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I'm in Christiansburg (work in Blacksburg). Would love to find more people locally.

Terri

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Hi Terri! I live in Roanoke and m looking for people locally as well! Feel free to send me a message!

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Hi mallymaven! I'm going to have my surgery at Roanoke Carilion with Dr. Salzberg, What about you?

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Hi! I'm having mine there as well; however, my Dr is Dr Lucktong. He's been the only one doing VSG in Roanoke for a while. I didn't realize they had another Dr there. Is he new?

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Yes. He just started in the last year there, but he has 10 years experience. I'm way excited but it's gonna be a long wait. Instead of a supervised diet, I have to do 12 (in my 4th) months of a health education program. It's basically a 30 minute phone call with a nurse through my insurance. Sucks.

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Wow! 12 months is quite long. I have to have a 6 month medically supervised diet and I have 2 months left on that. My surgery is planned for January 2017. Long story but I have to wait that long due to some scheduling problems on my side. I haven't met Dr Lucktong yet. My appt with him is in October. I'm interested in finding out more info on Dr Salzberg. I'll have to do some digging lol.

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Let me know what you find out, cause I can't find much info on him. lol

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