What Happened at Our November 9th Meeting
For the last meeting of 2010, we had 25 members and visitors present. With us were two persons who will be having surgery in the near future, one to have an ileostomy and the other a colostomy. Two other attendee just had their surgery in August, and are making good progress in his recovery process.
We did not have a special speaker for this meeting, so we were able to devote the whole meeting to responding to questions from those preparing for surgery and those who recently have undergone surgery.
What Happened at Our October 12th Meeting
Peggy, our President, began the meeting, on time at 7 pm on October 12th. We had 28 people with us, including several new visitors, including one person preparing for surgery for colo-rectal cancer in December. Two others were present who had surgery within the last 60 days.
What Happened at Our September 14th Meeting
There were only 17 people present at our September, with one new couple being with us on behalf of the woman's mother who had an ileostomy operation and is undergoing cancer treatment. They came to get suggestions as to how they can help her with her ostomy, and we hope they found their visit to be of value.
Peggy, our President, shared information about a number of resources and events of interest to members of the group.
What Happened at Our August Meeting?
Your webmaster was in Scotland when the group met, in August, so we are unable to report what happened. If someone who was there could send a summary to webmaster@svosg.org, we will update the information for the August meeting.
What happened at our June 8th Meeting
At this meeting we had a representative of Cymed a manufacturer of Ostomy Supplies that is headquartered in Berkeley. Nick Gritzai is Marketing Manager of Cymed. We had two new persons with us. Nick introduced the groups to the line of Cymed Ostomy Pouches, which feature their unique Microskin adhesive system. Nick demonstrated the features, and then passed out samples. To contact Cymed for more information email use this link.
Follow Nick's presentation, we then went into a question and answer session where people who are having difficulties. We had twenty five people in attendance, including two ostomy patients who were attending for the first time.
What happened at our May 11th Meeting
We met again at 7:00 p.m. at O'Connor Hospital in the Sister Rosalie Rendu Conference Room. We had an unusually large number of people who were here for the first time. Of the 27 people in attendance, 7 were here for the first time and one of those was here prior to having their ostomy surgery.
What happened at our April 13th Meeting
On April 13th we met at O'Connor Hospital, with six persons with us for the first time. One had a urostomy, one had an ileostomy, one had a temporary colostomy, one with a permanent colostomy and one will be having ileostomy surgery on this coming Monday. Our meeting at that meeting was an open forum meeting. Twenty four people were in attendance.
On March 26th Peggy and Paul took part in a training event for Coloplast representatives. Robyn Home (Coloplast Territory Manager - San Jose) wrote a letter to to our membership following that event. Click here to read letter
What Happened at Our March 9th Meeting
  
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What Happened at our February 9th Meeting
We had a total of 34 people in attendance. There were 3 new attendees all had colostomies. We were going to do a “Show and Tell” but most people forgot to bring their supplies to share. So we broke into groups by type of ostomy so the new attendees could ask specific questions and get the help they needed.
For the March meeting the group would like to have a nutritionist come to speak. President Peggy reports, "I am looking into finding a nutritionist who can speak to nutrition for ostomates."
What Happened at our January 12th Meeting
We again met at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 12, at O'Connor Hospital. It was a dreary, rainy. Yet, we had thirty two people in attendance. Two persons were here for the first time since their surgery. We also had several persons who were at the early stages of their recovery. After about 45 minutes of meeting as a total group, we then divided into sections based upon the type of surgery (ileostomy, colostomy or urostomy) so persons needing advise could speak directly with others who had been through the same type of surgery that they themselves had recently experienced. |
