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Sleep
Surgery
Support
Society
We're an informal group of folks who have gone through,
or are considering surgery to treat sleep apnea.
Annual Fall meetups in Sunnyvale, CA
All are welcome
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2008 Meetup Pictures
First Things First
More Pictures & Comments
If you have pictures from the meetup that you want displayed here,
or updates/corrections to the data,
Email them to me: Roger AT Arrick DOT com
Special Thanks to
Toni (Learian) for being our "Community Organizer" and lovely hostess.
Best Wishes to
Katy, Julie, Jim, Tom and others on their journey,
and to those having a rough go.
High-5 to
Dominic, Adam and John for recently getting to the other side.
Gallery
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Group Shot
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Group Shot
Minus Scott, Dawn, Tom.
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Group Shot with names
Minus Scott, Dawn, Tom.
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Friday at Toni's Room
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Sheraton Sunnyvale
They were very nice to endure 4 hours of mingling,
but they did manage to sell several $12 salads.
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Friday night we hung out at Toni's room - #312 for those making notes.
Beds are really just 3-sided couches.
Katie, Brad, Toni, Bill's fancy-shmancy camera.
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Toni brought bananas and jaw-breakers.
3 people ended up at the hospital with fractures -
2 jaws from the "CANDY", and one femur from slipping on a banana peal.
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Bill, where did you have surgery?
No Silly! WHERE??
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Scott brought his iphone with jaw reconstruction images.
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John, Jim, Katie
Toni in the background saying: "It's 10pm, I'm fading..."
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Saturday at the Sheraton's Resturant
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Courtyard at the Sheraton.
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Roger (WesternJoe) and Bill (SeattleBill).
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William, Jim, Doris.
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Scott arrived late and didn't get in our group shot so here
he is in all his glory - famous ghost-writer of CupertinoJoe's blog
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The famous Alamo Joe.
We've enjoyed his postings on SleepNet for years.
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Alamo Joe's bear squeeks for Shelby.
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Bill, Michael, Jim - comparing score cards (Sleep studies).
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Roger, Toni, Shelby
Shelby is a very reserved, shy person, and it took some work to get her
to come out of her shell.
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Post surgery day-rat.
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Dominic is 9 days post-op and looks great.
He brought his caregiver Dawn - actually, she brought him.
Here he demonstrates the zippy-squeeze technique.
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Talking and Eating - not necessarily in that order.
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More eating...and talking.
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Doris, Roger, Adam, Michael, Julie.
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Girl-Talk session.
We guys REALLY wanna know what you were talking about.
Maybe how to deal with hyper-amorous post-op partners?
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Michael, Adam, Katie, Alamo Joe.
Toni, Shelby, Tom in the background.
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Toni, Shelby, Tom, Court.
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Katie's backpack, Adam, Michael.
Julie, William, Jim, Doris in background.
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Disembodied hands, Michael, Dominic, Katie, William, Dawn, Tom, Alamo Joe, Court.
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William, Tom.
Tom will be having his surgery next month.
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Toni (Learian) and Bill (SeattleBill).
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John and Doris.
Where exactly is 'Yonder'?.
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Julie and Katie.
Both are considering surgery.
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By some sort of bizarre cosmic dice-toss, Julie and Roger share the EXACT same birthdate
yet completely different genders.
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Powell/Riley group.
Doris, Roger, Adam, Michael, Julie.
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Sleep Studying.
Roger, Michael, Jim, Brad.
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Nobody knew this man, but we made him a Dr. appointment anyway.
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Toni made $341.60 profit on this whole scheme!
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Saturday Evening at Fuki Sushi
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Michael, Katie, Julie, Roger
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Comments
So and so said:
"I've been to support groups for other issues and this one is by far the best!"
Somebody blurted:
"...God Bless Alamo Joe for visiting on both Friday and Saturday. You are where I want to be in 30+ years."
I overheard:
"We all have such colorful nicknames that an outsider might very well assume that this had been a reunion of the '57 Brooklyn Dodgers."
It's been said:
"Dear new found MMA friends; Which I have dubbed The Sunnyvale Bandits, because you have stolen back your nights. Hopefully I will get to know all of you better in the years to come."
Hearsay:
"To finally get to meet everyone in person was amazing!"
Just talk:
"It was awesome to meet everyone !! And, I really look forward to coming down there next year...You guys rock!!!"
SeattleBill wrote:
"Don't watch a Seahawks Monday Night football game in
your hospital room just prior to your overnight sleep study."
"Wait, Wait!" Bill pleaded as the sleep tech tried to hook up
the sensors, "It's fourth and one!"
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Envy wrote:
"I can't remember when I have seen such beautiful chins in one place!"
Attender Stats
Complete addresses and contact information is available but not
public for privacy reasons.
Many attenders can be reached on SleepNet's non-CPAP forum.
If you need to contact one of them, send me an Email at
Roger AT Arrick DOT com
and I will forward your message to them.
If you would like to add to this list or have information removed, Email me.
Toni
Location: San francisco
Sleepnet Handle: Learian
Surgeries/dates: MMA/2007
Doctors: L
Caregiver: Brad
Bill
Location: Seattle
Sleepnet Handle: SeattleBill
Surgeries/dates: MMA/2005
Doctors: L
Caregiver: Karen
Roger
Location: Texas
Sleepnet Handle: WesternJoe
Surgeries/dates: Various/2003, MMA/2005, UP3/2006
Doctors: P/R
Caregiver: Margo, GG
Blog: http://www.RogerArrick.com/mma
Dominic
Location: RI
Sleepnet Handle:
Surgeries/dates: MMA/2008
Doctors: L
Caregiver: Dawn
Shelby
Location: California
Sleepnet Handle: Dreamette
Surgeries/dates: MMA/2006, UPPP/2008
Doctors: L
Caregiver: Court
Blog: http://shelby.idstrom.com/category/sleep-apnea
Joe
Location: California
Sleepnet Handle: AlamoJoe
Surgeries/dates: MMA/1991
Doctors:
Caregiver:
Michael
Location: California
Sleepnet Handle: None
Surgeries/dates: MMA/2006
Doctors: P/R
Caregiver:
Kathryn
Location: California
Sleepnet Handle: k8e
Surgeries/date: Considering MMA
Doctors: L
Caregiver:
John
Location: San Francisco
Sleepnet Handle: Pinski
Surgeries/dates: MMA/2008
Doctors: L
Caregiver: Paul
Blog: http://sanfranpinski.blogspot.com
Jim
Location: Indiana
Sleepnet Handle: KettleBell
Surgeries/dates: Pre-MMA
Doctors: L
Caregiver:
William
Location: California
Sleepnet Handle: BlueLite
Surgeries/dates: MMA/2007
Doctors: L
Caregiver:
Doris
Location: California
Sleepnet Handle: pjgirl
Surgeries/dates: MMA/2007
Doctors: P/R
Caregiver:
Tom
Location: California
Sleepnet Handle: zzzs
Surgeries/dates: Pre-MMA, Oct 2008
Doctors: L
Caregiver:
Adam
Location: California
Sleepnet Handle: notsosleepy
Surgeries/dates: MMA 2008
Doctors: R/P
Caregiver:
Scott
Location: California
Sleepnet Handle: CupertinoJoe
Surgeries/dates: MMA/2006
Doctors: L
Caregiver:
Blog: http://cupertinojoe.googlepages.com
Julie
Location: San Francisco
Sleepnet Handle: SleepyHead
Surgeries/dates: Considering MMA
Doctors: R/P
Caregiver:
Sleep, the Mandatory Luxury
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