LE Summit in Ohio in August

Sure wish I could be there with y'all! Take good notes, please, all of you, and report back with as much information as you can! Great list of speakers--enjoy and learn lots.

Oh, one other reason I'd love to be there is to find out how to pronounce "vlnrph"!
(Help! Throw me a few vowels!!)

Hugs all around, and don't forget to get a video of the flashmob!
Binney

Yay, Ohio! So glad you can make it!! I got an email today with info on location and parking.

I am packing . . we head out tomorrow. Yikes!

Sorry Binney, thought I was clever by dropping the vowels from "violin" and then using my professional designation (registered pharmacist). Perhaps that makes me more identifiable when many would suggest staying anonymous but this is the first website I ever really connected to beyond lurking!

Looks like good attendance is anticipated from the number of email addresses given - I noticed the Solaris president as well as Juzo & Impedimed reps on the list. 

Ok Vlnrph - now I'm really jealous. I wonder if they will have vendor - type booths. The chance to see & touch all the garments types in one place would be AWESOME! Everybody seems to have their favorites and only carries samples of jobst, or Juno, Solaris or whatever. I would love to the able to look at all the choices and talk to reps who know the product rather than play "wonder what I ordered and if it will fit" ?? If they do this again, maybe we will need to have a WI carpool!! By the way, now the screen name makes sense...

I was in downtown Columbus today and visited a cool shop, and they had a variety of old maps and vintage anatomy drawings. I look up, and I see two framed vintage drawings of the lymphatic system!!! I go upstairs and see another. When I go to the counter with a necklace I want to purchase, I tell them the vintage drawings of the lymphatic system are really cool. They say, "yeah, we like old stuff like that". I ask if they put these out because of the OSU conference on lymphedema. They said no ???? what conference? I tell them about the summit and that I bet some folks might be interested in these and would they mind if I took a few pics. They told me to go ahead, so I did! If you are interested in any of these, they are at Tigertree, 771 N. High St. The first two are framed, but the third has a removable plastic covering. 

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I have my suitcase packed and ready to go!  See those who will be there soon!!!

The prelude to the summit was great: five of us at dinner, doing show-and-tell, as we have quite the diversity of garments and we were comparing fabrics, textures, softness, thickness, etc.  We even skyped Nitocris in, so that made six for the conversation! And it was in the wee hours for her in Finland.  It is simply grand to talk about LE with others who 'get it.'  What a great group!  Tomorrow will be fascinating, and I am looking forward to the special joy of learning, especially on a topic that's so much a part of my daily life.  

I would love you summit girls to video the 5 of you trying to cut your steak with your gear on and then send it to the women that gave that faulty presentation (the one Kira went to) the one that says we are NON -COMPLIANT with our garments.  Hum, I wonder if she would think "Where in the world are these non-compliant girls coming from, the woodwork!"

Seriously, I am so ....overjoyed....... that you can come together and share info, have laughs etc.   I want to be there!

I want to hear all about it as soon as possible. LEARN LOTS FOR US GIRLS PLEASE!

Whoo Hoo! To the recording & the brownies!! Learn lots to share with us!!

The Summit information was wonderful. Meeting Carole, Becky, Tina and vlnrph was fabulous.

Had a wonderful two days, I'm back home, tired, and already in bed. Too tired for MLD but arm is good. Lots of rest tonight and start back to work tomorrow after 3.5 weeks off.

Life is good.

-Diane

Oh gosh, what a great pic.  I'm so happy for you gals, to have met, to get info, to meet a hero.

It's too late for me to write much of substance, but tomorrow I'm in airports again so will have some time to make some notes to post here about what was discussed and explained.  The OSU folks will be putting the recording link on their website--same link Kira posted at the top of the thread, I think.  I'll watch for whenever they put the presentation links and the PowerPoint links up and return here to add those links.

I learned a good bit today, but most importantly, I learned that there are some pretty amazing women in the LE research community.  Electra Paskett, Janice Cormier, and Jane Armer are very compelling speakers with rock-solid credentials, so the information was well presented and impeccably credible.  More soon!

Carol 

I want it all...share, when you can!

Forgot to add:  I stopped at the Kentucky Artisan Crafts Center on my way up to Carol's Monday.  I decided our LE group had to have some chocolate.  I bought a box of Chocolate Bourbon Truffles--not only were we in chocolate heaven we were loving the bourbon in them.  Better than virtual chocolate!