Thursday, November 20, 2008

Wow! Almost a Year - Really - Since I made an Update?

Posted by LA at 8:33 PM

Ok - i honestly forgot all about this blog - so let's fast forward a little bit

Originally had my surgery scheduled for the end of March 2008. Got a call one Thursday - Hey want to have surgery next week we had a cancellation. So I ended up having surgery moved up two weeks to March 17, 2008.

My surgeon was Dr. Raymond Drew from Minneapolis Bariatric. I had my surgery at Abbott Northwestern Hospital in South Minneapolis. To me - Dr. Drew is a hero - he has been changing people's lives for the better as a bariatric surgeon for years - over 1500 surgeries under his belt. He is an expert in his field and I would highly recommend him to anyone. However, if my insurance would have covered the clinic I would have preferred (and still do) to have gone through Health East Bariatric in St. Paul for the follow-up care.

My surgery went well - he did have to put in a few extra stitches in one spot cuz he found a leak when he tested my new pouch. So needless to say I ended up with a dye xray so they could make sure I didn't have a leak before i went home from the hospital.
Im going from memory here - but I really felt like my recovery was pretty easy - I think my gall bladder surgery in 1996 took longer to recover from than having my digestive system completely rearranged. I did take 6 weeks off of work - only because I had enough sick time to cover it. I could have gone back after about 10 days if I hadn't had the sick time.


On my surgery date - I weighed in at 265. Down 31 from my highest of 296. And drumroll please, today I weigh 174.6. I am down over 120 pounds.

Current Photo: Taken November 2008





















Before Photo: Taken December 2008

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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Awesome progression! Keep it up LA!

December 3, 2008 at 1:30 PM  

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