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  • Username: BeckyM
  • Location: Up North, WI, USA
  • Member Since: 3/25/2005
  • Post Op
  • Surgery Type: RNY (07/20/05)
  • Surgeon: Jay Lenz
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Jay Lenz
I really liked Dr. Lenz from the get go. He seemed very caring and honest. He did a great job with my surgery and I owe him my life! The office staff there is another story. The bariatric nurse whom I never even met until I was 6 mts out would be sick at EVERY apt I had sked w/her. This happened like 5 different times! I think they've moved her out of that dept now so hopefully others will not have the same problem. The aftercare program there could be better. They have support group meeting once a mth but they aren't that structured and I don't go much anymore cuz I don't feel I get much out of them anymore. They did help answer a lot of questions that I had pre - op though. Dr. Lenz explained the surgery very well to me and went over all the risks with me. He has a great bedside manner and I would recommend him to all!
Member Interests
  • Family & Friends - I love to spend time with family and friends
  • Travel - I am a travel agent! It's part of the job!
  • Cooking & Baking - I hope I still love to cook post op
  • Scuba & Snorkeling - Love to snorkel, would like to be come scuba certified.
  • Golf - I golf on Mondays in the summer on a womens league.
  • 4-Wheelers - My 8 year old races ATV's every other weekend in the summer.
  • E-Bay - I'm an addict . . .
  • Married - Married in 1996 to the love of my life. Lance.
  • Rock - I love all rock new old all of it!
  • Wine Tasting - Wine is going to be something very hard to give up.

Latest Surgery Support Comments

  • Comment by Dx E on 7/19/05 6:26 am
    Becky, Have the Greatest Ever Tomorrow!! I’m just dropping by to let you know that there’s a huge crowd of strangers out here pulling for you and holding you in our prayers. May you have a famously successful surgery and a record-breaking recovery! Best Wishes- Dx
  • Comment by Carebearette on 7/18/05 7:15 pm
    My prayers will be with you as you have surgery. May you have an uneventful procedure and a quick recovery as you enter this exciting phase of the journey to a healthier and happier life.
  • Comment by asquilez on 7/18/05 8:53 am
    I am checking in to say - FELIZIDADES / CONGRATULATIONS - for deciding to take this life-changing step to becoming a more healthier you! I hope everything goes as planned and that you have a speedy recovery. Some words of advice: Please remember to keep positive thoughts at all times. When in doubt – ASK! Keep records of everything, including photos (makes a great scrapbook that you can look back on when you reach goal) and please keep your journal updated because you never know whom you might be helping. You will be in my thoughts. ~ Kelly
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I have received several emails from OH members who have come across Internet ads that are using my before and after pics.  The product that they are selling is Acai Berry cleanse.  I have NOT given my permission for this and am NOT being paid a thing by them.  I have sent every site that I've been told of "take down" notices and I have contacted a lawyer.  The lawyer says that if they don't take them down that it'll take a whole lot of $$ and taking them to federal court to get them to take my pics down. I'm FURIOUS that they are using my image making false claims that I've used their product to lose the weight.  If you come across a site that is using my pic PLEASE send me the link.  I've gotten about 4 different sites so far that I've send notices to and only ONE has complied and taken my pics down and replaced them with another "fake" I am sure!  I've made hundreds of calls and get no where.  They give me another number to call, then another, then another.  No one wants to help me and no one wants to take the blame for it.  I don't know what else I can do about it!?!?!




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This profile is a journal that I have kept  thru my journey with gastric - bypass surgery.  I started this so that I could look back and see how far I have come and to never forget where I came from.  I hope it you enjoy it!  This is my way of expressing emotion as I am not good with words. 


6/19/07
Here is the magazine article they did on me!
http://www.closerdiets.com/dietswellbeing/Wellbeing/Ilost11stafteragastricop.aspx?dateonline=Tuesday+19+June+2007#
 

 

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7 Years Already?
on July 24, 2012 9:45 am
So July 20th was y 7 year anniversary from WLS.  I am holding steady between 160-165 depending on the day.  I can eat pretty much everything that I could before surgery but just not as much.  Sugar still does get to me but I know my limits.  I have truly gotten my life back. 
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Oct. 20, 2010
on October 20, 2010 12:48 pm
Wow.  Seems like forever since I have been on OH.  I had my 5 year check up last month and everything seems to be just fine.  I am maintaining my weight at about 145.  At 5'9 I feel I am right where I want to be.  Still fit into a size 6 so I am OK with that! 
I lost my brother July 14 in a ATV accident.  It has been a tough couple of months and I haven't been making a lot of good food choices not to mention the red wine.  He was down syndrome and a very special part of our whole community.  We miss him terribly but have been taking it day by day.  The next couple of months are going to be especially hard.  The first hunting season without him and our first Christmas without him.  He always loved those times of the year and he will be missed so much.
Summer flew by as it always does and I'm not really looking forward to the deep freeze and snow.  Hoping we can plan a family vacation this winter to get out of it for awhile but we will just have to see how things go.  I quit my job in May of 2009 at the travel agency I was working for for 14 years and have now started my own home-based agency and it's a little slow off the get go but I am hoping now that it's cooling off people are gonna start thinking of vacations!  I love being home for the boys when they get on the bus in the morning and off at night.   Lance just recently stopped working out of town for the pipeline.  Hard to believe he'd been on the road for 7 years.   It's is good to have him home and be able to sit down and have dinner every night as a family.  Also I know the boys missed him like crazy and he hated missing out on all their activities.   So . . . . All in all life is good, we are dealing with the loss of Darren and living for the moment.  I still think that GB was the best thing I ever did for myself.  I don't know if I'd be here today if I had not done it.  Good luck to all!   Take care.
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Jan. 4, 2010
on January 4, 2010 2:46 pm
Not much new to update.  My weight has been pretty steady, holding in at 145-148 depending on what day of the week!  All recovered from gall bladder surgery and I hope I don't have to have another surgery EVER again.  
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Sep. 29, 2009
on September 29, 2009 8:51 am
Well, I ended up going to the ER yesterday.  I called my Dr.'s office and told them that I was still in a great deal of pain and they said that it wasn't normal and to get to the ER.  They did a Cat scan and it showed I have a hematoma in the muscles of my stomach.  It is about the size of a golf ball and they say that my body should just absorb it eventually.   So they sent me home w/more pain killers and told me to "take it easy".  So I'm laying around doing nothing and getting bored!  I hope this goes away soon.  I see my surgeon tomorrow to see if it's shrinking and healing.  Hopefully she can expalin to me why this happened. . . . My luck sucks!
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Sep. 23, 2009
on September 23, 2009 7:56 am
Well, I had my gall bladder out Fri.  Sep. 18th.  They were able to do it laproscopic which was good.   I was sent home the same day with some narcotic pain killers.    I ran out yesterday and am still in a fair amount of pain.  I consider myself to have a pretty high pain tolerance, gave birth to a 10.3 oz baby and a 9.3 oz baby without so much as an asprin.  I don't know why this surgery is kicking my a$$!  I'm okay if I am laying down or standing up but can't sit and it hurts like heck moving from laying down to getting up.   I have four small incision sites and my right side is still giving me a lot of pain.  I called my Dr. this am to see if this is normal and if I can get some more drugs!  Tylenol isn't doing anything to help this pain and I need something stronger.   Looking forward to about a week from now when I can hopefully get back to normal!  Whatever that is!
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My Story

When I started this journey I was 32 years old, married with two children and had NOT been overweight my whole life. I am 5'9 and before I got married I was 145 pounds and a size 6/8. I was very active and even earned "female athlete of the year" my senior year in high school. I played volleyball, basketball and softball. I think I wrecked my metabolism when I was young. I was trying to lose weight after I got out of high school when I gained the "freshman 15" and I got to partying way to much at night and during the day I would eat just a baked potato and an apple. That was it. Then I got pregnant and I knew that we (baby and me) could not live on this and the weight just piled on. I gained 68 pounds with my first son. Just 30 with my second but I never lost it. In fact I gained even more and now I am up to a whopping 270! OUCH! I suffer from horrible heal pain and I am never rested and am so tired and no energy. I have been looking into RNY for a couple of years now and I am ready to make the commitment for a better quality of life. I am very nervous about complications and I have read all of the Memorials on this site but I am still going to go ahead and do it. I am just scared to death something will go wrong and my 8 yr old and 1 yr old will be without a mother. I just have to have confidence in Dr. Lenz and think positive I know. It's just hard and very scary.