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Surgeon TestimonialBengt F. Pehrsson M.D.Born in Stockholm, Sweden, Dr. Bengt Pehrsson received his medical degree at the University of Munich in West Germany. Upon completion of his general medical training, he was accepted to the residency program at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He did his training primarily at what was then known at Charity Hospital in the heart of the city. After his 5 years of general residency he continued with his education receiving an additional year of training in Colon/Rectal surgery as a Fellow at the Alton Ochsner Foundation in New Orleans.
A member of the Boards of both General Surgery and Colon/Rectal Surgery, he began practicing in the San Gabriel Valley in 1982. He maintains active membership in the American College of Surgeons, SAGES, the American Society of Bariatric Surgeons, American Society of Gastroenterology and Society of colon and Rectal Surgeons.
With his extensive training and experiences in general and colon/rectal surgery, he became an early advocate of Bariatric surgery, specifically with Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass. Performing these procedures since 1991, they were initially all preformed as open surgical cases but now they are done almost exclusively laparoscopic. With his vast training and year of experience in this procedure he is the only surgeon in the San Gabriel Valley performing laparoscopic revisions of Bariatric surgery.
During the past 14 years he has traveled extensively on the West Coast speaking to groups about Bariatric surgery and obesity. An early advocate for weight loss surgeries, he is the Medical Director of the Bariatric Surgery Program at Methodist Hospital in Arcadia, California.
An avid fisherman, he and his wife Denise reside in the San Gabriel Valley. They have two children, both currently attending University.
Member Interests
- Web Development - On my free time I like to design web pages, I did my husbands bus. and mine too
- Adoption - Both of my kids are adopted, I couldn't have my own because of my heart.
- Singing - I love to sing. I used to do it professionally when I was young.
- Scrapbooks - This is another part of my business, Scrapbook album pages.
- Spanish - I speak English, Spanish and a little French
- Christianity - I'm Catholic and a believer, but I don't go to church.
- Frogs - I have a big collection. I got tired of them. I have too many.
- Rubber Stamping - I actually have a small business, I do cards to sell. Christina's Collection
- Horror - I love horror movies, the more blood and killing the better LOL
- Hispanic/Latino - My family is from Spain, I was born in Mexico and move to Ca on 1998
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 My Name is Christina Kaplan, I'm a married 43 year old woman with two gorgeous children (13 and 6) and overweight since birth. I was really scared of having the surgery, but I decided to do it because I can't fit anywhere, and I can't interact with my children, they are growing and I'm missing everything. I had Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery
 
Thanks for stopping by
Hi Everyone on June 24, 2008 10:23 pm
Sorry I have been away for a while. It's a busy month for me because it is my youngest son's birthday, he is 6 years old and you know how it is to organize birthday parties. Besides I have been very busy with my scrapbook business and classes thank God.
I had my endoscopy and everything was fine, I think my nauseas were because I ate some shrimps and maybe one of them wasn't so good.
Anyway it was worth to check everything out.
Thanks for your thoughts and prayers.
I'm not doing very good with my weight loss, I'm having a hard time I don't know why, but not loosing almost anything. I don't want to be discourage, I will keep trying and doing what I have to do, next week I will see Dr. Pehrsson and he will tell me what to do.
I will post more as soon as I know.
Love you all
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MICHELE!!!!!!
Chris
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Complications on June 12, 2008 11:20 am
Oh no!!!! I think I think I'm starting with complications. I called my doctor because I had a lot of nausea and I wasn't dumping. He asked me to go and see him. He sent me for a blood test, everything was normal, so he sent me to another upper endoscopy.
As I understood the passage between my esophagus and my pouch is too tight and the solid food can't go through, that is why I'm having nausea, so they need to get in and open it with the endoscope. 
I'm not vomiting or anything so I think that the food does go through, but hardly. so they programed it for Wednesday 18th I'm not scared or anything, but I was feeling so good.
Chris
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I'm back in track yeepee!!!!! on June 9, 2008 11:04 am
Hello Everyone:
Finally, I'm back on the loosers side, from 282 I went to 271.2 lbs, for a total since the surgery of 42.8 lbs, that is a lot. I don't know how did it happened but it did. I was on the same weight for more than a week and I was really sad, but now I'm back and happy.
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Hi Everyone on June 4, 2008 10:41 am
I'm back after a few days. I haven't been posting because I've been a little sad. My scale has been stuck in the same weight and I don't even want to think about it.
I recently posted some new pictures in my monthly progress and I saw the difference, and I realized that the pounds can be the same, but the size is not. So I'm back and happy again,
Besides yesterday I went to our OH Support Group, and I loved to see the girls, it is always so helpful and fun, this time they gave us some recipies specially made for us, and Jandell gave us some samples. (thanks girl!!)
I also got to meet two new members, and share our experiences. That is always so helpful.
I'm looking forward to our next meeting.
Chris
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My Story My Name is Christina and this is the story of why I decided to take the chance of having a Gastric Bypass and how the process was since the very beginning.
I hope that this will help the people that like myself are going through the process and are nervous of what is it coming next.
 I come from a family with a lot of cardiac problems, almost every member of my mom's side family have had something , my grandfather and grandmother died from heart problems, my mom and two of her brothers have had triple heart bypass; my father died from a massive heart attack too.
I always struggle with my weight, I was able to loose some pounds and then I gained them again. The years went by and when I reached 34 I had my first problem. A huge heart attack. The doctor said I was lucky of surviving it, because when you are young, the heart gets crazy without knowing what to do after a heart attack and most of the time in gets so crazy that it breaks apart. That is in clear English what the doctor told me in medical terms. LOL
I kept living with a bunch of medications every day, and of course taking care of myself. On 1998 I moved to America (L.A. California) and got married here. After a couple of years of waiting my husband and I decided that it was time to have a baby, and of course knowing my heart condition we needed the Cardiologist authorization. My Cardiologist is part of a group (South California Heart Specialists). Dr. Stephen J. Soldo who has been not only my cardiologist but also my friend listening to all my sadness and worries. Anyway, Dr. Soldo ran a few tests to see if I was going to be able to carry a baby and after a while he said what I was afraid to hear; "NO". My heart was too weak to handle a baby. So after a big depression we decided to go for adoption. But that's another story.
On 2003 I had pneumonia and while in the hospital the doctor said I was almost becoming diabetic. To be honest I didn't paid attention to it and I did became diabetic. By that time I was about 270 lbs already. They sent me home and I kept living with some extra pills on daily basis.
On October 2005 I was about 290 lbs, I started feeling some chest discomfort. Knowing how that was because my own experience and my mom's I call Dr. Soldo right away, and he asked me to go to see him the next morning. He sent me to the Methodist Hospital in Arcadia, Ca. to have an angiogram, he needed to see what was going on inside of my heart.
Dr. Soldo did the angiogram (or he tried) but my arteries were blocked and he couldn't get in. That was bad news. He came to my hospital room and talked to me and my husband and he said I needed a bypass surgery, three of my arteries were totally blocked, I could have died any minute.
I said ok, I'll come back next week LOL, but Dr. Soldo said it will have to be the following morning. To be honest I didn't even think about it, I just trusted him and said ok go ahead. He introduced me to the surgeon. Dr. Robert Gottner.
Dr. Gottner practices Cardiothoracic Surgery, General Surgery, and Thoracic Surgery and he is famous for doing heart transplants. Anyway, I had my surgery, I recovered from it and gained a lot of weight since then because I have been mostly sedentary. now I'm 308 lbs. and ready to go for my Gastric Bypass.
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