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Surgeon TestimonialMichael Thomas, M.D.I like Dr. Thomas. He is very direct and informative. The office staff is very helpful and friendly. They are chronically late! Accept it and give yourself and extra hour for everything. If you are looking for a touchy-feely, nurturing doctor, Doc Thomas is not your guy. I actually prefer his style, I don't care for someone patting me and calling me \"hon.\". Aftercare is emphasized by everyone in the office. The band is a tool to get you where you need to go, but I still have the majority of the work to do myself. We addressed all the risks of surgery and alternatives. I give Dr. Thomas a 10. All my parts seem to be in working order. I also give Chris, the PA, a 10+, she is fantastic. These are all my personal opinions and I would recommend Dr. Thomas and all the doctors in his group to anyone thinking of WLS. |
Liquid Diet!!!!!! on November 28, 2006 5:02 pm
It is right around the corner. The liquid diet. I cant wait! (Me being facetious.) I havent posted because I havent had anything to say. People keep asking me if I am excited, and I am! I am just too busy to really think about what is going on.
I got excited today after I went to see my PCP for my surgical clearance. He was so excited and happy that I was getting banded. He told me that he would have recommended the band for me for several reasons. He also said he knew I had to be self pay because he hasnt had a Blue Cross bariatric approval in two years. That sucks. But other than that, it went great, I am truly starting to get a little excited and maybe nervous that I will be one of those people who cant lose any weight with the band. Lots of thoughts running around my head. How much will I weigh next year at this time? Today I weighted 333 and I am 5'9 1/2 inches tall. What a freaking tank.
Embarrassing thing: Doc checks my ankles for swelling and I havent shaved my legs in 5 days. He laughs at me and then the EKG tech comes in and she laughs and says she has me beat she hasnt shaved since her sisters wedding on November 4. HA
It was a pretty good day!
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Thursday on November 9, 2006 5:56 pm
I had lost some weight until this week, which is my birthday. I have been eating my a** off. Cake, birthday dinner, birthday lunch, etc. I am the master of playing food games...skip a meal, eat twice as much later, justify eating mo' food, crash dieting before a weigh-in. Oy, vey. Well, this year I did something totally out of character, which is I did not set weight loss goals for November. Usually, I set a goal around July, then August, then September, then October to lose "X" lbs by November 7. And I always fail MISERABLY. Knowing that WLS is coming up, I did not do that, and I didn't feel crappy about not meeting the unrealistic goals I set.
HOWEVER, in blowing out the candles (twice) I did wish for many more birthdays with many less pounds. I wished that next year I will weigh 80 lbs. less.
I am overwhelmed by the fact that it could be possible!
Countdown! on November 6, 2006 3:25 pm
Countdown until December 14!
Today my DH actually told his best friend that I am getting banded, which is major for him. He doesnt tell anybody anything. He said he told him he is concerned about me having surgery and going under anesthesia. He also told him that it doesnt matter to him if I am big (he is a fat chick lover) or small, just as long as my personality doesnt change. So, of course, his wise BF told him that he knows a chick who had WLS and lost 150 lbs and went crack-ho wild drinking, partying, tearing up peoples lawns, just like the on Oprah's show. Well, great. I did tell DH that I have not always been fat, in my 20's I was a pretty hot mama and attracted a lot of attention. This was when my boobs did not stare at the ground and when I danced my butt did not keep time to the music in a different time than my feet. I also sowed enough wild oats for me and half the free world. So, I am thinking I have all that out of my system. This silly little man does not realize it took me 39 years to find him and have a great relationship. So, I am going to lose weight and leave his a**? NO!
I am not so stupid as to think that losing weight is not going to change a lot of things about my life. I can do my landscaping that I love to do, I can get on my knees in my closet and pick through my shoes, I can chase my kids and bend over for more than 15 seconds. I can't wait for all these things! I've already been through the "find myself" phase, and HERE I AM! I need to lose weight so I can be healthy enough to be here for my kids until they can take care of themselves. Will I look better? I hope so. Will I feel better? I know I will! Will I have any more time as a smaller person to go track down a new man and some wild party friends? Will I want to?
The answer to this is "I love the man I have now, and I have plenty of friends." WLS is a great decision for me to make the life I have now better. If I was looking for a new life, I would take my car, my money, my kids, my furniture, my clothes and find a new life and THEN have WLS. Silly boy! But if thinking I might find me a new fella will keep him in line and make him do more laundry, let his imagination run wild!
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Anxiety on November 3, 2006 6:15 pm
It seems that the results of my psych exam indicate that I would be well suited for an anti-anxiety med such as Paxil/ REALLY????
I cant imagine why or how I am so anxious. I get up at 5:30 am almost every day and get up get the kids ready, pets fed, myself ready, do a little work, take the kids to school, go meet a client, stop at the surveyors office, then to the office, and by then have talked to at least 5 more clients. This is by 10 am. I am extremely stressed out and thinking about having to lose weight in the normal fashion has to be the A#1 thing in my world for me to be able to do it.
AHHHH. Paxil. or some equivalent. Can't wait! I previously was prescribed anti-depressants when I was getting divorced. At that time I worked and was a part-time student, full-time mom on a very strict budget. I think I knew I needed Paxil when I keyed a brand new mini-van that slammed its door into my car in the parking lot. The owner walked away without even acknowledging that he dinged my car, so in my pre-Paxil anxiety I jumped out and scraped my keys eloquently down the side of his car. When I got back in my car I noticed that he had a temp tag in the back window, geez, it was brand new... I drove away praying that the police were not following me.
NOW-what does all this have to do with weight loss and lapband, et al? Once I started taking Paxil, I lost 30 lbs. very easily. Maybe that's it. But it's my blog and isn't this better than some crazy story about me eating a whole barrel of KFC extra crispy and regretting it for two weeks?
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The Lapband Cometh on November 1, 2006 6:32 pm
Yes, it's true. On December 14, I am getting the Lapband, or perhaps, the Lapband is getting me.
After all these years of hating my closet and all the different sizes in it, after being mooed at by rude boys and used by rude men, and being abused by catty women, I am potentially no longer going be the fattest person in the room at most times.
Now, that is just plain almost infathomable. Is that a word? Well, it is now. Anyway, me and Fat CJ are on a level playing field after December 14, as in more of CJ and less of Fat CJ. I asked God for a miracle, and it is here. The gift of being able to buy weight loss is tremendous. I am so grateful. I can't express the guilt I feel using my hard-earned money for something as expensive as a new Kia Rio. Believe me I have researched the things I could buy with this money if I were so inclined. But I already have a car. What I need to buy is a longer life to have more time to get my beautiful daughters out into the world and not nearly as screwed up as I am. On that note, here's a great example: Money can buy your way out of almost every situation, including being a compulsive overeater. It can buy you the band, new clothes and the therapy to go along with it. It cannot buy you happiness, but it can buy you a lot of crap that will make you happy. But in the end, only God can truly fill that longing inside of you for peace, light and grace. Hopefully instead of obsessing over food/fat and the like there will be no obsessing over plastic surgery and half pound weight loss. I am feeling very cynical about WLS today, however, very happy that it looms on the horizon. | Leave a comment.
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