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See these instructions if you wish to submit your own Before & After photos. Surgeon Testimonial Charles Morton III, M.D. Dr. Morton was very reassuring and very willing to answer all my questions about the surgery. His office and staff are very caring and very helpful. I would recommend him to anyone who was looking to have the lap-band surgery. Latest Surgery Support Comments No comments posted yet. Please post yours. Click here for the surgery support page |
My Story When I decided to get the lap band I was at a bleak point in my life, I had just quit a job I had been at for 8 1/2 years. I worked for a brokerage firm and have my series 7 license but being overweight in that world is a nightmare, all of my brokers did not really want to work with me even though I was the best assistant and was always on time and did the best job but because of how I looked they were ashamed to have me as their assistant. When I quit I thought what am I going to do now no one will hire me looking like this but I did get a job in a call center where it seemed like a lot of people were overweight so I felt at home, but then one of my teammates had this wonderful surgery called the lap band and she was doing so good that I was jealous of her, I wanted that surgery for myself (in high school I was a cheerleader, class president, etc...) so when I went home for reunions or when I ran into someone that used to know me they would not talk behind my back. I talked to my fellow employee and she gave me the name of the doctor who did her surgery and I thought I'll go talk to them and see if I can get approved for this surgery and guess what I did!! It was wonderful, but he did tell me I would not be able to eat hamburgers, hotdogs, and foods like that but I said so what, I'll be thin again!! So I had the surgery in January of 06 and as of today Nov 07 I have lost 141 lbs., I have gone from a size 24 to a size 8. I know this surgery is slow compared to the other one but it gives your body time to adjust and I did not put the weight on overnight so I did not expect to take it off overnight. Just recently I visited my old brokers at the brokerage firm where I used to work and they were all over me wanting to know how I did it and telling me how "fantastic" I looked, eat your heart out guys!! I am now working for a new brokerage firm making more money and with better benefits so the moral is when one door closes another door opens, if I had never left the first job I would have never had this surgery and I would still be miserable with my job and my life. Take a chance, sometimes you just have to take a leap of faith. |
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