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Clifford Deveney, M.D.
Dr. Deveney is a competent, skilled and experienced surgeon. He answered the questions I posed to him in easy to understand terminology. His staff are the best. The nurse practitioner Vicki and an obesity researcher were splendid. We were laughing so hard my sides hurt. I can't say enough about how knowledgable and friendly they were at the pre-op visit. Don't ask me to rate the phlebotomist though. I warned her that my veins were sneaky and she haughtily didn't heed the warning. After poking both arms we had to go for the hand.
Member Interests
  • Cats - We have a tabby cat named Tigger. He is a bona-fide attack kitty!
  • Parenting - I have two great kids; a six year old girl and a four year old boy.
  • Music - Music is a thread of life, I like it all!
  • Sewing - I love to sew clothes for my kids. Maybe I will sew something for me as I lose!
  • Wine Tasting
  • WLS in your 30's
  • Reading - I love to read! Sometimes I read 3 or 4 books a week.

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  • Comment by Go_Go_Girl on 5/20/06 9:23 pm
    Hi Jill, welcome home from surgery. I hope you are feeling as well as can be expected. I'm sure the kids are excited to have you home again. Welcome to the loser's bench. The journey ahead may not always be easy, but I can assure you it will be interesting. May your victories be more abundant than all the grains of sand on every beach of every ocean in all the world.
  • Comment by Cally S. on 5/17/06 5:30 am
    Good Luck on your Surgery today!!! Wishing you a speedy recovery. ~Chris~
  • Comment by inspector-girl on 5/5/06 8:11 pm
    Congratulations on your surgery date! I have some Zen Wisdom for you - Nothing exists but momentarily...One thing flows into another...observe things as they are, let everything go as it goes. This is to put everything under control in its widest sense. --- May God keep you close to his side as you travel your new journey. You will have ups and downs. You can always turn to us, your AMOS family, we will give support, comfort and encouragement. You will find this will be the best thing you could ever have done for yourself as well as your family. I know that was true for me. Keep us posted when you reach the "other" side. I pray for a speedy and easy recovery for you. Don’t forget to update your profile at least monthly. We all like to see how we are doing!!! Make sure you take pictures. It’s great to see the new you emerge!!! Not to mention the look on YOUR face when you look at those pictures and compare them in a few months! It’ll be a BIG WOW!!! Please remember too, that this is a *tool* to use. Make sure you use it wisely. Choose the right foods and measurements wisely! Feel free to look at my profile and see my ups and downs and know I’d not change a thing with anything I’ve experienced. Everything was worth it! Good luck and God Bless!!! RNY 10/31/03 257/140 I’M AT GOAL!!! Posted in Loving Memory of Paula – Momma Angel who passed away 6/10/04 (Note Momma did not pass away from anything related to WLS – she had not had it)
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Year-Out Plateau
on May 25, 2007 1:18 pm

I am one-year out and on my first longer than a month plateau. I have had stalls but this really sucks. I am hopeful that this is just a plateau and not the end of the loss. I am very happy with my progress to date, so I will not complain. Life a year ago was not life at all but just existence. So almost 144 pounds less, I have energy to live life. 

I have not been able to exercise for over a month due to a bulging disc in the lumbar region of my spine. It is very painful, but I will start a series of spinal injections and then PT early in June. Hopefully this will help and I will be able to exercise soon.

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Self-Image Blues
on March 9, 2007 8:48 am

Let's talk self-image...

I am now 9.5 months post-op and have lost 137 pounds. The loss is so slow these days but that is bothering me less and less. I am pleased with my success to date and am pretty excited that sometime this summer, I will reach my first goal. I will re-assess at that time to see what else I would like to lose. So what is bothering me these days? How I look!

It sounds crazy, I know, you'd think I would be happy that I don't look morbidly obese anymore, but there are new issues that have popped their literally "ugly" heads. First, I look gray, drab, lifeless. I hear this is a common post-op occurance but it really bothers me. I am only 36 and should look young and vibrant with this new life, but my palor really un-nerves me. Second, can I hear somebody say bat wings and aprons? Oh my God!!! This skin is so gross. It hangs, it gets rashes, it stinks, it hurts my back, and it makes me still see the fatty I was before surgery, just a deflated fatty. I am not sure how I will handle a denial if my insurance does not cover the skin removal. I know I cannot live with it, even when I lose the next 35 pounds. I think the only way to get to a healthy weight will be to have the skin removed.

Well, enough ranting. Just needed to vent. 

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01-18-07
on January 18, 2007 12:17 pm

The weight loss has finally kicked in again. I was worried that it had stopped all together. Yesterday I hit the milestone of 130 pounds lost! Yippee!!! My next goal is to get below 200. I currently weigh 224.4 so that is about 25 pounds to lose. It may take 3 months or more, but just the thought that this is in reach is very surreal. I am still not good at the exercise thing and know that this would help with the loss, but I just can't seem to get motivated to move. I will focus on this for the next month to see if I can find something I enjoy.

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1-04-07
on January 4, 2007 4:53 pm

Wow the weight loss has nearly stopped these days. I need to get in more exercise as I know this will help. I am also not making the best food choices all the time. I do on most days, but sometimes fast and easy wins out over healthy. The holidays were wonderful and I had a great time seeing my family. It was the first time my brothers had seen me since surgery, so they were taken aback. I did toast with the family on Christmas Day and enjoy a glass or two of champagne. It was a nice time.

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12-18-06
on December 18, 2006 10:05 am
Well, Christmas is coming soon and I am looking forward to a bit of splurging. I know I can't do much, but there are some treats I really hope to try like grandma's garlic mashers. Yum!

Things are going splendidly in the dating realm. Mark and I have been seeing eachother for a little over two months now. He is so good with the kids. I hope it continues to go so well.

I am having a problem with body image. I am not sure how to overcome always feeling fat. I know I am still quite a bit overweight, but I have lost so much. When I look in the mirror, it is hard to see the new me through the old brain. I so hope that my insurance will cover a panniculectomy. The excess skin is terrible and I know that would help me feel better about myself.
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My name is Jill and I am a single mom of two great kids. I have always been a larger person, but never quite as obese as I became over the last 10 years.

In 1995, my first son, Joseph, passed away from Leukemia and then due to differing religious viewpoints on the "whys" of his death, my husband of 8 years left me. At the time, I was weighing between 210 and 220. Looking pretty good but could have lost about 30 pounds to look great. My life took a downward turn though, and the pounds started to pile on.

Then in late 1999, I became pregnant with my daughter. I gained 75 pounds with the pregnancy and never lost it all. At delivery, I weighed in at 320 pounds. 10 months after her birth I had only lost 30 pounds when I found out I was pregnant again even though I was getting the Depo shots. This last pregnancy piled on more weight, and at delivery I weighed in at 388 pounds, January 2002.

I lost down to 270 following the Atkins Diet within a year and was well on my way to getting back to a healthier me when in October 2003, the children's father, abused our daughter. The following few months, I made sure my daughter got the counseling she needed, but comforted myself with food. My weight crept back up to 335.

I then tried LA Weight Loss and lost down to 275, but dropped out of the program and gained back up to 355.

In October 2005, my insurance decided they would begin covering RNY WLS in January of 2006. I knew that this was the decision I needed to make to ensure I am here to see my kids grow up. And so in January 2006, the journey began.

Date Weight Weight Loss Total Loss
05/30/2002 388 0 0
04/30/2006 355 33 33
05/17/2006 340 15 48
06/17/2006 311 29 77
07/17/2006 295 16 93
08/17/2006 281 14 107
09/17/2006 264 17 124
10/17/2006 251 13 137
11/17/2006 244 7 144
12/17/2006 234 10 154
01/17/2007 224 10 164
02/17/2007 221 3 167
03/17/2007 214 7 174
04/17/2007 211 3 177
05/17/2007 211 0 177
06/17/2007 208 3 180

 

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