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Surgeon TestimonialBrian B. Quebbemann, M.D., F.A.C.S.I loved Dr Q as soon as I met him. He spent lots of time with us teaching us all about the surgeries. The best part about The New rogram is that they have a ZERO mortality rate, and that's the kind of Dr I wanted to do my surgery!
The New Program has a Two year follow up and everyone that works there are all wonderful to deal with.
Dr Q's surgical competence is why I decided he should be the one to do my surgery!
To be perfectly honest though, I haven't seen Dr Q since before he preformed my surgery. I've had follow-ups with others on his staff, but most of my appointments are on days when he's in surgery.
He does the talking before hand, and makes sure you pick the right surgery for you, then the rest of the staff handle it from there. I guess that why he's a surgeon!
He does attend the Lifestyle Management classes, but becasue of the time, I'm unable to go to them.
Member Interests
- Travel - We travel as often as possible.
- Dogs - Love dogs, the bigger the better. We have two male Great Danes!
- Theater - Love going to theater, we have seaon tickets to the Pantages in Hollywood.
- Music - Love music of all types, Husband plays bass guitar in a band.
- Photography - Always the one behind the camera, and love taking pictures during our travels.
- Auto Racing - Big NASCAR fan!
- Married - Celebrated 15 years Feb 2006
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 Comment by joy7777 on 7/6/08 2:02 pm
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Happy One Year
Surgiversary, Jan!
It has been so
awesome watching
your progress since
last summer. Thank
you for sharing your
journey with all of
us here and for
being such an
inspiration. Here's
hoping the coming
year ahead is as
wonderful for you as
the past one!
Molly
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I have really
enjoyed reading your
profile.
Congratulations on
reaching your goal
before your trip. I
look forward to
reading more of your
journey.
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September 18, 2008 on September 18, 2008 2:05 pm
Life has been so busy and I've been so bad about keeping up here, I'm going to work hard on changing that!
We found out 2 weeks ago that my Mom has stomach cancer. Tomorrow they are going to remove part of her stomach and hopefully all the cancer. Dr told us he had no clue until he gets in at how much will be removed. Mom said to me, "hey maybe I'll get skinny like you!" She's trying so hard to have a good outlook, but I know she's been very down. She's also had some nasty back problems this last week and hasn't been able to move around much.
I just finished OH Support Group Training the beginning of the month and held my first support group meeting. I thought it went really well and we all enjoyed ourselves. I'm looking forward to the next meeting.
I finally realized in just the last few weeks that I'm normal sized now, it's weird, but when I meet new people they have no clue how fat I was before, and it's up to me if I want to tell them or not. That's sorta cool in my book. Amazing how these things just suddenly dawn on you and make you smile. I went on a "girls weekend" with 4 girlfriends last month to the local beach area. We had a great time and while on the Pier I ran into my first boyfriend, OK, so he was more than that, he was the one guy that I thought I'd spend the rest of my life with. We dated on and off for 10 years until finally I decided he'd never make up his mind. When I spotted him I walked up to him and just said his name, he was so surprised, said he would have never recognized me, but it was my voice that he'd never forget. I weighed at least 230+ the last time I saw him. Turns out he's been married and divorced and he's alone now. It felt good to look better, be happily married to my best friend (almost 18 years) and to be successful in my career. It was sorta like saying hey, I made it through life without you! A very good feeling.
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July 14, 2008 on July 16, 2008 7:15 am
Two year checkup today, wow, can you believe it?
Got wonderful results, all blood tests were perfect, the DR was so pleased. She told me to keep on doing just what I'm doing because it's working.
We talked about the fear of gaining and how that could be a good thing to help keep me in line. We also talked about exercise, she said that the patient that gain weight are the ones not exercising or the ones that have never started. It's a very important fact for maintaining the weight loss.
She told me the national average from the American Bariatric Assoc. is 70% of excess weight loss. I've now lost 75% of my excess, more could come off with plastics but I'm just not there quite yet. As we were leaving she told me she keeps lists, I'm already on her complication list, but now I was going on her "Doing very well" list. That made me happy.
I also had my 2 week follow-up after the hysterectomy and all is well there too, a bit of an infection, but it's easily treated. Still off work for another week.
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June 26, 2008 on June 26, 2008 8:38 am
Went today and had blood drawn for my 2 year follow-up appointment. Can't believe it's coming so fast.
On a good day I'm down 200 pounds from where I began but most of the time I run between 195-197 lost. I weight 177 on average.
I'm wearing size 12 pants and anywhere from a M to XXL shirt depending on the cut.
Eating wise I still haven't venture to the land of sugar. I stick to my own rule and try to never go above 12 grams of sugar, but aim for no more than 8 most of the time. I can now take a few bites of bread or potatoes at the end of a meal. Still haven't had a sandwich, maybe a bite or two here or there. Rice does not agree with me, so I stay away. Nothing else bothers me that much anymore. I still stay away from things too high in fat since that's what I've dumped off of twice. Bacon is something I've yet to try, and have no desire too.
We're off to the River this weekend. I figure it'll keep my mind off of surgery coming up on Tuesday. I have pre-op stuff at the hospital early Monday morning, then plan to get the house cleaned and the fridge stocked.
Tuesday morning I have to be at the hospital at 5:30 AM, not too bad since the hospital is across the street and we're normally up that early.
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June 9, 2008 on June 9, 2008 10:56 am
Surgery (hysterectomy) is scheduled for tomorrow but due to insurance snafu's it may be postponed until next week sometime.
Hubbies company changed insurance on June 1st, but neglected to get all their paperwork in on time, it's caused the hold-up for the group ID #. The owner of hubbies company called to apologize and the insurance broker has been calling with daily reports. We should have it today or tomorrow.
Today it's due or die day. I've given them until 3 PM, if we don't have the number then I will cancel my 4 PM pre-op appointment at the hospital and the DR will reschedule surgery for next week.
I truly believe everything happens for a reason so I will not let this get to me. Hey the family will have me around to cook for Father's Day to say the least!
I did spend this past weekend stocking up the fridge and freezer and cleaning. Wow, do I have one clean house! Let's just hope I don't have to do it all again next weekend too!
Dr has told me no driving for 2 weeks at least and no lifting anything heavier than a book for at least 6 weeks! Hubby just told her "Oh no, I'm going to be so sick of my name after 6 weeks!" He laughed after that. He's a good guy and I won't have to worry about laundry or housework, he's better than me when it comes to cleaning.
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April 29, 2008 on April 29, 2008 2:02 pm
Didn't realize it had been so long since I've posted.
Still down 197 pounds, I play with a couple pounds going up and down every few days, but I'm happy to be were I am.
Hypoglycemia is still weird. I don't know when it will hit, but I'm prepared all the time in case. Yesterday I was driving home and knew it was going low. Should have done the smart thing and pull over, but I was a block from home so didn't. When I got home and took my blood sugar it was 53 and I was shaking. Now I'd only eaten less than an hour before. I suddenly felt starved, I grabbed turkey jerky and then some watermelon (3 small chunks), it very slowly brought my sugar levels back up.
I have an appointment with an endocrinologist to talk about the hypoglycemia on June 12th but looks as thought I might have to change that now.
Found out last week I have to have a hysterectomy ... I'm full of good news in this post! I called yesterday and they've scheduled my surgery for June 10th. The hospital is across the street from my house so no hour long drives this time. They told me I'd be off work 4-6 weeks, I can't imagine that. With WLS I was back to work a week and a half later. With emergency hernia surgery I was flying off to Ireland a week later, why would this be worse? Maybe I'm hoping for the best, but I think I'd go crazy sitting at home for that long.
No matter what I'm still glad I had WLS! Life is good, I can be active and move without pain, something I couldn't have said 2 years ago!
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My Story I'm one of those people that feels like they've been on a diet since day one! Well, OK, maybe not that bad but you know what I mean. I was only 6lbs. when born, but my Grandma loved to spoil me and helped change that. Not that I'm blaming anyone but me for my weight! Looking back at childhood pictures I was a little bit over weight by the age of 6 or 7, really not bad, but not skinny, when puberty hit at 10 things changed. I inherited my fat genes from my Mom's side of the family, darn it! On my Dad's side everyone is thin. He did give me his love for sweets though, darn him! I've been trying for two years to get approved to have a consult for GBS, Pacificare HMO just wouldn't let me have it. My PCP tried and tried, they keep denying it saying I had to do this or that, and basically gave me the run around. My PCP finally looked at me one day and said there is nothing more I can do to help you, you'll have to fight with them now. That made me mad, really made, I felt like he was giving up on me. I filed a grievance with Pacificare, wrote a long letter telling them my history and what not, begging them for help. A couple days later I was still in a down mood, and was having my hair done. My hairdresser and I were talking and I started crying, I'm just so tired of being fat. Turns out she has another client that working on having RNY done, and she called her and got the info for me. The very next day I called The New Program, got set up to attend an info seminar and they sent me all kinds of info on their program.
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