jktcbuck's Profile

Name: Katy B.
Username: jktcbuck
Location: IA
Member Since: 6/18/2007
BMI: 40.9
Post Op
Surgery Type: RNY (09/25/07)
Surgeon: Shanu Kothari, M.D.

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Surgeon Testimonial

Shanu Kothari, M.D.
Initial impression was he was very professional and knowledgeable. He has performed over 550 WLS and everyone I have talked to that has had the surgery, has had it done by him. He is at Gundersen Lutheran in La Crosse, WI and performa primarily Laparoscopic GB but will do open if it is warranted.

I would recommend him to anyone in the area that is considering having it done. He is very in tune to the aftercare and support groups that Gundersen offers and has a fabulous dietary staff as well as surgery team that are all about the patient.

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Hospital Reviews

(La Crosse, WI) - Gunderson Lutheran MC

Latest Surgery Support Comments

Comment by coolrayswife on 9/24/07 5:55 pm

Katy, Congrats on your new beginning tomorrow. I will pray for you a smooth and quick recovery. I'm sure you'll be just fine. Remember to take it one day at a time. Save me a seat on the losers bench, I'll be there a day later.

Comment by Beckers on 9/24/07 1:31 pm

Katy- Good luck with your surgery and recovery! Let us know if we can do anything to help you :)

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jktcbuck's Blog

OKAY....HAD AN EFFIN BLAST!
on May 5, 2008 2:53 am

I couldn't get my pictures from the ball to upload for some reason, so here are some I had to cut and paste here.

Had a ball at the ball to say the least. I think this is one of the best things the surgeons, nutritionists, PA-Cs could do to acknowledge not only themselves for what they do, but for the post ops whose lives the seemingly save.

You can bet your sweet ass Katy will be going back next year new and improved from this year even!

Me and My DH John

Me and Dr. Kothari

Me and my nutritionist Emily

Me playing the COWBELL! Gotta have more COWBELL!

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Okay! WOWZERS!
on March 18, 2008 9:33 am

Last night I was on a qwest. Every year the surgeons, nutritionists and rest of the surgical team at Gundersen Lutheran put on a Bariatric Ball for all post-operatives. Kind of a tux/formal dress affair. K...the last time I delved into the formal dress arena was at my Junior Prom 21 years ago.

I have gained a few hundred pounds since then.

I was walking around the Apache Mall in Rochester, Minnesota looking for the dress that would have the light shining down on it kind of like when Clark Griswold finds the perfect tree at Christmas time....I was beginning to give up hope. Nothing NICE was going to fit me and I even considered NOT going to the ball.

I had gone into every store except for Herberger's. Depending on where you live...it is a sister store to Younker's/Carson's lalalalala. I thought...great...another gawdy prom dress store where I am not going to find anything, or I would find something my grandmother would have worn with some cheap ass smelling perfume.

THEN.....................The Clark Griswold moment happened. The dress was beautiful, fireworks were going off around me and lightining shot out my ass as I was so excited about the dress I found....but would it fit? I found myself looking at the size 24s when I clearly knew it would be way too big. I was no longer that person...well still that person, just a smaller version....I chose a size 14. I had a gut wrenching feeling in my stomach I would be disappointed.

BUT I WASN'T. It zipped up and everything. I hate to toot my own horn, but I looked stunning and I started crying.

I bought the gown...and I will take pictures of my fine self in it and post them later for you to see. I should have done it at the same time as this, but I couldn't wait to write about it.

THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!

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Emotional Eating
on March 3, 2008 6:58 pm

That's what I just did. I was upset and I ate 3/4 of a piece of cheesecake I baked for my co-workers today. What the hell is wrong with me. I have been upset because the scale won't move, personal issues in my life whatever.....

It's not that I don't get support from anyone because I get more than my fair share from here! I just want to get to goal so bad I can taste it. Well if goal tastes anything like that cheesecake I just ate, then I don't want to get there.

I don't even remember tasting it. The whole time I ate it I said to myself, "I hope you get sick, the shits, whatever" I knew the whole time eating it what I was doing, and I swear....never again. I REFUSE! I was doing so well today until I chose to make the bad decision.

Tomorrow's another day, I'm thirsty anyway, so bring on the rain!

:o)

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Walking in a Weight Loss ONDERLAND!
on February 16, 2008 12:35 am

WOO FRIGGIN' HOO! I finally broke the stall. Sure the day after the final weight entry for the Valentine's Challenge. I had to enter 200 :o( Nut when I woke up the morning of the 15th....I saw 198. I weighed periodically throughout the day and I never went back to 200 even after I ate!

La De Friggin' Da! Yeah for me! I think this is it. 63 awful pounds gone forever! I am so proud of myself.

New challenge goal weight is 185! Let's hope my stall doesn't last another 6 weeks.

63 pounds in 4 1/2 months WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Still training for the 5K! Can't wait to do it! I KNOW I CAN!

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I guess I DON't give up...I just have to do something different
on February 6, 2008 4:28 pm

I guess I decided not to give up. That would be bad....plus I would be a quitter. I decided I needed to do something different.

I have decided to start running which I stated in the giving up post...and that has been going real well. I have made a pact with another WLS friend of mine that we are going to run a 5K this summer. I AM SUPER EXCITED about that!

I haven't lost much weight, and am not sure I will get to my mini challenge goal of 195. I am currently at 200.8 and I only have a week to go. HOWEVER...I submitted my new challenge goal today for 185 for the new round, so I can only hope. That will take me to Easter.

More hard work and more determination....that's what this is all about!!!!!!!!!!!!

I appreciate all the support everyone has shown me.

Thanks! You guys are the best!

Katy

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