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be down to 200 pounds by August 30th

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lose enough weight to be healthy and be able to enjoy my grandchildren.

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Niazy Selim, M.D., Ph.D.
I love my doctor, he did my surgery robotically and although I had a huge bruised belly for a couple of weeks after I was only in the hospital for 30 hours and I did not take any pain medication at home. I had no drain tubes and so far (knock on wood) I have had no issues with my surgery and my six incisions are healing nicely. I would recommend Dr. Selim to anyone who lives in the Kansas City AREA!!!
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Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
I come from a family of overweight and normal weight people. People always said you have such a pretty face if you just lost weight. Well I always thought if I just lost weight. Well I tried everything. I did the diet pills, Weight Watchers, the grapefruit diet, the starve yourself diet. I would lose then I would put the weight back on plus more. After I had my son my weight just kept going up and up. Finally my insurance plan started to pay for the surgery so I started looking into it in 2009. It's been a struggle and a journey I am glad I have taken.
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Stepped on scale this morning it says
posted on 3/8/12 5:37 am
279.3 wow I cannot believe I am in the 270's. I am so happy this total transformation with the personal trainer is paying off. I have lost 22 pounds in about 8 weeks. really psyched. I am down to size 22-24 in my pants and I cannot believe that at all. On the sadder side of things my mother is not doing well at all. She is on a ventilator and the scary part is we don't know why. She was sick with what we thought was a cold or the flu. Well she did not seem to be getting any better so one of my brothers took her to the doctor. Well he hind sight is 20/20 and he said he should have gone into the office with her to see the doctor because she was not talking right to begin with. then Thursday Feb 23rd she did not call me (she called me every morning to talk and if she wasn't going to call me she would call the night before to tell me she was not calling) well I passed it off to her being sick and not wanting to talk. But then she did not call again friday morning. So I tried to call her and she did not answer. So I called my brother Jimmy and he said she was probably sleeping because she did not feel well. Later that afternoon my phone rang and I thought it was her but it was another brother Chris calling to tell me that they took her to the hospital in an ambulance because she had fallen. I got to St. Joseph and another brother Tom and my sister in law Shirley were there and they said that they were going to send her home but Chris  who lives with her instisted that there was something else wrong and not to send her home without further testing. So they admitted her to St. Joseph she was there friday night then all day saturday she was not with it at all she knew stuff but had to think and sometimes she would just not make sense at all. Then sunday morning at 4 am i got a call from the hosptial saying that she had stopped breathing and they had to put her on a ventilator and that she was currently in the ER and they were moving her to ICU as soon as a bed opened up. She was in the ICU for a couple of days they did a lumbar puncture and ran several tests and had to put in a temporary pace maker in case her heart stopped she was having low counts on her heartbeats. They could not stop the seizures she had been continuelly having since being in the ER again so they decided to transfer her to KU Medical Center where she could be placed on 24 hour EEG monitoring. At KU they decided to flat line her brain and try to reboot it in order to stop the seizure activity. She had been on Propofal since being in the ER at ST. Joseph and they used 40 mcg of Propofal and Versed to put her in that suspended state she stayed on that for 48 hours then they slowly brought her back with no seizure activity. We were going to go ahead and remove the breathing tube becuase there had been no activity but yesterday she moved her fingers by command and she opened and closed her eyes on command. So now we are giving her a couple of days to possibly come out of her coma like state and see if she can breathe on her own. Tomorrow we should know more.  (this update is for me but feel free to read it)  


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