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Take pole dancing exercise classes

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To dance!

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To run!

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Enjoy yoga and not feel like I'm dying

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Cross legs while sitting

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Surgeon Testimonial

Ward, Dunnican
Dr. Dunnican was AMAZING. Besides being young and incredibly handsome (stared in a few fun dreams of mine... But I digress). He is extremely kind and thorough. My very first visit with him he answered every single one of my questions, plus more I didn't even know I had. By my 2nd and 3rd appointments I had every confidence that Dr. Dunnican would be an amazing surgeon, and had absolutely no doubts about him. He was alway apologetic if I had to wait long to see him, and was always very warm and sincere. My surgery went well. He said I had an initial leak that he fixed right up before closing me up, so I'm not worried at all. He came to my room to see me everyday with the exception of my discharge day ... But, he forewarned me that he wouldn't be around until later that day (if I was still in the hospital) so I wasn't concerned.
Dr. Dunnican was very gentle while checking my incisions post op. The EXACT opposite of one of the other Dr.s that came in and put an unnecessary and painful amount of pressure on one of my incision sites the day after surgery (uncool nameless Dr guy).
All in all, I am fully pleased with Dr. Dunnicans care and excellent work. I look forward to my post op appointments with him. And would recommend him to anyone in the Albany, NY area who is thinking about this surgery.

Edit - 9/08/10
Dr. Ward Dunnican was killed in a motorcycle accident last night. I am deeply saddened by this. He was a very skilled surgeon who was only 38 years old with a wife and 3 daughters.
I dedicate every dress size I go down to him.
Thank you Dr. Dunnican, for changing my life. RIP.
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karkar26's Blog
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Not letting myself get too excited, yet.
on April 30, 2010 11:44 am

First blog.... The pressure!

So, I've started the Bariatric process. Been to 3 educational sessions at 2 different hospitals. Saw a nutritionist, my Primary care doctor, did the Phsych evaluation (passed with flying colors, thank you).
I have my Pulmonary Dr appointment next week, with the Dietician in 3 weeks, and the Surgeon in 6. Seems like things are moving along very steady. ...
But, I can't stop this horrible feeling that I'm not going to get approved from my insurance.
Sure, I meet the BMI requirements (5'6" & 272 = 42 bmi), and I dont really have any health issues like High Blood pressure or diabetes yet (thank God). I've tried tons of diets, sticking to non of them and documenting none of them.
I'm very nervous that I wont get approved because I don't have 3 years of dr. documented weight loss attempts. And I guess I feel like everything else is going along too smoothly and last minute the Insurance company will drop the bomb that I dont meet ALL the requirements.

I guess there's nothing left to do but wait. And diet. My nutritionist gave me a lot of inspiration and motivation and ideas of how to drop some weight. I need to lose 27 lbs and I've currently lost 7. I've started changing my eating habbits. Lessening my portions, subsituting things for healthier choices, actually looking at calories and protein amounts now, cut out sugar from my morning coffee, and water, water, water. I feel ... Well honestly, I feel the same so far. I mean heck, it's only 7 lbs. But it keeps me going. My heart races a mile a minute every time I step on the scale, but so far it's been kind to me.

I've got a lot bottled up inside so I'm going to attempt to keep blogging on here. It's a good outlet.

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