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Username: Lauren003
Location: NC
Member Since: 9/23/2005
Post Op
Surgery Type: RNY (03/13/06)
Surgeon: Steven M. Clark, MD

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Surgeon Testimonial

Steven M. Clark, MD
He is a terrific surgeon who takes the time to address any questions or concerns that his patients have. He has a wonderful and respectful way of making me feel at ease and not self conscious about my body. He also has a very structured after care system of check ups (with him) for the rest of our lives. It was comforting to me that we don't get tossed to the wind to fend for ourselves or have to rely on our PCPs who may or may not know much about this surgery. I don't know if it was his skill, my body or the combination of both, but I had very little pain after surgery and no complications at all (including throwing up) afterwards. Trust him with your life and he'll take great care of you.

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(Beech Grove, IN) - St. Francis Hospital

Latest Surgery Support Comments

Comment by Fox55M on 4/26/06 3:00 pm

Hi Lauren, My name's Melissa and I just read your response to a question about employer's exclusion. You mentioned you had an exclusion (as do I---just found out!) yet you submitted the paperwork anyway and was approved. Can you give me insight as to what you sent, exactly. That's my plan at this moment--to have my PCP, rheumatologist and myself write letters to my insurance so they can deem me medically necessary. Can you give me some advice/pointers on this please? Thank you so much! Melissa

Comment by asquilez on 10/6/05 1:57 pm

Lauren, I hope all is going well in your new journey. This website is one of the best - I learned alot from the caring people here. Also, when you have time check out WLSindy.com, it is a website for pre and post-ops for Central Indiana - I use both websites for information, I like OH for the journaling and that it has people from all over the world, and I like WLSindy because it is great to meet people in person to go walking, biking or just for talking. Good Luck, Kelly

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Welcome, OH family! Hopefully I'll learn enough about how to use this profile to get it up an going. I want to participate too and have a record of my successes as well as struggles, not just sitting here doing nothing. As with most other parts of my life, I'm done being stagnant!

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My Story

My story is the same as many others. I have been bigger than others since nearly birth and it had continued to get worse as the years passed. I can remember being in kindergarden and first grade and feeling so embarrassed and ashamed to be weighed for the yearly physical fitness test because I was already 100 pounds and everyone else was around 50 or 60. I could feel that I was larger than them though honestly, didn't think that I was twice their size until I saw those numbers. And after that, they knew it too! Now I still cannot bring myself to tell my numbers, not even to my husband, because in my mind an overweight person's weight is even more personal than shared love or sex. Maybe when I become small enough that I don't identify with that huge person anymore, then I'll tell. Until then I just can't bring myself to feel that vulnerable and subhuman again. One day at a time is how I live life now, each coming day a bit better than the last, and this surgery has given me that chance to feel comfortable in my own skin. So.. onward and upward!