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  • Name: margaret odom
  • Username: mamasebay
  • Location: sumner, GA, USA
  • Member Since: 8/21/2005
  • BMI: 25.7
  • Post Op
  • Surgery Type: RNY (01/27/06)
  • Surgeon: Titus Duncan
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Titus Duncan
I first met Dr. Duncan at the Seminar and he has a great humor about him. He didn't leave any stone unturned about the surgery. He doesn't try to talk you into the process at all and lets you know ALL of the risks and benefits of it.I had been very determined to have the WLS before I got there but after the deminar I was over the top with enthusiasm.I also had an office visit the same day as the seminar and there staff if very nice. They even came out into the waiting area and asked if anyone needed anything like water. or anything else. I wouldn't change my mind at all on the choice I made of him.
Member Interests
  • Family & Friends - Have 3 beautiful girls, 3 great son in laws and a twin sister(im the good one)
  • Humor - If you don't have it in this life, you'll miss out!
  • Interior Decoration - My alltime favorite. Wallpapering, Painting, Designing!!
  • Grandchildren - Have two, David 6, Anslee 3, HEAVEN SENT TO ME!!!
  • E-Bay - LOVE IT!!! Passes the time away......;o)
  • Married - Married 28 years!! Love him , but never turned him into eatting partner lol
  • Shopping - Man, is there anything else better than eatting EXCEPT shopping!

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  • Comment by piperkc on 2/5/06 8:29 am
    "It's never too late to be who you might have been." ~George Eliot “The Greatest healing therapy is friendship and Love.” ~ Hubert Humphrey "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, any one can start from now and make a brand new ending" " The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, but in what direction we are moving." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes "There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow." ~ O. S. Marden "Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil." ~ James Allen "I asked God to give me happiness. God said, "No. I give you blessings. Happiness is up to you." ~ Author Unknown "Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day. Goals tend to tap the deeper resources and draw the best out of life. "Put yourself in a state of mind where you say to yourself, 'Here is an opportunity for me to celebrate like never before, my own power, my own ability to get myself to do whatever is necessary." ~ Anthony Robbins " ~ Harvey Mackay "Life is a challenge, but if you don't stand and risk you will never know if you were able to win or lose. Challenges are not a thing of winning or losing; they are a way of learning from them to become a better person every day! ~ Alexsander Rodriguez, P.R "Don't ask for it to be easy, ask for it to be worth it." Dan Kuschell "The most important question to ask is not 'What am I getting?' The most important question to ask on the job is 'What am I becoming?'"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however." - Richard Bach "In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins; not through strength, but through persistence." ~ Jackson Brown "I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning." ~ J.B. Priestly "Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult." ~ Julia Cameron "The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. That block of granite is often nothing more than a decision." ~ Thomas Carlyle "Being yourself is not remaining what you were, or being satisfied with what you are. It is the point of departure." ~ Sydney Harris "Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth." ~ Katherine Mansfield "Too often we are scared. Scared of what we might not be able to do. Scared of what people might think if we tried. We let fears stand in the way of our hopes. We say no when we want to say yes. We sit quietly when we want to scream. And we shout with the others, when we should keep our mouths shut. Why? After all, we do only go around once. There's really no time to be afraid. JUST DO IT." ~ Nike advertising campaign "I am convinced that attitude is the key to success or failure in almost any of life's endeavors. Your attitude - your perspective, your outlook, how you feel about yourself, how you feel about other people - determines your priorities, your actions, your values. Your attitude determines how you interact with other people and how you interact with yourself." ~ Carolyn Warner "Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives." ~ Author Unknown "It's never too late to be what you might have been." ~ George Eliot "For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it." ~ Author Unknown "Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson A wish changes NOTHING; A decision, changes EVERYTHING "So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will,they soon become inevitable." Christopher Reeves "When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, Nor will the flame burn you. For I am the LORD your God, The Holy One of Israel, your Savior." Isaiah 43:2-3 Everyone has beauty but not everyone sees it. "If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much." ~ Jim Rohn May you always have an Angel by your side. Watching out for you in all the things you do. Reminding you to keep believing in brighter days. Have a speedy recovery Angela in Corpus Christi 291lbs BMI 45.60 -234lbs Dr Michael Grace Open RNY Life began May 16, 2002 I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. Surely..I will heal you." 2 Kings 20:5
  • Comment by Margaret F. on 1/26/06 8:55 am
    Never look back, and keep on looking forward to tomorrow! Tomorrow there will be less pain, tomorrow there will be more energy, tomorrow is filled with hope, tomorrow is already on it's way, tomorrow is bright and full of wonder, tomorrow is a new day, and keep making plans, keep hoping, and keep looking forward because tomorrow is coming! Yesterday is gone, it is the past, tomorrow is the future, and today it is a gift, that's why you call it the present. -unknown
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LIFE AFTER PLASTIC SURGERY!
on October 1, 2007 6:02 am
October 1st .2007
      I cant believe that I havent updated my profile since surgery... I have been lazy in that department for sure. So here it goes.. I had surgery on the 27th and they took me back about twelve like promised lol. I was in there for five hrs and my family didnt think it was gonna take that long. But all went well and I had over ten pounds of skin taken off. You would have thought it would have been thirty lol... Well things went as planned and I stayed overnight and went home the next day. I had a great lil gizmo called an ON Q pump... lil fanny pack deal. I had never heard of one till then. It keeps ya very numb for about five days... I highly reccommend one... Then that night I slept in my bed from the first night. I was somewhat sore but nothing like I thought I would be. The first time I got out of the hospital bed I almost fainted and had to sit back down and also when I took my binder off at one one time.. Very bad feeling but overall felt fine... My daughter from Mississippi came in that weekend and she took after pics of me .. ugh... My other daughter took the before ones... I feel like heck, thats what we are all here for anyway huh>? Not the prettiest I must say.. He is going back in on the 17th of this month to tweak me some in the upper stomach area.. He gave me a new belly button and you really cant see it much because the top part of the skin is hanging some now... He said my belly button was terrible.. Heck, I could have told him that lol... He done the most excellent job I had ever seen. I was the highest weightloss patient he had ever done plastics on... I had lost 220lbs when I had surgery and as of today have lost 241lbs... So will sure ride that weight train till it throws me off. lol I had my first post op visit with him a week later and I had this oh so major speach that I was gonna tell him when I got there how he was highly appreciated by me and not all plastics is vanity wise and how he has gave me such quality of life back with no hanging skin.. WELL>>>>>>> didnt go that way...lol I got in there and started saying a few words and omg the tears started up like a snotty little baby had something taken away from it lol... I couldnt control myself.. It is extremely emotional to see no skin hanging and you actually looking like a normal person.. I just lost it. He was so so sweet. He rubbed my arm and was like aw.... thats ok.. Its a good cry aint it? lol I couldnt even talk lol... I just wanted him to know how amazing he was and had done... So after all that was over I felt stupid but grateful lol... The only problem I have had is at four weeks out last week I got a lil infection and had to go see him after his office closed.. Or so I thought it was a small infection. OMG he put me on 2000mgs of kelflex a day... I have been on it for a week now and its so much better. So if thats the only thing Ive had go wrong I am blessed. I havent had that much swelling really only at night after I have been on my feet all day.. I cant be still all day jeez...I thought I was approved for the boobies but apprarently the insurance company woman I talked to didnt read her crap right. She said the two things that were sent in by your dr was approved so I took for granite it was the boobies and tt, panni and mons deal. Well, it was the mons deal and tt/panni... I wasnt even upset. I got turned down for the breast thing. I can always saddle back up and try the breast thing after first of the year. I am not really even concerned right now with all that. I cant complain in reality. bcbs fed payed for my wls and all this plastics.. I know that so many get turned down for these things so cant complain really.... So for now this is about all I know... Will update after tweaked surgery on the 17th.. Go for preop on the 15th.. Really excited to get this all over with.. I forgot to say I had two drains... One they took out after two weeks and the other one the third week... Never had drains before so that was a ride lol....
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