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Andrew Duffy, M.D.
Dr. Andrew Duffy is the best!!! He is with Yale University Bariatric Surgeons - a center for excellence and he is in with Dr. Robert Bell. I went to the seminar on 12/8/06 and listened attentively to all they had so say. Needless to say when Dr. Duffy presented I just knew that this is the guy I was looking for to do my surgery - he knew his stuff and he was kind and sensitive to my questions. I was getting frustrated because I could not get an appointment for my psych eval prior to 1/07 and he was kind enough to give me the name of Mark Gaynor, LCSW and I got an appointment right away. My paperwork was all complete and in Dr. Duffy's office by 1/2/07. Since I did not get a call with an appointment by 1/3/07, the very next day, I decided to e-mail Dr. Duffy on our Groupwise system that we use at Yale and I said \"I am hoping God places it in your heart to read this e-mail - I need a date!!!\" and he read it - I got a call with a date four days after. I feel confident and I know that I made the right decision. The staff is great, Jane, his nurse manager was great - she had R&Y a couple years ago and looks great and she used to work as an OR nurse where I work which is part of Yale too.
Member Interests
  • Artist/Muralist - I paint the most beautiful stills and christian art in acrylics on canvas
  • Basketry - I love making beautiful dolls and gift baskets that are unique
  • Hispanic/Latino - I was born in Panama, Republic of Panama came to US at age 24.

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  • Comment by MSW will not settle on 11/20/09 2:32 pm
    So glad to hear your brachio has gone well. Here's to a speedy, uncomplicated, painfree recovery. Blessings!
  • Comment by So Blessed! on 9/17/08 8:27 am
    I'm lifting you in prayer today. Praying for a smooth recovery without complications and that the pain will be managed.
  • Comment by darkandlovely on 9/15/08 6:28 pm
    Hey Lady: I know you will be just fine! God has brought you this far and he will not leave you now! I pray for a successful surgery and a speedy recovery! You did your thang this summer in all of your gorgeous outfits! Peace and Blessings!
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TOTALLY AW AND LOVING IT!!!
on September 20, 2011 7:01 am
 TOTALLY  SO.... OMG ..September is ALMOST gone ... October is almost here ... then November and then then then YIKES DECEMBER and I will be a year older than 53 ... but my body is still dyslexic ... on some days feeling 35 and on others 25 .... 

Can an old fart AW in pics???.... oh why not ... go ahead and join me or not ... it is all good ...

I LOVE MY BEFORES..... 







My before grounds me in my after ... I love my fat woman images ... her deliverance is my release and my release is her deliverance ... we walk side by side ... totally grounded where I want to be...it feels AWESOME living without 5 co-morbidities and with the mobility that allowed me to run a 20K on labor day ...

My week so far today in pictures from my empowerment journal A Picture a Day Keeps the Pounds and the Inches Away ... it works for me ... and I LOVE LOVE LOVE taking pics ... NOTHING TO HIDE NEITHER BEFORE OR AFTER .... I AM DOING ME!!! ....













I came to work today like this ... loving my short cropped hair and my own highlights ... 

and I stole the highlights idea from someone right on here and loving it!!! 


YUP I LOVE TAKING PICTURES ... ALWAYS DID ... AND I LOVE PAINTING AND SEWING ... AND MORE THAN ALL I LOVE SHARING .... I am living each and every day as if it were my last .. living each breath and each moment and loving it!!! taking it all in stride .. the good... the bad... and the ugly ... bring it on I'LL ROCK IT!!! I am embracing joy and each day I make it happen to me! of course misery is right there because they run side by side but I am certainly not letting misery in ... nor will I make myself its target ...that old fool misery can taunt and mock all he wants to ... the more he does the better I live ... because I am ONLY doing me ....

Thanks for allowing me to share my AW post of the day!!!! Don't WORRY... BE HAPPY!!!
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Ending of a season beginning of another.... size...
on September 13, 2011 9:50 am
  Yikes .... one chore I hate... putting the lighter happier colored and patterned stuff away and bringing out the warmer/bulkier stuff in prep for fall/winter ... see if I were not that rushed in the A.M. I would not commute the clothes from my attic closet to downstairs for ease of access ... now I have to pack all this shiat or at least half of it cause I am certain to give away the other half and tote it up the stairs back to that attic closed and hang them then repeating the same process from upstairs to downstairs with the heavier/darker stuff... I am going to look for colorful winter/fall fabrics or garments ... I need color...
On a good day I can bribe my son the bum to do it for me ... but depending on his mood he may do an excellent job or a half arsed one ... who knows what foot he will get up on .. .the right or the left LOL ... BTW HE IS HAVING A B-DAY TODAY ... MY AWESOME DUFUS DS ... MAKING A MOMMA FEEL REALLY REALLY OLD lol ...

So we had a few warm days over the weekend preceded by colder raining days ... yesterday and today were just nice days ... just loving it ... not too hot not too cold ... just right and not humid...

I bought Dufus DH home from the hospital ... he will be seen outpatient why they fart around with his medication schedule/diet and such to figure out what/where the problems lies ... he has been through this before...

And I have been quite negligent in my journal a picture a day keeps the pounds and the inches away....

So this is me today ... AN OLD FART WITH AN ADULT SON WHO IS HAVING A B-DAY TODAY.. AND A DH DISCHARGED TO HOME THIS MORNING WOOT WOOT CELEBRATION TIME.... I really could go upside both their dufus heads ... 

Rocking my size 0-2 and loving it!!! To think I came to America a young adult weighting 98 pounds wet and wearing a size 5-6 then... so I guess that weighing more now at 120.4 this morning and in a sizing less than back then the sizing has changed indeed ... who cares? as long as I am healthy it is just a number ... after all my butt is big enough for me never to be thin ... my curse LOL

This is me and a pic of my tag ... oh the other day I farted around with highlights ... first time around I did not like so I rinsed it dark ... then tried again a couple weeks after ... now I am wanting my extensions ... yup ... I am old ... goofy and variable ... meet me in my happy place please... LOL


And this is my outfit.... off to work today on my son's b-day....YIKES I AM OLD!!! but feeling YOUNG and HEALTHY AND LOOKING IT TOO!!!



This was me on Friday ... when all HELL broke loose and had that rush of a scare with AL...


This was last week... it was rainy and damp... 


This is what I weighed on Saturday ...119.6 ... and I need a pedicure... not thinking about it over the weekend .. Candice is going to do a polish change for me she says ...



and after beefing up the protein for a bit ... nope I did not lose my appetite over Al this time... been there done that ... HE NEEDS TO LEARN HIS BODY SIGNALS .... I made and enjoyed protein ice cream in a bag on Saturday and Sunday...eeeeeeeekkkkkkk I look like a big head clown LOL...

and this is what I weighed this morning 120.4  My weight keeps hovering between those two number ... I would love to get back to my maintenance weight of 123-127 pounds which is ideal but I look no different and my clothes fit no different at this weight... only my clavicle protrudes more and my ribs ... my arse is as big as ever and I am convinced it is genetically placed and will never go away as much as I want it to....


Just sharing my journal entries in my digital journal a picture a day keeps the pounds and the inches away ... Oh and as my DH loves to take candid pictures and gets the most unseemly ones of me ... this is a comparison... I will never forget where I came from ... I don't want to...


Thank you for allowing me to share!!!!!
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SHAMELESS AND OWNING IT!!!
on September 3, 2011 8:25 am
 ...I AM SOOOOOOOO DOING ME...AND OWNING IT WITH ATTITUDE ...

Nope I won't forget ... no obsessing here ... having major fun doing me ... with health and mobility give me my paintbrush, my canvas, a sewing machine and some fabric and I AM OH! SOOOOOOOOOOOO HAPPY!!!!! Coming up on Monday it is my 4 year 7 month monthlyversary and over here it is celebration time ....

You see... for me it is all worth it ... we have been celebrating each month the anniversaries of my husband's kidney transplant and along with it the anniversary of his partial foot amputation which should have been a total amputation but miraculously was not ... Over a year go we  together we ventured out to purchase Mr. Black foot (we nicknamed his prosthesis we were trying to find in his dark skin tone) ... his prosthesis ... and today he has a fully functional transplanted kidney and he has a partial foot with only trace of a limp ... I HAVE HEALTH AND MOBILITY TODAY and together tonight we are going out with the members of our Oldies Keeping the Flame Going Club of friends in partnerships/relationships/marriages and rocking it ... we have a dress to impress night and are going up to Foxwoods woot woot ... for a late show and some casino fun...

So this morning I got up and rummaged in my closets to find something that I had not worn before to wear tonight ... and also decided to post my before and afters and my entries in my empowerment journal a picture a day keeps the pounds and inches at bay....

Don't know whether to wear this tonight...


Or this ... of course I will put on stockings ..just threw the dress on for pic...


I will fart around the house in this today ... gotta run to the fish market too... making seafood bouillabaisse today...



I LOVE COLLAGING MY PICTURES IN BEFORE AND AFTERS ... I HAVE NO REGRETS AND I AM NOT OBSESSED ... I LOVE KEEPING MYSELF IN REMEMBRANCE ...  I HAD A VERY AWESOME BEFORE .... HAD TONS OF LOVE AND FUN UNTIL I GOT SICK ... MORBID OBESITY KILLS .... IT TOOK ME NOT BEING ABLE TO CLIMB THE STAIRS TO GET TO MY DAUGHTER WHO HAD TAKEN A BAD FALL TO GET MY ACT TOGETHER.... AT 327 POUNDS MAX RECORDED WEIGHT WLS OFFERED ME A CHANCE OF A LIFETIME AND I GRABBED IT ... WITH MY LONG HISTORY OF GERD RNY WAS THE BEST CHOICE I FOUND FOR ME...







I DO NOT PLAN ON FORGETTING ME ... MOST OF MY FRIENDS CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER ME LOOKING ANY OTHER WAY THAN I DO NOW ... I DO NOT WANT TO FORGET ... 


Since 2007 the year of my WLS I have taken a picture a day ... before that I took pictures ALL THE TIME TOO .... the picture a day is for my digital empowerment journal A Picture A Day Keeps the Pounds and Inches Away ... it works for me ... I take pictures of my food too ... 



FOUR YEARS SEVEN MONTHS POST RNY I AM DOING ME ... NO  REGRETS ... EXCEPT FOR A MAJOR COMPLICATION ON POST-OP DAY 2 WHICH LANDED ME BACK IN THE OR I HAVE HAD NO COMPLICATIONS WHATSOEVER .... I fall in the percentage of RNYers with dumping syndrome so I try to be very careful... 

I will never forget my before because it encourages me to live in my today ... that fat woman is me ... her release is my deliverance and my deliverance is her release ... NO MORE DIABETES... NO MORE SLEEP APNEA... NO MORE DYSLIPEDEMIA, NO MORE GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX ...NO MORE HYPERTENSION ..... I MOST CERTAINLY DO NOT WANT TO EVER GO BACK TO THAT.... 
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