• Username: momfirst2000
  • Location: livermore, CA, USA
  • Member Since: 8/18/2005
  • BMI: 62.9
  • Surgery date scheduled
  • Surgery Type: Duodenal Switch (02/29/12)
  • Surgeon: John Rabkin, M.D.
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  • Comment by PerpetualFatty on 3/5/12 5:28 pm
    Hi, I saw that you were scheduled for surgery 2/29. I just wanted to reach out and offer my support. I hope you are healing well. I'm pre-op but I hear recovering goes like this "walk, walk, walk, sip, sip, sip" lol. D
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1 month post op
on April 5, 2012 10:49 am
 I have had a wonderful recovery time. i have little things but no major problems thankfully. I am down 36lbs since surgery which does not seem like a lot to me but i know it is more than i would have lost in a month by myself. 

I can't say enough about the support i have found in the friends that i have and my family without having someone to turn to i could not have made it this far. 
Dr Rabkins and his office were wonderful to me both at my apointments and during surgery and my hospital stay , St mary's nurses where great as well. 

I am learning to eat the way my tummy wants to eat , and who would have ever thought such a small amount of food would ever make me stuffed. 

well i am off to shower and start my day ..
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pre op test done !
on February 2, 2012 9:26 pm
 I have finished my preop test that i have been given i think i am done . 
Labs 24 vials of blood...
chest xray had to repeat but it is clear 
EKG .... normal
echo cardiogram ? no calls from a Dr 
mammogram done 
pap  completed 
and any thing else they told me to do i have done .. so now i wait for my pre op appointment and then the count down.....
Surgery scheduled for Feb 29 and i cant wait i am so excited . 
God has been good to me he has brought a few friends into my life through this and i am thank ful for them . They know who they are .. one person i owe so much to i wont mention names but she knows i thankful for her , Susan i cant wait to hang out and get to know you more .. Ted you have been by side sense the beginning and i thank you for that .. Good luck with your surgery .... to everyone else that has helped me supported me , listened to me i thank you as well ... I will be back here soon .
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Been approved
on January 26, 2012 8:11 pm
 SO my deceision to have the ds was made up and i have been approved for a non kaiser surgery!! Surgery date right now is Feb 29 ,2012 i am so excited .. I am going to tomorrow to have all my blood drawn for pre op and to have an ekg done .. i can hardly wait ... 
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I am so excited
on January 19, 2012 10:07 am
i am so happy and excited and scared .. i have deceided to ask for ds instead of rny so i got a call from the surgeons office i was referred to , they went over all the preop stuff and procedure . Then they faxed me the preop test requirements that i am taking to pcp on friday ..DId i say i am excited .. I can't wait to get this going . They said if all goes well i could have surgery date in  4 weeks.. I am so excited . this might mean no more insulin and my mobility back .. I cant wait ...... I am so excited ... anyone who has Ds please feel free to send any advice or your expericances .. Thank you  
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 I am 44 years old . all my life i can remember being on one diet after another , going to family gatherings and hearing comment on how big i was i grew up with it . Lost a ton of weight after the birth of my third child but it was not healthy and as a result had to have 2 surgeries for my gallbladder. Needless to say i have gained it all back  and then some . I am now at my heightest weight ever , type 2 diabetic, taking high blood pressure meds, but i am sick of taking meds , i am fed up with not being able to walk long periods and do things i want. So since i have health insurance i just need to get off my a** and lose 20 lbs which i thought would be easy to do , Well i stand corrected it has been  a year and i am still trying i wont give up i will have my rny i want this more than anything in life. SO i can do what i want with my grandkids and not feel bad . so any help suggestions or anything any one wants to pass to me i will gladly listen to ..