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  • Username: MzDiane
  • Location: Apopka, FL, USA
  • Member Since: 10/29/2008
  • BMI: 26.6
  • Post Op
  • Surgery Type: RNY (06/01/10)
  • Surgeon: Keith Kim, M.D.
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Goals

be light enough to be carried by my husband

30 People
 in progress, 
11 People
 achieved this

Cross my legs

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486 People
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for my first mini-goal weight 230

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Be able look at myself in the mirror again and like what is looking back at me.

31 People
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14 People
 achieved this

Ride roller coasters comfortably

13 People
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4 People
 achieved this
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Surgeon Testimonial

Keith Kim, M.D.
My first impression of Dr. Kim was one of amazement. He wanted his staff to take all the prop's and compliments. He was just the one running the computer. His staff was dynomite and the program is top notch!

He stresses the after care and works to keep you motivated. You have all the resources that his office has, at your finger tips. He explained the risks of the surgery in great detail and it made me feel comfortable with the doctor I chose.

I would give him a rating of 8 so far only because I haven't seen him for the follow up appointment yet but I expect that to go as great as the pre-op and day of surgery did. He is really a great doctor and one that I would recommend to anyone.
Latest Surgery Support Comments

  • Comment by Pamela W. on 6/3/10 11:50 am
    Just checking in on ya to see how you're doing! Update us when you can but just think girlfrien' - you're on the losers bench now!
  • Comment by taclark73 on 6/1/10 10:59 pm
    Good luck! I know walking probably drove you crazy but you will be fine. By day 5, you will be motivated to do some shopping.
  • Comment by Orilliagurl50 on 6/1/10 3:52 pm
    Best of luck today, hip hip horay!
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Been A Minute...
on November 14, 2010 6:28 am
Hi gang!

      I know, it has been a few minutes since I updated everyone.  Life has seemed to kept moving into the future when all I wanted to do is sit still in the moment.  I've been a horrible steward of my body and spirit, but I suppose that's the way we grieve.  It just doesn't work well with having bariatric surgery.  My vitamin levels are low and I have to get another work-up and if my levels are still low or lower, then I have to have an IV to get them up.  I really can't tell that they are that far off.  I feel fine, just get tired easier than I did even when I just had the surgery.  I'm gonna do better though, I am trying to drag my butt out of my depression.  I just can't take being depressed any more, I don't have any of my vices that I can turn to and that sux big time.  I want to eat, Eat, EAT!!!  Well, I can want all I want to can't I?  LOL!

     It is still so weired to lable myself as a widow.  Every time I say it,  I kind of look around for a spider to come crawling out...haha!  Eh, I still feel married and in love and all that goes along with a 25 year marriage.  I don't think that ever changes, I mean, like ...it isn't like a divorce...you know...like YEAH...WoooHooooo....I'm single...Let's PaRtAy!  Nah, not like that.  I sometimes just want to crawl into a dark corner and fade away, it's like I feel like I have a disease or something.  I didn't ask for this but yet I HAVE to go through it and it pisses me off!  Weird huh?  Yeah, I think so too.

     I still wear my wedding rings on my left finger.  I have been told that I need to move on and I have been told that there is no rule book to dealing with loss.  I mean there are guidelines but each person is different.  Someone may move on in a few weeks, months and find another and fall in love and ...blah, blah , blah.   Some NEVER finds another mate and they are quite happy with that.  I'm not sure where I fit in there.  I am kind of in a gray area, not knowing yet what I want and that kind of makes me want to force food into my mouth.  This is the time I am so so sorry I had this surgery.  I could fall into a pile of fried chicken and become a walking clogged artery again and not regret it.  I have tried, believe me.  It just won't fit anymore.  That pisses me off too!  LOL

     I am trying to pick myself up and get out of this self destructive mode.  I have good days and bad days.  Sometimes I can laugh at a memory we shared and then there are other times I wallow in agony and shreaks of hopelessness, I don't like those times so much.  I am almost postitive I need to go back to my shrink but I think...what the hell can she do for me that my best friend hasn't tried or done?  Eh, who knows...I'll think about it.

     I am so so damn sorry that I am not my usual uplifting, motivational self.  I want to get back to that so much, be patient with me, maybe one day I can be that bouncy ray of hope for all of those that need someone like that to help them make the transition to a better "rest of their lives".  Ok gang, I am going to close this for now and say that....you are important...you do count...do as I say and not as I do!  Hahahahahaha!!  
Peace~


    



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I'm Still Here Even When There Are Times....
on October 18, 2010 3:25 am
     Hello gang.  How has everyone been?  I know that some of you have had surgery, how are y'all?  I know everyone has had success and just beginning the recovery process.  Hang in there kiddos, it's well worth the price of admission to get to the finale.

     I'm still here, even when there are times I wish I wasn't.  The past 5 weeks have been the utmost hardest time in my entire life, and yes, that is even including puberty.  I moved out of the house and back in with my Mother.  I couldn't stay there at our house.  I was grieving myself to death, literally and would have. 
   
  So even thought I am still mourning, I am starting a new, different kind of life.  One that I never would have fathomed myself taking alone but what a great life I had with Kent.  I have learned so much since his passing.  I have witnessed such great blessings and miracles and learned more in 5 weeks than I learned in 25 years.  Life was not always easy, but when it was good, it built memories that will last my lifetime.  OK, that's enough from me for now.  I hope each of you finds a reason to be of light heart and wonderful smiles today!
Peace~


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RIP To My Husband & I'll Be Quite A While
on September 21, 2010 3:19 am
I wanted to come in and just update you all on the loss of my husband.  He passed away suddenly on September 10th.  He got out of bed because of heart burn and was going to eat some tums (warning, I am going to sound angry, I am sure, in the words I am writing and to be honest, besides hurt and despair, I am) because he had been having heart burn pretty bad for about a week.  Despite my pleads and fish fits I threw trying to get him to go to the ER, he wouldn't't go.  He was going to go when his insurance kicked in (he had been out of work 2 yrs since his lay off and just got a job at the beginning of August) I wouldn't be able to keep him out of the doctors.
My husband was a big man, he ate all the wrong things (I can't point fingers at him, hell I had to have surgery to get my weight under control) and it was Coronary Artery Disease that took my Love's life, he was 48 years old and just 7 days shy of his 49th birthday.  Do you all hear and feel me on what I just put in this paragraph??  HE WAS 48...A BIG MAN...DIED OF CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE!!!!!!  So for those that wonder is the surgery worth the risk to get to your goal for your health, YES IT IS...YES YES YES IT IS!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, I have learned so so much in the 11 days since his death but I am not able to sit long enough to share it with anyone but I promise that the next time I am able to sit and write it will be a super testimony to what my wonderful husband has taught me and I wish to share it with you all because you never know, maybe it can help someone else as well.  If anyone would like to copy any part or the whole part of this blog to share with people, you have my permission as you see it here in this blog because I won't be back on for a while.  Please feel free to show people how ignoring our bodies and mistreating it so horribly can cause not just your self, but loved ones such heart wrenching pain.  Pain that can be avoided.  For those that would like to friend me, I am on FaceBook.com and you can find me under Diane McCarty-Tillman.
Gob Bless each of you!
Peace~

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Hi Gang. Update!
on September 7, 2010 4:26 am
     Good morning gang!  How are y'all doing?  I've been on the go, go, go!  I weighed this morning and I am down to 229 lbs.  Woop!!  I've noticed the weight isn't flying off me like it was during the honey moon phase, but that's okay with me because truth be known, if I stopped loosing right now at this moment, this surgery has done everything it was suppose to do for me and more.  I am happy and healthy in mind, body and spirit.  First time ever in my life.  Amazing, I just celebrated my 43rd birthday and for the first time in all my 43 years, I feel so alive and vibrate!  I feel as if I truly just celebrated my birth.  

I want to let everyone know that you can find me on Face Book.  If you don't have a Face Book then get your tails in gear and make you a page.  I'd love to see y'all on there!  So, this is a shorty but I want you all to know that life is here gang, and you are a huge part of it even if you don't think so right now.  So stop wasting time and get out there and LIVE IT!

Peace~

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Doctor's Visit
on August 12, 2010 3:03 pm
Hello to everyone.  I figured I better get on and update my stats.  I went into Dr. Kim today and am down to 236 lbs.  236.. 236!! I am only 6 pounds away from my first mini-goal I set for myself.  That makes me feel so amazing.  I keep pinching myself to make sure that I have not been in some dream.  Is this real?  Yeah, it is!

I don't have to go back in to see him for another 2 months.  He said I am doing absolutely everything text book.  My rate of weight loss is right on que and  he said that I am looking radiant.  I feel radiant.  I feel confident and dynamic.  My hubby is making me feel so important and beautiful.  If this is the good life, then I can die happy...haha!

I hope this finds each of you reaching inside of yourselves to find that hidden, dynamic and radiant person that you truely are.  Be blessed!!
Peace~

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Thanks for taking time to visit my page. This is me gang, I am 42 yrs old and morbidly obese. I have tried a multitude of diets including the Atkins Diet, LA Diet, Doctors Weight Loss and the list can go on and on.  I have even tried not even putting food in my mouth and drinking only water.  Sure, I have lost weight, but nothing substantial.  All of these have left me worse off in my weight battle than when I started.


I have been overweight my entire life. I have always felt comfortable in the skin I'm in. I have bounced back and forth between diets and just plain out trying to starve myself in order to just get down to 200 pounds. It never worked and now that I am post menopausal, was told I was Diabetic, had high blood pressure and now am killing my liver due to high cholesterol it is no longer a choice but a necessity that I have a radical weight loss change. 

 

I really didn't consider the problems associated with being overweight. Ignorance is bliss but come on, being "fat", diabetic and having trigliycerides (*S) and cholesterol so high that a blood test couldn't even read the good cholesterol levels is way more than plain ignorance, it's pathetic that I have worked so hard to get to the place I am at. I know that may sound harsh of me to say but I am speaking of myself because I am disgusted with myself.

I went into my family doctor last week just to get my scripts redone and 2 1/2 hours later walked out with a script for weight loss surgery.  My body can no longer carry the weight and it is taking it's toll. She told me that if anything ever happened to my liver that I wouldn't even be a candidate on a transplant list because of my illnesses due to being morbidly obese.   My jaw hit the floor.

So, here I am. I'm here to gain knowledge of all the surgeries dealing with Bariatrics or find some support in my attempt to loose weight. It is no longer a question of if surgery is right for me, instead I am here to share my story as I GET the surgery to help save my life.