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Surgeon TestimonialCynthia Long M.D.I love Dr Long! So much so that I followed her to Baltimore and would probably want to continue aftercare with her no matter where she'd work! :)
My first impression was that she's very skilled & detailed. Her plan was easy to follow and she gave all new patients a binder that explained the process step by step She made things clear at surgery & right after, which assuaged some worries I had early on. I had no complications from my surgery. My positive opinion on Dr Long has not changed over time. However, I feel that she could have better staff at Sinai - they did not make for a smooth transition from her private practice to working at Sinai and I have had some problems in them relaying messages & communicating. Future patients should know that Dr Long is an employee of Sinai, which already had an established bariatric program. If a future patient does not feel comfortable with any aspect of Sinai's program, they need to weigh that carefully and discuss their concerns. For example, I decided to return to my original nutritionist instead of continuing aftercare with the nutritionist at Sinai; their plan did not coincide with what worked for my body, but it may work better for other people.
I've heard alot of stories of surgeons either having good competence but bad bedside manner - Dr Long has good skills on both, which is a hard find. One cannot base their success on a program or a surgeon, so it is important for potential patients to know the great majority of the work & success will be the patient's, but it is extremely important to have a supportive & understanding surgeon. I have nothing but good things to say about Dr Long! nfarris79's JourneyClick Here To View
Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.I had been overweight and obese for most of my childhood and all of my adult life. I had begun to consider weight loss surgery in my 20s but had neither the insurance coverage nor emotional resources to pursue the surgery at that time. I had been on diets since age 12, had struggled with binge eating, unhealthy eating concepts, and even a brief brush with bulimia until I failed my last diet (Weight Watchers) at age 30. I got married in a size 22 wedding dress, was profoundly unhappy with my body image, and had been a success in so many other areas of my life - except the one that was most visible and representative to others! |
Make it work on September 28, 2011 1:55 pm
Stealing a line from Tim Gunn, when life starts to get you down, only allow yourself one option: make it work. I could have spent the day wallowing in stress and self-pity. But instead, after some venting & processing, I hustled to solve my problems. Worried about money, I'll find a way to get money. Worried about exercise, I'll go out and get active. It's so easy to give up and give in. Maybe I'm just a stubborn ass, but I refuse to give in to anxiety & depression; I will NOT be defeated!
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Getting there... on September 26, 2011 7:58 am
So I just saw my PCP today and I'm inching closer to my goal of being off cholesterol meds! Our plan is to reduce from 10mg Crestor to 5mg, then revisit this after my next labs in November. Hopefully my total cholesterol will stay under 130 after this switch, then I'll be either able to reduce to 2.5mg or go completely off. Yippee! Also back down to 166.2 according to my home scale but apparently my jeans weigh 2 lbs. The nurses were impressed with my loss, aside from my dense clothes.
My BP was a little higher than it has been, at 138/80, but there was an understandable reason: I nearly ran over 2 abortion protesters on my way in. I'm all for freedom of speech but when I have to slam on my breaks because some crazy old lady without a uterus needs to express her judgment by repeatedly crossing the street with a sign bigger than her.... no, freedom of speech does NOT entail someone freedom from common sense! Seriously, people kept running into the street to prop up their gigantic signs on both sides of the road. Um, people? Maryland law gives pedestrians right of way when they're INSIDE A CROSSWALK, not running into the middle of the road against ONCOMING TRAFFIC!!! Morons. Just because there's one abortion provider in this huge complex of OTHER medical providers.... So it detracts from my experience seeing a lovely PCP and his awesome nurses. I wish I could find a time or day where these buttheads are not ticking me off but they ALWAYS seem to be there. Must be nice to have no life and nothing better to do.
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Ugh. Stall. on September 22, 2011 7:43 am
So after those momentous changes, in transitioning from obesity to overweight and losing a 100 lbs, the stall hits! Haven't lost weight for the past week and scale is creeping up again.... 166.8, 167.2, 167.6, 167.8...... Stop the insanity! Part of me wants to withold solid foods until my body cooperates, but I know that's really an unhealthy thought. The more logical part of me knows to stay the heck off the scale for another week and, more likely than not, I'll be pleasantly surprised. Darn, and I though I had this system beat - I learned to not weigh myself if I hadn't pooed in a couple days but have been more regular lately and still to no avail. Ugh. I hate stalls.
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Food in my fridge is driving me insane on September 21, 2011 12:34 pm
Yeah, everyone struggles with head hunger, so this isn't unique to me, but I need to do this post to vent. The food is calling to me. Like if I were schizophrenic, I would literally hear voices of the different foods calling to me, telling me "eat me!!! I'm so yummy and SOOOO not allowed on your plan!!!". Except there are foods of different ethnicities, so I guess the voices would be in different languages.
There's the yuca fries - that I bought my husband, so I am the creator of my own demise - that are so golden and yummy. There's the crispy tortilla chips from Tortilla Coast, sitting in a bag, just getting stale. What a shame. They're salty & thin and I used to LOVE them. But they give a metric ton in a bag, so who can actually eat all of those? Oh, me when I was preop. My husband, who has a normal person's stomach and no discernable eating disorders, can eat just a handful and be done. Hence, why they're sitting there getting stale. My old self would have been tearing them up as soon as he brought them home and the bag wouldn't have lasted the night. My new self, with some willpower that comes from who-knows-where, has not eaten one. At all. Small victory when I hear those crispy buggers all calling to me.
OK, time to put the big-girl panties on, suck it up, and enjoy my decaf green tea. Woo-hoo. Pity party over.
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Century Club on September 17, 2011 1:11 pm
I'm down 100lbs!!! Wooo hooo!!! If I weren't so busy today, I'd have more time to reflect on this accomplishment but just wanted to post it for posterity.
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