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Jack F. Rutledge, M.D.
I first met Dr. Rutledge about 4 years ago when I went to a WLS seminar and I thougt that if I went thru with the surgery..he was going to be the one to do it. There were three other doctors in the seminar with him, but I knew he was the one for me. Fast forward four years and we meet again at a weight loss seminar. He was the only surgeon there but I had made up my mind four years before. I turned in my paper work and requested a consulation appointment with his office. Went to the appointment on December 14, 2006 and I thought he was little distant. Did not feel really comfortable with him after that visit. But I talked it over with some friends and they said his bedside manner was not as important as his credentials. Then one of my friends made me reallize a few things that could have influenced my judgement. 1) I was scared 2) I was PMSing 3) I was scared!! 4) a little personal stress going on at the time. So I knew that the main problem was ME on that visit. His office was very thorough in getting my paper work submitted to my insurance company and I got approval in exactly 10 business days and had a surgery date three weeks later. I had to have one more office visit with Dr. Rutledge and he wanted to met one of my family members. My mom was not really wanting me to have to surgery and did not want to go to visit with me. But she came and I was afraid that would be a disaster but you know what....my mom and aunt both got along great with Dr. Rutledge..which is saying a whole lot. They normally do not get along to well with Dr's. :-)rnrnSo on the day of my surgery I had a few friends and family along with me and he was even great to my friends. My friends Monica and Michelle were back in the surgery prep area with me and Monica called him Dr. McDreamy and he just laughed. He noticed right away that my mother was not present and he went out into the waiting area to talk to her before he started my surgery!! How is that for concern and courtesy? I would give him a five! !(I work for a call center and 5 is the highest score you can get). He came to check me over the next day and I was cleared to go home. I will have a follow up appointment next Thursday and go from there. I think Dr. Rutledges bedside manner and surgical competence are both excellent!
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Five Years and Counting!!!
posted on 1/31/12 6:38 am
WOW!  Today is my five year surgiversy and I am just too excited and praising God! I was being wheeled into the OR at this time in 2007 weighing 318 pounds (down from 327 just a few weeks before) and today by God's grace I hopped on the scale on my way to work and it said I was 158.8!   That's a loss of 168.2 pounds total and 89.99% excess body weight loss per my doctor (who wanted me to get down to 140 pounds).  My 5 year appt with him is on Feb 2 so we will see how my labs are looking at that time.  Well, I posted on December 31 a little longer post so I will not say much right now since I am at work but I didn't want to let this day go by with out saying something! This is a life long journey with its ups and downs...but the thing is not to stay down when you hit a rough spot...we all fall off track but you just have to get back to the basics and start from there.  Don't give up and just keep swimming as Nemo says  and when you need to, find a friend to talk to you who knows what you are dealing with and call them...don't turn to your old comfort...food....we are in this together and I am so thankful that I was blessed with the chance to have this surgery that changed my life and my outlook and has placed so many wonderful new friends in my life.  

A few of my favorite of scripture have help me thru this journey:

Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, and they include plans to prosper you so that you can have a future and a hope"

Geneis 18:14 "Is anything to hard for God?"

Ephesians: 3:20 "Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,

Matthew 6:25 -34
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? 26 Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? 27 Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life[e]?

   28 “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. 29 Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. 30 If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? 31 So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ 32 For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. 33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. 34 Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. "


These all apply to the journey of our lives....which include this WLS journey....trust God and know that if He has blessed you to have this tool, He will help you to be successful with it as well.  All He asks is that we trust Him and obey Him through everything.  His way is simple and easy.....but we make it hard.   


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