"Dr.Averbach was amazing. I am so grateful to him for doing my surgery. I had insurance approval for Dr.Magnuson but he would not do my surgery after many months of testing and years of fighting with insurance to get approval. I lost my insurance but Dr.Averbach took all the possible precautions as I was a higher risk being a revision and my health problems and he did my surgery and it was a sucess.The first couple days was tough especially day one as they had a very hard time controlling my pain since I am a chronic pain patient and have taken meds for a long time and had an interthecal pump put in a couple weeks before surgery. I got throug that and now I am walking further than I could before surgery and it has only been 4 wks.Now I must take it from here with the Dr and his staff's support.All is going well.rnrn July 28,2007- I am almost a year out. I am down 182 lbs from my highest weight ever.I am at 248lbs, my highest wt. was 430. I had lost 40 or so before surgery. My life has changed so much. Before surgery I was basically bedridden getting up very seldom.Since I was 9 wks post-op I started swimming and I swim 5 days a week and love it. I have gotten my life back. I am out of bed. I drive, I shop for my family again, I love life. I have gone from 6-7x to a size 20 pants and 18/20 tops and 1x .It is amazing. My medications have gone from over 20 to 2. My health problems have improved. I just had 2 sleep studies and I am waiting to see how much my sleep apnea has improved but I know it has. Everything has improved, every day I can do something new and I see some improvement in my life. It is wonderful. I am not healthy but I never dreamed my life would even get this good post-op and I still have a way to go. I love life and my surgeon and his staff."
"Dr.Bayley has gone above and beyond for me. She has written so many letters,researched surgeons, and done so much to help me it is unbelieveable.I can't thank her enough and it would take a book to tell you all she did for me.
She is moving to Georgia in july and I don't know what I will do without her.They will be blessed to get her in Georgia.
She has helped me for years as I have been trying to get insurance approval and now find a surgeon willing to do the surgery for me since 1999.She has been there through it all and helped every step of the way.She is a gift to the medical field."
