Carolyn S.
my story started back in the late 1980's when I had a stomach stapling. I started out at 283 lbs. and over the course of 5 years got down to 110 lbs. It as great. Back then they didn't do counseling or anything before hand so this revision and all the counseling will be new to me. unfortunately I also became disabled in 95 and could not exersize at all for several years. I am still very limited and I feel that is why I have gained the weight back. It really scares me because I worked so hard to get it all off. I kept it under 200 until 2 years ago when I had to have a hysterectomy and the surgoen cut through my main artery in my stomach area so I had bypass surgery two days later. Since then my stomach never went down and I went from a size 14 to a size 26 after the surgery, slowly I have gotten back down to a size 20-22. but I am not happy. i have been having stmach trouble so I went to the doctor and the cat scan found a mass on my kidney/liver area, they said it was 99% that it was cancer. So a month ago I had it removed, I was extremly lucky because the biopsy came back negative.But the scan also showed that I have 2 hernias so tomarrow I got set up that surgery. My doctor that will be doing that sugested that I hae a revision. He thinks I owuld be a good canidate for it. So we checked in my area and only doctor O'Mallie takes my insurance. i have not met him yet as before he will even schedule a visit I have to have my medical records sent to him from the first surgery and have done that and I have to have an upper GI series which I am getting Friday. I am nervous because I have read some blogs about him and not sure if I will like him, since the hysterectomy screw up I am very leery aobut my doctors. But I have to do this for me!
