So it's 2002 and I'm a divorced 40 year old female who is the mother of three children and I weigh 234 pounds. The doctor writes morbidly obese on my chart and fills me in on the particulars about heart disease, diabetes ...read more
by Londa Bovard
I think Gastric Bypass Surgery is the best thing to happen to this overweight world. I had my Rebirth Day(surgery day) on August 16th, 2007. It was the smartest thing I have ever done in my whole entire life. I starte...read more
I sat in the doctor's office praying for some type of sign I should go through this. Should I allow someone to totally reconstruct my insides? It was just two weeks later I sat in the same office and heard two words that s...read more
by Jenn G.
In May of 2007, I decided to change my life and have gastric bypass surgery where my stomach would be cut to the size of a golf ball and my intestines re-routed. Three years before this, I had decided to do it and backed ...read more
In October of 2002, after many years of being morbidly obese, I had gastric bypass surgery. It was not a choice that I made lightly. In fact, I had spent nearly two years researching the procedure and the physicians in my...read more
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