Recently I saw Angela McCaulley in my office. When I sat down across from Angella I first told Her,"I might see your name on this chart but I really do not know who you are!" Angela had her laparoscopic Roux en-Y gastric bypass performed by me nearly 18 months ago. She has had an amazing result as you can see.
She now walks or runs everywhere.
To remove some of the extra skin she had a "belt lipectomy" romoving skin from all around her waist about 6 months ago.
I did not feel so badly for not recognizing her after Angela told me even her grandmother did not recognize her!
Congradulations Angela, the great result you have obtained is the result of your exceptional efforts over the last 18 months.
That is amazing Angela. How much did you lose? I have considered doing plasctic surgery for the "apron" of skin I have. I lost 120lbs. The Belt Lipectomy must be what I would need to do. How was the pain and recovery? Were you able to get insurance to cover it?
ReplyDeleteI lost 185lbs. The belt lipectomyis where the remove all of the excess skin around your waste and lift your bottom half up. Im not going to lie the recovery was painful. Because of the bypass I could not double my protein like my plastic surgeon wanted me to so that I would heal faster. So I tore open. The problem with being cut all around is its hard to move forward or back because it feels like everything is ripping opened. Now that you've heard the horror story I would deffently do it again. For once in my life im working on a six pack. This specific surgery was not covered by my insurance but the abdominalplasty would have been I just had skin all around. If your in columbus ohio I went to columbus institute of plastic surgery to dr. Roxanne Grawe she is amazing.
ReplyDeleteAngela, I too, had the bypass surgery performed by Dr. Myers. I lost 115 pounds. You look great. So different. I am happy for you. I, like you, look like a different person. I had my surgery Feb of 2010. God Bless.
ReplyDeleteYOU LOOK AMAZING!!! CONGRATS!!
ReplyDeleteANGELA, IF I CAN ASK? HOW MUCH WEIGHT DID YOU LOSE PRIOR TO SURGERY? I AM PRE-SX AND VERY CURIOUS. I HAVE BEEN STRUGGLING TO LOSE WEIGHT EVEN WITH ALL THE DIETICIAN VISITS. ALSO, AT YOUR HIGHEST WEIGHT, DID YOU EXERCISE AND IF SO WHAT EXERCIES DID YOU DO?
THANK YOU
I think I lost around20 lbs before surgery. I joined my local ymca and joined a workout out class called fresh start. It was a low impact workout that got me started. Then I started kick boxing. When I made up my mind that I wanted to be healthy I cut a lot out. I also worked out 3 days a week and did a lot of walking. Im glad now I put a lot of work in it because it made my results that much better. Hang in there. You can do it if I can let me tell you anyone can. I have 3 chilren under 8 and its hard but deffintly worth the work to be able to enjoy my children.
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