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I have been thinking about my band and my life. With a 7 hour drive home there is a lot of time for thinking. I know that this monster I fight called obesity is a tough one. I have started to look at how it has affected my life...
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It took me approximately 1 year to lose the 100+ pounds, and I have kept that weight off now for over 1 year! IT HAS CHANGED MY LIFE AND I HAVE NO REGRETS! I can not imagine a more wonderful Doctor and Staff with which to have taken this journey. I had struggled with my weight most of my adult life and had tried everything I could think of to lose weight...
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I have been overweight most of my adult life, my highest weight being 403 lbs. I hit rock bottom about 2 years ago. I had Diabetes, High Blood Pressure, High Cholesterol and my knees had basically given out. I was on 12 prescription medications. I decided to have Lap-Band surgery in January of 2007 and since then my life has only gotten better...
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I have battled with my weight for the majority of my life. I started dieting when I was just 10 years old. I was also a dancer for fourteen years and as soon as I quit, I really started putting it on. As my activity level dwindled, my weight started to rise. I have had five knee surgeries in the past ten years. I was 30 years old and getting ready to get married....
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My highest weight was 402. When I called Dr. Kirshenbaum’s office I was somewhere near 379+. I was afraid Dr. Kirshenbaum would say my weight was too high to proceed with surgery. Quite to my surprise I began to have complications when I weighed around 315 lbs. I was not doing anything different; I woke up one morning with a sharp pain in my back and shooting down my leg....
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I’m doing great down to 281 lbs; a far cry from the 406 lbs I was last January when I had my heart pacemaker put in on Jan 5,2008 that is what I weighed in the hospital. I’m in size 38 waist a pant now & they are too big I was size 60 in the waist when I had my surgery. Dr K will never know how much he did for me....
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I am soon approaching my year benchmark, since having my lap-band surgery. A lot has happened in the past year, all positive.
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I was 30 years old when my husband who was 32 died in an automobile accident. It hit me very quickly that I was a widow having to raise my daughter alone. I began to patch my broken heart with food. My weight continued to go up and I hated to look at myself in the mirror. I was wearing maternity clothes with elastic waistbands on all of my pants. I felt like I was not worthy enough or deserving enough to want a better life...
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April 19, 2006 changed my life forever. This is the date of my Lap-Band® surgery. My entire experience with Dr. Kirshenbaum and his staff has been nothing but positive. There are no judgments placed upon you, no guilt that you don't have enough "will power", only a helping hand.
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I felt I was at the end of my rope. I gave up on my insurance company paying for the Lap Band surgery and was about to pay 17K for the surgery with another doctor. In doing my research I stumbled upon the www.lapbandrockies.com website and found Dr Kirshenbaum. I was so happy that he would do the service for less than 10K.
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I was working as a Marketing Representative at a surgery center where Dr. Kirshenbaum performs surgery. One of my jobs was to recruit surgeons to do new procedures. I was asked to find a surgeon who would be interested in doing the Lap-Band® surgery...
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As I write these words, tears of every emotion you can imagine are streaming down my face. I have been struggling with my weight since puberty. I had been on one diet or another for more than 25 years and the only thing I REALLY lost was 25 years! I had easily lost and gained back...
– Ramona DeSouza
