3-1-11 First Follow-Up with Dr. Fedorka

Mar 01, 2011

Good morning!  I am now 1 1/2 weeks out and feeling GREAT!  I cannot believe how easily this has gone for me.  My experience may not be typical, but I have had very little pain (discomfort, really - not sure pain is even the right word) and am so happy I had this surgery.  

I met with Dr. Fedorka today for my first follow-up visit.  Let me start by saying that I can't really say enough about what a great doctor he is and how wonderful his nurse GiGi is.  They treat me so well - I feel so confident in my health care now that I am with Kaiser.  Some people may have bad things to say, and they aren't perfect, but I have yet to receive better care.  And it is significantly better than the care I was receiving from Healthnet at Beaver Medical Center.  I begged the doctor there for a year to x-ray my back and my foot and he just would do no diagnostics.  Kaiser found my back problems and the crushed bones in my foot and have been helping address these painful problems.  I already feel significantly less pain in my foot, but am still waiting for some kind of relief for my back pain.  Hopefully as I continue to loose weight my back will slowly improve.

So, for the moment you've all been waiting for....  I'm down 16 pounds in 12 days!!  Totaled with my weight loss prior to surgery I am now down 96 pounds from my highest weight!  I still have about another 80 lbs to loose, but when I started the program with Kaiser last summer I would never have guessed that seven months later I would be down this much.  I couldn't be happier.

Well, go to run - it's lunch time!  Soup and jello, here I come!  Best wishes to all... 

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