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10-05-2011, 02:24 PM
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| | Big Loser
Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Waukesha, Wisconsin
Posts: 168
Weight Statistics 12/25/2010 Start Date:
04/12/2011 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
386 lb Start Weight:
160 lb Current Weight:
175 lb Goal Weight:
226 lb Weight Loss:
-15 lb Lb Left to Lose:
58.5492227979 % % Lost:
12/29/2011 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index56.9960092418 BMI Start:
23.6252888049 BMI Current:
25.8401596303 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
 |  Working with God to change my life one day at a time
Please do not read if spelling errors drive you crazy. I am a terrible speller, and did not spell check this.
Over the last six years I have had a very interesting life.
I applied for and was denied life insurance. I was putting out too much protein in my pee. So I went to my doctor and asked about it, they did some tests. He sent me to another doctor and they did more tests. He sent me to a nephrologist, and he did MANY test and a biopcy of my kidneys. After about 9 months I was diagnosed with a rare form of a rare kidney disease. It is usually fatal, and with its progression already I should be able to make it about 2 years. This was shortly after my second child, Samantha, was born, and my son turned 2. (I am sure you can see why I wanted life insurance).
This was six years ago today.
This was terrible news and it took time to set in. I worked with a great doctor, and decided to make things right in my life. I was going to follow every rule, take every drug. I was going to go to church more often, teach my children all that I can about the right way to live, get my wife ready to re marry.
One of the most aggressive parts of my treatment was MASSIVE doses of predisone. 120 mg/daily for better than a year. I used this while on other drugs for high blood pressure, high chelostrol, and the other drugs for my kidneys and the side effects of those drugs. On average I took 18-22 pills a day. It was at this time that I could not stop eating. I went from 240-260 to 375 lbs. in one year.
I also learned to trust God. To pray with my kids, to teach them about the right and wrong ways to live. My son said "yes sir" and "no ma'am" at 4, both of my kids knew to hold the door for someone else, and to say hello to others. My wife learned whom to call when the pilot light went out, where the important papers were kept, what it meant to have a living trust, and why it was important. I was preparing to die, and praying to live.
As my walk with Christ became closer, my numbers got better. I do not believe that God used my disease to get me to walk closer with him, but if he did, it worked.
When my disease went into remission, my nephrologist told me I needed to get this surgery. He told me what he had hoped, that if we could get me into a normal weight range that my disease may never come back. That it may have been broght on by obeisty and drug use (I was overusing pain medication for a year about two years before I was diagnosed). And now that I no longer take NASIDs and if I could lose the weight quickly enough I might be ok.
I did not tell my wife and kids.
This is when we started going to chuch even more often (did you know you can go more than once a week?). We got involved with the chuch more often. And I started to get more involved with the kids' life. I have been busy everyday since. Helping with Cub Scouts, teaching my daughter how to kick a soccer ball, showing my wife how to change a tire and oil in her car.
I have had 5 blood, pee tests with my nephrologist since 4/12/11 (my surgery). And during the last visit, he sat me down, put his hands on my knees and told me I was cured.
After I cried so long he had to leave and come back (the man does have other patients) (please note, I have cried three times since I was 12 at the birth of my kids, and when I got married). He explained my future and my past to me:
I will forever have reduced capacity due to the damage already done to my kidneys. The damage is unlikily to every continue. I will not need diyallisis, transplant, drugs, or other treatment. I am healed.
Then he told me what I was up against.
Less than 50% of people who have what I do respond to any treatment of any kind.
Less than 10% are diagnosed in time for any treatment to work properly
Less than 1 % are ever cured
When he first sat down with my the numbers were so bad, he thought he was being optimistic with saying that I had 2 years.
I know that the doctor is wonderful, dedicated, and hard working. I know the drugs were powerful and effictive. I know that none of this would have happened with out the Lord looking down upon me and bestowing me Grace.
Does God work in us, Yep.
We do not always see it, we may not always share it, but he does. This is the first time I have ever shared this much of my story, but I had a feeling it might help someone. If it does then God Bless you.
I have learned many things about myself over the last six years. Some good, some bad. But what I have found is that the right way to live is not just for teaching my kids. It is for me also. I love going to church. I enjoy the respect I get for giving it. I hope for the future, and feel sad for the past. What was a "hail-mary pass" has become a way of life for me and my family. My life is better not because I have lost so much weight, and that I am losing more. It is better because of the prayers, the love, and the hope that has consistantly been a part of me. I do not intend to change that.
The walk is not easy, but nothing worthwhile is.
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10-05-2011, 02:50 PM
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| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: May 2008 Location: Just north of Iowa, not far from I-35. 2nd star on the right and straight on 'til morning!
Posts: 8,641
Weight Statistics December 13, 2007 (pre-op liquid diet started) Start Date:
December 27, 2007 Surgery Date:
5' 9"
Height:
280 lb Start Weight:
172 lb Current Weight:
184 lb Goal Weight:
108 lb Weight Loss:
-12 lb Lb Left to Lose:
38.5714285714 % % Lost:
Originally - 12/08. Actually - 8/08. Goal Date:
Body Mass Index41.3442554085 BMI Start:
25.3971854652 BMI Current:
27.1690821256 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Wow!! Amen, brother! Glad you're still here to tell the tale. May you live as long as you want to, and want to as long as you live!
CT
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If you want to be healthy for life, do for life the things that get you healthy!! Living healthy takes work. Dying fat is easy!! "That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the nature of the task has changed, but that our capacity to do has increased." - HJ Grant
"Do, or do not. There is no try!" - Yoda
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10-05-2011, 05:17 PM
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| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Mississippi
Posts: 5,198
Weight Statistics 3/18/2008 (dieted all my life) Start Date:
9/30/2008 Surgery Date:
5' 8"
Height:
292 lb Start Weight:
192 lb Current Weight:
189 lb Goal Weight:
100 lb Weight Loss:
3 lb Lb Left to Lose:
34.2465753425 % % Lost:
2 years Goal Date:
Body Mass Index44.3935986159 BMI Start:
29.1903114187 BMI Current:
28.7342128028 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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What a wonderful testimony you have. Thank you for posting it. It touched my heart. I am so happy to hear that your are cured and in good health... Thank God.. You have a new life now as many of us do. What we choose to do with it is up to us. Sounds like you are a living example to your family as well as others what God can do.
Please keep posting as you could be of great help for many. God bless you..
__________________   Love to Share , Health to Spare, and Friends that Care!
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10-05-2011, 06:16 PM
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| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Texas
Posts: 3,672
Weight Statistics 7/27/10 Surgery Date:
5' 4"
Height:
379 lb Start Weight:
175 lb Current Weight:
165 lb Goal Weight:
204 lb Weight Loss:
10 lb Lb Left to Lose:
53.8258575198 % % Lost:
July 27, 2012 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index65.0480957031 BMI Start:
30.0354003906 BMI Current:
28.3190917969 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Wow what a testimony! God is good!! Thanks for sharing your story.
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10-06-2011, 01:22 AM
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| | WLS Mentor
Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Jackson, Mississippi
Posts: 1,150
Weight Statistics dec. 2010 nutrisystem , surgery process august 2010 Start Date:
April 4, 2011 Surgery Date:
5' 6"
Height:
310 lb Start Weight:
215 lb Current Weight:
180 lb Goal Weight:
95 lb Weight Loss:
35 lb Lb Left to Lose:
30.6451612903 % % Lost:
APRIL 2012 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index50.0298438935 BMI Start:
34.698117539 BMI Current:
29.0495867769 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Thanks so much for sharing, you know your testimony was given for a reason and you have no idea how many people you just helped and in the nick of time, God Bless you and your family for your new lives. May Gods Grace continue to shine upon you.
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10-06-2011, 06:27 AM
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| | WLS Guru
Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: South Chesterfield, VA
Posts: 480
Weight Statistics 1/21/11 Start Date:
8/30/11 Surgery Date:
5' 4"
Height:
302 lb Start Weight:
208 lb Current Weight:
145 lb Goal Weight:
94 lb Weight Loss:
63 lb Lb Left to Lose:
31.1258278146 % % Lost:
Labor Day 2012 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index51.8325195312 BMI Start:
35.69921875 BMI Current:
24.8864746094 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodSleeve Gastrectomy
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Thank you for sharing. I am so happy that you are doing better and it has brought you closer to God, yourself, and your family.
__________________  Loretta Pully
Start Weight: 302  Pre-Op Diet: 275 Surgery Weight: 268
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10-06-2011, 08:26 AM
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| | Big Loser
Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: MOBILE,AL
Posts: 104
Weight Statistics APRIL 4,2011 Surgery Date:
5' 3"
Height:
247 lb Start Weight:
154 lb Current Weight:
140 lb Goal Weight:
93 lb Weight Loss:
14 lb Lb Left to Lose:
37.6518218623 % % Lost:
DEC 2011 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index43.7493071303 BMI Start:
27.2768959436 BMI Current:
24.7971781305 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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oh .... our God is such an awesome God !! Thank you for shareing your story It has touched my heart to read this.Oh yes God does work in us 24/7 and the rite way to live is for God! May God continue too Bless you to live a long & healthy life.
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10-06-2011, 12:14 PM
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| | Cub Reporter
Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Washington, DC
Posts: 91
Weight Statistics April 20,2010 Surgery Date:
5' 10"
Height:
424 lb Start Weight:
175 lb Current Weight:
199 lb Goal Weight:
249 lb Weight Loss:
-24 lb Lb Left to Lose:
58.7264150943 % % Lost:
Sometime 2011 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index60.8310204082 BMI Start:
25.1071428571 BMI Current:
28.5504081633 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Wow.............that was beautiful
Thanks for sharing!
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10-06-2011, 09:49 PM
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| | Seasoned Veteran
Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: North Dakota..ya sure, u betcha!
Posts: 1,738
Weight Statistics Which time? Start Date:
July 24, 2009 Surgery Date:
4' 11"
Height:
213 lb Start Weight:
108 lb Current Weight:
120 lb Goal Weight:
105 lb Weight Loss:
-12 lb Lb Left to Lose:
49.2957746479 % % Lost:
Whenever.... Goal Date:
Body Mass Index43.0160873312 BMI Start:
21.8109738581 BMI Current:
24.2344153979 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Blessed be the name of the Lord!
Thank you for sharing your life changing journey and how the Lord was able to work through your docs, your church family and you. He does marvelous things.
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10-07-2011, 07:21 AM
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| | Big Loser
Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: MIssissippi
Posts: 191
Weight Statistics September 13, 2010 Start Date:
September 28th 2010 Surgery Date:
5' 4"
Height:
292 lb Start Weight:
192 lb Current Weight:
180 lb Goal Weight:
100 lb Weight Loss:
12 lb Lb Left to Lose:
34.2465753425 % % Lost:
sept 28 2011 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index50.1162109375 BMI Start:
32.953125 BMI Current:
30.8935546875 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
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Just beautiful God is good all the time. I had bacteria spinal meningitis at 10 yrs old it was deadly. I stayed in the hospital for a year. With prayer God healed me I am 40 yrs old with 4 kids they r miracles because I was suppose to die but god said no! God loves us 
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