I met with the surgical team on Friday and the verdict is in. I will be having bariatric surgery on the 12th of August. I am not looking forward to having to be there at 0600 am. The type of surgery I will be having is a newer bariatric procedure commonly called "sleeve (vertical) gastrectomy" and it is a form of unbanded gastroplasty involving subtotal gastric resection for creation of a long lesser curve-based gastric conduit. Bottomline: The cut out about 75 percent of my stomach while leaving my intestines intact. This makes the procedure recovery time less than gastric bypass with all of the benefits and it is more permanent than lap-band without leaving a foreign body inside your body.
For additional information about the procedure and some of the outcomes:
http://www.asbs.org/Newsite07/resources/sleeve_statement.pdf
I am very excited to be having this surgery and it is driving me crazy to have to wait another month before it is performed. My surgeon is going on vacation later this month and wants to be available to me after the surgery. It does work out perfectly because I am teaching this summer until the 7th and then I will get a weekend with the family and then head to Dallas for the surgery.
The surgeon said that a more reasonalbe goal weight would be 170 pounds. This would mean a total of 85 pounds of weight loss which should take up to two years, but that they have been seeing very positive results in patients and that the weight may come off faster if I continue to workout. The surgeon mentioned that one of the greatest benefits of this surgery and the gastric bypass is the reduction of the stomach enzyme ghrelin O-acetyltransferase (GOAT) which tells your body that you are hungry: my body always seams to be screaming!
Will update you more as I learn more......much love and peace, Byron Lynn
8 comments:
Good Luck Big B, soon I'll have to start calling you Little B. I've heard it could be a long not so pretty road, but with the help of Tara you'll do great!
We are excited for you man!! This will be just "what the doctor ordered!" This will be the beginning of a whole new healthy chapter in your life. Right on man!!
Do they just cut stomach and leave it hanging there? I doubt it, but i'm trying to understand the keyhole cut in the picture. I'm both terrified and excited for you. Good luck!!
That's so exciting!! Best of luck with the surgery and recovery. I'll see ya this fall! :)
Good Luck Byron. I hope that this surgery is all you want it to be. With the support of Tara and all of us long distance you will do great.
Congratulations Byron and good luck with everything! I know Tara will take great care of you.
Congratulations!!! I hope everything goes well. AND, I'm sorry I left a comment from my other blog (twilightinforks). That was me. I totally spaced and didn't realize I was signed in under my other blog when I left the comment.
wow what a huge decision. good luck with it all.
are you going to be with the doctors on that TLC show? Can't think of them off hand right now. But anyway I know they are in Dallas.
Have you heard of Form? Its a new weightloss "pill" you take that fills your stomache...anyway if interested in learning more check out
https://www.myo3world.com/4760519
anyway I posted some more info at the bottom of my blog...but just thought I'd throw it out there.
Best wishes for you as you go on your newest journey. can't wait to hear about your sucesses.
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