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Central Florida Recommendations?

floridafd

By floridafd, in Weight Loss Surgeons & Hospitals

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floridafd    16

floridafd
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Hey everyone, just found out insurance will cover surgery in 2013. Any recommendations on a Dr. in the central Florida area?

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valdostaGA    149

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Dr.Michael Baptista is great but he's in Jax Fl

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Cbluewinds    67

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Dr Kim at Florida Hospital Celebration was great. Great team to work with also.

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jackpell    17

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I get sleeved on the 11th of January 2013. Dr kim at celebration is my surgeon. My insurance is medicre and they just oked my sleeve. It was a long wait from first sminar to now but it was medicare that was the hangup. They (medicare) just oked the sleeve. You will have a lot of test and classes befor you get a date. Good luck with your choice. I also went to Dr jawad's seminar and decided on Dr. Kim.

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tkniess901    1

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My husband and I both had our VSG done by Dr. Patrick Domkowski in Sebastian. I would highly recommend him and the staff at Sebastian River Medical Center.

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srs82781    83

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Dr Keith Kim at celebration health. I was planning on having surgery with him but insurance denied me. I went thru a long 6 mo journey with him and his staff attempting to get insurance approval. Great facility and top notch staff!

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MsBriteEyez    32

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I went to Dr Wiljon Beltre. The surgery was 2 nights at Health Central Hospital.

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MzRobin    59

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Hey everyone' date=' just found out insurance will cover surgery in 2013. Any recommendations on a Dr. in the central Florida area?[/quote']

In what part of central fl.. I'm in the ampabay area and am getting sleeved the 26th and dr Richard Gordon in largo has been fantastic!,

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floridafd    16

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My wife and I decided to go with Dr. Kim at celebration. She is scheduled for March 1 and I have a tenitive date of March 22 awaiting insurance authorization. We are both excited for the change this will bring to our lives and cannot wait for the new adventures we can share together.

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MzRobin    59

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My wife and I decided to go with Dr. Kim at celebration. She is scheduled for March 1 and I have a tenitive date of March 22 awaiting insurance authorization. We are both excited for the change this will bring to our lives and cannot wait for the new adventures we can share together.

Awwwww.... I feel the same way but my husband is very much in shape and hits the gym 4 days a week he loves me the way I am but also is looking forward to me joining him in the gym so we can do it together.. Good luck and keep me posted

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miccogirl94    3

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My husband and I both had our VSG done by Dr. Patrick Domkowski in Sebastian. I would highly recommend him and the staff at Sebastian River Medical Center.

I have had the Lap Band, the Lap Band removal and the Sleeve surgery all done by Dr. Domkowski. Awesome surgeon and great person. I would HIGHLY recommend him, or his associate. the office staff is great. I never felt stupid for asking questions, or judged in any way. the way I like to explain it is that you will always wait in the waiting room, but when he is in the room with you, he is focused on you and your needs.

Awesome!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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