Wendell Edwards

IF I were trained for it, and IF I had the equipment and IF the untreated consequence could include DEATH I *MIGHT* do that. But every second I would be wondering WHAT IF INAMED invalidates the band warrantee. WHAT IF I screw it up. WHAT IF I get an infection. WHAT IF my normal doctor refuses to treat me any more because of this. That's a whole lot of "What ifs".

Rolling on the floor...... :heh:

That would require a recognition of flawed behavior.

Well! THAT sure was an INTERESTING LINK! :omg:

I "Googled" that: http://www.google.com/search?q=%22band+practitioner%22&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&startIndex=&startPage=1

Gee... that's funny.... there is no such TITLE............ :faint:

Could be.... :biggrin1: Remember, I *USED* to be a member of 22 different weight loss surgery message boards. This is one of those.

I agree. Oregon State Nurse Licensing has no record of her, with ANY name spelling variation. Here is a link to the license search engine: http://www.osbn.state.or.us/search/searchResults-submit.do And just to be SURE, I checked the Oregon Board Of Medical Examiners, here's a LINK: http://www.bme.state.or.us/search.html

Hmmm.... Join Date: 01-04-2006 I thought it was before then... my mistake.

I mean, since that's not a REAL TITLE... I *DO* practice life with a Lap-Band every day you know! :biggrin1:

Hi there! Here's all my information: Wendell Edwards 570/381/225 @ 6’2” tall "The first thing we do is... we kill all the SCALES!" I only weigh in every 6 weeks --- Next weigh in will be March 7, 2006 Banded by Dr. Neal, Shelton, WA Surgery date: September 13, 2004 Starting B.M.I = 73.2 I HANG OUT HERE: http://susanmaria.parachatboard.com/ http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/LapBand/posts.html SEE MY PHOTOGRAPHS: http://www.myspace.com/rainforestman READ MY BLOG: http://blog.myspace.com/rainforestman SEE MY OBESITYHELP.COM PROFILE: http://www.obesityhelp.com/morbidobesity/members/profile.php?N=E1136403653 My email is: w_e_edwards@yahoo.com LAP-BAND INFO PAGES: http://www.inamed.com/products/obesity/us/clinician/lapband/prodinfo.html http://www.fda.gov/cdrh/pdf/P000008b.pdf POST-OP DIET INFO PAGE – WHY DRINKING WITH MEALS IS BAD! http://gastricbypass.netfirms.com/understandingsmallgastricpouch.htm

I used to be, and still am, a very large man. Large as in fat.... REALLY fat! Be a guest on "Oprah" fat... Doesn't fly anywhere fat... makes all-you-can-eat buffets put out the "Closed" sign fat. I used to weigh 570 pounds. Yup.... 570. That, my friends, is fat. F-A-T. So I decided, after hearing yet another Doctor tell me I was going to die if I didn't lose weight (He was number 3,893 to say that) to go and get a weight-loss operation. That was back in November of 2002, two months after I got married to Angela. The reason that I listened to that doctor, and not the 3,892 that preceeded him, was that I developed diabetes in 2002. Diabetes is bad news, It can kill you if untreated, and the best treatment is to, guess what, lose weight. So I started to research the different operations that are available. (Actually, I just listened to my friend Christy, who was about to have a surgery for the same thing) I chose a Lap-Band. But then a bad thing happened.... I got sick. Real sick. As in "Last Rites" sick, so I couldn't have the operation... as my surgeon delicately put it "It would kill you". With very few days of interruption, I was sick and going to the doctor's office every freakin' day from November, 2002 to August, 2003. Then I got sicker. The ER Doctor looked at Angela and said "We're going to take him upstairs in just a few minutes". Angela had to ask "What for". The Doc was as gentle as he could be when he told her I was being admitted immediately. After a couple of days, I asked for a Priest, and finally turned it over to God. Basically, I gave up trying to fight death, if that was what that was. Father Martin came to the hospital and annointed me, and I relaxed for the first time since I had gotten sick. The next morning, the Doc came in and said he was going to try something new to fight the infection that I had. He called it Avelox. It was a green-yellow Fluid that looked like Chartreuse Liquor, and it was administered by IV line. in about 18 hours, the Doc was back saying "OK, Your infection is completely gone, and you can go home tomorrow morning". (They kept me another 2 days, just to be sure). I attribute the healing to God, because the docs had tried EVERYTHING in the previous 9 months. I came home from one hospital on a Tuesday. The next Monday I went to another hospital and had my Lap-Band surgery. I have only had two very minor colds since that surgery, thank God! So yesterday I was watching a videotape of me being Baptized into the Catholic Church... (No, videotape wasn't around when I was a baby, I did that in 2002)... I was bigger than a house on that tape. When you lose a lot of weight, the brain takes a long time to "Accept" your new body image. I started out at 570 pounds.... and that was a while back.... before my surgery, I had lost a lot of weight because of my illness, so my all-time high weight was NOT my weight at surgery... which, in turn, was LOWER than my post-surgery weight. (I wasn't sick, and could eat again, so the weight came screaming back on)... ANYWHOO.... After I saw that videotape, I walked into the bathroom and stepped onto my specially modified Doctor's balance-beam scale, you know, the one where I drilled the pointer and hung lead fishing weights to make the capacity of that scale 570 pounds? I weighed myself..... 385 I used to weigh 570 pounds, now I weigh 385. When I lose another 185 pounds, I will weigh 200 pounds. I am half way home..... and wanted to share.... Wendell NOTE: Since I originally wrote this, I have revised my goal weight to 225 pounds, and I now weigh 381.

Hi. I am 6'2" tall and massively built. My wrist, with no fat on it at all, is 11 inches around. I have a very long torso. The BMI chart says I should weigh 194 pounds or less. When I was 17 years old, I was only 5'10" and weighed 194 pounds. I was still built like a boy back then, not like a mature man, yet I fit into men's 32X32 slacks. I am 4 inches taller, and much "thicker" than when I was a young man, so I did some soul-searching and decided to revise my goal weight to 225 pounds. Technically, that makes me "Obese" under the BMI guidelines. Oh well, if I hit 225 I think I will have more than achieved my goal.