Bariatric Patient in Los Angeles – Wendy

Wendy has lost a large amount of weight and her quality of life has improved significantly after her bariatric surgery. She now feels healthy and excited to wake up in the morning, and is so happy that she came to see the bariatric surgeon at our Los Angeles office.

I got real scared when my neighbor had talked to me about his brother who was at that time 40 and had passed away of sleep apnea and he says, “Oh! Yeah, he died of being fat” and I was standing there over 300 pounds thinking I don’t want to die. My dad was dead at 53 of heart failure, my brother at 43 of heart failure, and I thought at that point, I need to do something, so I tried dieting for five or six months and then heard about gastric bypass from somebody and then heard about Dr. LePort who did all of my research, and just kind of guided me here. The surgery has changed my life. It has been a 100% turnaround. I am healthy. My blood pressure at one point was 190/110. It’s now 110/60. I play racquetball three to four times a week. I am really into being healthy. I love getting my blood tests done and my blood pressure everything because I know it’s going to come back okay. I just feel so good waking up in the morning, sometimes in the very beginning I used to wake up and go “it’s a dream” and I looked and go “No, it’s not a dream, it’s real”. It really happened to me. I have had about five close friends go to Dr. LePort, all with great success, one of them I play racquetball with. Now he has joined a racquetball club.