1st Intro/Dr. Ren's patients

January 5, 2001

Hello everyone

This is my first time posting so go easy on me I feel like the

flakiest chick alive! Well I guess I should do a quick intro first...

My name is Gloria (Glo for short), I'm 43, I live in MI, am married

to Dave (the best hubby) and we have 3 great sons (ages 6, 8 & 15)

all of whom we homeschool. I'm 5'5 " and now weigh my heaviest of 255

after 17 years of weight loss efforts...Weight Loss Clinic,

Overeaters Anonymous, " A Place For Us " (a one month treatment center

in LA based on Janet Greeson's book, It's Not What You're Eating,

It's What's Eating You), , Weight Watchers, Phen-Fen,

Meridia, Phentermine, loads of exercise equipment and videos, etc.

After tons of wls research I decided the DS/lap was the right choice

for me. I had my mind all made up to have Dr Gagner, no one else

would do. But for reasons maybe best not to go into here I am second

guessing my decision to have Dr Gagner. I do need to say it has

nothing at all to do with Dr Gagner's skills or anything else about

Dr. Gagner himself. I don't want there to be any misunderstanding

about that. I think he is a most excellent surgeon and his record

(and patients) speaks for itself. But I am now also considering Dr

Ren at NYU, who was a fellow of Dr Gagner's at Mt Sinai. I

would like to hear from any of Dr Ren's patients, pre or post op,

what your experiences have been so far with Dr Ren, her office staff

and the hospital stay.

I have lurked for quite a while without posting because I've always

been a little timid about doing that. I can be very good at putting

my foot in my mouth sometimes. But I really need your help. Whether

you post here or email my privately, any replies will be deeply

appreciated.

This whole thing is kinda' disconcerting to me as I felt like I was

all set and now feel like I'm almost at square one again. I hope I'm

not the only one who has felt this way. For someone who usually

doesn't have a problem making decisions, well, I just feel very flaky

right now. One good thing has come out of all this already...for the

first time in my life I don't feel like I'm all alone struggling with

this problem anymore. So thanks for that. I wish I'd found all of you

years ago. And thanks for listening.

Glo

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