Lapband (Laparoscopic Gastric Banding)
Female, Fair skin tone
Performed by
Dr. John Feng
The week of March 20, 2005 changed my life in several ways. First, on March 20, my father passed away. On March 23, I had Lap Band surgery. It was important to my father that I have this procedure. His ill health and subsequent death was a result of years of being obese. I was obese.
I spent the first twenty years of my life on the thin side. After having my first child at twenty-one, I was never really thin again. I was mildly overweight, or so I thought at about 140 pounds on my 5'6" frame...