 My name is Sherry Hillier. I started out at 270 and now I am down to 143. Before I had surgery, my whole body hurt. I ached by the end of the day. I mean, I needed to just lay down and get off my feet. My feet hurt. My hips hurt. My back hurt. Just was sore. I was dragging around a lot of weight and it was tough on my body. I knew in my heart I had to be healthy. I wanted to live. I wanted to enjoy life. I wanted to sit on a swing at the park. I wanted to go down the slide. I wanted to go in the grocery store and feel like I could just get groceries and nobody was looking at me. The medical staff was phenomenal. They were still patient with me and they were very supportive. They sat in my bed and talked me through it and looked where I'm at. I'm so happy and thrilled. My life has changed in everything. I mean, everything changes in a wonderful way. My name is Deborah Braley. My experience was a very good experience. Dr. Smith is a really excellent doctor. I never had any trouble from the operation. It was perfect. The nurses there were very accommodating. Everybody was very nice. My health, I was kind of borderline everything. I had really high blood pressure. That was the main thing. They had done two different kinds of medicine, but now they don't have to take any of that anymore. My heart is so good. I never have to worry about that. They said my heart is really good and that was a big factor because my father had a bad heart, my grandparents, my sisters, my brothers both have diabetes. They all have problems like this and I don't have those problems. I move around a whole lot better these days and I'm so happy not to have to carry around all that extra weight. My name is Carl Stucco. Before my surgery, my health was starting to decline. My blood pressure was increasing along with my bad cholesterol. I had tried weight watchers. I was on three or four different weight loss pills. Those had short-term effects but nothing long-term. Finally, I brought it up to my family doctor. He said it would be worth investigating and that following week I was in a seminar that Dr. Cujo conducted and we got the ball rolling from there. Since the surgery, my blood sugar is now back down into the normal range and my cholesterol is going down. My blood pressure has been good. I feel great. My health has changed in several ways since I had my surgery. The number one thing, I was a diabetic and I was taking three oral medications and two shots a day. The day I had my surgery, that was all gone. I no longer am considered to have diabetes. I no longer have to take high blood pressure medicine. I did have sleep apnea and that is totally, completely gone. I have been thrilled with everyone that I have worked with in Dr. Cujo's office and with all the nurses. I highly recommend their office to anyone who is looking at this surgery. A few months after my surgery, it dawned on me that what I had lost, 160 pounds, was the equivalent of five of my granddaughters. That is such an image of what a change has made in my life. I can't even imagine how I lived before. I'm just living life in a way that I never dreamed I could do. I never thought I could live like I'm living right now. My name is Shelly Struble. I've been overweight all my life. I've struggled with obesity and I tried every diet known to me and healthy, unhealthy and nothing worked. I got to the point where I thought that's just the way I was going to be and I was going to live my life that way. To where it was starting to affect my life, my joints were going. I had to have a back surgery. I couldn't enjoy my life anymore. I couldn't take a walk and I basically got tired of being sick and tired and I checked out the program and it just went wonderful. Life after surgery has been so much better. There's been a lot of changes and about probably a week or two after surgery, my activity level started to gain. I lost probably the first 10 or 15 pounds within the couple weeks and I found just that little bit of weight made such a difference. The little changes daily are just amazing. The care at the hospital both before and the care at the doctor's office after surgery has been phenomenal. The staff is just amazing. They're always there for questions. They've got the online group, the support group. It's just been amazing. Without the support, I don't think I'd have been successful. My decision to have bariatric surgery was definitely the right one. Bariatric surgery has given me my life back and it was the best decision in my life.