Below are excerpts from articles about our patients whose lives have changed.
Our patient April, in Guideposts Magazine:
http://www.guidepostsmag.com/personal-change/positive-people-archive/?i=2976
"Just two years ago, April carried nearly 200 pounds on her 4-foot-11 frame. She worried about her health and also about the effect her weight problem was having on her two kids. "I wouldn't take them to the playground because I didn't want to be the 'fat mom.' I wouldn't get on the floor and play with them; I was afraid I wouldn't be able to get up again. What kind of life is that for a child?"
April knew her kids deserved better. That was what motivated her to take charge of her lifestyle, her eating habits and eventually, her weight. She started seeing a dietician, Dr. Jennifer Warren, M.D...
A former professional dancer with a list of theater and TV credits to her name, April was eager to use her skills to reach her weight-loss goals. "Teaching dance forced me to exercise," she says. She had to get moving. It was her job.
The job became a phenomenon in her hometown of Salisbury, Massachusetts. April's classes drew everyone from "teenagers to middle-aged people who had never danced before." They all loved learning from her. Here was an instructor who wasn't an intimidating and impossible ideal of physical perfection but someone they could relate to. A real-life inspiration.
"My students come up to me crying, saying I've changed their lives. They don't realize I was changing my own life."
Guideposts Magazine
Our patient Fedela, in the Portsmouth Herald:
http://seacoastauction.com/news/11302006/health-f-n30-cushings-n29.html
"When Fedela Vincent, 68, of Rye, was diagnosed with Cushing's disease, she was relieved, almost happy. After more than three years, she knew what was wrong with her.
Vincent had spent years trying to figure out what was wrong with her, what was happening to her and her body. A petite woman, of 5 feet, she had always been trim and fit. She ate right, worked out at the gym and led a healthy lifestyle.
But, for no apparent reason, she began to gain weight. Lots of weight, primarily in the upper body.
"I looked like an apple, with a moon face," Fedela says. "Cushing's is not called "the ugly disease' for nothing."...Her doctors at this time urged her to lose weight, giving medications that often made her sick in an effort to solve the problem....
Then Fedela decided to try a different kind of doctor. She went to Dr. Jennifer Warren, in Hampton, who specializes in weight control. In Warren, she found someone who listened to her and paid attention. Warren was the first doctor to suggest Cushing's disease might be the cause of Fedela's weight gain.
From that moment on, things began to happen..."