Local woman turns to drastic surgery for weight loss
November 8, 2004
Losing weight can seem impossible, especially when you have to shed more than one hundred pounds. For one valley woman, losing weight has been a lifelong problem. She tried diet after diet, only to gain it all back.
NewsChannel 3's Tamara Damante has a special report on how this woman finally turned to drastic measures to hopefully change her life forever.
“I love the beach. I like to go snorkeling and kayaking, beach things, dancing.”
Thirty one year old Kyla Scott is a registered nurse who loves the outdoors, but a struggle with food and weight keeps her from enjoying an active lifestyle. By the time Kyla was twelve years old, she weighed two hundred pounds.
“I just had to fight her constantly staying out of the refrigerator,” said Kyla’s mother, Kyla Marroquin. “I was very strict about it. I was slim and I didn't want her to be that way.”
Even though Kyla's mom put limits on the food her daughter ate at home, Kyla turned to neighbors to satisfy her appetite.
“She would go around telling them it was her birthday, so they sat down and made cakes and cupcakes and cookies. She'd come back home for dinner and I had no clue this kind of stuff was going on.”
Doctors told Kyla's mom her young daughter was simply addicted to food.
“You know, something like drugs or alcohol you may be able to hide. But if it's food, you wear it and everybody knows it!”
Kyla has tried a variety of diets. With metabolic solutions,
she lost 87 pounds, but the weight came right back.
She has five bottles of old diet
pills in her cupboard that range from Xenadrine,
to Fat Trapper, to Exercise in a Bottle.
Kyla finally turned to something she had always thought of as a last resort - Gastric Bypass Surgery.
“I said that's it! I need to do something life changing.”
Doctor Bobby Bhasker Rao is a laparoscopic bariatric surgeon at Desert Regional Medical Center. He says Kyla is like thousands of Americans around the country suffering from morbid obesity, who are at least a hundred pounds overweight.
“What this is going to do for Kyla is restrict the amount of food intake, basically restricting the caloric intake. It takes an ounce of food and she's going to feel full and she's going to stop.”
At this point, Kyla isn't comfortable telling us how much she weighs before surgery.
“I think I will be more comfortable with it when I'm further along. Then I'll be more comfortable saying it.”
Four years ago, Kyla was able to fit into this size twelve dress. After her gastric bypass surgery she's hoping that this dress will not only provide a perfect fit, but a permanent fit.
She seems to have already found the perfect match in her husband, Leroy, who supports her decision.
“Well to me it's not a difference. I love her this way or that. I still love my wife regardless.”
The day before her surgery, the couple shared a number of concerns.
“Dying. Not making it through the surgery. Of course I think about that.”
“Yeah, I'm worried, but you know I pray about it, that my wife will come out okay. I'm okay and I think she can do it.”
And Kyla is hopeful her lifelong battle with food will soon become easier.
Friday, Tamara takes you into the operating room for Kyla's life changing surgery.
Source:www.kesq.com
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