Chris Zieniewicz is looking forward to traveling and riding a motorcycle now that he’s more mobile.
A TALE OF TWO WEIGHT LOSS SURGERIES ONE PATIENT HAS TURNED HIS LIFE AROUND AFTER LOSING MORE THAN 200 POUNDS.
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bout 10 years ago, Chris Zieniewicz, 59, was struggling with severe back pain. The former forklift operator from South River had trouble walking, and he became sedentary. Over time, he gained more than 200 pounds and started avoiding social gatherings, movies and travel. At one point, he had an MRI of his spine and was dismayed to discover that, at more than 500 pounds, he was considered “morbidly obese.” Several years later, Chris came down with a virus so severe he went to the Emergency Department at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital (RWJUH). To his surprise, he discovered he’d had a heart attack. “I decided I didn’t want to live like that anymore,” he recalls. His doctor introduced him to Ragui Sadek, MD, FACS, Director of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery at RWJUH and Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.
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