Below is the NEW and IMPROVED, Donna Butler Conklin. Two and one half years after bariatric surgery, Donna has lost 187 lbs to date. She still has about 20-25 lbs to go to be back to  "high school" weight. This surgery isn't for everyone, and it's not the "easy way" out. It is a last resort surgery and only a surgery that enables people who have tried everything with no success in losing weight.

Donna suffers with sever Psoriatic arthritis and chose this sugery to prevent herself from being in a wheel chair or scooter for the rest of her life. She had no time for wheel chairs or scooters. She has 7 grandchildren to keep up with. She was not ready to give up. Now she no longer has to even use her cane. Granted at age 60 she isn't the athletic person she once was, but she is far from being housebound.