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Excuse me, can I ask you a question ?
I need to go to OCMI
Yes, I think it's in Sinclair St.
Excuse me, ż what it means OCMI?
OCMI, żyou ask me about OCMI ?
OCMI is the Obesity and Mini-invasy Surgery Program
composed by an interdisciplinary team internationally recognized
and highly trained in the comprehensive care of people affected by obesity.
The program performs complex surgeries for lose weight
but the team not only carries out its mission in the medical field
it has a professional look where it connects with the human.
Doctors and team members of the differents areas
knows that each patient not only have an organic problem
but an integral complication.
With special dedication they take care
of the emotional control of the patient and it's family
following values that represent the philosophy ot the team.
The acceptance of the obesity problem like a disease
to be cured, prevent and contain.
The patience and respect for the patient
and the accompanying persons.
The warmth and love to those
who have confidently placed in their hands
with the certainty that the quality of services you receive is unmatched comprehensive.
Honesty and frontality to face the consultation,
answer the questions, give information to the patient
But OCMI it's not only what we've tried to explain in a few words
OCMI are You ..... all of you
and that's why we came to talk with you
to tell us
to ask
because if you don't ask
How do you know ?
My case is so particular
I came here because I've got a kidney transplantation
and my kidney was in danger because I was too fat and had to lose weight.
Then I gave in to the hands of doctors.
They explained me how was the surgery and the risk it took to make it and I accepted.
My name is Graciela
I am already operated
After surgery I left all the medication
and the questions are logical
How could be the surgery
What's going on after
they answer some of the question
All in it's moment
they don't hurry to say what not
neither to say what yes
I'm calm
I feel good, I feel recovered
Was it a consultation like the others
or had different expectations, questions, doubts?
My name is Emilia, I'm 42 years old
and the truth is that I came to OCMI with lots of expectations.
It was really important the first consultation
because I could clear all my doubts.
It was really important our talk, with a clear vocabulary
It's really important this surgical intervention, may be the most important.
I think it's a "before and after"
I had many personal doubts, but also some that insisted my family.
The family sometimes has more fears that the patient and press.
Asked wich is the death rate, which are the risks, how long it lasts the surgery.
Well, basically how the surgery is, that is a bit of a million questions for the fatties.
All these questions are answered by doctors, nutritionists, surgeons, clinicians.
Ask fearless, because there is never unwelcome questions
and all of them are willing to answer, even if you believe that overwhelm.
Administrative Secretaries also respond
where to stay if they come from other places
or how to get around from the different points of arrival to the city and go to OCMI care centers.
They know everything but everything.
There are a lot of people that you realize when it comes
the happy face and she needs to tell you a little bit of her problem
immediately meet with other patients who are about to be operated or are undecided
and tell the experiences they had, as it encourages the patient to take that step and operated.
because they share their experiences and tell how it's really.
I think when I come here and I mingle among patients
I see that it has recovered a normal life because they have a more active life,
recovered a normal life .. because during the overweight they doesn't have it
you can't go to cinema with your child because he doesn't fit in the chair
or getting on the bus .... nobody wants to sit next to one
I did different diets. ALCO diets, Chinese diets.
I have an hormonal problem but I'm here because I failed in everything and hope not to fail now.
I'm happy, I changed the encouragement, I changed everything,
you feel good
I thinned and fattened
and this affected my self-esteem
It's been four months that I am in my weight
Now I go to the gym, I couldn't done this before
although you may not believe it, fat people suffer discrimination in gyms
You can't do anything, people look at you bad, it's amazing even in the gym
Now I feel good
I feel much more agile, much happier
and I have peace
because I was fat all my life
and that problem was sorted and I feel good
I tried everything
Placenta drops, diet pills, visits to a Chinese who made you breathe, everything
I became thin, but after 15 days I returned to get fat
It was much more failure and painful
not only the failure, it is also the pain of losing your self-esteem
and I have lost friends, parties, boyfriends for this problem I can´t control
if I had made this surgery 30 years ago
It would changed my life, but I'm happy
Better late than never.
I was operated last December
I was 55 kgs more than now
I'm very happy and I feel protected by the medical team.
I didn't want to know too much about the surgery
I was really scared so I didn't do many technical questions.
I was interested to know about the post-operative
I was a little afraid about the new tiny stomach,
if I was going to have complications, those things worried me.
whenever I need them, they've been by my side
either by phone, text messages, with emails, with doctor consultations.
I've been protected by the whole team.
I'm deeply grateful and I love them all
They were all the time next to me and for me it was very important.
I think they are the most important values ??that have the OCMI team:
the containment and accompaniment.
And always with a smile because you think that we are also human beings and have our family, our life.
They accompanied me until the early morning to make me some study and that's priceless.
It was hard to get used to the rhythms
I was always a person highly accelerated and this acceleration I transferred to the food.
I ate in a hurry, that was a big change I had to do
get used to eat slowly, to respect the time for everything,
when is the time for liquid food or solid food, that was so hard
I think it's one of the big changes I made.
Personally I feel much better
I'm much more active,
I now realize how much I was tired before, which doesn't happen now.
It has solved my problem of having pre-diabetes,
I don't take more medication and I think it's great
Socially I feel better, more feminine, I feel better with others, many changes.
I decided to leave things I do wrong and chose other ways more healthy
Incorporate gym exercises was a change in my life.
I'm very happy
Well, well..... we learn a lot of things
We exchange experiences
Yes we met in this short time... we were asking, talking
Because if you don't question ... how do you know?
How to know who is this man who looks out the window abstracted
as if looking for answers in the street,
down there
How to know what's wrong with this lady who looks friendly
with her hands over her lap
Or the other lady who closes her eyes
and lies down over the shoulder of a young girl who strokes her hair
Or that boy
who talks with the Secretaries
and question
like us
Because asking is trying to understand
is being close the other
by trying to building a bridge with our words
and then walk it
closely together
relying on the smile
holding on to that hand just because we want to be what we deserve to be
That is the only,
the best way to reach this goal that we set out today or yesterday to achieve
and now it is so close.