Joanne and Amanda Wildy are more than mother and daughter as they describe themselves as best friends. Together they have refurbished and adorned their houses, which sit right next doorway to each other in Saratoga Springs. They go for shopping together, Play their Wii and and computer games together and in simple they are one. They even lost more than a century pounds together.

Finally they decided to have weight loss surgery. The Joanne and Amanda Wildy underwent advanced bariatric surgery together last month at Albany Medical Center. They started the process more than a year ago by attending a weight loss program, attending a support group and visiting a nutritionist and a psychiatrist. Finally, their procedures were performed Jan. 28 by Dr. T. Paul Singh, director or you can say controller of minimally invasive surgery at the hospital.

Amanda, 25, obtained a single-port, or one-incision, lap band surgery, which Singh said was the first one presented in upstate New York. The method is an sophisticated pattern of laparoscopic surgery, where a telescopic rod attached to a video camera is injected through a little incision in the patient’s abdomen. Singh said the single-port method proceeds a long way in declining the patient’s discomfort and recovery time, and negligible blemishes occurs.

Joanne, 56, obtained a three-incision gastric bypass, which lastingly splits up the stomach into two components and attaches the intestine to the lesser stomach part so nourishment bypasses some feet of intestine. Fewer calories are soaked up and the persevering feels fuller faster.

Joanne, who weighed 256 pounds when she went into the bariatric program, said she has been overweight all her life. She endured from diabetes, as does her married man, Bill, and most of her relatives. Now she weighs 201. As for her major impetus to get surgery, Joanne said: "There’s too numerous persons who proceed unseeing from diabetes. I didn’t desire to be one of those statistics."

Amanda, who one time weighed 252 pounds and lost about 50 pounds on her own before surgery, now weighs 187. Singh documented she was at risk for diabetes and high cholesterol because of her family’s health annals and her weight.

They draw their motivation and attest their general achievement with bariatric surgery from the support scheme they have in each other. "We both understand what the other is going through," Amanda said, "so we can help each other out."

It's a good example of mother and daughter as a friend. My good wishes to you. May god give you all the joys to enjoy your rest of life. Cheers!