Wednesday, May 23, 2012

We Frequently Have Our Thank-Yous Delivered by Florists


The accompanying photo is of a beautiful flower arrangement that was given to us by a patient who had just had a large-volume liposuction. She gave us a little card (I cut her name out of the card so that it would protect her privacy online). She was very enthusiastic about her results. She could tell that she obtained a beautiful result even four days postoperatively, which is when we received the flowers.




Dr. Yoho and Judy Go to Swim Camp in the U.S. Virgin Islands





Recently, Dr. Yoho and Judy decided to improve their swimming technique and went to the U.S. Virgin Islands for a camp which consisted of four hours of swimming a day. It wasn’t as hard as you might suspect, because a lot of it was instruction. Judy was at about the dog-paddle stage. Dr. Yoho had a confident stroke, but it wasn’t very refined and he’d never swum on competitive teams in the past. The mission was to attempt to learn “total immersion” technique from Terry Laughlin, who can be found at http://www.totalimmersion.net/ with lots of videos to explain this particular kind of swimming. The object is to swim long distances without expending a lot of energy. It’s harder than it looks, and despite swimming four miles once during camp, Dr. Yoho has still a long way to go in his technique. Judy made great improvements and had great instruction and had a lot of fun, but is still not a super-confident swimmer. They thought that few of these photographs might be fun for our patients and friends to see.

We recommend active and healthy lifestyles, and here is a link to our website where Dr. Yoho recommends nutrition advice as well as exercise advice.