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I’m Gentry Fry, a filmmaker on a weight-loss journey and PTSD advocate. I share my story on YouTube to inspire others who are as hopeless as I was.
The videos below tell the story of my 40-year history with Mercy Hospital in Miami — where my mother died of breast cancer when I was 11 in November of 1983, and where I had life-saving heart surgery in March of 2023.
🎥 SUMMARY: One night I felt shortness of breath and chest pain, so I checked myself into the emergency room at Mercy Hospital in Miami. They found an 80% arterial blockage in my heart & saved my life.
🎥 SUMMARY: Sharing some thoughts from my hospital room the night before heart surgery. Many times in my life I have wanted to die. I’m grateful those days are over.
🎥 SUMMARY: One month after heart surgery at Mercy Hospital, I had a follow-up appointment with the doctor. Then I snuck into the hospital chapel through an unlocked service entrance.
🎥 SUMMARY: As of this weigh-in, filmed March 30, 2023 at Mercy Hospital during a torrential flood, I've lost 213-lbs. Nobody is coming to save us. We must be our own hero.
🎥 SUMMARY: Thanks to Isaac Akaad, MD I’ve got a new lease on life. Seeing my own heart on a computer monitor was surreal, to say the least.
🎥 SUMMARY: In 1981 my mother interviewed me at age 9. Unbeknownst to her or anyone else, I’d been molested one year earlier and was already self-medicating with food. Two years after this interview, my mother would die from breast cancer.
