The Surgical Artist's Blog

Over the years, Dr. Nease has been an integral part of Southern Surgical Arts and we are appreciative of his efforts spanning the past 11 years.

September 20^th was the perfect summer night for Southern Surgical Arts to celebrate patients and guests during its annual Open House event at SSA’s North Georgia Surgical Center and Medspa located in Calhoun, Georgia.

Theresa Dekker spent 20 years wishing her body, her health and her life would get better. The former military veteran says she’d always been fit until 1996, when she was prescribed medication for endometriosis, and instantly gained weight. Pregnancy packed on more pounds and by the summer of 2016, tipping the scale at 241 lbs, Theresa decided she’d had enough. “I woke up and said, ‘That’s it. I’m done’,” she recalls. Immediately she made a plan to transform herself, no matter what it took. “Mentally I always knew it was going to be difficult, but I had to stay focused and not allow myself to quit,” she says. Theresa made eating lean and exercising her top priority. Eventually working up to daily jogs and visits to the gym, her hard work paid off when just three months later, she’d shed an incredible 5o lbs.