By Kristy Bleizeffer Jun 29, 2017
Since his weight-loss surgery in April 2016, Travis Bennett, a coal miner at North Antelope Rochelle Mine, has lost about 118 pounds. He reached more than 345 pounds before researching weight-loss surgery, but found Kevin Helling, M.D., and the state’s only accredited center for bariatric surgery just up the road – at Wyoming Medical Center in Casper. He’s hoping to get off his blood-pressure medicine soon, and spends more time in Wyoming’s mountains fishing and camping now that he can venture off the beaten path.