For those still struggling with the decision… M
I recently told an email pal about my surgery 4 months ago. She is a
nutrionist/dietician at a hospital. I procastinated on telling her as
I was concerned what kind of response I would get. Well, here it is
and it made me really glad I did go through with it. All I could think
was this could have been me in a few years!:
“maggie, thanks for the site i sent it to everyone i know. sorry i
havent gotten back to you. work work work,,,,,work. i have your
websight about the duodenal switch ( www.duodenalswitch.com ) and i
am sharing it with a supervisor at wrk whos sister just had something
like that. and he said he may have the same if she does well. he is
from NY and his sister is there livin now. he is about 400or up. his sister is
bigger than he is. i shared your note with him. i worry about him. he is
getting bigger all the time. his wife is small. and he is also a cook.
i have a patient right now that is over 400lb? no one could get her
weight, and she has cellulitis on her face, and all her extremities.
face scabbed badly over her one eye, poor thing. the doc put her on a
fluid restriction so low i couldnt send her any. and she had ulcers in
her mouth and stomach from stress, (husband has brain mets cancer) so
sad case. and anyhow. she will only take in cold liquids and i had to
go past the doc and give her milkshakes to get protien in her. she is
absolutely starving because of her weight. the doc came in and saw her
drinking a shake (resource shake) and got pissed. i let him have it!
her legs all swollen so he didnt want her to have fluid. but she will
not heal without prot. i told him she has to consume over 4000 cal to
stay this big and there is no way she is gettin that ! i bet she
wished that she had done something about the weight before this. now
she will die. and both the daughters are big. surgery like yours may
have saved her early before this all went down. she also has asthma( i
can never spell this) and is on steroids for it. it makes me so sorry
for her. maintanence men had to carry her in. so sad. see, the docs
see a big person and they dont realise that they can be starving,
because of thier size! it makes me furious. enough about work. i have
to not dwell on it.
well i am happy you are saving yourself. and will get new bathing suit
this summer! great!
good luck girl.”