RE: re the wording wls

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Ceep and all,

Just a response to Ceeps post about the high risk part of WLS. I have been

fortunate enough to meet several post folks in the past few years. Some at

ASBS, and some when they come to Vegas. One of the benefits of living in a

tourist mecca I suppose.

Anyhow.....on one visit with a postie, he was telling me about his surgeon

and how he only operates on exceptionally high risk folks. I repeated this

conversation with Dr Fisher and he said to me, " what do you think you were? "

to which I replied, " Oh! " Duh, talk about your blonde moments.

People email me through my website and of course are very concerned about

surviving surgery. I try to explain to them that as MO people we are a high

risk to have a tooth pulled! Think of all the things that can go wrong with

a " normie " Gall bladder attack, appendix, ovarian cysts, a simple fall, a

fender bender, a twisted knee or ankle....... Then think of what happens to

a MO person who has these things go wrong. As MO people we tend not to go

to the doctors. We don't want to hear that everything would be fine if we

would just lose 100, 200 or 300 pounds. So we don't go. And we put our

health in jeopardy.

So yes, weight loss surgery is surgery, and any surgery presents a risk.

All the more reason to do lots of research and make sure you and your

surgeon and all your doctors are on the same page.

Huggzz to all,

Sue in Las Vegas

re the wording " wls "

Hi everyone:

just a note to head off a potentially divisive controversy in response to

an

e-mail I rec'd privately. (I don't want a calcium or " what to really name

it "

controversy either one---grin--it just makes it so that people don't want to

read the list) Please call surgery whatever you wish. I don't think anyone

here is going to say its has to be one way or another, or else. By my

sights,

wls is one of the side effects of the surgery, but it is not the name for

the

surgery. And wls most definitely has been appropriated by and for marketing

purposes by many, MANY surgeons, aftercare groups, hospitals, nutritionists,

lawyers---- but not all, especially those who began in the field long, long

ago.

I've been online about these matters going on half a dozen years, and I have

watched the phrase wls evolve into its current mileau. Language evolves and

words are often appropriated and used in ways that were not meant at the

onset. That's all.

hope this clarifies.

ceep

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