For anyone still fighting with the decision...Makes you think

December 8, 2001

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 sight 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 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. "

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