why all these religious wars about DS vs RnY?

[Guest guest]

The postings are really occupying too much bandwidth. Who cares???

I have a good friend who had the RnY last December. She has done

quite well with it, at least so far. her courage in electing to have

the surgery is what got me interested in WLS in the first place.

previously, in my total ignorance, I had thought WLS was just for

kooks, the kind of folks who experimented with drugs and voodoo.

Then, my PCP, in desperation over my failing health, suggested

" stomach stapling " and referred me to a surgeon who does only RnY.

My PCP didn't know about ANY other alternatives.

With reassurance from my friend who told me only the name of her

procedure and that I could look it up in the Web, and with the push

from my PCP, I started to do research over the Internet. I almost

fell for the Mini-Gastric Bypass before stumbling on the Duodenal

Switch site. Back to my friend: she didn't even know if she had

received a proximal, medial or distal RnY!! But, she is doing OK.

And, she's happy. And, she claims that she can eat just about

anything that she wants to eat. She's in New England, and I have not

had the opportunity to watch her eat to verify that claim. But,

really, who cares? If she's happy, then that's all that counts. I'm

happy that I found the DS and had that procedure instead of the RnY.

But, does it really matter all that much to anybody but me? I'm

just damned lucky that I didn't get the MGB!!!

So, to reiterate, " Who cares? " If you don't like somebody's posts,

filter them to the trash. Don't try to teach a pig to sing. You'll

just irritate the pig, and the noise will drive everybody else crazy.

--Steve

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