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Ignorance Is Not Bliss

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Lyra

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So I had my first class today and it was full of a lot of important information, but I was shocked on how many people had obviously never read the book the doctors gave out or even did a standard google search. Granted, I'm kind of obsessive when I'm researching something...but this is a surgery that will change your life on so many fundamental levels. This isn't some magical wand that will go POOF and the weight will just fall off onto the floor, while you walk off into the sunset whistlin' dixie in your new size 6 pants. Example of questions:

 

1. "You mean we can't eat sugar, like cookies?"

2. "What do you mean there are small portion sizes?"

3. "But I love eating the The Texas Roadhouse 23oz Prime Rib!"

 

.....right, and those little telling questions are WHY we are all sitting in a weight loss surgery informational class.

 

I was just so surprised that seemingly intelligent adults wouldn't fully research something before allowing a doctor to cut out parts of their body. No wonder the Powers That Be make you go through all these classes before getting it done!

 

Also, a funny story. So my doctor also did the surgery on my dad. Last night dad told me that when he was in the operating room, but before they put him under, Dr. W came in and asked the nurses if it was okay to put a small computer on the edge of the bed. He looked at my dad and said, "It's so I can watch how to do the surgery on Youtube!" *grin*

 

One class down, four more to go, and onward I march!

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I know right?! This drove me CRAZY! It was all I could do to not stand up and say "gee, I wonder how in the hell you got here! Maybe it was that dozen cookies you ate day after day!"

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I got really frustrated when people would take up our valuable time with stupid questions that had already been discussed in numberous classes we had to take.

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I did a lot of research before I would even consider the sleeve and so did my wife so she could properly help me. And then it was STILL A LOT OF INFORMATION..... some people probably spend more time researching a car than thier procedure....

BTW - I also research my cars. ;-)

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I think we have arrived upon the point that people are being "milled" through this surgery. So many people are doing minimal requested from insurance or is not asked to do much of anything if they self pay. The first doc I originally chose "encouraged" a list of things to do but did not enforce it if it wasn't required through insurance.

This is more of a problem than it sounds - the people who come into it unprepared and loose then gain it back contribute to long term studies too - so it makes the surgery look much less successful long term than it can really be.

The same people get on here and go "I did this and was ok" or "I eat this and (fill in overinflated positive result)" etc, and people read it and go "they did it" and again etc...it goes on and on.

Grrrrrr!

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