If one more person tells me about the friend of a friend they know who had WLS and the person failed at it or gained it all back I will smack them.

I was thinking about it. Imagine walking up to someone who was diagnosed with cancer and they choose treatment. Then imagine someone walking up to them and discussing all the people they have ever heard of who died or "failed" their treatment process..

Next time I am at a wedding, I will walk up to the couple and spout divorce statistics. LOL

Just venting.....LOL

I guess if anything, that just proves that WLS, isn't the "easy out" that we always have to hear about, right? LOL

My SIL had bypass in December '09 and tried to tell me all that her doc had told her about how the band was no good because the weight loss was too slow and so on. Well, I had my band in April, a mere 4 months after her surgery, and she is down 115 and I am down 70. I do not think that 70 pounds it too shabby considering that the weight loss is going to be too "slow" for my liking.

I find it ironic becausemy SIL is always in a round about way asking things like, "So how are you doing with the band? Are you still losing? What are you down to now?" etc.etc. etc It kills her that I weigh less than she does now and I used the band instead of bypass. She does not take into consideration how much heavier she was than me when she started, but she has definitly made this into a competition for herself. I dont look at it like that at all. I am glad to lose the weight slowly and am okay with not losing faster, this sure as heck is faster then I excpected to lose in the first place.

I think that some people may actually mean well, to a point, when they spout off stupidity. A lot of them have seen us fail so many times before that they, in a strange way may be trying to soften the blow of possible recurrent failure even after the band.

If one more person tells me about the friend of a friend they know who had WLS and the person failed at it or gained it all back I will smack them.

I was thinking about it. Imagine walking up to someone who was diagnosed with cancer and they choose treatment. Then imagine someone walking up to them and discussing all the people they have ever heard of who died or "failed" their treatment process..

Next time I am at a wedding, I will walk up to the couple and spout divorce statistics. LOL

Just venting.....LOL

LMAO :cursing: You make a very good point! Too funny!

The failure stories are good in a sense that they remind us that surgery is not a panacea.

The stories about people dying also help us realize that all surgery is major, no matter how simple it may seem.

On another note, you're in NYC, remind them of the people that get shot because they don't keep their big mouths shut. :cursing:

LOL!!! Too funny:)