My heart is heavy! My friend pass away this morning due to complications from her band, that started the begining of this month She wasn't losing enough wait after having her band for 11mths she went to her dr he gave her a fill. A week later she couldn't keep anything down and vomiting a lot so she went a few days with this, finally she called her dr office he was out of town so she went to the ER that night ER dr called spoke to the on called dr from her dr office told the ER dr to take some fluid out her band and sent her home that next night she began to voimt again went back to the ER and they spoke to the on call dr he had them to do ct and other test until he got their when all test came bk her band had slip the on call dr admitted her,her dr came bk that next day from being out of town her dr then took her into surgery that after noon to remove her band as she was getting ready for surgery she was vomitting then finally they took her in to surgery removed the band while in surgery she had a mild stroke she was kept in icu two days later her lungs collapsed from the voimt getting into her lungs a few days later her system begain to shut down ker kidneys shut down and she was on life support until this morning when the Lord finally gave her rest in his arms I love you and will miss you! You must go to the dr the minute your band start to act up and not wait to see if it gets better because time is valuable to when the band starts to act up and if you feel the band should come out demand it don't allow the dr tell you well if I do this or that it should be ok because that's not allways the case! I'm getting ready to have mines removed because mines is sitting on top of my stomach with no pouch in site I was going to have it repostion but after losing my friend today its coming out!

Good to see that others also thought this was strange for a 1st or 2nd post. I was going to say something but thought that for once in my life I should just be sympathetic and tactful instead.

I thought the same thing, but like you , I didn't want to come across as unsympathetic.