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I like perspective.

The complication rates for this surgery are lower than the risks of driving a car. Do you question your potential for a fatal car crash every time you get into a car? Likely not, because it's routine. The difference is that surgery isn't routine for most people, it's a fairly rare event. Like when planes crash. It's traumatic because it's unusual, and concentrated. Far more people day in many other, obscure ways each day. But it's the plane that people tend to be afraid of.

Surgical rates are also overblown, because the way they're actually reported is not the way that the everyday interpreter assumes they are. I have a fairly long post explaining this somewhere, let me see if I can find it. I've had a lot of people tell me it has made them feel a lot better.

Here you go. If you have a few mins, read this. It will help you understand what complication rates really mean, and how they really do look worse than they are.

http://www.verticalsleevetalk.com/topic/20758-anyone-wish-they-had-not-done-their-gastric-sleeve-surgery/page__st__80__p__176256#entry176256

Sorry I meant if I was in the hospital' date=' I don't know that we could find someone to help watch the kids.

Do I really want to do this while they are little? Do I really want to risk dieing to be thinner? I'm miserable with the way my life is right now as far as trying to buy clothes,etc but. <img src='http://www.bariatricpal.com/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />. On one hand I can see all he positives that can be gained from this surgery. On the other hand I see the ultimate negative.

Does anyone else have young children and went ahead and did the surgery. My bmi is 39.9. I can lose well, keeping it off is the hard part.[/quote']

I have 5 kids, 23, 20, 11, 8, and 6, I did give it thought but did it anyway. You know when it's our time, it is our time. So if it is I could of been in the kitchen cooking! I know sounds crazy but we have to take care of ourselves before we can take care of others! Good luck, lori

you're right lori- off to read the article.