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My surgery is coming up on Feb 21. Is it morbid to ask for my stomach that the surgeon removes?

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Oh I dunno mines been trying to kill me ever since it got removed. I don't think they'll let you cause it's a bio hazard but it won't hurt to ask!

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I got knocked out before I could ask to keep mine. Lol, I wanted it in a jar. But then again, post op I was in too much pain to ask for it

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I got knocked out before I could ask to keep mine. Lol, I wanted it in a jar. But then again, post op I was in too much pain to ask for it

I'm going to try and remember to ask my surgeon when I go back for my pre-op appt. I was hoping to have it in a jar. I like to see what size it was.

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They will not let you, it goes against the Bio hazzard rules and stuff. I wasnt even allowed to keep my wisdom tooth, I think its a new thing.

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Sorry they send it to pathology and then I am sure it is disposed of. I thought of the same thing. When my dad got his gallbladder out he got great colored pictures of the surgery and his gallbladder. That was pretty cool.

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Hmmm...I wonder if they can take a picture of it for me....the next best thing if I can't have it in a jar...lol

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My surgeon took pics of my before and after stomach and insides. He showed them to my Mom and Hubby before I woke up. LOL! They still looked pale when I saw them!

Lynda

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I'm going to try and remember to ask my surgeon when I go back for my pre-op appt. I was hoping to have it in a jar. I like to see what size it was.

Mine went to pathology to be checked!

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I have a picture of mine in my gallery.

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They will not let you' date=' it goes against the Bio hazzard rules and stuff. I wasnt even allowed to keep my wisdom tooth, I think its a new thing.[/quote']

I kept my wisdom teeth

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They tried to give me my gallstones, yuck, I didn't want them!

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I didn't ask for my stomach, lol, that never occurred to me. However, as I was a band to sleeve revision, I did ask for and got to keep my band and the port. I still have them to this day.

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My wife got her gallstones. They gave them to her covered in green slime, in a jar marked "gallbladder and contents." They had obviously just squeezed them out of the gallbladder and didn't clean them. Barf.

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